Homestead

## Introduction

The homestead is a place to invest resources produced by partners. There are 4 locations that each take a different type of resource to upgrade. Every two hours, they will produce materials that can then be built into decorations of varying sizes. The decorations can be placed into a plot as long as there is room, and will provide bonuses to either stats or pets. They are primarily used to upgrade pets for PvP and PvE support.

## Materials

Homestead materials are used to forge powerful decorations and can be found every two hours. The locations are split into two sides. The left side is focused on producing health and dexterity-based materials. The right side produces strength and agility-based materials.

Each location also has four tiers of materials. The first two tiers add some amount of stats when forged into decorations. Tiers 3 and 4 increase pet exp gain and the amount of stats that pets find. The chance of finding these materials increases with every level, as shown in the table below:

Chance of dropping per level
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 3
 4

It is also possible to find homestead materials through exploring caves, but tier 3 and tier 4 are very rare drops there.

## Cost

Each location (Mine, Farm, Forest, Pond) will use Iron, Stone, Wood, Meat respectively to upgrade its levels. For the first upgrade, each location will require 2,000 of its resource. Each consecutive level afterwards will raise the cost by

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 until level 250, where `increment = 1000`. Every 250 levels afterwards will increase the increment by 1000 so that it becomes `(level * 2000)`, `(level * 3000)`, and so on until level 1750.

After level 1750, the scaling changes. Previously, the increment added 1000 to itself every 250 levels. Now, it also adds in consecutive sums. At level 1751, `increment = 8010`. At level 2001, `increment =` `9030`. See the table below for example numbers.

The upgrade level is limited to 9999 and cannot be upgraded further than that.

## Tips

* It is recommended to invest into your homestead early since it takes time to accumulate the materials needed to forge decorations
* Due to how costly the later upgrades get, it is recommended to level your homestead evenly across all locations unless a resource is much cheaper than others.
* It is not recommended to use tier 1 and 2 homestead materials to forge decorations. They are a poor source for stats and take up valuable plot space.
* When forging, always use 200 of one crafting material. Crafting materials are relatively inexpensive and will save players 9 squares of space per decoration.
* When using tier 3 and 4 homestead materials to forge decorations, use only 2 different materials. Tier 3 materials should always be a multiple of 5, as 5 t3 = 1 t4 material.
* The optimal combinations are `5 t3 + 1 t4`, `5 t3 + 5 t3`, and `1 t4 + 1 t4`. As you continue to further upgrade homestead levels, you can start multiplying the combination by some factors. For example, using `15 t3 + 15 t3`. Or `20 t3 + 4 t4`.
* Using more materials to forge decorations has diminishing returns. It is recommended by some veteran players to start by filling your plot as soon as possible with lower amounts, then slowly replace them when your plot has been filled.