Mistfall Hunter Auction House

What the Auction House is

The Auction House is a camp feature owned by Pip. In our quest table, Pip appears as the giver for ten quests across the record, and one of them — Pip’s Auction House! Grand Opening! — exists specifically to open the Auction House. In our cipher table, eight clue words carry the tag npc: Pip, npc_role: Auction House, making Pip the only NPC whose entire cipher vocabulary sits inside a single camp structure.

This page is deliberately not another copy of the full cipher word table. That page lists all 52 words and which of the seven camp NPCs owns each one. Here, the scope is narrower: what the Auction House is, how you unlock it, and the eight words Pip will pay the bonus for.

How to unlock the Auction House

The one quest in our record that opens the Auction House is:

Pip’s Auction House! Grand Opening! — objective: Talk to Pip

That is the whole of the unlocking fact we hold. The quest table records the quest giver as Pip, the objective verbatim as “Talk to Pip”, and the quest_line and step fields as null — the source did not record which quest line this belongs to or where in any progression it sits. We are not going to fill that gap with a guess.

What the record does tell us, from the same table, is that Pip gives ten quests in total, from the newcomer Pip’s Provision through the Pip’s Plan story branch to this Auction House unlock. That places the Auction House inside Pip’s world of quests without telling us exactly where in that world the unlock falls. If you are below level 5, you will not see the Decipher option on any camp NPC (two of three cipher sources state this), so the level gate applies here too — but the auction unlock itself is about completing the quest, not a level threshold.

The full quest table holds all 128 quests and is where you go to browse “what is in the game”. This page answers one narrower question — how do I get into the Auction House? — and stops wherever the record stops.

The eight cipher words that belong to Pip

Every cipher in Mistfall Hunter prints two clue words, and both belong to the same NPC. When either word on your cipher matches one of Pip’s eight, take it to Pip. The words split into two confidence tiers, and they are presented here the way our data records them — not the way a guide might want them to read.

Cross-confirmed: six words all three sources agree on

These six words are printed by all three independently published cipher tables — mistfallhunterguide.org, mistfallhunter.app and Game Rant — and each carries _corroborations: 3 in our dataset, with the confidence label “Three sources agree”:

Word	Evidence
Elder Edict	Three sources agree
Mantra	Three sources agree
Plucking	Three sources agree
Score	Three sources agree
Secret Cache	Three sources agree
Tree Hollow	Three sources agree

Any cipher carrying one of these words goes to Pip, with the highest confidence the community tables can provide.

Single-source: two words with explicit risk notes

Two more words in the Auction House set rest on one source only, and our dataset marks both with an explicit _risk field. These are not settled in the way the six above are:

Word	Risk note (verbatim from our dataset)
Hoarding	“printed by Game Rant alone, and only as half of the pair “Haggling, Hoarding””
Prayer	“printed by mistfallhunter.app alone, which itself attributes it to a single creator guide”

Hoarding sits at the boundary of the Haggling argument — the one cipher word the three sources genuinely disagree about. Game Rant lists Haggling twice: as “Barter, Haggling” for Cazarro and as “Haggling, Hoarding” for Pip, both marked only if paired together. The other two sources give Haggling to Cazarro outright and never mention Hoarding. Our cipher table resolves this by reading the pair: if your cipher pairs Haggling with Hoarding, Pip is the correct answer; if it pairs Haggling with Barter, Cazarro is. But that reading rests entirely on Game Rant’s single account, and the _risk note says so.

Prayer carries a different kind of risk: the only source that prints it is mistfallhunter.app, and that source itself credits a single creator guide rather than an independent table. So the word exists in the community record, but it has not been cross-confirmed the way the six above have.

For the full 52-word table with every NPC’s ownership, see the cipher words page.

Where the record stops

The data we hold does not answer several questions a player might reasonably ask about the Auction House. All of these are not in the record — our sources collected none of them, and we are not inventing figures:

• Fees or commission rate — no number exists in our data.
• Listing slot cap — how many items you can put up at once is unrecorded.
• Auction duration — how long a listing runs is unrecorded.
• Currency unit — the market is assumed to work in the game’s currency, but the Auction House’s own unit is not stated in our sources.
• Level requirement — the Decipher option itself is gated at level 5 (two of three cipher sources state this), but the Auction House’s own unlock has no level figure in the quest record.
• Quest line membership — the unlock quest has quest_line: null and step: null in our table, so we cannot say which story branch it belongs to or what must be completed first.

The one development-side fact we do hold is on the gear page: the Auction House gained more slots at launch and the automatic restocking mechanic was removed. That is a developer update fact, not a game mechanic figure — it tells you the system changed, not what its current limits are.

Why this page exists

The cipher page already covers the full 52-word system and the Haggling conflict. The gear page covers the equipment economy and where the Auction House fits into it. This page exists because the Auction House is its own place — with its own owner, its own unlock, and its own eight-word cipher vocabulary — and because the query “mistfall hunter auction house” deserves a page that says what the record supports and what it does not, instead of borrowing its answer from two other pages.

If you came here to look up which NPC takes your cipher, the cipher word table is the full reference. If you came here to understand what the Auction House does with items, the gear page covers the economy side. If you came here because you need to know how to get in and which words Pip owns — you are on the right page.