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Assassin’s Creed Shadowsis a massive game with various grindy mechanics like the requirement of farming resources to upgrade your gear or unlocking various parts of the map. Thankfully, you get a chance to make this grind a lot easier through the hideout, which is one of the most important places in the game.
When you get to your hideout, you may create various buildings that can impact different aspects of your gameplay. You can also upgrade these buildings to get increased benefits while also increasing the level of your hideout.
How To Unlock The Hideout
Given that the hideout is one of the most integral parts of Assassin’s Creed Shadows,you don’t have to do anything out of the ordinary to unlock it. What you will have to do, however, is go through a long prologue that easily takes the first few hours of your time in this game.
You’ll already meet Tomiko in the middle of this prologue, but you go to her again at the end, and she offers herhomestead to be the main hub of your operations as you attempt to hunt down the Shinbakufu. This is where you’ll unlock the hideout and get introduced to the general mechanics in it.
After you unlock the hideout, it gets added to the map as afast travel point in the Izumi Settsu province.
It’s highly recommended to come here regularly to catch up on upgrades forboth hideout buildings and your gear.
How To Build Every Hideout Building
Once you’re in your hideout, you can start building or upgrading it either by getting to the central hideout area and pressing the"Improve Hideout" buttons at the bottom or going into the Hiroma buildingand finding a specific desk with a lamp there. When close to this desk, you’ll get the same option on it.
When you first go to the build menu in the hideout, you’llsee that the menu is divided into different types of rooms. There are a total of six main rooms that unlock the basic buffs for your gameplay, and you can also get various themed rooms from different merchants around the world.
You’ll need a certain amount of crops, wood, and minerals to build or upgrade these rooms.
The best way to get these is byraiding hostile zones and marking stockpilesfor your scouts (more on this below).
Hiroma and Stables will be the two rooms already built at the start, andyou can also make yourself a Kakurega with enough resources. However, if you want to build a Study, Forge, or Dojo,you’ll need to progress the story, get a blacksmith, and recruit an allyrespectively.
Here’s what each main and themed room will provide:
Main Rooms
Stables
You can see various stockpiles while raiding castles and other hostile areas during your exploration. If you have two scouts,you can mark these stockpiles when you have a stable.
Each stockpile will give you aspecific type of resource when the season ends, while also refilling your scouts fully, letting you mark more stockpiles.
Kakurega
Upon making this building, a new type of fast travel will be added all across Japan called Kakurega. Thesecan be identified with the scout icon on them, and they automatically get revealed when you’re close.
When you enter the Kakurega area, you can perform various tasks likegetting contracts, refilling your ration/tools, or buying more scouts.
Study
This is essentially a building thatlets you have more scoutsevery season. Scouts can be used to mark quest locations and stockpiles, making them quite important, especially if you’re playing without guided mode.
Forge
The forge is the most important building in the hideout as itlets you upgrade the gear of both Naoe and Yasukeif they’re lower than your current account level. This will let you keep up with the enemies.
Dojo
Finally, a Dojo is a hub to manage and upgrade your allies. You canswitch between different allies here and upgradetheir abilities.
You’ll gainten percent more experiencefrom all sources.
Jinja
Increases the effects you gain from praying at shines and theboon also lasts for 15 minutes.
Nando
You can buy more scouts at a Kakurega for30 percent less Mon.
Increases theamount of healingyou get from Ration.
Tea Room
Other than the main rooms, you can also unlockthemed rooms of various sizes that you can decorate as you wish. In the build menu, you can also switch between different tabs where you cansee paths, decorations, trees, and pets you’ve unlockedthrough your journey.
These can be placed inside your hideout todecorate it and make it look a lot more beautiful. You can get various decorative items, plants, and paths from merchants or random exploration. As for pets, you can find dogs, cats, and miscellaneous pets during your exploration, and petting them will let you place them in the hideout.
you may alsounlock a dog named Tsuki-maruby doing the Thrown to the Dogs side quest.
Main Room Upgrade Overview And Priority In Hideout
When you first make a main room in your hideout, it’ll be of white rarity. However, except for the Hiroma,you can upgrade all other rooms up to blue rarity(two upgrades each). In some cases, these upgrades unlock a cap, while in others they can give you an entirely new effect related to the building.
However, these upgrades cost a lot more resources than it took to build these rooms,which makes it important to prioritize them well. Here’s the best order to upgrade different rooms in your hideout, with the first one being the highest priority:
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Stables First Upgrade
You can mark the stockpiles with just one scout,effectively doubling the resourcesyou can get.
2
Forge First Upgrade
Allows you to upgrade your gear to level 40 while alsoputting non-legendary engravings on them.
This upgrade becomes a high priority simply because you’d want engravings on your gear as soon as possible.
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Forge Second Upgrade
Lets you upgrade equipment to level 60 andequip legendary engravingson them.
6
Stables Second Upgrade
Whenever you tag a stockpile with your scout,you’ll get 20 percent more resourcesat the end of the season.
7
Study Second Upgrade
Gives you an additional scout slot while alsoreducing the search zone for questsby a whopping 60 percent.
8
Kakurega First Upgrade
You can get provincial rumors when you’re inside a Kakurega, and you can alsouse two scouts to clear the “wanted” effect from your characters.
The wanted effect doesn’t occur until fairly late in the game, andeven then, it’s easy to avoid, making this a low-priority upgrade.
9
Dojo Second Upgrade
Lets youunlock an additional ability on each of your alliesat the cost of some Mon.
10
Kakurega Second Upgrade
Adds more Kakurega locationsall around the map and reduces the cost of unlocking them.
Hideout Level Guide
Other than the various effects you can get from building and upgrading your hideout,you also have the hideout level mechanic. You can find your current hideout level on the top left inside the build menu, and whenever you build a main/themed room or upgrade your main rooms, you get EXP for this level.
Each hideout level increaseunlocks another effect for your gameplay, and here are all the effects you can get:
You’ll be quite far in the game by the time you get all these upgrades, butthey’ll make the rest of your journey a lot more seamless.
