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 (roughly +15% per level within a material tier), and periodically step up to pricier, higher-tier materials as you pass certain levels.
• 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	6	+1 farm plot	Clears one more Farming plot per level (2 plots at level 0, up to 8 at level 6).
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	+0.2 stall	Adds another stable stall every 5 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 / 10 min	Passively cures 1 Hide every 10 minutes per level.
Apiary	50	+1 Wild Honey / ~7 min	Passively gathers 1 Wild Honey roughly every 7 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.

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 ~7 min	50
Tannery	Hide	1 per 10 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