Building your town

Your own town

The towns you visit are full of houses, lamps, wells, wagons and market stalls. You can build with the very same pieces on your own land, and grow a town of your own: a farm by the river, a harbour with a lighthouse, a market square with a fountain.

Decor pieces go only on land you claimed with a Home Totem (or land a friend added you to). Place a totem first: you can have up to three, each claiming the land 12 m around it.

Placing decor

1. Open the build palette (B) and pick the Decor tab.
2. Pick a piece. A see-through blue copy of it follows where you point, with a glowing ring round the ground it needs. It turns red, with the reason, when it can't go there.
3. Click to place it. X turns it an eighth of a turn.
4. The right mouse button takes away one of your decor pieces (point at it). Esc puts the tool away.

With a controller, open the build palette from the Menu button, then place with the right trigger, take away with the left trigger, and turn with Y.

Placing decor costs nothing, and taking it away gives nothing back. Each player can have up to 400 decor pieces in a world. Other players see your town, but only you (and the land's owner) can take your pieces away.

Colours. Above the pieces you choose the colours. "Own" keeps each piece's usual look: town pieces in the town's warm colours, realm pieces in their realm's. With the Complete City bundle (or all three packs) any piece can wear any realm's colours: a lamp in Frostlands blue, a wagon in Sunscorch Desert sand.

The free starter set

Everyone builds with these 11 pieces, free, on every world:

• Buildings: Farmhouse, Garden Shed.
• Around the town: Wooden Fence, Stone Well, Street Lamp, Signpost, Park Bench.
• Little things: Barrels, Crates and Sacks, Flower Planter, Campfire Camp.

The building packs

Three packs add more pieces, and a bundle adds everything:

Light Building:

• Buildings: Bakery, Tea House, General Store, Library, Chicken Coop, Greenhouse, Treehouse.
• Garden and fences: Picket Fence, Dry Stone Wall, Flower Arch, Plaza Fountain, Bird Bath, Mailbox Post.
• Yard: Laundry Line, Picnic Table, Swing Set, Lantern Post, Wheelbarrow, Log Pile.
• Farm: Vegetable Garden, Beehives, Corn Field, Wheat Field, Scarecrow, Haystack, Water Trough.
• Market: the Fruit, Fish and Cloth Stalls, Notice Board.

Explorer:

• Camps and lookouts: Explorer Tent, Fishing Net Rack, Lookout Platform, Watch Tower.
• Water: Rowboat, River Ferry Raft, Wooden Pier, Harbour Crane.
• Crossings: Wooden Footbridge, Rope Bridge.
• Wagons: Hand Cart, Hay Cart, Merchant Wagon, Covered Travel Wagon.
• Workshops and road: Milestone, Pottery Kiln, Stable, Blacksmith Forge.

Adventure:

• Big buildings: Lighthouse, Windmill, Water Mill, Town Hall, Fossil Museum.
• Stages: Music Stage, Puppet Theatre.
• Town entrances: Town Gate Arch, Stone Arch Bridge, Stone Steps, Flower Carriage.

Complete City bundle: everything above, plus the 30 pieces each realm builds in its own way (the Stilt House, the Woodcutter Cabin, the Snowy Lodge, the Adobe House, the Mushroom Cottage and the rest), and every realm's colours for every piece.

Nobody pays twice. If you buy Light Building, Explorer and Adventure one by one, you get the realm pieces and colours too, just as the bundle gives them. The bundle's checkout shows which packs you already have.

Good to know

• Decoration only. Packs never help you fight, survive or earn: they're pieces to make your town look the way you like. That's why they can't be earned in play, and why the free set is there for everyone.
• Every kind of world takes them, Survival worlds included.
• Bought once, kept for good, on every world, for your account. They can't be traded, gifted or turned into orange coins.
• A grown-up turns purchases on. Purchases with real money are off on every profile until a grown-up turns them on with the PIN, and every purchase asks for the PIN again. On a child's profile the store can be hidden altogether: see Family safety. Until then, a locked piece shows which pack it's in, and "See the pack" just explains this.
• Prices are paid through Steam, in your own currency; the table shows the US prices. Refunds and help are always on the Purchases page.
• Not on sale yet. The store opens later; until then everyone builds with the free starter set.
• Towns and roads in the world use every piece for free. The packs are about building your own.