Elf Dwellings

## **Summary**

Elves need to sleep in order to restore their stamina. They are able to do this in their Elf Dwellings which range from a small Stone Dwelling through to a massive Queen's Mushroom Palace.

The lowest level of an Elf Dwelling takes 25 minutes to fully rest an Elf while the highest level takes 7 minutes to perform the same function. Once an Elf is fully rested it is ready to return to the Home map to carry on with it's day of play and work.

The maximum number of Elves that can be active in the Home map at the same time is 15. All others will rest in the Elf Dwellings until one of the active Elves uses all of it's stamina and enters an Elf Dwelling to get some rest. At this point a rested Elf will exit to replace the tired Elf maintaining the number of active Elves at 15.

If a player has several Elf Dwellings of different levels on their map, the Elves will first choose to retreat to the Elf Dwelling which has the fewest amount of other Elves resting inside of it. If all of the Elf Dwellings have the same number of Elves resting inside of them the Elves will retreat to the highest level building.

## **How to Get Elf Dwellings**

* Through the Building Shop (tab 2) in the Buy Menu
	+ Stone Dwelling level 1 (initial cost is 7 stone)
	+ Tree Dwelling level 2 (initial cost is 80 stone)

Each time an Elf Dwelling is built the cost of purchasing subsequent buildings will increase. The cost of purchasing buildings is based on the quantity and levels of the Elf Dwellings found in the Homeland. If there are any which are bubbled, they will not be included in the cost adjustment.

## **Elf Dwellings Occupied Status**

* ***Sleeping Elves Inside*** ~~ The Elf Dwelling will have a progress bar above it that shows how long it will be before an Elf is rested via the time noted above the bar and the purple band filling it. If there is more than one Elf sleeping inside there will be a number within brackets followed by the word "Sleeping". Also visible are some animated "Z Z Z" exiting from the Elf Dwelling.

* ***Rested Elves Inside*** ~~ Elf Dwellings which only have fully rested Elves inside will have Smoke exiting from the dwelling.

* ***Sleeping & Rested Elves Inside*** ~~ When there is a combination of both sleeping and rested Elves inside, the Elf Dwelling will have the progress bar above it as well as both the Smoke and ZZZ's exiting from the dwelling.

* ***No Elves Inside*** ~~ When there are no Elves at all inside one of the Elf Dwellings there will be no indicators seen.

## **Building Elf Dwellings**

Once an Elf Dwelling (level 1 or 2) is purchased from the Building Shop (tab 2) in the Buy Menu it will appear on the Homeland map as a 1x1 Build Site.
Elves are needed in order to construct them. Drag and drop Elves onto the build sites or double tap the build site to summon an Elf to construct it. The construction time can be sped up by dropping multiple Elves onto the build site or by tapping the arrow icon next to the progress bar above the Elf Dwelling to pay 2 Golden Leaves to complete the process immediately.

## **Waking Elves**

* When a player first enters their Homeland every Elf that is awake in all of the Elf Dwellings will exit from them and gather over empty tiles on the map. As there is a maximum of 15 able to be active there at once, the rest will filter back into random Elf Dwellings.
* An Elf that is fully rested will exit an Elf Dwelling to replace a tired one as long as it is within the 15 limit.
* An Elf Dwelling with elves that are awake inside of it can be tapped to summon an Elf or Elves out.
* If an Elf Dwelling shows an image of a megaphone beside the progress bar, tapping it will open a pop-up message offering to wake up all the Elves inside by feeding them Morning Dew to rejuvenate them. This can be done with payment in varying amounts of Golden Leaves which is based on the number of Elves inside.
* An image of a clapperboard above the progress bar can be tapped to wake a single Elf, generally the best Elf within the Elf Dwelling by watching a short video. The pop up message will show an image of the Elf, it's name and the number of Actions (stamina) that it has.
* As the level of an Elf Dwelling increases, the amount of time needed to rest an Elf fully decreases.

## **Sleeping Elves**

* Elves which have used all of their stamina as well as all Elves over the 15 maximum limit allowed on the Homeland map will hang out in Elf Dwellings, some will sleep while others will eat, chat, play video games and just spend time with each other until they are needed to work again.
* Whenever an Elf exits from it's Elf Dwelling the time above the progress bar will reset to begin counting the time it will take to completely rest the next Elf, and no more Elves can emerge until the full rest time has been completed, so if there is only one Elf Dwelling on the map only one Elf is resting at any time.
* In order to have maximum active Elf time, have more Elf Dwellings available on the map.

## **Merging Elf Dwellings**

When Elf Dwellings are merged to the next level of the chain, all of the Elves inside will be instantly evicted. They will then randomly enter other available Elf Dwellings. Creating higher levels of Elf Dwellings will progressively reduce the time required to rest each Elf inside them.

## **Tips**

* If you prefer more time between Elves leaving their dwellings to return to the Home map, have more low level Elf Dwellings as they take longer to rest the Elves.
* If you prefer less time between Elves leaving their dwellings to return to the Home map, have more higher level Elf Dwellings as they take less time to rest the Elves.
* As Elves are merged to higher levels their stamina will increase. This means that less Elf Dwellings are required as the Elves can spend much more time in the Homeland. If only one Elf Dwelling is kept and all the rest are either bubbled or sold the cost to purchase new Elf Dwellings from the Building Shop will be substantially reduced allowing more to be purchased to replace merged ones if desired.
* In order to put all of the Elves to sleep keep a single low level Elf Dwelling on the map, bubble the rest of the Elf Dwellings. This will reduce the number of Elves on the map to 15 and all of the other Elves will enter the single Elf Dwelling. It will take longer for them to rest. Have the remaining Elves harvest until they use up all their stamina and return to the Elf Dwelling as well.

## **NOTE**

With the release of the January 19, 2023 update the Elf Dwellings graphics were revised as well as the names of the levels 1 - 7 Elf Dwellings. The level 8 Queen's Mushroom Palace graphics was revised but the name has remained the same. The image at the bottom of the page shows the original images. Tap it to see it better.

## **Elf Dwellings**

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Original Elf Dwelling Images