Hometopia News

BOO! It’s spoooooky season. You know what that means?

It’s time to see what a Haunted Hometopia looks like.

This Hometopia’s Top Builders challenge is guaranteed to be ghostly. It’s your time to design the spookiest, most haunted house imaginable, combining eerie atmosphere, spooky decor, and clever architectural tricks to create a true haunted masterpiece.

We want to see houses that feel like they’re straight out of a Halloween horror story.

Multiple winners will be selected based on the following criteria:

Scare Factor
Creativity
Attention to Detail
…and of course, we need to see some clever placement of grim and ghoulish gnomes!

During this special competition, we also invite you to screen record your building process. Select participants will be featured on Hometopia’s social media channels!

Enter if you dare.

Submit your submission on the Hometopia Discord by October 31, 2024.

As we inch closer to the end of the year, our team is excited to reveal some exciting updates in Hometopia!

In Update 7.0, things may look a little different… Here are some highlights:

Art Updates:

Kitchen Renovations…

• New interactive kitchen counters, combine different counters styles, sinks and built-in ovens
  
• Reworked counters and cabinets to fit the wall, with corner options
  
• Cooktops, ovens and hoods from vintage to sleek modern style
  
• New, delicious food items to create eye-catching food composition
  
• Refrigerators with interactive lights
  
• Kitchen items can now be stored anywhere! Inside Cabinets, refrigerators, ovens, sinks and more
  

Bathroom Renovations…

• Completely redesigned interactive bathroom vanities to store your favorite toiletries
  
• New wall and floor-mounted interactive toilets.
  

General Renovations…

• New, cozy, customizable pillows!
  
• Wide range of new materials
  
• Improved door rotation according to hinges.
  
• Building a floor directly connected to the top of the stairs without a wall.
  

Dev Updates:

• Reworked multiplayer to create a more stable experience
  
• Overhauled UI
  
• Countertop system
  
• Improved object interaction
  
• Minor improvements to all neighborhoods
  

Let us know what you think by joining the community conversation in Discord!

The Hometopia Team 🏠✨

If you can dream it, you can build it in Hometopia. In this week’s Hometopia’s Top Builder Challenge, Topians got to work on building the perfect cozy cabins—the ideal setting to curl up by the fireplace with a hot cocoa and a good book.

Let’s take a look at the winning designs.


BIG, But Cozy
One of the BIGGEST builds we've ever seen in Hometopia, yet this builder still managed to keep it cozy. Truly an impressive feat!


Pillow Fort or Log Cabin?
This builder gets the award for the most creative use of materials— if you look closely, you can see that this Topian created a log cabin constructed out of INDIVIDUAL PILLOWS. Note to devs: we need logs for exteriors 😂Very meticulous work!


Garden Cottage
Loved the beautiful stonework on the exterior of this cabin, and the coziest little flower beds to make this cabin complete!



English Cottage Core
This cozy cabin is teleporting us STRAIGHT to the English countryside. Plus, this is the first-ever curved roof in Hometopia – such an innovative use of variable roof pitches!



A WhoDunnit Cabin
This cabin is cozy, luxe, and regal all at the same time. This home tells a story, almost as if a mystery took place here, and we’re dying to know (and see) more!



Thanks to everyone who participated–all of the submissions were truly impressive. Stay tuned for the next competition!

Dreaming of escaping to a cozy cabin this fall? Don’t just dream it, build it!

Introducing this week’s Hometopia’s Top Builders competition: Cozy Cabin edition.

Submit the cabin of your dreams for a chance to win a Steam gift card!

Enter your submission in the competitions channel in the Hometopia Discord by 5pm EDT on Sunday, September 29th!
https://discord.gg/FcBH7V3r

Hometopia's future is looking bright. This year we’ll be rolling out a bunch of improvements, packed with exciting features, enhanced multiplayer, and a portfolio to fill with your incredible designs. Check out the roadmap here.