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🦃 Announcing the Hometopia Thanksgiving Top Builders Competition!

This week, we’re inviting you to showcase your festive flair in our Thanksgiving-themed build challenge. Your mission: set the perfect Thanksgiving table! Design a dining room (including a stunning tablescape of course) that embodies the spirit of giving thanks–one that would make Martha Steward proud.

Submission Details:

• Focus: One beautifully decorated dining room.
  
• Theme: Thanksgiving – bonus points for incorporating the Hometopia turkey!
  
• Objective: Create a tablescape that captures the warmth and celebration of Thanksgiving.
  

Show off your design skills and submit one screenshot of your dining room for a chance to win. Be sure to use the new in-game camera tool!

Let’s see those stunning Thanksgiving tables come to life!

Submit your entry on the Hometopia Discord by Sunday, December 1, 2024, 5pm ET

It’s Halloweentown here in Hometopia! The Haunted House Top Builder’s challenge was a (pumpkin) smashing success. Topians designed some seriously spooky haunted houses that did not disappoint. Let’s take a look at the winning designs and give it up for the five winners 👻 🏆 👏



How CREATIVE is our community? This winner used pillows as headstones and created a graveyard!



This is truly an estate of a build, with a spooky maze you have to find your way through first!



What's going on in that window upstairs?!



We're obsessed with this gnome seance - what are they conjuring over there??



The lighting in this is so spooky... the haze and mist really sets the scene!



We’ll be announcing the next competition soon, so stay tuned. Thanks to everyone who participated–all of the submissions were truly impressive.

If you have suggestions for upcoming competition themes – let us know!

• Festive pumpkins added to the Decor > Misc category
  
• Appliances no longer get placed through the floor
  
• New and improved placement functionality for counter set pieces, especially against walls
  
• Adjusted stair placement functionality
  
• Left navigation arrow menu in settings will now function correctly
  
• Clicking the center of the settings menu will no longer close the menu
  
• Fixed an issue with mass deletion
  
• Temporarily removed incomplete kitchen sets
  

Update 7.1 Hotfix

Fixed the following bugs:

• 'Undo' functionality had a random chance to freeze the game when placing foundations, ceiling tiles, roofing, and walls.
  
• Incorrect materials and categorization
  
• Store UI sometimes loaded incorrect assets
  
• Water was missing in pools