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Home Building
April 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Major rewrite with verified launch-day transcript info: housing is open-world, 4 areas, farming cycles, pet integration, social features, vegetable stall economy, presets, and leveling details
Home Building is a lifestyle system in Honor of Kings: World that gives every player a personal homestead in the open world. Unlike instanced housing in many other RPGs, your home exists directly in the game world; you walk into the housing area and it loads seamlessly without a loading screen or teleport transition. The system launched alongside the game on April 10, 2026, and is accessible from early progression onward. Housing integrates tightly with farming, pets, cooking, and the game's social systems, providing a self-contained loop where you grow crops, sell harvests for currency, buy furniture, and invite friends to visit your land.
Players receive four areas (plots of land) in total. Each area is a square section of terrain that can be customized with buildings, furniture, farming plots, incubators, and decorations. New areas unlock as your housing level increases, with the final fourth area unlocking at housing level 22.
After completing the introductory main story quests that unlock the housing system, you gain access to your first area of land. A teleport point is placed on your homestead by default, allowing you to return home at any time. You can also press 5 to open the Build Menu, which serves as the primary interface for placing, moving, and removing objects on your land.
The Build Menu lets you pick up items, rotate them, place new structures, and take apart existing ones. Every piece of furniture and every building can be freely repositioned anywhere within the boundaries of your plot. There is no grid snapping requirement; placement is freeform within the area's borders.
Your homestead has a dedicated leveling system ranging from level 1 to level 40. Gaining housing levels unlocks new areas, furniture blueprints, crop seeds, features, and rewards. Leveling up triggers short tutorials that introduce each new mechanic as it becomes available.
Level Range | Unlocks |
|---|---|
1 to 5 | First area, basic farming plots, starter seeds, vegetable stall, build menu |
6 to 10 | Expanded furniture catalog, incubator for herb cultivation, additional crop types |
11 to 15 | Area 2 preset and land access, medicine stand for potion crafting |
16 to 21 | Area 3 preset and land access, advanced seeds, pet dispatch missions |
22 to 30 | Area 4 (final area) unlock, premium furniture blueprints, advanced housing themes |
31 to 40 | Cosmetic rewards, high-tier furniture sets, all housing features fully available |
Each level grants a mix of new seeds, furniture recipes, and feature unlocks. The progression is designed to introduce systems gradually so that new players are not overwhelmed by the full scope of the housing loop on their first visit.
Farming is the core economic engine of the housing system. Your land includes dedicated planting plots where you can sow various crops. Each crop type has its own grow cycle, and once a crop finishes growing, you harvest it manually or let your pet assist with maintenance.
Grow Cycle | Description |
|---|---|
5 hours | Quick-growth crops for frequent harvesting sessions. Ideal for active players who check in multiple times per day. |
16 hours | Medium-cycle crops that align roughly with an overnight or daytime away-from-keyboard window. |
20 hours | Long-cycle crops that yield higher value per harvest. Best for players who log in once daily. |
Crops need watering to grow properly. You can water them yourself, but if you have a fed pet on your homestead, the pet will automatically water your plants for you. Friends who visit your land can also water your crops, and doing so earns them a small amount of housing currency.
Incubators are specialized growing stations that cultivate herbs rather than food crops. Herbs operate on a 20-hour growth cycle and produce ingredients used at the Medicine Stand. Unlike standard farming plots, incubators occupy a fixed footprint and cannot be freely repositioned in the same way as furniture. They unlock at higher housing levels and expand the crafting loop by feeding into the potion-making system.
The Medicine Stand is a crafting station placed on your homestead that lets you brew potions and consumables from herbs grown in your incubators. This ties the housing system directly into the combat loop: grow herbs at home, craft potions, and bring them into dungeons and boss fights. The Medicine Stand becomes available as a housing-level unlock and provides an alternative source of healing and buff items alongside the cooking system.
The Vegetable Stall is where you convert harvested crops into housing currency. After collecting your yields from the farming plots, you bring them to the stall and sell them. The currency earned is used exclusively within the housing system to purchase furniture, building materials, house presets, and decorations from the in-game store.
This creates a self-sustaining economy: plant crops, harvest them, sell at the stall, spend the currency on furniture and new seeds, and repeat. Players who engage with farming regularly will accumulate enough currency to afford full house presets and premium furniture sets over time.
Each homestead includes a personal fishing lake where you can fish without leaving your housing area. Fishing at home follows the same mechanics as fishing in the open world, and the catches can be used for cooking recipes or sold for additional income. The fishing lake provides a relaxing side activity and ensures that players who prefer to stay on their homestead still have access to fishing content.
Pressing 5 opens the Build Menu, which is the main interface for all construction and decoration on your land. From this menu you can place new furniture, move existing items, take structures apart, and rotate objects freely. The system supports freeform placement within each area's boundaries, so you are not locked into a grid or predefined slots.
The furniture catalog is extensive, covering categories such as weapon stands, crafting stations, tables, chairs, fences, lighting fixtures, garden decorations, and more. New furniture blueprints unlock as your housing level increases, and additional pieces can be purchased from the store using housing currency earned at the Vegetable Stall.
The housing store offers pre-made house templates called presets. Each preset is a complete themed layout that includes a house structure, furniture arrangement, and decorations. You can preview any preset before purchasing to see exactly how it will look on your land.
Presets cost housing currency, with full templates running around 232,000 currency for a complete setup. Available preset themes include the Farmstead, Scholar, Street Violet Villa, and various others that unlock at higher housing levels. Purchasing a preset places the entire layout onto one of your four areas, though you can still move and customize individual pieces afterward.
Preset Name | Theme | Availability |
|---|---|---|
Farmstead | Rural farming aesthetic with barns, fields, and rustic furniture | Early housing levels |
Scholar | Library and study theme with bookshelves, desks, and scholarly decorations | Mid housing levels |
Street Violet Villa | Elegant urban villa with gardens and refined furnishings | Mid to high housing levels |
PvP Arena | Competitive-themed area with training dummies and combat decorations | Higher housing levels |
Nature Retreat | Natural landscape with bridges, ponds, and greenery | Higher housing levels |
Each of the four areas on your land can use a different preset theme, so you can mix and match styles across your homestead. For example, one area might be a working farm while another is styled as a scholar's library.
The pet system is deeply woven into the housing loop. Pets live on your homestead and provide several automated services when they are fed and active.
Automatic Watering: Fed pets water your crops automatically, removing the need to manually tend every planting plot.
Field Watcher: Your pet acts as a Field Watcher that guards your crops from visitors who try to steal your harvests. If a visitor attempts to take your crops, the pet kicks them out.
Pet Dispatch: You can send pets on exploration missions called Pet Dispatch. These missions run on a timer, and when the pet returns, it brings back extra recipes, crafting materials, and other items. See the Pets article for full dispatch details.
Keeping your pet fed is essential. An unfed pet will not water plants, guard crops, or perform dispatch missions. The feeding mechanic ensures that players regularly interact with their pet rather than setting it up once and forgetting about it.
Housing in Honor of Kings: World has a robust set of social features that encourage players to visit each other's homesteads. Pressing 8 opens the friends list with a housing tab that lets you see which friends are online and teleport directly to their land.
Feature | Description |
|---|---|
Visit Friends | Teleport to any friend's homestead by pressing 8 and selecting their name from the housing list. |
Water Friends' Crops | Water your friends' plants to help them grow. You earn a small amount of housing currency coins for each watering action. |
Steal Harvests | Attempt to harvest crops from a friend's land. If their pet is active and fed, the Field Watcher pet will kick you out before you can take anything. |
Pray for Crops | Pray over a friend's crops to double their yield. For example, a sunflower plot at 5/5 yield becomes 15/15 after a prayer blessing. |
Leave Messages | Write and leave messages on a friend's homestead for them to read later. |
Visitor Logs | Check a log of who has visited your land, including whether they watered, stole, or prayed for your crops. |
Stranger Visits | Players who are not on your friend list can also visit your homestead, though they have more limited interaction options. |
The steal-and-guard dynamic adds a lighthearted competitive layer to housing. Friends can try to sneak crops from your farm, but a well-fed pet will chase them away. The prayer system is purely cooperative, letting friends help each other maximize crop yields at no cost.
Each of the four areas can be customized with a different theme or preset. Beyond the store presets, you can manually build and arrange each area to match your preferences. Some players create a dedicated farming area on one plot, a social gathering space on another, a PvP practice arena on a third, and a scenic nature area on the fourth. The system is flexible enough to support purely functional layouts, purely decorative showcases, or anything in between.
The housing system operates on a self-contained economy that feeds back into the broader game.
Plant crops on your farming plots (5-hour, 16-hour, or 20-hour grow cycles).
Water and tend the crops yourself, or let your pet handle watering automatically.
Harvest yields once the crops finish growing.
Sell at the Vegetable Stall to earn housing currency.
Buy furniture, presets, and materials from the housing store using that currency.
Grow herbs in incubators and craft potions at the Medicine Stand for combat use.
Send pets on dispatch missions for extra recipes and materials that feed back into crafting.
Because the housing currency is earned through gameplay rather than premium purchases, the progression is accessible to all players. The system rewards daily engagement: logging in to harvest crops, sell at the stall, and send pets on dispatch builds up your homestead over time without requiring marathon play sessions.
Feed your pet before logging off so it waters your crops while you are away.
Use the 5-hour crop cycle if you play multiple sessions per day; use the 20-hour cycle if you only log in once daily.
Visit friends' homesteads and water their crops to earn free housing currency.
Preview store presets before buying them to make sure the theme fits the area you want to decorate.
Check your Visitor Log regularly to see if anyone has been stealing your harvests, and make sure your pet is fed to prevent theft.
Pray for friends' crops whenever possible; doubling their yield costs you nothing and strengthens your social bonds.
Set up your teleport point at home so you can return quickly between dungeon runs or exploration sessions.
