More Tools & Tips for your Homestead
Some Where Builders Meet members already hit Homestead level 8, just hours ago! They clearly sleep less than their workers do. Want to know their secrets? Check our guides 😂
We now have a dedicated Homestead page gathering all the guides, docs, and spreadsheets you've been sharing, proposing Cylos beginner guide, LittleMissAngel retainer guide, Goose, Dravish, ResponsibleCulture43 recipe/crop calculators, a seller planner, and more. If you've got something that would help other players, feel free to share it with us!
We've also put together a Top 10 Homestead Fanatics ranking, just for fun.
Here's a sample of tips from our main guide (without the images/screenshots):
Buy the Artisan's Manual every week, you need it to level up your workers and it's capped weekly. Here's how retainer efficiency stacks:
Say Worker A has 107% efficiency (+7%) and Worker B has 105% efficiency (+5%). Combined production time becomes:
45 min ÷ (1 + 7% + 5%) = 45 min ÷ 1.12 = 40 min 11 sec
If you're optimizing for Prosperity, don't forget to convert your Golden Grain into Prosperity, it's fully reversible, you don't lose the Golden Grain and can reclaim it anytime.
Each Golden Grain Building Component (3.5k Golden Grain) gives 150 Prosperity, the same as 15 Medical Kits. Not huge on its own, but every bit counts in the race to the top.
You'll find these under Personal Building Components. Reclaim your Golden Grain by dismantling the component.
Component Limit Beyond Mundane (Island)
10K components + 4K components from residence area
How to completely reset Homestead and restart from scratch
You have to manually find every industry zone you placed and delete it / reclaim all components in it. For the 3 main industries you need to do this. (this will delete everything in the industry zone):
Build > Build Management > Retrieve Industry Components
Or
Choose Homestead zone > More > Delete
Using diagrams is buggy as hell
If you're struggling with diagrams, you're not alone, several distinct bugs are floating around, so hop into the WBM Discord for specific troubleshooting.
If you hit the "Diagram data error, Application failed" error: pick up all your stoves and tables first, place the diagram, then put the stoves and tables back.
Warning: reapplying diagrams can reset your catering setup if you replace your tables.
Upon teleporting to the Cloudrest Passage Waystone, you might notice a large board placed to the side of the path. Interact with it.
Here you can post messages that all your Neighbours can see, assuming they interact with the board too.
The real value is the Assists tab. You can request resources from your neighbours once per day. Exchange resources with the same neighbour three times and you'll learn their name and be able to form a Companion Bond with them.
If you find a good neighbour who's active and friendly, consider inviting them to a Companion Bond. Why? The realm shifts periodically, separating you from your current neighbours, but members of a Companion Bond stay together through the shift. (Note: we can't currently confirm whether realm shifts are actually happening in-game yet.)
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More tips in the full article!
