Home

## Realm Guide

Home (also referred to as Home Space or the Lobby) is the personal menu-like region, where all new, middle, and veteran players alike gather before venturing out into the Realms. Players can find:

* Entry portals to every realm of the game (provided they have entered it at least once / completed the realm)
* The Return Shrine
* The Outfit Shrine that houses all of the wearable Cosmetics that the player has collected
* The Constellation Table
* The Home Clock / Bell

The lighting in Home changes depending on the time of day according to the player's device clock. There are four modes which cycle: sunrise, daytime, sunset, and night. There are also two weather modes, which are sunny and overcast. Additionally, there is a type of clock at Home which will ring the hours (and fractions thereof) according to Pacific Standard Time (PST / See below).

## Realm Entry Portals

Home contains portals into every realm that you have opened in the game.

On the first playthrough, the player can only see the portals for realms that they have completed or are playing through. Other more experienced players seem to disappear when entering portals that the player does not have access to. The final Realm Gateway (not pictured) is present, but the door is closed.

## Return Shrine

Directly in front of the Constellation Tables in Aviary and Home sits a Return Shrine. Kneeling at the Shrine, after several seconds, teleports the player to their previous location among the seven Realms. This allows players to easily finish interrupted play-sessions at a more convenient time. This shrine previously housed the daily Seasonal Candle, awarded to Season Pass holders and Hearts collected by players from Meditation Notes, but in Patch 0.23.5, the daily Seasonal Candle and Hearts were moved to the Constellation Statue in Aviary Village.

Shrines similar to this used to be found in the first area of each Realm except Isle of Dawn until they were removed in Patch 0.21.0, and sitting at these allows the player to return to Home.

When idle, a beam of light can be seen protruding from the light circle in the shrine. The beam color is based off the main color theme of the realm that you're in. While the Valley of Triumph having a red-pinkish like color beam, the Eye of Eden has a pure red beam protruding out.

## Constellation Table

For more information, please visit the Constellation Table page.

## Teleporting Home

There are three main ways to teleport Home:

1. Sit at Return Shrines in Social Spaces.
2. Tap on the top right corner of the screen to open Settings and tap the gate icon. In the confirmation message, tap the checkmark to proceed, or X to cancel the teleport request.
3. Use the gate icon within the Expressions Menu (click the cape icon in the top middle of the screen).

### Setting Home as 'Home'

Upon completing the fourth Quest from the Season of Revival, a special white candle appears near the Realm Entry Portals in Aviary Village and by the Closets in Home. New players can use this white candle to set Home as their 'Home' instead of Aviary Village (Older players born before Patch 0.23.5 will still have Home set as their 'Home' by default). If set, players will teleport Home when using the "Home" button and when opening the game.

Players can still access Aviary Village by entering the Aviary Village portal located behind the Return Shrine.

## The Clock / Bell Chimes at Home

There is an intangible clock at home that chimes every quarter of the hour (every 15 minutes). The chimes originate from the bell on top of the Eye of Eden portal in Home.\* Each chime in the hour sounds different, so by recognizing the chime you can discern when in the hour it currently is.

Unlike many real-world clock chimes where the exact time of the hour is marked by the first of the bell tolls (the musical sequence comes before the hour), in Sky the exact time is marked by the very beginning of the entire chime sequence, by the D4 note at the beginning of all chimes. For example, at 8am PST, the musical part of the chimes begins at 08:00:00, and the bell toll begins around 08:00:15. and the entire chime sequence ends at around 08:00:55.

follow **Pacific Standard Time (PST)** (UTC-8) year-round, which is only observed by parts of western Canada, the western United States (where TGC is), and western Mexico during winter months. Many PST regions also shift to Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) in certain months, rendering the bell tolls irrelevant to virtually all players since they don't appear to be adjusted according to DST. Most player|}

If it is difficult to remember the sound of the different chimes, you can identify them by counting the number of strokes because each chime is longer than the previous. The 1st quarter chime plays 2 strokes, the 2nd has 3 strokes, 3rd has 4 strokes, and the hour has 5 strokes followed immediately by bell tolls.

The bell tolls/bongs after each hourly chime are meant to indicate the hour in 12-hour format. For example, if there are 9 tolls it means 9 o’clock (09:00 or 21:00). However, the maximum number of bell tolls is 10, so there will be only 10 tolls even at 11 or 12 o'clock.

These tolls follow **Pacific Standard Time (PST)** (UTC-8) year-round, which is only observed by parts of western Canada, the western United States (where TGC is), and western Mexico during winter months. Many PST regions also shift to Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) in certain months, rendering the bell tolls irrelevant to virtually all players since they don't appear to be adjusted according to DST. Most players can ignore them. However, if the assumption of no DST adjustment is true and since the bell tolls operate in 12-hour format (1~12) instead of 24-hour format (0~24), the bell tolls are, in effect, telling time in PST(UTC-8) as well as the time zone that is 12 hours away (UTC-8+12=UTC+4), which is the time zone of some Middle Eastern (UAE, Oman), Eastern European (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Russia), and African countries (Mauritius, Seychelles).

\*In versions prior to 2022, the quarterly chimes and the majority of the musical part of the hourly chime were played from the Eden portal. However, the last note of the musical part of the hourly chime (or the zeroth hour toll), as well as all the hour tolls, were played from the Isle of Dawn portal. In the previous version, each of the quarterly chime had a different musical pattern with 1 more note than their corresponding current counterparts (4 notes in the half-hour chime instead of the current 3). The chime patterns changed in an update in mid-2022.

### Lighting in Home

The lighting in Home is relative to the player's device clock:

* Sunrise — 05:00 to 08:59
* Cloudy — 09:00 to 09:59
* Daytime — 10:00 to 15:59
* Cloudy — 16:00 to 16:59
* Sunset — 17:00 to 20:59
* Night — 21:00 to 04:59 next day

Mnemonic: Sunrise/Sunset are 5 to 9, one hour of cloudiness after sunrise and before sunset, else is daytime or night.

## Traveling Spirits

Every two weeks, a Traveling Spirit will appear in Home space. These Spirits allow the player to collect expression upgrades and cosmetics from previous Seasons. See the Traveling Spirits page for more detailed information.

## The Sleepy Traveling Merchant's Boat

    The Sleepy Traveling Merchant (also called the Sleepy Traveler or the Sleepy Merchant) appears periodically with a boat stocked with Spells, Scrolls, and Potions usually found in Forgotten Ark shops. During events, they often offer free Spells that players can use to try out the event’s items before buying them for real or game currencies.

The Sleepy Traveling Merchant is available for a few days, to raise awareness of a new batch on the Sky Merchandise website. Tapping on the shopping cart icon above the spirit's head makes the spirit do the Telekinesis Expression which summons a Meditation Circle. Sitting down redirects the player to the thatskyshop website, an official merchandise website made by thatgamecompany. The website is still accessible after the Sleepy Traveling Merchant's departure.

## Trivia

        * The Realms portals used to act as a "return" portal to the last area where you visited in a realm. As of February 2020, the realm portals at Home *always* send the player to the Social Space/spawn point of the chosen Realm.
* In Sky: Light Awaits, there was a much larger area named Aviary and an early version of Home (Candle Space) that has no land at all, only water.
* The nickname "Home Space" was acknowledged in the Skytober list. This is justified as it was originally made by a fan.
	+ The nickname Office was acknowledged as well.
* The current version of Home is the only Realm without an opening quote.
	+ However, the Sky: Light Awaits version used to have one.
* After the end of Season of Revival, new players are now born directly into Aviary Village where they experience a new tutorial before being shepherded into the Isle of Dawn.
* Every Days Of Feast/Christmas Event and/or Winter Season Home gets an Icy Make-Over for Players to enjoy.
* If the player loses all their stars, you are sent Home far away from the main area in a dark room with a single winged light to get you started on your journey again. This winged light is not otherwise accessible.
* The first image on the right shows the removed social space Return Shrines (starting from top left):
	+ Prairie Social Space
	+ Forest Social Space
	+ Valley Social Space
	+ Wasteland Social Space
	+ Vault Social Space
	+ Eden Social Space
* Additional Return Shrines that were removed in Patch 0.12.0 are shown in the second image:

	+ Sanctuary Islands
	+ Broken Bridges
	+ Forgotten Ark