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Level 8 unlocks your second Homestead, Golden Hills, and Barley (crop planted in Golden Hills Fields). It shares the same barn (product and material storage) and economy as Sundale, but has separate Workers, Happiness, and Construction Menu.
You can start building on this Homestead (within the game's introduction limitations). The Chapter Quest will ask you to place decorations to manage your Happiness (introduced in Level 5). Use your decorative items to maintain your Happiness target zone (40–80) as you continue to upgrade Houses across both Sundale and Golden Hills to fuel your expansion.
Psst - you can upgrade your Sundale Homestead now.
The question will come up if you should build a second cow. Yes. Now the third cow is where you need to think strategically - your mill takes 5 mins to make 2 cow feed. Cows take 5 mins. 2 cows consume feed as fast as you can mill it. You can't keep up with 3 cows until you increase your feed output from your Mill, or reduce the time of your Feed Mill by upgrading it.
As you level up, it gets harder and harder to simply buy land when you level up and need space for a new building. That means you should start preparing for future buildings 1-2 levels ahead of time. To reserve the space and workers while still running an efficient farm, place a level 1 field that you can bulldoze when the time comes. Bulldozing will return 75% of the cost, so any level 1 field that runs a single crop, sold in the barn, will pay for itself. This trick effectively holds the land and 3 workers, making placing that new building a breeze.
Chickens, introduced next level, take 1 hour to produce eggs. Chicken feed takes 45 mins to mill, but you can mill 5 at a time, perfect for overnight. Level 8 is one where I would stock up on Barley (Qty 25 - needed for Chicken Feed) and collect regular tasks you have completed to hit level 9, right before bed. That way you can build and start your chicken, and start 3.75 hours of chicken, before bed and wake up to eggs and 10 feed.
