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Tend to the homestead. Meet with Stoic Alder at Hearth's Glow, the old, overgrown homestead. Walk with Stoic Alder. Take a look around inside. Investigate the glinting object in the corner. Show the keepsake you found to Stoic Alder. Accept Stoic Alder's generous gift. Tidy the house and shoo away the critters living inside: x/8 Clear the overgrowth and rubble in the garden: x/8 Destroy crop pests and haul boulders from the farm field to the quarry: x/8 Remove debris from the river and repair broken fishing traps: x/8 Speak with Stoic Alder for advice on personalizing your new homestead. Learn crafting skills. Seek out Deft Lahar for knowledge about crafting homestead decorations. (Prove your worthiness to Deft Lahar by using your warclaw to topple trees and collect lumber.) Use Your Warclaw to Topple Trees and Collect Lumber Inform Deft Lahar of your contribution to local kodan homesteading efforts. Speak to Patient Willow about adding a special cultural touch. Decorate your new home. Return to your homestead with materials for making a traditional kodan bed. (Optional) Ask Deft Lahar for assistance with obtaining the materials. Return to your homestead with materials for making a traditional kodan bed. Process wood materials into refined homestead wood at the lumber mill. (If you already have a bed placed by a character on your account, this step will be skipped.) Craft a traditional kodan bed at the handiwork workbench. (If you already have a bed placed by a character on your account, this step will be skipped.) Place the bed upstairs in the loft of the homestead. (If you already have a bed placed by a character on your account, this step will be skipped.) Accompany Stoic Alder and Poised Arrow upstairs to discuss your handiwork. (Only appears if you already have a bed placed by a character on your account.) Speak with Stoic Alder about further homesteading opportunities. Greet Fading Aurora.
Tend to the homestead. Start the instance from just north of Autumn's Vale Waypoint. Speak with Stoic Alder and enter the largest building, then take the stairs up to speak with Poised Arrow. Uncover the dirt pile next to him to find a keepsake to show Alder. The Homesteading mastery track will then be unlocked. For the renovation, eight objects need to be removed from each of the four areas to tidy them up: In the house: removed wasps and the damage they've caused, scare away rats and dust mites, and remove cobwebs and dust piles. In the garden: destroy bushes and remove rubble, weeds, brambles, and mushrooms. In the fields: pull up and kill grubs, destroy termite mounds and kill their inhabitants, and move boulders to the quarry to the southeast. In the river: fix fishing traps, destroy sunken debris, and remove the floating debris and the drakes hiding under it. With the rough cleanup complete, speak to Alder once more and leave the instance. Learn crafting skills. Speak to Deft Lahar at Deft Lahar's Abode. Mount up and use the third Warclaw skill, Chain Pull, to pull down 6 Young Fir Trees (done by using the skill and then keeping the Warclaw 3-4 body lengths away until the counter for is reduced to 0, before collecting the fallen tree). These trees are found next to the Deft Lahar's Abode, as well as to the south and to the northwest of it. Return to Deft Lahar and Patient Willow, outside and inside of the Abode respectively, to learn the bed recipe for the next instance. Make sure to train the first tier of the Homesteading mastery and gather enough wood to be able to craft 30 Refined Homestead Wood and have 20 Wool Scraps and 10 Honey Flowers before entering the next instance. The former can be traded for with various logs at the Homestead Refinement-Lumber Mill in the southeast corner of the next instance, while the latter two can be salvaged from various cloth items (Wool), or gathered around Lowland Shore (Flowers), or bought on the Black Lion Trading Post. Decorate your new home. NOTES: If there's already a Traditional Kodan Bed placed in the Homestead in the loft the requirement to make and place a bed will be automatically completed, making it unnecessary to make another bed. If you have already reached maximum wood refinement for the week (for example through someone else's homestead), you can't complete the objective "Process wood materials [...]". You can still find the workbench and craft a Traditional Kodan Bed to make the next objective appear and progress the instance normally despite the uncompleted task. If you have not gathered enough materials prior to entering the instance, you can exit via the portals in the SW corner. With the materials in your inventory (having the materials in the bank will not satisfy the next objective), enter the instance north of Harvest Shore Waypoint after having gathered the previously mentioned materials, and use the gathered materials to make a Traditional Kodan Bed at the Handiwork Workbench to the northeast. Place the Bed anywhere upstairs in the main house after entering decoration mode with "L" and then speak with the two bears. Speak with Fading Aurora after she appears to finish the instance. Prior to leaving, you can optionally listen to Caithe and Malice's intel. After leaving, there is a further achievement available via purchase of a Jug of Wildflower Cyser which can then be taken to Deft Lahar in the open world.