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Disambig icon.png This article is about the customizable personal housing feature introduced in Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds. For the instanced area related to the Personal Story, see Home Instance.
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Your journeys will lead you to your own homestead, an account-wide personal housing instance for you to develop as you complete its associated Mastery. Homesteads present you with an area of land and a permanent structure to increase your comfort level through various activities such as harvesting nodes, tending a garden, fishing, swimming, chopping trees, watching cats do cat things, and much more.

Customization is at the heart of the Homesteads feature, so you can decorate the homestead – inside and out! New and existing decorations will be craftable through the new personal scribing crafting discipline. Additionally, your homestead includes a stable for your mounts, bringing them into the space with you. Alt characters will also be making an appearance, adding another personal touch to each homestead.

— Official description

The homestead is an account-wide personal housing system introduced with Janthir Wilds. It features structures and resources available for players to upgrade and customize.[1]

Getting there[edit]

Homesteading banner.png
Homesteading Mastery
Learn to craft and decorate your homestead.
Mastery unlock icon.png
You've unlocked the Homesteading Mastery track! View the Mastery panel to learn more.

— Unlock pop-up during the Home Sweet Home chapter

Primary article: Conjured Doorway
  • Players can place then enter a Conjured Doorway using the  Summon Conjured Doorway.png Summon Conjured Doorway mastery skill, unlocked during the Home Sweet Home chapter of the Janthir Wilds story.
    • The skill can be activated by one of the following methods:
      • Clicking on its icon in the Mastery Skill pop-up menu.
      • Using its own keybind "Conjured Doorway" (unassigned in the Control Options by default).
      • Using "Activate Mastery Skill" keybind (default J) after setting "Summon Conjured Doorway" as the active skill by right-clicking it in the Mastery Skill menu.
    • The skill cannot be activated under certain conditions.
  • Players in the group can be invited to join a homestead when the instance owner travels through the "Conjured Doorway".[2]
    • It is also possible to join from any map by right clicking on the instance owner in the party menu.
    • It is not required to own Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds to join a homestead instance.
    • It is not possible to visit when the instance owner is from different regions.
    • It is not possible to visit when the instance owner is not in the homestead.[2]
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Your conjured doorway acts as a public invite for others to join your party.

— in-game hint

Changing homesteads[edit]

Available homesteads[edit]

Plot name Unlocking and unique features
Janthir Wilds logo.png Hearth's Glow Homestead.jpg
Visions of Eternity logo.png Comosus Isle VoE screenshot Homestead 1.jpg

Basic features[edit]

Homesteads present players with an area of land that can be customized with decorations and serve as a personal space for players to hang out and showcase their mounts, characters, cats, and decorating skills.

Homesteading features[edit]

  • Characters left in the homestead will gain a resting bonus that grants bonus PvE experience and PvP/WvW reward track progress. This bonus can be upgraded through the Homesteading mastery track.
  • Players can interact with Homestead Master to change homestead options, but changes will reset to default upon leaving the instance.
    • The instance features a day/night cycle, but players can manually toggle it using Homestead Master's dialogue option.[2]
    • Fall damage, mounting, and gliding can be toggled using the movement options dialogue.
    • It is possible to toggle the presence of ambient wildlife.
  • A Handiwork Workbench is present in the workshop and is used to craft decorations.

Leaving the homestead[edit]

Lion's Arch • Regional zone • The Wizard's Tower

Alt characters[edit]

  • Players can place their characters in the homestead by logging out while in the instance.[3]
    • Regardless of the total placed in the homestead, only 30 random characters will be visible while in the homestead.
  • The instance owner can instruct characters to "Follow/Stay", but they will return to several default locations upon next entry.
    • If multiple characters are instructed to "Follow", they will attempt to align themselves symmetrically in a row on either side of the player (up to 12 on each side) when standing still.

Customization[edit]

Decorations[edit]

Top right: Options icon.
Middle row: Current selected decoration, placed count.
Bottom row: Decorate/Stop Decorating button.
Primary article: Decoration#Decorating, for the decoration gallery: Decoration/Homestead
  • By default, a homestead can hold up to 1,000 decorations. This limit can be increased through the following methods:
  • There are several decoration-related options available. These can be accessed by clicking on the gear icon, above the Decorating/Stop Decorating button:
    • Clear All Decorations — Clear all decorations from the instance at once, including the default decorations.
    • Restore Homestead — Restore the instance to its default form, placing all the default decorations back in their original place.
    • Enable Party Decoration — Enable the decorating mode for players in the same party. By giving this permission, all the players can place, modify, or erase decorations.
    • Enable Party Layout Saving — By giving this permission, all the players can save the current decorated of owner's homestead.
    • Load/Save Layout — Open the Homestead Layouts UI panel, the decorations layouts are stored locally on your computer as the XML file format. For further information see, Homestead#Layouts.
  • Decorations have to be crafted at the Handiwork Workbench through the Handiworker crafting discipline.
    • The recipes will generally require new resources obtained through refining ore, logs, and plant materials[3] at refinement stations in the instance.
    • The decorations will be immediately stored in the homestead decoration storage when crafted. Each decoration has a limit of 250 pieces.
    • The workbench is only available in the instance; a guest can use it, but the decorations they produce will go to that guest's storage instead.

Layouts and plots[edit]

Homestead Layouts UI

Introduced with Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity, players can save decoration layouts, shared, and freely swap between homestead plots using the new Layouts feature.[4][5]

  • To save the current decoration layout, the instance owner can click the Options options icon at the top-right of the screen.
    • Enable Party Layout Saving — Grants permission for all party members to save the current layout of the owner's homestead.
    • Load/Save Layout — Opens the Homestead Layouts UI panel. Decoration layouts are stored locally on the player's computer in XML format.
  • To change homestead plots, speak with the Homestead Master and choose the "I'd like to change my active Homestead plot." option.
    • Before moving to a new homestead plot, the game will display a confirmation message:
      • Choosing a new homestead plot will return your decorations to storage, and your current layout will be lost. This cannot be undone!
    • If the layout is for a different map:
      • This layout was made for a different map and cannot be loaded. Would you like to switch to the homestead plot that uses this map?

Unlockable features[edit]

Homesteading masteries[edit]

Home instance upgrades[edit]

Primary article: Home Instance#List of home instance upgrades
  • Players can access account-wide home instance upgrades in the homestead.[3]
    • Resource nodes can only be gathered once per day per account regardless of instance, and it is not possible to have copies of the same node.
    • The Journeyman Handiworker Crafting and Collection Boxes mastery will add collection boxes to the mine, the lumber mill, and the farm.
      • The instance owner can interact with them to instantly gather every ore, log, or plant nodes attached to it.
      • The collection boxes can be upgraded with Material Gathering and Currency Gathering Glyphs via a vendor window and can be extracted through the dialogue box.
      • Using the collection boxes does not consume gathering tool charges unlike normal gathering.
  • When entering as a group, the upgrades of the instance owner can also be used by visitors.
    • The garden plots will only be available to visitors if the instance owner has not harvested them for the day. (This does not affect other harvesting nodes.)
    • Gardener (map icon).png Gardener Morris will appear in homesteads with at least one garden plot unlocked, but visitors will be unable to interact with him.
    • The Enchanted Treasure Chest is only available to the instance owner.

Interactable objects[edit]

  • Any unlocked mounts can be found in the stable.[3]
    • The mounts will use the skins equipped by the current character.
    • Treats can be bought once a day from the stable master in the stable and fed to corresponding mounts while mounted for Mastery experience.
  • If the player has unlocked the skiff, it will be docked at the pier, with Fish resource (map icon).pngfishing holes available.[3]
    • The skiff will use the skin equipped by the current character.
  • A plushie named Mr. Quiggles can be unlocked through the achievement Janthir Side Stories.pngBuild-a-Quaggan.
  • A Shadowfruit plant can be temporarily unlocked by purchasing Jungle Grass Seed.pngShadowfruit Seeds from Deft Lahar. It appears near the harvesting nodes and disappears once harvested, until the seeds are purchased again.

Functional decor[edit]

Cats[edit]

Primary article: Hungry cat scavenger hunt

Other NPCs[edit]

Homestead Sky[edit]

Homestead skies are Gem Store items that allow players to change the skybox within their homestead. Once purchased and consumed, players can speak with Homestead Master to alter the homestead’s sky.[7]

List of homestead skies

Related masteries[edit]

Homesteading[edit]

Mastery XP required Points Description
Novice Handiworker Crafting and Homestead Expansion Novice Handiworker Crafting and Homestead Expansion 381,000 1 Janthir Wilds mastery point Unlock the ability to use Novice Handiworker Crafting recipes. Also unlock additional homestead space and a resting bonus.
Initiate Handiworker Crafting and Homestead Expansion Initiate Handiworker Crafting and Homestead Expansion 635,000 2 Janthir Wilds mastery point Unlock the ability to use Initiate Handiworker Crafting recipes. Also unlock additional homestead space and a higher tier resting bonus.
Apprentice Handiworker Crafting and Homestead Expansion Apprentice Handiworker Crafting and Homestead Expansion 1,016,000 3 Janthir Wilds mastery point Unlock the ability to use Apprentice Handiworker Crafting recipes. Also unlock additional homestead space and a higher tier resting bonus.
Journeyman Handiworker Crafting and Collection Boxes Journeyman Handiworker Crafting and Collection Boxes 1,524,000 4 Janthir Wilds mastery point Unlock the ability to use Journeyman Handiworker Crafting recipes and gain access to collection boxes.
Adept Handiworker Crafting Adept Handiworker Crafting 2,032,000 5 Janthir Wilds mastery point Unlock the ability to use adept handiworker crafting recipes and to purchase legendary components from Deft Lahar.
Master Handiworker Crafting Master Handiworker Crafting 2,540,000 6 Janthir Wilds mastery point Unlock the ability to use Master Handiworker Crafting recipes.
Grandmaster Handiworker Crafting Grandmaster Handiworker Crafting 3,048,000 7 Janthir Wilds mastery point Unlock the ability to use Grandmaster Handiworker Crafting recipes. Your decoration limit will increase by 500, and your rested experience bonus will improve.
Total 11,176,000 28 Janthir Wilds mastery point

Gallery[edit]

See also: Hearth's Glow#Gallery, Comosus Isle#Gallery
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    Icon on the sidebar.

Related achievements[edit]

Notes[edit]

Anomaly:
Visitors can hide Mr. Quiggles.
Bug Bugs:
  • While visitors cannot instruct characters to "Follow", they can instruct characters to "Stay" while they are following.
  • "Autoloot: Quick Interact" does not pick up all resources when extra gathering strikes occur.[verification requested]
  • The Harvesting Collection Box does not always harvest garden nodes.

Trivia[edit]

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Announcing Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds, GuildWars2.com
  2. ^ a b c GW2 Janthir Wilds: Exklusive Info, buffed.de
  3. ^ a b c d e Guild Wars 2's new player housing will add a hang-out for your alts, a stable for your mounts, and comes with a massive overhaul to the decorations system, pcgamer.com
  4. ^ Announcing Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity, GuildWars2.com
  5. ^ Home Improvement: A New Homestead Arrives with Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity, GuildWars2.com
  6. ^ Homestead Essentials: Living in Janthir Wilds, GuildWars2.com
  7. ^ Change Up Your Homestead with New Sky Customizations!, GuildWars2.com
  8. ^ Tweet by Joel Eckert, x.com
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