Guide to Building a House in Genshin Impact: How to Quickly Level Up the Serenitea Pot, Where to Find Furniture Blueprints and Wood

With the latest 1.5 update in Genshin Impact, a new house building mechanic was introduced. Now, any player can build a comfortable home for themselves and furnish it to their liking. In this guide, we will tell you how to unlock the house building feature in Genshin Impact, how to quickly gather resources for construction and blueprint study.

You can start building houses in Genshin Impact if you meet several mandatory conditions. First, your character must reach Adventure Rank 35. Second, upon reaching the necessary adventure rank, you must complete several parts of the quest A Teapot to Call Home. During the quest, you will be able to choose the visual style of the dwelling on which the construction will take place.

Adventure Rank in Genshin Impact is the main indicator of your game account's progression. As you increase your Adventure Rank, new quests and opportunities will become available to you. The same goes for building in Genshin Impact — you can only start building and furnishing your own homes upon reaching Adventure Rank 35.

There are several effective ways to quickly increase your Adventure Rank:

Upon reaching Adventure Rank 35, open the quest journal and find this task among the general quests. Click Track Quest and head to the marker on the map. Upon arrival, simply talk to the character named Madame Ping, who will kindly give you the Serenitea Pot in exchange for a small favor. When this item first appears in your inventory, find it in the Tools tab, then select and click Place at the bottom right of the screen.

As we mentioned earlier, upon your first interaction with the Serenitea Pot, you need to choose the visual style of the abode where you will engage in construction. There are three abodes to choose from:

Tubby is your mentor in the world of construction. To unlock new features of the Serenitea Pot and blueprints, you need to increase your trust level with this character. Currently, the only way to level up Tubby's trust is by crafting items from new blueprints. Recreating existing furniture items will not affect the trust level.

After constructing any objects, don't forget to return to Tubby and collect the accumulated coins in the treasury, which can later be used to purchase various items from the teapot spirit. You have a total of 10 trust levels available. For each subsequent level, you are guaranteed to receive one or more new blueprints for crafting furniture, as well as:

Also, as you increase the trust level, you will be able to change the form of your abode to one of the three options given to you when you first used the Serenitea Pot.

Tubby is not only the keeper of the Serenitea Pot but also a decent merchant. With the coins accumulated in the abode, you can purchase quite useful items:

In addition to the main items, in Tubby's treasury, you can create Adeptal Speed-Up Vials, various shrubs and trees, as well as blueprints for crafting furniture.

The majority of blueprints can be purchased from Tubby in the Treasures section. Blueprints for seasonal and unique furniture can be acquired during events and activities that become available with each new update in Genshin Impact. In seasonal shops, you can find anywhere from two to ten different blueprints for crafting items.

Another way to obtain blueprints for items and furniture in Genshin Impact is to purchase them from vendors.

After acquiring new blueprints, open your inventory, go to the Treasures tab, and study them. To do this, select the blueprint and press use in the bottom right corner of the screen.

All furniture can be crafted at Tubby's, in the Furniture Crafting section. To craft any piece of furniture, you need to open the blueprint and gather the required amount of wood (where to find all the wood in Genshin Impact is described below).

Also, crafting will require time — the most valuable resource. Depending on the rarity class of the item, it can take from 12 hours (for two-star items) to 16 hours (for four-star items) to craft. You can reduce the crafting time for furniture using the Adeptal Speed-Up Vials we've already described. We recommend not to save bonus accelerations for furniture crafting but to use them immediately for crafting four-star furniture.

Each crafted item will give you a different amount of reputation or trust depending on the rarity of the item, but only once. You will not gain additional experience for crafting furniture that has already been crafted before.

To produce furniture from rare blueprints, fabric and paint will also be required. The most common plants for manufacturing these resources:

After crafting furniture, we recommend not wasting time and installing the crafted items in your home. This way, you will immediately start gaining reputation and trust of the Serenitea Pot.

The power of Adepts will automatically increase after placing any buildings and furniture in your abode. The fastest way to increase the power of Adepts is to craft and place interior sets in your home. Such sets become available as you increase the level of trust with Tubby, and finding them in the editing menu is easy (just select the Interior Sets tab).

Interior sets allow you to earn additional Adeptal Energy points by creating all the necessary elements in one room. How it works. For placing any furniture you crafted, you will gain Adeptal Energy. However, if these same elements are assembled in one room and correctly placed, you will receive additional Adeptal Energy points.

Remember, the more Adeptal Energy points you gain, the faster you will increase Tubby's trust level. This will directly affect your development: you will be able to learn more blueprints, additional slots for crafting furniture will become available, and the maximum capacity of the wealth jar for collecting money will increase.

Adeptal Speed-up Vials are necessary for accelerating the speed of item crafting. They appear for sale with Tubby every new day. Even if you cannot fully engage with the game, we still recommend visiting Tubby and purchasing one vial each day. This will be very useful for accelerating furniture crafting later on.

If you play Genshin Impact with friends, you can allow them to visit your Serenitea Pot even in your absence. This will positively affect its development, as friends can speed up the crafting of your items.

To allow friends to visit the Serenitea Pot, while you are in it, open the map (key M) and select the guest menu in the upper right corner of the screen.

In the menu that opens, click on the dropdown menu and select Serenitea Pot Visiting Rules: Direct Entry. This will allow all your contacts to visit the pot during your absence. Now your friends can visit your pot and speed up the production of items.

To enter the Serenitea Pot of your friends, open the friends menu, select a friend and click on the icon with the image of their main character. In the menu that opens, click Request to Visit Serenitea Pot, or Enter Serenitea Pot, if the friend allowed direct entry.

When you appear in your friend's Serenitea Pot, talk to Tubby. Select the only available option Improve Friendship, to craft faster.

With the introduction of the house building feature in Genshin Impact, special resources were also added — various types of wood. Trees themselves cannot be destroyed, but just two strong hits are enough to gather several units of the resource. You can get up to four units of wood from each tree, after which you should wait a few minutes for the resource to fully regenerate.

To find the necessary plant, you can use the interactive map of Genshin Impact, which already has all the new resources marked. All trees can also be found near fast travel points. We have detailed where you can easily find any trees in the game.

Birch

This plant can be found almost everywhere, but a large number of birches are concentrated at the Dawn Winery. Use fast travel to this location and look around. Also, quite a lot of birches can be found in the Starfell Lake region, east of Mondstadt.

Fragrant Cedar

Use fast travel to the Wolvendom location and gather the necessary amount of fragrant cedar. There is so much of it here that you won't have to wander through the vast world of Genshin Impact in search of the necessary resources.

Fir

Unlike the previous trees, fir does not grow everywhere. The main part of the vegetation is located south of Mondstadt, near the Brightcrown Canyon. Use fast travel to this area and look around. Literally, the entire hill is covered with the trees you need.

Pine

Pines in Genshin Impact are found only in snowy regions, such as Dragonspine. One of the best places for gathering is the region near the teleport, close to Minyun Village.

Bamboo

Bamboo is a thermophilic plant, so it can only be found in the southern part of the open world of Genshin Impact. Use fast travel to Qingce Village, in the Bishui Plain region, and gather the necessary amount of resources.

Sandbearer Wood

A very rare plant, most often found in the southern region of the Cloudy Hinterlands. We are interested in the very top teleport, between Mount Aocang and the Bishui Plain. These trees have a curved trunk, so you will immediately understand where to look for them.

Cuihua

This tree can be found almost everywhere. If you have been playing Genshin Impact for a long time, you probably already know the approximate location of these plants, as the sunsettia fruit grows on such trees.

Your house in your Serenitea Pot is not elastic, so you can place a limited number of items in it. The so-called load displays the maximum level of items in each room. As you've already understood, the load is determined for each room separately.

The load indicator can be tracked in the upper right corner of the screen. It displays three colors — green, yellow, and red. If the load indicator reaches the red level, you will not be able to install items in that room.

Since you will receive Adeptal Energy for installing furniture, if there is a high load, you can try to unload the room by removing some items or arranging them using interior sets.

If the load in the house is determined for each separate room, then outside, the load is general for the entire location of the teapot. We do not recommend cluttering it with unnecessary items. It's best to do this inside the house.