The Home-Building System: Unlock First, Decorate Later
Before decorating, sort out where plots and furniture come from — the two steps that stall most newcomers.
🗺️ Unlock plots Development Association level
You start with only 2 plots; extras unlock in batches at Development Association levels 4 / 6 / 8 / 11. In the plot management panel the first extra plot costs 100 coins and the next 4,000. Plot scale decides whether you're building a cottage or an estate.
🏠 Upgrade the house Bigger floor plan · unlocks decorating
Once the house reaches level 2 you can expand its floor plan by the mailbox, fitting more furniture and plants and unlocking the full decorating toolkit. Higher developer levels raise your build caps (including load), with a max height of three floors.
💰 Where coins are best spent Priority order
Community-agreed spending order: expand plots → Development Association upgrades → event/exchange shops → crafting material reserves → Bobby's Furniture Store daily picks. Limited event furniture rarely returns, so it outranks everyday shopping.
Five Ways to Get Furniture
Each channel stocks different furniture, and limited sets almost always come from events.
Bobby's Furniture Store
On the residential street by the town square; stock rotates daily and grows with your developer level. Also sells some furniture blueprints.
Craft at the Woodworking Bench
Unlocked at Development Association level 1; blueprints come from the furniture store, commissions, events, bubble discoveries and collection rewards. Wood, stone and Flawless Fluorite are the workhorses — don't skip the daily resource spots.
Event & Collab Shops
Limited events, collabs and trend seasons trade points for exclusive sets (like the Ashu collab series) — miss them and they rarely return.
Golden Acorn Exhibition & Collector Points
The Golden Acorn exhibition yields rare build materials like the Polar Hymn Ice Palace; Collector points trade for sets like Free as a Bird, Street Corner Diner and Flora's Garden.
Quests & Build Festivals
Quest lines like the Treasure Route hand out the Golden House set; build festivals (like the Beaver Cup) have teams of 4 building together, with a showcase period to visit and like entries server-wide.
Where the decorating budget comes from
The coin engine: fishing + farming + cooking loop
See the guide →Choosing Among the Nine Styles
The community's nine favorite directions, with key elements, palettes and who they suit — pick a style first, then find matching cases in the template library above to build along.
| Style | Key elements | Palette | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🏮 New Chinese | Arched gates, pavilions and corridors, screens, Luohan daybeds, tea sets, lanterns | Wood · off-white · ink green · deep brown | Players who love courtyards and a classical mood |
| 🌿 Forest | Log furniture, rattan, hanging lamps, greenery, floating wooden cabins | Natural wood · beige · green · white | F2P-friendly; the most community tutorials |
| 🌻 Cottagecore | Wooden fences, old rattan chairs, farm tools, stone steps, nostalgic yards | Earth tones · grassy green | Anyone chasing that "grandma's yard" nostalgia |
| 🏙️ Modern Minimalist | Floor-to-ceiling windows, clean-lined sofas, storage walls, crisp lines | One dominant color + accent pops | Beginners afraid of messing up (very forgiving) |
| 🍓 Pink Modern | Modern structure + pink-toned furniture; the 60k-view Bilibili villa | Pink · cream white | Players who want the screenshot look |
| 🏰 Fairy-tale Fantasy | Castle towers, crenellated arches, glass greenhouses, rose manors | Candy colors · white castles | Big-budget showcase builders with large plots |
| 📻 Retro Nanyang / Mid-century | Vintage furniture, wooden bookshelves, old-style lamps, split-level layouts | Deep wood · ink green · brass | Fans of period character and a bookish air |
| 🪟 Japanese | Tatami, shoji-style partitions, paper lanterns, wooden cabins | Light wood · plain white · grey | Works wonders even on small plots |
| 🕯️ Cream / Seafoam Blue | Cream interiors, blue-toned rooms, upholstered furniture | Cream white · seafoam blue | Cozy bedroom and living-room moods |
Three Lessons: Layout · Small Spaces · Lighting
📐 Layout lesson: zoning and flow
- The six-plot zoning method: 2 plots for the main house (living room + bedroom + kitchen clustered to cut cross-plot running), 1 plot as a courtyard transition, the rest for functional zones like the farm, garden and tool sheds
- Ground-floor flow: leave a 3-tile-wide entry path; kitchen by the courtyard door (quick veggie runs), L-shaped sofa + storage against the walls in the living room, open floor in the middle
- Stairs & rooftop: build stairs against the outer walls so they don't eat the center; make the roof a walkable terrace for solar lamps and drying racks — doubles as a night-view deck
- Soft dividers: low fences and shrubs zone a space without blocking sightlines — airier than walls
🪴 Small-space lesson: small plots, no squeeze
- Tatami bedroom: build a 2×4 tatami zone in the center with stairs, and swap one low wall for a mid-height wall for layered depth
- Vertical storage: cabinets flush against walls + stacking via mid/low walls and ceilings; use the space under the stairs for storage or a mini function nook
- Overlap tricks: sofas, cabinets and shelves can stack and combine — the community has dedicated "sofa overlap" decorating tutorials
- Light colors enlarge: base small spaces in log tones, cream, white and light blue; keep dark colors for local focal points only
💡 Lighting lesson: the scattered-light mood
- Skip the ceiling grid: the trendy approach is "no main lights, all scattered sources" — wall lamps, table lamps and floor lamps lighting by zone
- Mood combos: meteorite specimens turned into gem wall lamps, starry pendants over hollowed-out floors as star bridges, a teddy lamp in the corner, glass skylights pulling in natural light and shadow
- Placement mantra: one lamp each for corridors, stairs, the entryway, the bedside and work zones; warm tones read cozier in night scenes
Visiting Other Homes & Interacting
Half of all decorating inspiration comes from visiting — the neighborhood system makes "borrowing homework" easy.
Random Neighborhood Community
Each login drops you into a neighborhood of up to 12 players — pop into their homes for ideas anytime, zero task pressure.
Friend Visits
Open the social system from the Watch, add friends by their developer ID and visit each other's homes — you can also share meals and farm together.
The Home-Like System
During festivals the mailbox at your door gains decorations based on likes received — the more likes, the fancier the trim. Good builds really do get seen.
Build Festival Team Play
Teams of 4 build together live (like the Beaver Cup "Fairy-tale Wonderland" theme); the showcase is open server-wide for visits and likes, and winning teams take home custom trophies and e-certificates.
Decorating FAQ
Which decorating style suits F2P players?
How do home plots unlock? How much do they cost?
Out of decorating ideas?
How do I visit other players' homes?
How many floors can a building have?
Before & After You Build
7-Day Newbie Route
Don't build big early — start small with an 8×10 cottage
See the route → Daily 06:00🧺Daily Resource Spots
Yo-yo Oak / Flawless Fluorite refresh daily — stock building materials
Claim resources → 24 species🎣Fish for Coins
Short on budget? See what's biting and what pays best
Look up fish → Official schedule📅Weather Calendar
Gather meteorites on shower nights — rare building material
See schedule →