Elin:Housing

Some of the text on this page is from the Beta build of the game.

Housing

A key part of Elin is managing My Home, a location the player sets up as a home base for housing.

Housing has several mechanics relating to land ownership, delegating tasks, raising your community, and Crafting.

Buildings

Four walls (or more) and a door!

Roles

• Maid: Expands your land, applies to pay additional taxes to Mysilia, and change the player's title. You can appoint your favorite residents and livestock as a maid. Gold bars are used to expand the land, which can be up to 90 km² in size. Additional tax payments will increase the amount of taxes, but Missilia will send you back a number of gold bars corresponding to the amount of additional tax payments.
• Livestock: Consume grass to produce milk and eggs.. Production efficiency varies by races. Livestock are not counted as residents, but instead cannot do their original jobs and hobbies, cannot be bought and sold, cannot be taken on adventures as pets, and no longer generate requests. You can appoint any resident as a livestock or return them as a resident from the resident board/list.
• Secretary: Although not strictly a role, the presence of a secretary/elder NPC allows for investment in the town's development level/trading in the influence store. Investing in the town's development is not cheap, but it increases the size of all merchants in the town at the same time. The Influence Shop has the same selection of goods as in other cities, but the furniture collection tickets are for Missilia.

Taxes

Taxes are due at the beginning of every month, with a tax bill being mailed to the player. Not paying your taxes in four month gives the player negative karma, and can lead to repercussions.

The amount of tax is the sum of [ base tax + fame tax + voluntary tax ].

The Base Tax is increased according to the number of months elapsed and the income from the fourth and subsequent non-tax-exempt land, while the Fame Tax is increased according to the player's fame.

The voluntary tax is a tax that can be paid at the player's discretion. The player can choose not to pay it, but if you do, you will receive gold bars as a return gift in proportion to the amount of the tax paid. The amount of voluntary taxes can be changed by asking the maid of My Home or the secretary of the town.

Hearthstone

The Hearthstone is a mysterious stone placed on a player's land that allows him to store inhabitants in the stone and pull them out on another piece of land, rename that piece of land, and publish that map online.

As the hearthstone levels, more features of housing are slowly unlocked, but the danger level of the home also rises. Hearthstones level individually on a land-by-land basis, and leveling hearthstones in another land the player owns will provide bonuses to all lands based on the type of land held. The growth of the pact stones can be controlled by My Home policy.

The following table is an example of a stone of the pact in Meadow. The maximum number of inhabitants and other values vary depending on the land feats it has.

Level	Admin Points	Population	Danger Level	Building Modes	Other Benefits
1	5	6	3	Terrain
2	10	9	7	Relocation	Utility Department Policies
3	15	12	11	Clearing	Item Protection
4	20	15	15	Mining	2nd Feat
5	25	18	19	Collecting, Recipe	Network
6	30	21	23	Free Build
7	35	24	27		3rd Feat

Jobs

Each resident of My Home has a primary job which they will try to fulfil if your home has the proper facilities and signboard, and a hobby which they will do on the side.

Work efficiency is influenced by the skill level of the resident performing the work and the quality of the bed.

Also, some types of NPCs have fixed jobs and hobbies, such as a magician whose job is research, and a farmer whose job is farming and his hobby is tinkering in the fields.

Also, some NPCs have fixed jobs and hobbies. If their job and hobbies are not fixed, you can reroll them by using the Whip of love; it can be purchased as you progress through the main quest.

Job	Requirements	Positive	Negative	Produce	Skill	Note
Breeding	None			Egg, Milk	Negotiation	Livestock's job
Lumberjack	Lumberjack sign			Logs	Lumberjacking
Blacksmith	Anvil			Ores	Blacksmith
Cooking	None			Meals, Sessonings	Cooking
Fishing	Fishing Sign	Emergency Ration		Fish	Fishing	Very small chance of fishing up small medals Fishermen and tourists job
Farming	Farm sign	Soil, Emergency Ration			Farming	Farmers' Work
Gardening	farm sign	Soil, Emergency Ration			Farming	Farmers' Hobby
Garbology	Garbage dump sign			Garbage	Gathering
Hunting	None	Emergency Ration		Corpse, Marbled Meat	Bow
History	Bookshelf			Ancient Book	Memorization
Singing	Mic (On Pole)	Local Patriotism			Music
Exploration	None	Publicity		Gold Bar	Travel	The job of the caravan's captain
Cleaning	None	Public Moral			Pickpocket	Cleans the home. (Stains, etc), Maid(NPC)'s job
Chores	None				Weight Lifting	Cleans the home. (Garbage), Maid(NPC)'s job
Shopping	None	Home Discount			Negotiation
Nursing	None	Public Moral		Milk	Regeneration	Revival and status recovery of residents, Healer's job
Handcraft	None			Souvenir	Production
Research	Bookshelf	Tax Evasion			Literacy	Magician's Job
Supervising	None	Administration			Investment	Loytel's Job
Instrument	Instrument or Mic	Local patriotism			Music
Game	Tv Set	Nocturnal Life			Magic Device
Exercise	None	Natural power generation			Weight Lifting
Reading	Bookshelf	Studious			Literacy
Lottery	None		Public Moral	Gacha ball	Investment
Meditation	None	Natural power generation			Mediation
Drug	None	Designer Drug	Public Moral	drugs	Mediation
Cheering	None	Local patriotism, publicity			Negotiation
Painting	an easel			Naughy book, dojin book, milk	Sculpting
Praying	None	Public Moral, Public Safety		letter of indulgence	Faith
Self harm	None			engagement amulet, troublesome soup	Anatomy
Blog	Computer	Pubilicity			Literacy
Diary	None	Studious			Literacy
Bathing	Bathtub			Pot of water, Rubber duck, Egg	Swimming
Pet	Cat house	Administration, Security			Mediation
Writing	Writing Tool	Studious			Literacy
Fluffy stroke	Pet House	Luck, Civility, Public Moral			Mediation
Personal pleasure	Bed	natural power generation		Eggs	Magic Device
Walking	None			Mushroom	Traveling
Dieting	None			Can of Catechin, Gelatin	Cooking
Smoking	None	Natural Power Generation	Public Moral, High Tax	Negotiation	Negotiation
Drinking	None		Public Moral, Civility,	Booze	Cooking
Antique	None			Junk	Appraising
Extravagance	None		High Tax		Appraising	Hobbies of the Nobility
Washing	Fishing Sign	Local patriotism			Swimming
Romance	None	Resident Wanted!		Milk	Negotiation
Sleeping	Bed	Local patriotism			Regeneration
Assassin	None	Public Safety			Stealth	Ashland and Fiama's job
Rambo	None		Public Safety	Ammunition	Gun
Gacha	Gacha		Public Moral	Gacha ball	Investment	Gambler's job
Pioneer	None	Public Moral, Faster growth of Hearth Stone			Farming

Boards

By using signs, you can designate parts of your land to be used for specific purposes.

House Board

Allows the player to change the roof and outward styling of a building.

Room Board

Allows the player to change the specifications of a room.

Stockpile Sign

Designates a room or a # block radius as a stockpile.

Fuel Storage Sign

Designates a room or a # block radius as a stockpile for fuel for furnaces, kilns, cooking tools, etc. All items in the home will automatically refuel with logs or branches from this area.

Commodity Stockpile Sign

Designates a room or a # block radius as a shopping area. Items tagged for sale will replenish with same-category items inside this area.

Sales Tag

Designates an item on the ground for sale. If inside the area of a Commodity Stockpile, will automatically replenish with items from the same category from boxes in the same area.

Can also be tagged on non-shared containers to sell the items within the container to tourists.

Garbage Dump Sign

Designates a room or a 3x3 area as a stockpile.

• Npcs will use this area to gather and drop trash. They will place trash in the proper sorting bins if they are in radius of this sign.

Lumberjack Sign

Designates a room or a 4 block radius as a lumber yard.

• Residents with lumberjack jobs or hobbies will move into this area to work. However, they will not be able to actually cut down trees growing in the area, only deliver logs procured from somewhere else as an effect of their work.

Ranch Sign

Designates a room or a 4 block radius as a ranch.

Fishing Sign

Designates a room or a 4 block radius as a fishing area.

Farm Sign

Designates a room or a 5x5 area as a farm.

• Residents with farming or earth-moving jobs or hobbies will move into the area to work. However, they will not be able to actually manage the fields in the area, they will only be able to receive bonuses to Home skills as an effect of their work.

Signpost

Placed at the map edge of a base, a signpost specifies where it will appear when a player enters the home from the direction in which the signpost is placed.

• Only one square at the edge of each direction on the map can be designated; placing a signpost in the center of the base has no effect.
• When used in conjunction with a guidesign, the effect of the guidesign takes precedence over the signpost.

Guidesign

Designates a room or 3x3 area as the location where a player will appear when entering the home.

• Once this is in place, the player will appear at the location specified by this sign, no matter from which direction you enter the home.

Skills & Policies

At the house board, the player can enact many decrees and skills for My Home that apply many various effects. Certain NPCs can effect the level of the skill.

Plans, bought from scholars for Gold Bars, can allow you to learn new skills and policies.

Certain NPC jobs and hobbies affect home skill levels.

You can raise home skill levels at the cost of Gold Bars, at Skill Level +5 bars/level. Innate cap refers to the maximum level that the skill can increase through gold bars alone; it can still be increased further by resident jobs.

Home Skills

Skill Name	Effect	Book Cost	Innate Level Cap
Construction	Enables more functions in build mode. Levels up with Hearthstone.	-	-
Administration	Each level provides more administration points for enacting policies. Skill Level +4 points	-	-
Food Supply	Increases maximum number of residents. Skill Level +5	-	-
Legacy	Each level adds +1 item that is assessed towards land value. Skill Level +5	6	30
Tax Evasion	Reduces taxes paid every month.	11
Local Patriotism	Makes it easier to improve resident's affinity.	4
Studious	Increase the efficiency of residents' work and increase the bonuses they receive from them.	6
Soil	Increases quality of land's soil. (Fertility)	7	20
Public Safety	Plays a role in how often attacks happen in the home	-	-
Public Moral	Affects the Civility of residents.	6
Emergency Ration	Reduce penalties if population surpasses the max limit.	-	-
Natural Power Generation	Provides energy for appliances and mechanical tools. 10mw x Skill Lv	-	-
Publicity	Promotional strength to boost visitor and tourist numbers	7
Luck	Luck of the land.	15

Policies are passive traits that cost administration points to enable or disable.

Each one has levels that raise as they are used, which increase the effect.

They also have individual potentials but it is unknown at this time how to raise it.

Policies

Department	Policy	Effect	Admin Cost	Book Cost
Law	Growth Boost	Increases speed at which hearthstone grows.	3	Free
Law	Growth Supression	Prevents hearthstone growth.	0	Free
Law	Border Watch	Decreases enemy level of randomly generated enemies in My Home	3	4
Law		Law prohibiting killing and injuring people at home	4	6
Law	Prohibition	Law prohibiting residents from drinking alcohol	4	6
Law	Ban Radio Wave	(Unverified) Law prohibiting residents from using illegal radio waves	3	4
Law	Designer Drug	Laws that make drug possession legal	3	4
Economy	Resident Tax	Taxes residents monthly, generating a small passive income.	4	9
Economy	Wealth Tax	A law for collecting taxes from wealthy residents	4	14
Economy	Home Discount	Decreases the price of goods sold from vendors in My Home	6	9
Economy	Faith Tax	(Unverified) Law to collect taxes from the followers of the Gods.	6	7
Economy	Open for Business	Guests will start visiting your home	5	6
Economy	Tax-Free Land	Land where income is not taxed. Up to three tax-free lands can be designated.	0	Free
Economy	General Store License	Increases the prices of items other than food, beverages, and furniture	4	6
Economy	Furniture Store License	Increases the prices of furniture		6
Economy	Restaurant License	Increases the prices of food and beverages	4	6
Welfare	Strict Anti-Littering Law	Reduces the amount of garbage items generated. Has a penalty to civility.	2	4
Welfare	Weed Pulling Campaign	Reduces the amount of weeds generated.	2	4
Welfare	Resident Wanted	Increase the number of people wishing to immigrate on the request bulletin board	4	6
Welfare	Nocturnal Life	Residents will now be awake during the night	2	4
Welfare	Waste Sorting Campaign	Reduce garbage generation rate and increase civil standards	1	4
Welfare		(Unverified) Law to encourage residents to save electricity and reduce power consumption	2	4
Welfare	Compulsory Vaccination	Law making vaccination compulsory. Reduces sickness in the home.	5	4
Utility	Transfer tax payment	Monthly taxes will be deducted from your bank deposit	0	Free

• Book cost is in gold bars.

Land Feats

Each parcel of land has inherent feats that provide bonuses to the home, and also to the network of homes owned by the player. As the hearthstone is leveled, the benefits of these feats unlock.

Feat	Effect	Network?	Location	Notes
Elin's Grace	Increase admin points.	Yes	Meadow, Hill Cave
Plain	Land with more admin points		Meadow, Field
Forest			Forest
Beach			Beach
Hill			Mountain
Cave			Hill Cave
Sea	Land with many fish and more commercial power		Sea
Fertile	Increase fertility of the land		Meadow
Hill	Land with little food supply, but more admin points.		Vernis
Coal	The local specialty produced in a land.	Yes	Vernis
Mushroom
Ancient Ruin	Attract more visitors		Vernis, Hill Cave
Dinosaur Fossil
Monolith
Mysterious Tablet
Giant Statue
Basin
Hunting Ground
Breeding Ground
Fishing Spot
Weird Bird
Geyser
Gum
Monster's Den
Fresh Air
Chitin