How to craft Aniipods with the Homeland Aniipod Maker

The Aniipod Maker is a facility you build in your Homeland base. You can craft Aniipods, Pros included, at your Homeland housing plot, and the RV Homestead also has an Aniipod Maker facility that gives you a continuous supply.

Staffing is simple. The Maker needs a Lightning (electric) element Aniimo, and there is no personality requirement. Any electric Aniimo you have spare will do the job.

Once it is staffed, it works passively. A developed Homeland produces standard Aniipods and Growth Fruit over time through facilities staffed by assigned Aniimo, and those facilities keep working while you are offline. The Maker becomes a steady background source of pods, so you stop rationing them.

The Maker crafts capture pods up to the Aniipod Mega tier. That means three tiers: normal Aniipods, Aniipod Pros and Aniipod Megas.

Hypers are the exception. Aniipod Hypers cannot currently be crafted, so you have to get them through the companion handbook, adventure tokens or shops.

The craftable tiers also come from other places, which is worth knowing while your Homeland is still small. Pros turn up in chests, quests, exploration and shops. Megas come from quests, tutorials, shops and battle pass rewards.

Pods cost materials. Basic Aniipods are crafted through Homeland systems using mined shells, and shells are also consumed when you craft higher pods such as Megas.

The higher tiers need more than shells alone. Upgrading Homeland structures such as rock nodes to tier two unlocks the materials for higher-tier craftable Aniipods. If your Maker only turns out basic pods, look at your rock nodes first.

You will not run short early on. Aniipods are easy to find: they lie on the ground throughout the world and sit in treasure chests. Open-world chests award Sparkling Crystals, and legendary chests can also give you Aniipod Megas and held items.

You can also buy them from the outpost vendor, Joff, without going back to a station. In the field, open Shop > Corner Shop > Exchange. Outpost vendors such as Outpost Guardian Joff also sell Tumblers, at 200,000 currency each.

High-tier pods are often unnecessary. Sleeping Aniimo have a 100% catch rate and can be caught with the cheapest capture pod. The Tubster farming method gives a catch rate of roughly 90% or higher, even with the cheapest Aniipods. Save your Megas for catches that need them, and let the basic pods from the Maker cover the rest.

Legendary Aniimo need their own pod. The Irisalis Anipod is a dedicated legendary pod used to capture the legendary Aniimo Irisalis, and crafting it does more than give you the pod.

Crafting it unlocks a dedicated story quest for Irisalis and reveals the encounter on the world map. It also unlocks the rift space encounter where Irisalis lives. In practice, the pod is the key that opens the encounter.

After the Irisalis Anipod, you can spend Iris Petals to craft a second legendary pod, the Windchaser's Departure Anipod.

The catch is the event shop. Crafting the Legendary Aniipod is required before you can buy some event store items, such as Glimmering Driftshadow. Do not spend Petals in the event shop until you have crafted the pod.

06Where to start

Build the Aniipod Maker early, staff it with any Lightning Aniimo, and get your rock nodes to tier two so it can make Pros and Megas. Get Hypers from the handbook, adventure tokens or shops. Keep your Petals out of the event shop until you have crafted the Irisalis Anipod.