Category:Homestead Systems

Description

Homesteads are pieces of land that the player owns and develops. Currently, two types of homesteads exist: the Regular homestead, and Moonlight Island.

Accessing

The homestead menu from the game bar.

• To enter either the homestead or moonlight island, click the homestead icon from the Menu Bar. Click on either button to enter the desired homestead.
• Permissions for who may enter the homesteads is based on the Homestead Menu's authorization settings.
• The homestead owner does not have to be online for anyone to enter their homestead.
  • It is possible to enter the homestead of a character on the same account provided they are in the same guild.
• To enter another player's homestead, right click them and select Enter (Homestead Type). This can also be done through the friends list.
  • If the player in question has not created an island or a homestead, you will not be able to enter it.
• Entering a homestead while aboard a Ship can cause a player to miss their arrival or departure when at port or at sea.
  • The player will have to wait for the next scheduled arrival or departure or teleport out of the Ship by means of Fast Travel.
• Entering a homestead does not count as leaving a channel, so you will not lose place in a queue or part-time job by entering.
  • The hidden weather effects will stay present until all characters leave the homestead.
  • The hidden weather effects reset every five minutes real time, but will not take place unless you exit and reenter.
    • Unlike other locations, homestead weather can differ between channels. However once a homestead is entered, it is time locked to a particular channel.

Leaving

• Any items dropped on the ground will disappear upon all players leaving the homestead.
• If you log off from your homestead, you will log back in to your location before entering the homestead.
• If you change channels immediately after exiting your homestead, homestead access is locked to the previous channel you left for one minute.
• When entering a homestead, hidden Weather effects may be present. These provide a bonus to production skill success rate and may cause homestead herb patches to yield more herbs.

Homestead Menu

From the homestead menu there are three tabs: Home, Moonlight Island, and Homestead.

• Home is the main hub from which you can enter your homestead or moonlight island and see their respective levels. It will also show you the amount of visitors you've had in each.
  • Today's Count displays the total number of visitors to your Homestead for that day. It resets at EDT: 10:00am
    UTC: 2:00pm
    AEST: 12:00am
    7:00am PDT100.
  • Total Count displays the total number of visitors who have visited your Homestead. It does not reset.
• The Weekly Island Spotlight will showcase a random player's Moonlight Island depending on set variables.
• Todays's Islander will showcase a random player's islander. You can enter their Moonlight island from that window, or click on Islander Information in order to see what they are wearing.

Tabs

• The Moonlight Island tab will show you:
  • The amount of Homestead Stones you own;
  • Island Guest Information;
  • Islander Production status and time remaining;
  • Information relative to equipment.
• The Homestead tab will show you:
  • The amount of Kon and Homestead stones you own;
  • Fynni Blossoming, fields and other production info under 'Production and Equipment';
  • Pet Expedition progress;
  • Pet House status;
  • Homestead Housing's Workshop Bench task progress.
    • If a task is completed, but access to the Homestead House has been revoked, you will only get an empty notification.

Both tabs will also hold the list of your favorite homesteads/moonlight islands.

Permissions

An example of authorization settings for the Homestead Options Menu.

There are two types of permissions: Entry and Item.

• Entry permissions will filter out who can enter your homestead or moonlight island.
• Item permissions will allow you to set who can use the gathering nodes and other appliances you have set up.

These options are visible through the 'options' button in the homestead/island's information window. Changes made from that window will affect all of the island/homestead's permissions.

• You can also change item permissions individually, by entering edit mode, right-clicking on the item, then selecting 'view information'.
• These permissions may be changed, at anytime, at the player's discretion.
  • It is possible to select both Owner's Friends and Guild Members at the same time, the other options are mutually exclusive.
  • You do not need be present on your Homestead for another person to use your tools if they have the necessary permission.

Details

• If the player chooses, "Owner," only the owner has access.
• If the player chooses the Authorization Setting "Owner's Friends," they may choose who is allowed to enter their homestead.
• If the player chooses "Guild members," only the members belonging to the same Guild as the player may enter their homestead.

• • Players wanting to enter your homestead will send a notification to you.
  • In a homestead, the type of house that you have affects how many friends can be added to the visitor list.

Visitor Management

An example of the Visitor Information.

You can manage visitors and visitor requests through the 'Visitor List' menu.

• You can manage visitors through the Request, Allow, and Block lists from the visitor list menu.
• In the "View Visitor List" under the Homestead Information icon, players may view:
  • Other players requesting to enter your homestead. They will appear on the "Request" list.
  • The "Allow" list displays players that have access to your homestead.
  • The "Block" list displays the players that are not allowed into your homestead.
  • Players may choose to "Accept" or "Delete" your request, or place you in their Block list.
• If you have set your homestead on anything other than the default 'anyone', players that do not fit the requirement may send out an invitation request.
• The owner of the homestead may also right-click on an unwanted guest's character and select the "Expel from Homestead" option.

Limitations

• You may not change channels while in a homestead.
• You cannot enter any homestead if someone else is in it on a different channel. You will be prompted to move to that channel in order to enter.
• You may not use Continent Warp while in a homestead.
• You may not enter a homestead while the Log Off penalty is applied.
• You may not enter a homestead from certain locations, such as Guild Hall.
• You may not leave a homestead while transformed into a creature or while 1st Couples Flight is active.
• Since the 8-Nov-2018 update, it has become possible to summon Pets inside a homestead and to enter a homestead while a pet is summoned.
  • Prior to that update, the only characters which could be summoned in a homestead were Partners and Mini Gems.
    • Partners will help you gather as long as the target prop is authorized to be used by anyone.

Favorites

Players may add homesteads or islands in their favorites. Places saved as favorites will show up in the respective tabs according to their type, and the player will be able to access them from that menu.

• To add a homestead to favorites, simply visit the desired homestead and click the Add Favorites button in the upper right hand corner.
  • The type of house you have does not affect the number of homestead friends you can have, but affects the amount of people you can add to your visitor list.

Construction Mode

The player can click on the hammer icon to build various objects with their homestead stones.

• Some objects may also require additional materials, usually production skill items.
• Some objects can only be purchased with Pons or obtained through Events and Gachapon.

Building

• When you begin building the object you desire, it will take a certain amount of time to be completed. The time spans from a few minutes to several hours or days.
  • Objects will continue to build/grow while you are offline, or otherwise away from your homestead.
• Successfully building/growing an object in a homestead will reward you with Kons. These represent the homestead's experience and value, and are needed to level up the homestead. As your homestead levels up, more objects are unlocked to be built.
  • Items built in Moonlight Island will not reward Kon.

Item Effects

• Some objects have special effects. For example, some will generate kons daily, others will boost the amount of times nodes can be gathered from.
  • Effects that boost collection amount will only be active if the affected object is directly adjacent to the effect-providing item.
• Some effects affect the entire Homestead region, such as Light Wagons or Kon-generating ornaments.
  • You may only place a certain number of any one ornament before new identical ornaments stop adding to the effect.
    • The Construction List will show the effect in gray instead of blue if new ornaments would not produce the effect. The max allowed of an ornament before the effect stops varies.

Edit Mode

• In Edit mode the player can click on an object and do the following:
  • View its information
  • adjust Authorization Settings
  • Move or Rotate homestead objects (PageUp ↻Clockwise, PageDown ↺Counter Clockwise)
  • paint objects that can be painted (primarily obtained from the Handicraft skill and the Paint Mixing Kettle)
  • Remove the object and (if possible) place it as a kit in the player's inventory
• You cannot edit your homestead while using a skill.
• Props that use a ladder, such as the Homestead Eweca or Homestead Treehouse will require their ladder to be destroyed first before being able to be retrieved.

Multi-Select

When under edit mode, players can click on the 'multi-select' mode to choose more than 1 prop at the time. Each prop has to be individually clicked.

• Like the regular edit mode, right-clicking on the selected item set will bring up the multi-select tool.
  • Permission settings can all be set for the chosen props.
  • Clicking the 'move' button will allow the selected props to be moved as a group.
    • You can rotate the grouped props with PageUp and PageDown as if you were moving a single prop.
    • From the build menu, clicking the third button will retrieve all of the currently selected props into your inventory.

Maintenance

• Certain items require Homestead Stones and Homestead Stone Fragments to maintain. The maintenance costs will automatically be deducted from your current amount of Homestead Stones once every week.
  • If you do not have enough Homestead Stones when maintenance is due, a fee of 10 Pons can be paid in its place.
    • If the player cannot pay the fee, the homestead items that have maintenance costs will become unusable and unremovable until the next successful payment.
      • When the next payment is due, the player must pay both the current and all previously unpaid maintenance cost.
  • A Fragment is 1/10th of a Homestead Stone, and will not show up in your costs until you owe a full stone's worth.

Comparative chart between Moonlight Island and the Homestead

• Figures that bear stats will not take effect when placed in Moonlight Island.
• Most props can be taken from the homestead to moonlight island, but kits bearing the 'moonlight island' name cannot be taken to the homestead.

⁽¹⁾:Islands will not come with their own Homestead Stone node, but they can be built.

Gallery

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  The old homestead information window seen from the menu bar, Showing Homestead Name, general information, House information, Pet House information and Crop Information.

• UI - Homestead Map.png

  The defunct homestead map, using the generation 15 world map. It is still seen when creating a homestead.