Is the Digital Deed a legal document?

No. It is a printable keepsake that records your claim in the fictional digital city. It conveys no ownership of any real or virtual property, cannot be sold or transferred, has no monetary value, and states all of this in its own fine print on the face of the certificate.

What information appears on the deed?

Your property name, its address (street number and street), the house style, the lucky colour with its traditional meaning, your lucky number, the date of claim, a deed number unique to the plot and date, and your display name if you chose to add one. Nothing else. No email or personal details are ever collected.

How do I save the deed as a PDF?

Open the deed and choose Print this deed, then select "Save as PDF" or "Print to PDF" as the destination in your browser's print dialog. The print styling hides everything except the certificate, so the PDF is the clean document on its own.

If I lose my claim, is my deed still meaningful?

As a keepsake, yes, entirely. Your house stays standing on the avenue whatever your browser does, and your printed or saved deed records the claim with its date and deed number. Clearing browser data only tidies your own panel; the deed in your drawer is untouched.

Can I put someone else's name on the deed?

The display name field is yours to use, including the name of the person the claim commemorates. Many people claim a plot for a partner, a child or a friend and give them the printed deed. Just remember the display name also appears on your house on the public avenue; the paper is the gift, and it travels fine.

Digital Deeds, Explained: What Your Virtual Property Keepsake Means

Every claimed plot on the avenue comes with a Digital Deed: a printable certificate that records the property name, its address in the city, the style, colour and lucky number you chose, the day you claimed it, and a deed number all its own. It is designed to look the part, seal and all, and designed just as carefully to say exactly what it is.

This guide explains the certificate field by field, how to get a good print out of it, and exactly where the line sits between our keepsake and the legal instruments that share its name. The short version: a real deed moves ownership; ours marks a moment. Both, in their way, are worth keeping.

First, what a real deed is

In the real world, a deed is a legal document that transfers ownership of land or a building from one party to another. It names the grantor and the grantee, describes the property precisely, and is signed, witnessed and recorded with a land registry or recorder's office so the whole world can check who owns what. Deeds sit at the foundation of property law; mishandling one has real consequences, which is why lawyers and title professionals earn their fees around them.

Our digital city has none of that machinery, because there is nothing real to transfer. The plot you claimed does not exist outside this website, the claim lives in the avenue's registry as a line of cheerful data, and the "deed" transfers nothing to anyone. We borrow the ceremony of the format because the ceremony is the enjoyable part, and we refuse to borrow the authority. The certificate says, in its own fine print, that it is not a legal document and conveys no ownership of any real or virtual property. It means it.

What our digital deed is instead

Think of it as a keepsake with good manners. People keep boarding passes from honeymoon flights, ticket stubs from concerts that changed them, and programs from games their team finally won. None of those papers have legal force, and all of them earn their drawer space. The Digital Deed belongs to that family: a dated, named, sealed record of a small moment you chose for yourself.

It also does something a screenshot cannot. Because the deed draws your actual house, in your colour and style, at your address, with your property name set in the certificate face, it reads as an object rather than a capture. Print it and pin it by the desk, slip it into a card for the person you named the house after, or keep the PDF in the folder where life's good paperwork lives. That is the entire ambition, and we think it is enough.

Field by field

The certificate is short, and every field earns its place:

Property name: the name you gave your home, set largest, because it is the point of the document.
Address: "No. X, Street Name," your plot number on its street in the digital city. Claimed on Angel Lane at plot seven, you are the keeper of No. 1111.
Claimed by: your optional display name. Leave it blank and the deed reads "the keeper of this plot," which some people prefer.
House style: the architecture you chose, lantern cottage, gabled villa, pagoda house or terrace townhouse, drawn on the certificate in your colour.
Lucky colour and lucky number: the pair you picked, with the colour's traditional meaning noted, so the deed carries its own small story.
Date of claim and deed number: the day you claimed, and a unique reference built from the plot and that date. Two claims on the same plot in different months carry different numbers; yours is yours.
The fine print: a few plain sentences stating the deed is a keepsake, not a legal document, with no monetary value. We put it on the face of the certificate rather than hiding it, in plain print where every reader sees it.

Printing it well

Open the deed from Your Properties on the avenue and use the Print this deed button. Your browser's print dialog then handles the rest: the page is styled in print so that only the certificate reaches the paper, centred with sensible margins, in colour if your printer offers it. A home colour printer or a neighbourhood print shop both do it justice; the certificate was designed to hold up on ordinary paper at ordinary quality.

Prefer a file to a printout? Choose "Save as PDF" (or "Print to PDF") as the destination in the same dialog. The resulting PDF is the full certificate, seal and all, and it is the copy that answers to nobody but you. Your house stands in the avenue's registry for as long as the city keeps its records; the printed or saved deed is yours for as long as you keep yours. Date, address and deed number survive in the keepsake whatever the avenue does next.

A small presentation tip from experience: the certificate looks its best printed slightly larger than a letter page's middle, pinned rather than taped, and, if it commemorates something, dated by hand in pencil beneath the seal. A tiny human annotation on a ceremonial document is never wrong.

Keeping it, losing it, and what the deed cannot do

Your claim itself lives in the avenue's public registry, which is what makes it account-free and visible to every visitor, and it defines the limits you should know. Change browsers, change devices, or clear stored site data, and your houses stay standing exactly where you left them; only this browser's list of which ones are yours is forgotten. Your printed deed carries the same deed number either way, a small continuity we built in on purpose.

Releasing a plot is equally simple: from Your Properties, release tidies the plot out of your panel. The house itself stays standing on the avenue, and the deed you printed stays valid as a keepsake forever; it records a claim that genuinely happened. Think of it as the difference between a house and a photograph of the house. The photograph is yours regardless.

The avenue does have a small proper database behind it now: that is the registry your claim was saved to, and it is what lets your houses show on any device, for any visitor, without an account. What we still do not store is you: no email, no password, no profile, only the property name, the display name you chose, and the house you built from them. The paper copy remains the archive that answers to you alone. It is an unusual trade in modern software, and we are comfortable making it.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Digital Deed a legal document?: No. It is a printable keepsake that records your claim in the fictional digital city. It conveys no ownership of any real or virtual property, cannot be sold or transferred, has no monetary value, and states all of this in its own fine print on the face of the certificate.
What information appears on the deed?: Your property name, its address (street number and street), the house style, the lucky colour with its traditional meaning, your lucky number, the date of claim, a deed number unique to the plot and date, and your display name if you chose to add one. Nothing else. No email or personal details are ever collected.
How do I save the deed as a PDF?: Open the deed and choose Print this deed, then select "Save as PDF" or "Print to PDF" as the destination in your browser's print dialog. The print styling hides everything except the certificate, so the PDF is the clean document on its own.
If I lose my claim, is my deed still meaningful?: As a keepsake, yes, entirely. Your house stays standing on the avenue whatever your browser does, and your printed or saved deed records the claim with its date and deed number. Clearing browser data only tidies your own panel; the deed in your drawer is untouched.
Can I put someone else's name on the deed?: The display name field is yours to use, including the name of the person the claim commemorates. Many people claim a plot for a partner, a child or a friend and give them the printed deed. Just remember the display name also appears on your house on the public avenue; the paper is the gift, and it travels fine.

Keep exploring the digital city

Back to the avenueClaim a plot and watch your own deed being generated, seal and all.How to Choose a Lucky AddressChoose the address first; the deed will show it off properly.What Is Claim a Property?The digital city explained, including how the public registry keeps your homes standing.Luckiest Streets in the Digital CityWalk the four streets whose names will appear on your certificate.