Farming a friend's Homeland: harvest shares and farm chests

Every Pathfinder has a personal RV that works as their homeland base, and its portal leads to their outdoor homeland zone. Unlocking and upgrading the RV has its own guide on this site. What matters here is that every friend you have owns a plot you can visit.

The quickest way in is the friends list. Next to each friend's name is a shovel icon, and selecting it takes you to their home plot. The icon tells you what the visit is for: you're there to dig.

Co-op is the other route. You can enter other players' personal home plots through co-op invites, and you can invite friends into your own world so you visit each other's Homelands in turn. If you're already playing together, an invite is the natural way over. If you're alone and just want to work a friend's soil, use the shovel.

On a friend's plot you can till soil or harvest it. Either one gets you a portion of that player's crop harvest. Your friend did the planting and you collect part of the result. That makes a round of visits a cheap source of crops when your own fields are between harvests.

Tilling pays more than crops alone. Tilling soil on another player's plot gives you rewards that include harvested resources and a chest. So you aren't just helping out. Tilling is how you get paid on someone else's land, and it's worth doing on every visit.

Separately from the per-visit rewards, there's a counter. Gather from trees or soil on other players' farms 15 times and you earn a farm chest. Both trees and soil count, so you can mix them.

The chest doesn't appear on the spot. It shows up at the front of your home plot the next day. If you finish your gathers and see nothing, that's expected. Check the front of your plot when you next log in.

The counter covers other players' farms, plural, so you don't have to finish all 15 on one plot. If one friend's farm runs dry, move on to the next and keep counting.

Each visit to a friend's home raises your friendship level (affinity) with them. A short trip to till a few patches does that and earns crops in the same go.

Visits are also a good way to see how other people have built their homes. Homeland housing and furniture group layouts can be shared with layout codes, so if a friend's arrangement catches your eye, ask for the code instead of rebuilding it piece by piece.

Back on your own plot, the Home Management interface has direct shortcuts to the Home Shop and the Co-op Store. Spending in those shops, and earning Bud Tickets in the Homeland, are covered in their own guide on this site.

05Where to start

Make visiting friends' farms part of your routine. Use the shovel icon in your friends list, till and harvest on every plot you visit, and keep count of your gathers across farms. After 15, check the front of your home plot the next day for the farm chest. The visits also raise affinity with those friends.