homestead -- claim a wilds micro cell or town lot and raise a home
Town claim / hotel rent stay separate (help lodging). This is a
player-built site: one plot per character.
How you play
1. Stand on a wilderness micro cell (foot grid on America overland) or a town room stamped build_lot (gm populate lot / Studio)
2. homestead claim stake the site (one plot per character) America wilds plots remember their place in the States. If the country map is redrawn, a Kansas porch stays in Kansas.
3. Gather materials chop / forage / mine (help gathering); skin a body or hunt carcass for leather. Heartland plains and highway shoulders often hide a lone tree; forests hold heavier timber. Surface ore on open country is uncommon -- walk a few micro cells or head for mountains. Any ore you mine deposits as ore at the worksite.
4. homestead deposit wood 5 (also ore / fiber / leather, or deposit wood all) into worksite (deposit wood 5 still works as an alias)
5. homestead build <1-3> spend ledger; raise Porch → Living → Bedroom (build homestead / build shack = aliases)
6. remodel <type> restyle a room (spends ledger)
remodel <type> <dir> dig a new room that way (tier catalog; Cabin+ includes shrine -- Gods consecrate it)
7. remodel workshop then tinker mailbox|fireplace|bed|…
install <item> mailbox on porch / fireplace indoors / television in living
How you play (continued)
8. lightfire / dousefire anywhere you have a hearth (homestead or home)
9. homestead resident add X let allies deposit and remodel
10. homestead yard outdoor ring rank 1-3 (walk the porch loop) homestead fence | gate [open|close] | shop | garage
knock homestead / ring announce at the door -- everyone inside hears
11. walk homestead / drive homestead / taxi homestead -- from the America foot grid, walk homestead reaches your porch; drive homestead parks on the yard garage pad or porch mouth. While aboard at the pad, exit or drive lebanon / atlas to reach the county road, then hop hubs (help vehicles).
12. homestead abandon confirm destroy shell; refund 30-55% of deposits (also: abandonplot confirm)
Bare homestead shows status when you hold a plot, or the command index when you do not. homestead help repeats the index. Plot aliases still
work: claimplot, buildflag, abandonplot confirm, build homestead / build shack.
Tiers unlock more room types (materials still pay): Homestead → Cabin → Lodge.
Look shows worksite progress. Without a porch mailbox, strangers only see
"a homestead" nearby (minimap glyph H). See help gathering | remodel | lodging.
Men of Letters: after you claim, type files charter at Mick. London counts the plot as a listening post -- a chapter house, not the bunker. Not on the Kansas HQ cell (help chapter | help files).
Homesteader (imm flag) is reserved for future Cadence builders -- not live yet.
See also: help files