feat(shard): Protocol 2.0 boards UI — guilds, governors, houses, players-online

Phase 2: the public UI for the four new boards, following the ChampSpawns live
pattern (snapshot via useAsync + merge SSE deltas with useShardFeed).

- Players Online widget (components/PlayersOnline.jsx): total + region breakdown
  rolled up into display buckets (data/regionBuckets.js — the one place to retune
  the grouping); live via presence.online. Placed on the Shard page, replacing the
  static players-online stat tile.
- Guilds (/site/guilds): searchable board of rosters/alliances/leaders with a
  "recently joined" strip from guild.join.
- Governors (/site/governors): one card per city with a placeholder crest
  (data/cityCrests.js — swap for real art without touching components), election
  phase badge + autoPickAt countdown, and an on-demand "past governors" term
  history (the look-back reads the ledger captured in Phase 1). Clean empty state
  when City Loyalty isn't enabled.
- Houses (/site/houses): searchable registry with decay badges; price labelled
  "placement value", not a for-sale flag.
- API client methods + nav links (Guilds / Governors / Houses).

Client build clean (240 modules).

Refs .plans/protocol2-integration.md (Phase 2).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

client/src/App.jsx

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ import Status from './routes/public/Status.jsx'
 import Shard from './routes/public/Shard.jsx'
 import ShardActivity from './routes/public/ShardActivity.jsx'
 import ChampSpawns from './routes/public/ChampSpawns.jsx'
+import Guilds from './routes/public/Guilds.jsx'
+import Governors from './routes/public/Governors.jsx'
+import Houses from './routes/public/Houses.jsx'
 import Wiki from './routes/wiki/Wiki.jsx'
 import WikiArticle from './routes/wiki/WikiArticle.jsx'
 import CmsPage from './routes/public/CmsPage.jsx'
@@ -84,6 +87,9 @@ export default function App() {
             <Route path="/site/shard" element={<Shard />} />
             <Route path="/site/shard/activity" element={<ShardActivity />} />
             <Route path="/site/champs" element={<ChampSpawns />} />
+            <Route path="/site/guilds" element={<Guilds />} />
+            <Route path="/site/governors" element={<Governors />} />
+            <Route path="/site/houses" element={<Houses />} />
             <Route path="/wiki" element={<Wiki />} />
             <Route path="/wiki/:slug" element={<WikiArticle />} />
             {/* CMS pages: top-level /:slug, matched only after the named routes

client/src/api/client.js

@@ -95,6 +95,13 @@ export const api = {
     online: () => req('/public/shard/online'),
     idoc: () => req('/public/shard/idoc'),
     champs: () => req('/public/shard/champs'),
+    // Protocol 2.0 boards.
+    guilds: () => req('/public/shard/guilds'),
+    governors: () => req('/public/shard/governors'),
+    governorHistory: (city, limit) =>
+      req(`/public/shard/governors/${encodeURIComponent(city)}/history${limit ? `?limit=${limit}` : ''}`),
+    presence: () => req('/public/shard/presence'),
+    houses: () => req('/public/shard/houses'),
   },
   // Full paths (incl. /api/v1) for the browser EventSource — the req() wrapper is
   // fetch-only, so SSE subscribers build the URL from here. The admin stream

client/src/components/PlayersOnline.jsx

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+import { useMemo } from 'react'
+import { useAsync } from '../lib/useAsync.js'
+import { useShardFeed } from '../lib/useShardFeed.js'
+import { bucketize } from '../data/regionBuckets.js'
+import { api } from '../api/client.js'
+
+// Compact live "Players Online" widget. Loads the presence.online aggregate once,
+// then keeps the total + region breakdown current from the presence.online SSE
+// kind. The raw byRegion map is rolled up into display buckets (see
+// data/regionBuckets.js). NOT a page — drop it into any panel/column.
+const PRESENCE_KINDS = new Set(['presence.online'])
+
+export default function PlayersOnline() {
+  const { loading, error, data } = useAsync(() => api.shard.presence())
+  const { events } = useShardFeed({ filter: PRESENCE_KINDS, max: 4 })
+
+  // The freshest snapshot wins: the newest buffered presence.online event, else
+  // the initial fetch.
+  const snapshot = events[0] || data
+
+  const { total, rows } = useMemo(() => {
+    const count = Number(snapshot?.count) || 0
+    const { rows: bucketRows } = bucketize(snapshot?.byRegion)
+    return { total: count, rows: bucketRows }
+  }, [snapshot])
+
+  return (
+    <section className="panel" style={{ padding: 20 }}>
+      <div
+        className="sans"
+        style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'baseline', justifyContent: 'space-between', gap: 12 }}
+      >
+        <span
+          style={{
+            color: 'var(--accent)',
+            fontSize: '0.7rem',
+            letterSpacing: '0.12em',
+            textTransform: 'uppercase',
+          }}
+        >
+          Players online
+        </span>
+        <span className="display" style={{ fontSize: '1.5rem', color: 'var(--head)', lineHeight: 1 }}>
+          {loading ? '—' : total}
+        </span>
+      </div>
+
+      {error && (
+        <p className="sans dim" style={{ margin: '12px 0 0', fontSize: '0.84rem' }}>
+          Population is unavailable right now.
+        </p>
+      )}
+
+      {!loading && !error && (
+        <div style={{ marginTop: 14, display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 6 }}>
+          {rows.length === 0 ? (
+            <p className="sans dim" style={{ margin: 0, fontSize: '0.84rem' }}>
+              {total > 0 ? 'Locations are settling…' : 'The realm is quiet.'}
+            </p>
+          ) : (
+            rows.map((r) => (
+              <div
+                key={r.id}
+                className="sans"
+                style={{
+                  display: 'flex',
+                  alignItems: 'center',
+                  justifyContent: 'space-between',
+                  gap: 12,
+                  fontSize: '0.9rem',
+                  color: 'var(--ink)',
+                }}
+              >
+                <span>{r.label}</span>
+                {/* tabular figures keep the right-aligned counts in a clean column */}
+                <span className="dim" style={{ fontVariantNumeric: 'tabular-nums' }}>{r.count}</span>
+              </div>
+            ))
+          )}
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </section>
+  )
+}

client/src/components/SiteHeader.jsx

@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ const NAV = [
   { label: 'Wiki', to: '/wiki' },
   { label: 'Shard', to: '/site/shard' },
   { label: 'Champions', to: '/site/champs' },
+  { label: 'Guilds', to: '/site/guilds' },
+  { label: 'Governors', to: '/site/governors' },
+  { label: 'Houses', to: '/site/houses' },
   { label: 'About', to: '/site/about' },
 ]
 

client/src/data/cityCrests.js

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// Placeholder heraldry for the eight City-Loyalty cities. Each entry is a simple
+// emoji sigil + a ring colour — enough to make the Governors board and the
+// governor badge read as distinct "crests" today, swappable for real artwork
+// later WITHOUT touching any component: drop an `img` (an imported asset URL or a
+// public path) onto an entry and update CityCrest to prefer it.
+//
+// Keyed by the exact `city` string the sidecar sends (see INTEGRATION.md §4:
+// Moonglow, Britain, Jhelom, Yew, Minoc, Trinsic, SkaraBrae, NewMagincia).
+
+export const CITY_CRESTS = {
+  Britain: { sigil: '⚜', color: '#c9a24b', label: 'Britain' },
+  Moonglow: { sigil: '🔮', color: '#7f8fd0', label: 'Moonglow' },
+  Minoc: { sigil: '⚒', color: '#b0763f', label: 'Minoc' },
+  Trinsic: { sigil: '⚓', color: '#5f9bd0', label: 'Trinsic' },
+  Yew: { sigil: '🌳', color: '#5fb98a', label: 'Yew' },
+  Jhelom: { sigil: '⚔', color: '#c76f6f', label: 'Jhelom' },
+  SkaraBrae: { sigil: '🐎', color: '#9a8bbf', label: 'Skara Brae' },
+  NewMagincia: { sigil: '🕊', color: '#cfc3a0', label: 'New Magincia' },
+}
+
+const FALLBACK = { sigil: '🏰', color: '#8c96a5', label: '' }
+
+// Look up a crest by the raw city key, tolerating spacing variants
+// ("Skara Brae" / "New Magincia"). `label` falls back to the given name.
+export function crestFor(city) {
+  if (!city) return FALLBACK
+  const key = String(city).replace(/\s+/g, '')
+  const crest = CITY_CRESTS[city] || CITY_CRESTS[key]
+  if (crest) return crest
+  return { ...FALLBACK, label: String(city) }
+}

client/src/data/regionBuckets.js

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+// Roll the sidecar's raw presence.online `byRegion` map (many named ServUO
+// regions) up into a handful of labelled display buckets for the "Players Online"
+// widget. This is the ONE place to retune the grouping — edit BUCKETS (order +
+// membership) and the widget follows. Anything not matched lands in "Wilderness"
+// so the bucket counts always reconcile to the true total.
+
+// Ordered list of buckets. `label` shows in the widget; `match(region)` decides
+// membership. First matching bucket wins; the last bucket is the catch-all.
+export const BUCKETS = [
+  {
+    id: 'britain',
+    label: 'Britain',
+    // Passthrough for the capital + its immediate surrounds.
+    match: (r) => /^britain/i.test(r),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'towns',
+    label: 'Towns',
+    // The other named cities/towns.
+    match: (r) =>
+      /^(moonglow|minoc|trinsic|jhelom|yew|skara ?brae|magincia|new ?magincia|vesper|nujelm|cove|ocllo|serpent'?s? hold|wind|delucia|papua)/i.test(
+        r,
+      ),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'dungeons',
+    label: 'Dungeons',
+    match: (r) =>
+      /(despise|destard|deceit|shame|hythloth|covetous|wrong|terathan|fire|ice|orc cave|dungeon|abyss|doom|khaldun|wrong|blackthorn|exodus|labyrinth|underworld)/i.test(
+        r,
+      ),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'housing',
+    label: 'Housing',
+    // House regions expose themselves as named house/townhouse regions.
+    match: (r) => /(house|townhouse|homestead|tent)/i.test(r),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'wilderness',
+    label: 'Wilderness',
+    // Catch-all: the unnamed "Wilderness" region + anything unmatched above.
+    match: () => true,
+  },
+]
+
+// Given a raw { region: count } map, return [{ id, label, count }] in BUCKETS
+// order, dropping empty buckets, with the summed total also returned.
+export function bucketize(byRegion = {}) {
+  const totals = new Map(BUCKETS.map((b) => [b.id, 0]))
+  let total = 0
+  for (const [region, n] of Object.entries(byRegion || {})) {
+    const count = Number(n) || 0
+    total += count
+    const bucket = BUCKETS.find((b) => b.match(String(region))) || BUCKETS[BUCKETS.length - 1]
+    totals.set(bucket.id, totals.get(bucket.id) + count)
+  }
+  const rows = BUCKETS.map((b) => ({ id: b.id, label: b.label, count: totals.get(b.id) })).filter(
+    (r) => r.count > 0,
+  )
+  return { rows, total }
+}

client/src/routes/public/Governors.jsx

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+import { useMemo, useState } from 'react'
+import PublicLayout from '../../components/PublicLayout.jsx'
+import PageHeader from '../../components/PageHeader.jsx'
+import { Loading, ErrorState } from '../../components/PageState.jsx'
+import { useAsync } from '../../lib/useAsync.js'
+import { useShardFeed } from '../../lib/useShardFeed.js'
+import { crestFor } from '../../data/cityCrests.js'
+import { api } from '../../api/client.js'
+
+// The town-governor board (City Loyalty). Loaded from /public/shard/governors,
+// kept live by merging city.update deltas by city. Empty on shards without the
+// City Loyalty system. Each city card links to its term history (look-back).
+const GOV_KINDS = new Set(['city.update'])
+
+const PHASE = {
+  none: null,
+  nominate: { label: 'Nominations open', color: '#7f8fd0' },
+  vote: { label: 'Voting', color: '#e6c26a' },
+  pending: { label: 'Result pending', color: '#c9a24b' },
+}
+
+// A short "in 3d" / "in 5h" for a future ISO timestamp (autoPickAt).
+function until(iso) {
+  if (!iso) return ''
+  const ms = new Date(iso).getTime() - Date.now()
+  if (!Number.isFinite(ms) || ms <= 0) return ''
+  const mins = Math.round(ms / 60000)
+  if (mins < 60) return `in ${mins}m`
+  const hrs = Math.round(mins / 60)
+  if (hrs < 24) return `in ${hrs}h`
+  return `in ${Math.round(hrs / 24)}d`
+}
+
+function fmtDate(ms) {
+  if (ms == null) return ''
+  return new Date(Number(ms)).toLocaleDateString(undefined, { year: 'numeric', month: 'short', day: 'numeric' })
+}
+
+function CityCrest({ city, size = 44 }) {
+  const c = crestFor(city)
+  return (
+    <span
+      aria-hidden="true"
+      style={{
+        flex: 'none', width: size, height: size, borderRadius: '50%',
+        display: 'inline-flex', alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center',
+        fontSize: size * 0.5, background: 'rgba(255,255,255,0.04)',
+        border: `2px solid ${c.color}`, boxShadow: `0 0 10px ${c.color}22`,
+      }}
+    >
+      {c.sigil}
+    </span>
+  )
+}
+
+// Collapsible term history for one city, fetched on demand from the ledger.
+function TermHistory({ city }) {
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false)
+  const { loading, error, data } = useAsync(
+    () => (open ? api.shard.governorHistory(city, 25) : Promise.resolve(null)),
+    [open, city],
+  )
+  return (
+    <div style={{ marginTop: 12 }}>
+      <button
+        type="button"
+        className="sans"
+        onClick={() => setOpen((v) => !v)}
+        style={{ background: 'none', border: 'none', color: 'var(--accent)', cursor: 'pointer', padding: 0, fontSize: '0.76rem' }}
+      >
+        {open ? 'Hide past governors' : 'Past governors →'}
+      </button>
+      {open && (
+        <div style={{ marginTop: 8 }}>
+          {loading && <p className="sans dim" style={{ margin: 0, fontSize: '0.8rem' }}>Loading…</p>}
+          {error && <p className="sans dim" style={{ margin: 0, fontSize: '0.8rem' }}>Could not load history.</p>}
+          {data && data.length === 0 && (
+            <p className="sans dim" style={{ margin: 0, fontSize: '0.8rem' }}>No recorded terms yet.</p>
+          )}
+          {data && data.length > 0 && (
+            <ul style={{ listStyle: 'none', margin: 0, padding: 0, display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 5 }}>
+              {data.map((t, i) => (
+                <li key={i} className="sans" style={{ display: 'flex', justifyContent: 'space-between', gap: 10, fontSize: '0.8rem', color: 'var(--ink)' }}>
+                  <span style={{ minWidth: 0, overflow: 'hidden', textOverflow: 'ellipsis', whiteSpace: 'nowrap' }}>
+                    {t.governor?.name || 'Vacant'}
+                  </span>
+                  <span className="dim" style={{ flex: 'none', fontSize: '0.72rem' }}>
+                    {fmtDate(t.startedAt)}{t.endedAt ? ` – ${fmtDate(t.endedAt)}` : ' – present'}
+                  </span>
+                </li>
+              ))}
+            </ul>
+          )}
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
+function CityCard({ c }) {
+  const phase = PHASE[c.electionPhase] || null
+  const gov = c.governor
+  return (
+    <div className="panel" style={{ padding: 18 }}>
+      <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 14 }}>
+        <CityCrest city={c.city} />
+        <div style={{ minWidth: 0, flex: 1 }}>
+          <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'space-between', gap: 8 }}>
+            <strong className="display" style={{ fontSize: '1.05rem', color: 'var(--head)' }}>
+              {crestFor(c.city).label || c.city}
+            </strong>
+            {phase && (
+              <span className="sans" style={{ flex: 'none', fontSize: '0.66rem', letterSpacing: '0.06em', textTransform: 'uppercase', color: phase.color, border: `1px solid ${phase.color}66`, borderRadius: 999, padding: '2px 8px' }}>
+                {phase.label}
+              </span>
+            )}
+          </div>
+          <div className="sans" style={{ marginTop: 3, fontSize: '0.9rem', color: gov ? 'var(--ink)' : 'var(--muted)' }}>
+            {gov ? (
+              <>Governor <strong style={{ color: 'var(--head)' }}>{gov.name}</strong></>
+            ) : (
+              'Seat vacant'
+            )}
+          </div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+
+      {c.electionPhase && c.electionPhase !== 'none' && (
+        <div className="sans dim" style={{ marginTop: 10, fontSize: '0.78rem' }}>
+          {c.candidates ? `${c.candidates} candidate${c.candidates === 1 ? '' : 's'}` : 'No candidates yet'}
+          {c.autoPickAt && until(c.autoPickAt) ? ` · resolves ${until(c.autoPickAt)}` : ''}
+        </div>
+      )}
+
+      <TermHistory city={c.city} />
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
+export default function Governors() {
+  const { loading, error, data } = useAsync(() => api.shard.governors())
+  const { events, connected } = useShardFeed({ filter: GOV_KINDS, max: 30 })
+
+  const board = useMemo(() => {
+    const map = new Map()
+    for (const c of data || []) if (c && c.city) map.set(c.city, c)
+    for (let i = events.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
+      const ev = events[i]
+      if (ev.kind === 'city.update' && ev.city) map.set(ev.city, ev)
+    }
+    return [...map.values()].sort((a, b) => (a.city || '').localeCompare(b.city || ''))
+  }, [data, events])
+
+  return (
+    <PublicLayout section="website">
+      <div className="shell-narrow page-body">
+        <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'flex-start', justifyContent: 'space-between', gap: 16 }}>
+          <PageHeader eyebrow="Live" title="Governors of Britannia" lead="Who rules each city, and where the next election stands." />
+          <span className="sans" style={{ display: 'inline-flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 6, fontSize: '0.74rem', color: connected ? '#7fd0a4' : 'var(--muted)', flex: 'none', marginTop: 6 }}>
+            <span style={{ width: 8, height: 8, borderRadius: '50%', background: connected ? '#7fd0a4' : 'var(--dim)' }} />
+            {connected ? 'Live' : 'Offline'}
+          </span>
+        </div>
+
+        {loading && <Loading />}
+        {error && <ErrorState message="Could not load the governor board right now." />}
+
+        {!loading && !error && (
+          <>
+            {board.length === 0 ? (
+              <section className="panel" style={{ padding: 24, textAlign: 'center' }}>
+                <p className="sans dim" style={{ margin: 0 }}>
+                  City Loyalty governance is not enabled on this shard.
+                </p>
+              </section>
+            ) : (
+              <div className="grid-2" style={{ gap: 12 }}>
+                {board.map((c) => <CityCard key={c.city} c={c} />)}
+              </div>
+            )}
+          </>
+        )}
+      </div>
+    </PublicLayout>
+  )
+}

client/src/routes/public/Guilds.jsx

@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+import { useMemo, useState } from 'react'
+import PublicLayout from '../../components/PublicLayout.jsx'
+import PageHeader from '../../components/PageHeader.jsx'
+import { Loading, ErrorState } from '../../components/PageState.jsx'
+import { useAsync } from '../../lib/useAsync.js'
+import { useShardFeed } from '../../lib/useShardFeed.js'
+import { api } from '../../api/client.js'
+
+// The guild board. Loaded once from /public/shard/guilds, then kept live by
+// merging guild.update / guild.remove deltas; guild.join drives a small "recently
+// joined" strip on top of the board.
+const GUILD_KINDS = new Set(['guild.update', 'guild.remove', 'guild.join'])
+
+function Leader({ leader }) {
+  if (!leader || !leader.name) return <span className="dim">—</span>
+  return <span>{leader.name}</span>
+}
+
+function GuildRow({ g }) {
+  return (
+    <div
+      className="panel"
+      style={{ padding: '14px 16px', display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 14 }}
+    >
+      <div style={{ minWidth: 0, flex: 1 }}>
+        <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'baseline', gap: 8, minWidth: 0 }}>
+          {g.abbr && (
+            <span
+              className="sans"
+              style={{
+                flex: 'none',
+                fontSize: '0.72rem',
+                letterSpacing: '0.06em',
+                color: 'var(--accent)',
+                border: '1px solid rgba(201,162,75,0.4)',
+                borderRadius: 5,
+                padding: '1px 6px',
+              }}
+            >
+              {g.abbr}
+            </span>
+          )}
+          <strong
+            className="display"
+            style={{ fontSize: '1rem', color: 'var(--head)', overflow: 'hidden', textOverflow: 'ellipsis', whiteSpace: 'nowrap' }}
+          >
+            {g.name || 'A guild'}
+          </strong>
+        </div>
+        {g.alliance && (
+          <div className="sans dim" style={{ fontSize: '0.76rem', marginTop: 2 }}>
+            {g.alliance}
+          </div>
+        )}
+      </div>
+      <div className="sans" style={{ flex: 'none', textAlign: 'right', fontSize: '0.84rem', color: 'var(--ink)' }}>
+        <div>
+          <span style={{ color: '#7fd0a4' }}>{g.online ?? 0}</span>
+          <span className="dim"> / {g.members ?? 0}</span>
+        </div>
+        <div className="dim" style={{ fontSize: '0.72rem', marginTop: 2 }}>
+          <Leader leader={g.leader} />
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
+export default function Guilds() {
+  const { loading, error, data } = useAsync(() => api.shard.guilds())
+  const { events, connected } = useShardFeed({ filter: GUILD_KINDS, max: 60 })
+  const [q, setQ] = useState('')
+
+  // Merge snapshot + live deltas by guild id (apply oldest → newest so live wins).
+  const board = useMemo(() => {
+    const map = new Map()
+    for (const g of data || []) if (g && g.id != null) map.set(g.id, g)
+    for (let i = events.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
+      const ev = events[i]
+      if (ev.kind === 'guild.update' && ev.id != null) map.set(ev.id, ev)
+      else if (ev.kind === 'guild.remove' && ev.id != null) map.delete(ev.id)
+    }
+    return [...map.values()]
+  }, [data, events])
+
+  // Recent joins strip (newest first, deduped, capped).
+  const joins = useMemo(
+    () => events.filter((e) => e.kind === 'guild.join' && e.who).slice(0, 6),
+    [events],
+  )
+
+  const filtered = useMemo(() => {
+    const needle = q.trim().toLowerCase()
+    const rows = needle
+      ? board.filter((g) =>
+          [g.name, g.abbr, g.alliance].some((v) => v && v.toLowerCase().includes(needle)),
+        )
+      : board
+    return [...rows].sort((a, b) => (a.name || '').localeCompare(b.name || ''))
+  }, [board, q])
+
+  const totalMembers = board.reduce((n, g) => n + (Number(g.members) || 0), 0)
+
+  return (
+    <PublicLayout section="website">
+      <div className="shell-narrow page-body">
+        <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'flex-start', justifyContent: 'space-between', gap: 16 }}>
+          <PageHeader eyebrow="Live" title="Guilds" lead="Every guild on the shard — rosters, alliances and who's online, updating in real time." />
+          <span className="sans" style={{ display: 'inline-flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 6, fontSize: '0.74rem', color: connected ? '#7fd0a4' : 'var(--muted)', flex: 'none', marginTop: 6 }}>
+            <span style={{ width: 8, height: 8, borderRadius: '50%', background: connected ? '#7fd0a4' : 'var(--dim)' }} />
+            {connected ? 'Live' : 'Offline'}
+          </span>
+        </div>
+
+        {loading && <Loading />}
+        {error && <ErrorState message="Could not load the guild board right now." />}
+
+        {!loading && !error && (
+          <>
+            {board.length === 0 ? (
+              <section className="panel" style={{ padding: 24, textAlign: 'center' }}>
+                <p className="sans dim" style={{ margin: 0 }}>No guilds are being tracked right now.</p>
+              </section>
+            ) : (
+              <>
+                {joins.length > 0 && (
+                  <section className="panel" style={{ padding: '12px 16px', marginBottom: 18 }}>
+                    <div className="sans" style={{ color: 'var(--accent)', fontSize: '0.66rem', letterSpacing: '0.12em', textTransform: 'uppercase', marginBottom: 8 }}>
+                      Recently joined
+                    </div>
+                    <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 5 }}>
+                      {joins.map((j) => (
+                        <div key={j._id} className="sans" style={{ fontSize: '0.84rem', color: 'var(--ink)' }}>
+                          <strong style={{ color: 'var(--head)' }}>{j.who.name}</strong>
+                          <span className="dim"> joined </span>
+                          {j.abbr ? `[${j.abbr}] ` : ''}{j.name}
+                        </div>
+                      ))}
+                    </div>
+                  </section>
+                )}
+
+                <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'space-between', gap: 12, marginBottom: 14 }}>
+                  <p className="sans" style={{ color: 'var(--accent)', fontSize: '0.8rem', margin: 0 }}>
+                    {board.length} guilds · {totalMembers.toLocaleString()} members
+                  </p>
+                  <input
+                    className="input sans"
+                    value={q}
+                    onChange={(e) => setQ(e.target.value)}
+                    placeholder="Search guilds…"
+                    style={{ flex: 'none', width: 190, maxWidth: '50%', fontSize: '0.84rem' }}
+                  />
+                </div>
+
+                <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 10 }}>
+                  {filtered.map((g) => <GuildRow key={g.id} g={g} />)}
+                </div>
+                {filtered.length === 0 && (
+                  <p className="sans dim" style={{ textAlign: 'center', marginTop: 20 }}>No guilds match “{q}”.</p>
+                )}
+              </>
+            )}
+          </>
+        )}
+      </div>
+    </PublicLayout>
+  )
+}

client/src/routes/public/Houses.jsx

@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+import { useMemo, useState } from 'react'
+import PublicLayout from '../../components/PublicLayout.jsx'
+import PageHeader from '../../components/PageHeader.jsx'
+import { Loading, ErrorState } from '../../components/PageState.jsx'
+import { useAsync } from '../../lib/useAsync.js'
+import { useShardFeed } from '../../lib/useShardFeed.js'
+import { api } from '../../api/client.js'
+
+// The house registry. Loaded from /public/shard/houses, kept live by merging
+// house.update / house.remove deltas by serial. `price` is the placement value —
+// NOT a for-sale flag (stock ServUO has none), and the UI labels it as such.
+const HOUSE_KINDS = new Set(['house.update', 'house.remove'])
+
+// Decay level → colour, from healthiest to collapsed.
+const DECAY_TONE = {
+  LikeNew: '#7fd0a4',
+  Slightly: '#a9cf8a',
+  Somewhat: '#d7c56a',
+  Fairly: '#e0a95f',
+  Greatly: '#d9736f',
+  IDOC: '#e05a5a',
+  Collapsed: '#8c96a5',
+}
+
+function DecayBadge({ decay, isIdoc }) {
+  const label = isIdoc ? 'IDOC' : decay
+  if (!label) return null
+  const tone = DECAY_TONE[label] || 'var(--muted)'
+  return (
+    <span className="sans" style={{ flex: 'none', fontSize: '0.68rem', letterSpacing: '0.04em', color: tone, border: `1px solid ${tone}66`, borderRadius: 999, padding: '2px 8px' }}>
+      {label}
+    </span>
+  )
+}
+
+// house.update carries owner as a flattened ownerName/ownerAcct on our shaped row.
+function ownerLabel(h) {
+  return h.ownerName || h.ownerAcct || null
+}
+
+function HouseRow({ h }) {
+  const owner = ownerLabel(h)
+  return (
+    <div className="panel" style={{ padding: '14px 16px', display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 14 }}>
+      <div style={{ minWidth: 0, flex: 1 }}>
+        <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 8, minWidth: 0 }}>
+          <strong className="display" style={{ fontSize: '1rem', color: 'var(--head)', overflow: 'hidden', textOverflow: 'ellipsis', whiteSpace: 'nowrap' }}>
+            {h.name || 'An unnamed house'}
+          </strong>
+          <DecayBadge decay={h.decay} isIdoc={h.isIdoc} />
+        </div>
+        <div className="sans dim" style={{ fontSize: '0.78rem', marginTop: 3 }}>
+          {owner ? <>Owned by <span style={{ color: 'var(--ink)' }}>{owner}</span></> : 'No owner'}
+          {(h.coOwners || h.friends) ? ` · ${h.coOwners || 0} co-owners, ${h.friends || 0} friends` : ''}
+        </div>
+        <div className="sans dim" style={{ fontSize: '0.72rem', marginTop: 2 }}>
+          {h.region || h.map || '—'}{h.x != null ? ` (${h.x}, ${h.y})` : ''}
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      {h.price != null && (
+        <div className="sans" style={{ flex: 'none', textAlign: 'right' }}>
+          <div style={{ fontSize: '0.92rem', color: 'var(--head)', fontVariantNumeric: 'tabular-nums' }}>
+            {Number(h.price).toLocaleString()}
+          </div>
+          <div className="dim" style={{ fontSize: '0.64rem', letterSpacing: '0.04em', textTransform: 'uppercase' }}>
+            placement value
+          </div>
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
+export default function Houses() {
+  const { loading, error, data } = useAsync(() => api.shard.houses())
+  const { events, connected } = useShardFeed({ filter: HOUSE_KINDS, max: 60 })
+  const [q, setQ] = useState('')
+
+  const board = useMemo(() => {
+    const map = new Map()
+    for (const h of data || []) if (h && h.serial) map.set(h.serial, h)
+    for (let i = events.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
+      const ev = events[i]
+      if (ev.kind === 'house.update' && ev.serial) {
+        // Live house.update events arrive in the sidecar's shape (owner is an
+        // actor object); normalize to the flattened shape the row renders.
+        map.set(ev.serial, {
+          ...ev,
+          ownerName: ev.owner?.name ?? ev.ownerName,
+          ownerAcct: ev.owner?.acct ?? ev.ownerAcct,
+        })
+      } else if (ev.kind === 'house.remove' && ev.serial) {
+        map.delete(ev.serial)
+      }
+    }
+    return [...map.values()]
+  }, [data, events])
+
+  const filtered = useMemo(() => {
+    const needle = q.trim().toLowerCase()
+    const rows = needle
+      ? board.filter((h) =>
+          [h.name, h.region, h.map, ownerLabel(h)].some((v) => v && String(v).toLowerCase().includes(needle)),
+        )
+      : board
+    return [...rows].sort((a, b) => (a.name || '').localeCompare(b.name || ''))
+  }, [board, q])
+
+  return (
+    <PublicLayout section="website">
+      <div className="shell-narrow page-body">
+        <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'flex-start', justifyContent: 'space-between', gap: 16 }}>
+          <PageHeader eyebrow="Live" title="Houses" lead="The house registry — owners, sizes and standing across Britannia." />
+          <span className="sans" style={{ display: 'inline-flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 6, fontSize: '0.74rem', color: connected ? '#7fd0a4' : 'var(--muted)', flex: 'none', marginTop: 6 }}>
+            <span style={{ width: 8, height: 8, borderRadius: '50%', background: connected ? '#7fd0a4' : 'var(--dim)' }} />
+            {connected ? 'Live' : 'Offline'}
+          </span>
+        </div>
+
+        {loading && <Loading />}
+        {error && <ErrorState message="Could not load the house registry right now." />}
+
+        {!loading && !error && (
+          <>
+            {board.length === 0 ? (
+              <section className="panel" style={{ padding: 24, textAlign: 'center' }}>
+                <p className="sans dim" style={{ margin: 0 }}>No houses are being tracked right now.</p>
+              </section>
+            ) : (
+              <>
+                <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'space-between', gap: 12, marginBottom: 14 }}>
+                  <p className="sans" style={{ color: 'var(--accent)', fontSize: '0.8rem', margin: 0 }}>
+                    {board.length.toLocaleString()} houses
+                  </p>
+                  <input
+                    className="input sans"
+                    value={q}
+                    onChange={(e) => setQ(e.target.value)}
+                    placeholder="Search by owner, region…"
+                    style={{ flex: 'none', width: 210, maxWidth: '55%', fontSize: '0.84rem' }}
+                  />
+                </div>
+                <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 10 }}>
+                  {filtered.map((h) => <HouseRow key={h.serial} h={h} />)}
+                </div>
+                {filtered.length === 0 && (
+                  <p className="sans dim" style={{ textAlign: 'center', marginTop: 20 }}>No houses match “{q}”.</p>
+                )}
+              </>
+            )}
+          </>
+        )}
+      </div>
+    </PublicLayout>
+  )
+}

client/src/routes/public/Shard.jsx

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { useShardFeed } from '../../lib/useShardFeed.js'
 import { describe } from '../../lib/shardEvents.js'
 import { ago } from '../../lib/format.js'
 import { api } from '../../api/client.js'
+import PlayersOnline from '../../components/PlayersOnline.jsx'
 
 // ── Gold-supply sparkline ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
 function Sparkline({ series }) {
@@ -108,12 +109,16 @@ export default function Shard() {
             </section>
 
             {/* Stat tiles */}
-            <section className="grid-3" style={{ gap: 14, marginBottom: 24 }}>
+            <section className="grid-2" style={{ gap: 14, marginBottom: 24 }}>
-              <Stat value={status?.onlineCount ?? '—'} label="Players online" />
               <Stat value={gold != null ? `${Number(gold).toLocaleString()}` : '—'} label="Gold supply" />
               <Stat value={online ? 'Up' : 'Down'} label="Shard link" />
             </section>
 
+            {/* Live players-online breakdown (total + region buckets) */}
+            <div style={{ marginBottom: 24 }}>
+              <PlayersOnline />
+            </div>
+
             {/* Staff online — linked staff accounts only, with location */}
             <section className="panel" style={{ padding: 20, marginBottom: 24 }}>
               <div className="sans" style={{ color: 'var(--accent)', fontSize: '0.7rem', letterSpacing: '0.12em', textTransform: 'uppercase', marginBottom: 12 }}>