Homeland facilities: crafting stations and workshops

Every facility runs on jobs with a timer. You assign an Aniimo, the job ticks over, and the output piles up whether you are in the Homeland or not. That makes the base less of a place you visit and more of a place you set up, walk away from, and come back to collect.

The Homeland is a solo feature. Nobody else is working your plot, so what it produces depends entirely on what you have built and who you have put inside it. Assigning Aniimo covers both the facilities themselves and the campsite farm plots, and both feed the same passive resource flow.

Upgrading your production buildings raises their material yield and their capacity. More capacity matters because a facility that fills up while you are away stops being useful until you empty it, so upgrades are what let the offline hours count.

The single most useful building for a new player is the Aniipod Maker. Build it in your Homeland and you can produce your own Aniipods instead of relying on what you find or buy.

Crafting happens at your Homeland housing plot, and it covers Aniipod Pros as well as standard Aniipods. Staffed facilities also turn out Aniipods and Growth Fruit over time on their own, so between active crafting and passive output your supply keeps topping itself up while you play.

The Crafting Table is where you manufacture Bamboo Ware, and it takes bamboo to do it. It is the plainest example of the Homeland's core loop: gather a raw resource, then convert it into something more useful.

The Tidewhisper Sandcastle produces Pearls, but only when you assign members of the Shelly family to it. This is where the Homeland stops being generic. The facility wants a particular family, so catching a Shelly is the price of entry for Pearls.

The homestead dance pad passively generates Aniimo EXP consumables such as growth flowers and fruits. If you are levelling a team, this is the facility that quietly does part of the work for you.

The Starfall Hammock unlocks at Homestead rank six and needs an Aniimo with the leisure ability to operate it. Aniimo on leisure work generate items passively while they play, so this is production that looks like downtime.

Incense production follows the same logic of chaining one output into another. Once your Dewy family line is supplying enough honey, switch production to Premium Rose Incense as soon as you can rather than leaving the honey idle.

Each Aniimo species has its own work specialty and distinct abilities for base tasks. You are not filling slots with whatever is spare; you are matching a species to a job. Nova-stage Prismana Aniimo can reach level 4 in both their homeland ability and their primary elemental affinity, which makes them worth considering for the jobs that reward skill.

This is the reason to be careful with releases. Common and good rarity Aniimo are exactly the workers the Homeland runs on, and releasing them leaves your facilities short. Auto-releasing catches without looking at them is worse: it can discard weather forms and other special forms, evolutions, and forms you need for split evolutions or for the homestead itself.

Workers also need looking after. Beds, resting pods and cushions restore Aniimo sanity, so build rest facilities alongside production ones. There is a small bonus for paying attention, too: Aniimo placed in the homeland building sparkle and give you stars when you pet them.

05Where to start

Build the Aniipod Maker first, then add facilities that match the Aniimo you already have: Shelly family members to the Tidewhisper Sandcastle, a leisure worker to the Starfall Hammock once you reach Homestead rank six. Put rest facilities down early, upgrade production buildings for yield and capacity, and look over each catch before you release it. The commons you are tempted to bin are the ones running your base.