A Fresh Start Unlocks Your Island and Cottage
Pebble's opening quest, A Fresh Start, unlocks your floating home island and starter cottage. Follow its gathering tasks for Milo in Loftia City, then take the hot-air balloon to the player neighborhood and set up your Project Station at home.
Getting the starter home and expanding your building capacity happen at different points. A Fresh Start brings you home; Amani's permits and Milo's later house customization lesson open up further building options.
Follow Milo's Tasks to the Player Neighborhood
Talk to Pebble when you arrive in Loftia City. His opening conversation starts A Fresh Start and sends you to Milo to begin getting settled.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Talk to Milo at his scrapyard. He gives you a gathering task while he prepares your Project Station.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Collect five Clay from the small piles at the Construction Site. This supplies the Clay required for the next gathering objective.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Collect five Scrap Wire at the Solar Farm in Loftia City. This completes the remaining material request before you report back.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Report back to Milo. He finishes configuring your Project Station and sends you to Pebble for the trip to the neighborhood island.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Speak to Pebble again. With your Project Station ready, he points you toward the hot-air balloon that takes you to the neighborhood where your house is.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Select My Neighborhood at the hot-air balloon. You travel out of Loftia City into the neighborhood containing your own home plot.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Place your Project Station inside your cottage using decorate mode. Your home now has the station used for its opening crafting tasks.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Settle in Before Planning an Expansion
Once you reach home, Pebble's instructions continue with placing a bed, crafting a Hammer and clearing debris from the island. The opening quest finishes as you move into Hazel's gardening introduction, so keep following the nearby conversations after placing your Project Station.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Keep your initial layout simple while you decide where you want to work and decorate. Leave comfortable routes between the cottage, your crafting area and the space you want to use for planting.
What Amani's Building Permits Change
Amani handles building permits in Loftia City. These raise the number of objects you can place in particular categories, so available ground alone does not determine how much you can build.
| Option | Permit or Prerequisite |
|---|---|
| Place more garden beds | You start with permission for one bed. The next Garden Beds permit raises the limit to two for 25 Dew. |
| Add more processing stations | Processing Stations permits open after your first processing station and increase that category's placement capacity. |
| Expand decorative capacity | Other Placeables permits increase the category's placement limit, giving you more capacity for a fuller layout. |
| Unlock additional island slots | Island Slots permits open after Milo teaches you how to customize your house. |
| Increase structural capacity | Structural Items permits also open after Milo's house customization lesson and raise the structural placement limit. |
Continue With Milo and Estella for Home Projects
Milo's house customization lesson is the prerequisite for the later island-slot and structural permit categories. If those are the options you want, follow the house customization progression before saving toward an expansion.
Estella introduces furniture, decorations and house-related quests. Her Home Décor Crisis quest opens after City Tour, followed by Creative Block, Home Sweet Home and Cozy Corners through that decorating chain.
Choose your next goal around the part of your layout you want to change. More furniture choices, additional placement capacity and later island slots are useful for different projects, so decide what you need before spending.
Set Visitor Access and Keep Demo Limits in Mind
Guest permissions control who can use your island's facilities. In the demo, press B, then Tab, then V to open Guest Permissions; farm access can be private or friends-only, and you can remove unwanted visitors from the same menu.Playing this video connects to YouTube.
Review farm and energy access separately from entry access. You may want friends to visit without opening every resource on your island to everyone.
The October demo includes setting up and decorating a home in a shared neighborhood. Closed-beta permit prices differ from the demo's introductory upgrade, while Early Access is planned for November 3, 2026 and will add more decorative options for houses and islands.