With a few simple clicks you can either add your home to the directory, or search for the biggest, cushiest cribs in the land.

Here is what the Free Realms crew has to say about it:

Once a house is in the directory other players can check it out without having to be on the friends list of the owner. Visitors can also vote on how cool a house is by giving it 1 to 5 stars.

You can search for a house by typing in the name of the owner or the house name. You can also see a list of the most popular homes currently on the list.

There are tabs for houses that belong to your friends and houses that have been recently added to the directory.

To visit a house, simply click the Visit! button!

Although this isn’t so much a gameplay feature, it does help in discovering some pretty cool sights around the map you may not have had the chance to encounter, and what’s more it gives you a chance to meet new players who share similar tastes. Now you can have a sweet backyard Robgoblin BBQ with the awesome neighbors you never even knew you had.

To access the Housing Directory just click on the icon that looks like a house from your toolbar or at the Welcome Screen.

Located along the path northeast from the Vale of the Ancients, the area outside the quarry may be more dangerous than inside. The woods, which some claim to be haunted, keep all but the most dedicated miners from even trying to find their way to the mine.”

This is the kind of interesting content we have been hoping for: not just easy access to areas where you grind away at a task to build up a skillset that leads nowhere but more grinding, no – we want action, adventure, excitement, risk, atmosphere, storytelling.

With the new Mother Lode Quarry, the land of Free Realms gives reason to strap on your adventure gear, unsheath your weapon, and set out with your mining gear for greater prospects, to bring home the bacon and redecorate the old homestead into a swish new hangout where you can share tales of your exploits.

Here is the map to the fabled Mother Lode Quarry:

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At first we weren’t sure just how the soccer play itself would feel.  After all, soccer is not only a very collaborative, team effort sport, but it is fast and furious and requires a lot of field strategy.

Well after a few questionable attempts, we got the hang of it and before long forgot we were playing a video game and started feeling really competitive.

To get an idea of what the controls are like for playing soccer in the game, we created this gameplay video for you to preview.

Click here to view the embedded video.

This also got us to wondering whether Free Realms might be the first ever MMO to introduce team based sports within a fantasy setting…? *chin rub*

Now get out there and kick some grass!