Homestead

The Homestead is your home base: a collection of structures you build and upgrade level by level. Each structure grants a passive benefit that grows with its level, from extra Bank slots to passive resource production, faster Skills, and more stable stalls for your Creatures. Structures are built and upgraded by spending gathered and crafted Items such as logs, fiber, stone, hides and ingots.

How structures work

• Every structure has its own level, raised one level at a time by paying its current upgrade cost.
• Costs rise steadily as a structure levels: within a material tier each level costs ×1.15 the previous (rounded, minimum 1 of each material), and the materials step up to a pricier set at fixed level breakpoints. Exact per-tier costs are in Build costs below.
• Each structure has a maximum level. Buff structures reach as high as 99; passive producers cap at 50; the house chain caps at 25 (24 for the Iron Keep).
• A few structures are gated: they cannot be started until an earlier structure reaches its maximum level (see the house chain below).

Structures

Structure	Max level	Effect per level	What it does
Farmland	8	+1 farm plot	Clears one more Farming plot per level (2 plots at level 0, up to 10 at level 8).
Storage Hut	99	+1 bank slot	Adds one Bank slot per level.
Crop Plot	50	+1 Crimson Berry / min	Passively grows 1 Crimson Berry per minute per level.
Feeding Trough	99	−1% Taming cost	Trims Taming food and tonic costs by 1% per level (max 50%).
Forge	99	+0.5% Smithing speed	Speeds up Smithing by 0.5% per level (max 50%).
Grand Stable	99	+0.3 stall	Adds a stable stall roughly every 3 levels (for housing tamed Creatures).
Thatch Hut	25	+2 max HP	The first house. Adds 2 max HP per level.
Timber Lodge	25	+3 max HP	Adds 3 max HP per level. Requires Thatch Hut 25.
Stone House	25	+0.2 HP / regen tick	Adds 1 HP per regen tick every 5 levels. Requires Timber Lodge 25.
Iron Keep	24	+5 max HP	Adds 5 max HP per level. Requires Stone House 25.
Tannery	50	+1 Hide / 6 min	Passively cures 1 Hide every 6 minutes per level.
Apiary	50	+1 Wild Honey / ~17 min	Passively gathers 1 Wild Honey roughly every 17 minutes per level.
Fishery Dock	50	+1 Minnow / 90 s	Nets 1 Minnow every 90 seconds per level.
Quarry	50	+1 Stone / 90 s	Works 1 Stone every 90 seconds per level.
Watchtower	99	+1 expedition strength	Adds +1 to expedition strength per level, improving Dispatch and expedition outcomes.
Ancestral Monument	10	+1% Amber per sale	The first Amber-priced structure (unlocks at your first skill 99); each level raises the value of everything you sell. See Ancestral Monument.

Most structures are paid for in materials; the Ancestral Monument is the exception, bought with Amber as a late-game sink. Several producers were retuned in the Great Rebalance so their payback lands in a fair band (the Tannery sped up, the Apiary slowed, and the Grand Stable now grants more stalls per level).

Build costs

Each level's cost is its tier's base × 1.15^{(levels into the tier)}, rounded (minimum 1 of each material). Below, each entry lists the base cost at the first level of each tier — so "L16: 12 Ginkgo Log" means level 16 costs 12 Ginkgo Log, level 17 costs ~14, level 18 ~16, and so on until the next breakpoint. (For example, Storage Hut level 10 = round(8 × 1.15⁹) ≈ 28 Fernwood.)

House chain

Two tiers each; the second starts at level 14 (Iron Keep at level 13).

Structure	Max	From L1	From L14
Thatch Hut	25	Fernwood ×10 + Plains Fiber ×6	Cycad Log ×14 + Twine Rope ×3
Timber Lodge	25	Ginkgo Log ×14 + Twine Rope ×4	Araucaria Log ×16 + Hide ×8
Stone House	25	Stone ×30 + Clay ×12	Stone ×60 + Bronze Ingot ×4
Iron Keep	24	Iron Ingot ×8 + Stone ×60 + Coal ×12	Obsidian ×10 + Crystal ×4 + Moonstone ×2 (from L13)

Buff structures (to level 99)

Seven tiers, stepping up at levels 16 / 31 / 46 / 61 / 76 / 89. Since v0.37.8 the wood a tier asks for is always harder than the tier before it — Storage Hut, Feeding Trough, Grand Stable, and Watchtower each had a pair of tiers the wrong way round (asking for the harder log first, then dropping back) before that fix.

Structure	From L1	From L16	From L31	From L46	From L61	From L76	From L89
Storage Hut	Fernwood ×8 + Twine Rope ×1	Ginkgo Log ×12 + Fiber Basket ×2	Redwood Log ×14 + Redwood Pack Frame ×1	Frostpine Log ×21 + Iron Ingot ×4	Ironbark Log ×33 + Obsidian ×18	Moonstone ×12 + Glow Moss ×24	Moonstone ×24 + Echo Shard ×18
Feeding Trough	Fernwood ×6 + Stone ×5	Cycad Log ×10 + Hide ×4	Ginkgo Log ×12 + Hide ×8	Mangrove Log ×27 + Bronze Ingot ×4	Redwood Log ×6 + Iron Ingot ×5	Obsidian ×8 + Wild Honey ×10	Moonstone ×5 + Glow Moss ×10
Forge	Stone ×12 + Stone Blade ×1	Stone ×25 + Bronze Ingot ×3	Stone ×40 + Iron Ingot ×4	Coal ×20 + Iron Ingot ×8	Obsidian ×10 + Coal ×30	Obsidian ×16 + Crystal ×6	Moonstone ×6 + Echo Shard ×5
Grand Stable	Fernwood ×12 + Twine Rope ×2 + Hide ×2	Ginkgo Log ×14 + Twine Rope ×5 + Hide ×5	Redwood Log ×12 + Redwood Pack Frame ×1 + Hide ×8	Frostpine Log ×18 + Iron Ingot ×5	Ironbark Log ×29 + Obsidian ×24	Moonstone ×12 + Hide ×75	Moonstone ×21 + Echo Shard ×18
Watchtower	Araucaria Log ×10 + Twine Rope ×4	Redwood Log ×12 + Bronze Ingot ×3	Frostpine Log ×15 + Iron Ingot ×5	Ironbark Log ×8 + Iron Ingot ×8	Obsidian ×10 + Coal ×20	Moonstone ×4 + Crystal ×6	Moonstone ×7 + Echo Shard ×5

Passive producers (to level 50)

Four tiers, stepping up at levels 16 / 31 / 41.

Structure	From L1	From L16	From L31	From L41
Crop Plot	Plains Fiber ×13 + Fernwood ×6	Plains Fiber ×32 + Ginkgo Log ×18	Araucaria Log ×12 + Clay ×10	Redwood Log ×14 + Glow Moss ×4
Tannery	Cycad Log ×10 + Bone ×5	Ginkgo Log ×14 + Hide ×10	Mangrove Log ×14 + Iron Ingot ×3	Ironbark Log ×14 + Obsidian ×5
Apiary	Fernwood ×12 + Wild Honey ×2	Cycad Log ×14 + Wild Honey ×6	Ginkgo Log ×16 + Fiber Basket ×2	Redwood Log ×14 + Glow Moss ×4
Fishery Dock	Fernwood ×8 + Twine Rope ×3	Mangrove Log ×12 + Twine Rope ×6	Redwood Log ×12 + Redwood Pack Frame ×1	Frostpine Log ×12 + Cave Pearl ×3
Quarry	Fernwood ×8 + Stone Blade ×1	Cycad Log ×12 + Bronze Ingot ×2	Araucaria Log ×12 + Iron Ingot ×4	Ironbark Log ×12 + Obsidian ×4

Farmland

Five tiers, stepping up at levels 3 / 5 / 7 / 8. At its full 8 levels Farmland clears 10 Farming plots (2 base + 8); the last two tiers gate plots 9–10 behind Moonstone and Echo Shard.

Structure	Max	From L1	From L3	From L5	From L7	From L8
Farmland	8	Fernwood ×10 + Plains Fiber ×8	Ginkgo Log ×20 + Stone ×18	Redwood Log ×24 + Iron Ingot ×8	Moonstone ×5 + Frostpine Log ×18	Moonstone ×8 + Echo Shard ×6

Passive producers

Several structures generate Items on their own, even while you are busy with another skill or offline. Higher levels stack the output rate.

Structure	Produces	Rate at level 1	Max level
Crop Plot	Crimson Berry	1 per minute	50
Fishery Dock	Minnow	1 per 90 s	50
Quarry	Stone	1 per 90 s	50
Apiary	Wild Honey	1 per ~17 min	50
Tannery	Hide	1 per 6 min	50

The house chain

The four house structures form a linear upgrade path. Each must be fully built before the next can begin, and together they steadily raise your max HP and health regeneration:

• Thatch Hut (levels 1–25, +2 max HP each) → unlocks
• Timber Lodge (levels 1–25, +3 max HP each) → unlocks
• Stone House (levels 1–25, +1 HP per regen tick every 5 levels) → unlocks
• Iron Keep (levels 1–24, +5 max HP each)

Building the houses also invites Villagers to move in once housing reaches the required levels, each delivering periodic gift baskets.

Related pages

• Farming — the crop plots unlocked by Farmland
• Villagers — NPCs who move in as your houses grow
• Shop — Amber upgrades that also add bank slots and stable stalls
• Creatures — tamed dinos housed in stable stalls

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