AFK Journey HOMESTEAD Guide & INVADER teams Recommendation

Hypergean invasions present a significant challenge to your homestead, requiring well-constructed teams to overcome. This guide will showcase effective team compositions for defeating these invaders and provide essential tips for efficiently managing and optimizing your homestead's development. The goal is to maximize your output with minimal stress, as this game mode is designed for steady progression rather than competitive rushing.

Effective Teams for Hypergean Invasions

Two team compositions have proven highly effective against Hypergeans.

The first successful team credited to Driftoff, achieved a 100% clear rate in a single attempt without using charms and with a +10 artifact level cap. The core strategy involves using Iron for crowd control, Pheromore for area-of-effect damage, Velara for stat-stealing and buffing, and the Elijah and Lailah for additional support. This combination works synergistically to group up enemies and eliminate them efficiently.

Dragonroar Spell
Eironn	Velara	Elijah and Lailah
Faramor	Tasi

Another powerful team recommendation comes from Isdaturrealhair. This composition also utilizes Iron for crowd control, Pheromore and Shamira for primary damage dealing, and Ara for stealing enemy stats and providing buffs. Both teams are reliable options, and your choice may depend on which heroes you have available. It is important to note that these battles occur on auto-play, meaning the outcome depends entirely on your team's composition and strength rather than manual control.

Elderbow Spell
Shemira	Faramor	Eironn
Thador	Velara

Essential Homestead Management Tips

Progression in the Homestead mode is primarily driven by completing orders, which grant Wish Points necessary for upgrading your Divine Shard. Leveling up your Divine Shard is crucial, as it unlocks new buildings and additional crop fields, thereby increasing your overall resource production.

A key mechanic for efficient development is the Reputation Quest button. Clicking this button helps other players reduce their building construction times, and in return, your guildmates and friends can do the same for you. Sending out help requests via the handshake icon allows active friends to substantially speed up your progress, after which you can optionally use speed-up items. It is strongly advised to never use diamonds for acceleration, as there is no competitive pressure in this mode.

Optimizing Resource Production and Orders

Always ensure your crop fields are actively producing resources; wheat is a reliable and versatile choice. A new resource, Ember Leaf, is used to make Spice Bread. However, at Divine Shard Level 4, fulfilling orders for Spice Bread is highly inefficient due to the low probability of achieving a one or two-star rating. The optimal strategy is to abandon such orders and wait five minutes for a new one to appear.

Instead, focus on orders that are easy to two-star consistently. At Divine Shard Level 4, these include Flatbread and Toast from the Kitchen and Copper Masks from the Forge.

For the Kitchen (Toast): The recommended card deck consists of three Heat Control cards and one Slow Cook card. The Slow Cook card has excellent synergy with Heat Control, as it triggers a bonus each time a Heat Control card is flipped, significantly increasing the chance of a two-star result.

For the Forge (Copper Mask): You will need to smelt 125 Red Copper ore in the Refinery first. The optimal deck for forging includes Forge Expert and Forge cards, which make a two-star outcome nearly guaranteed.

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Ideal Hero Assignments for Maximum Efficiency

Assigning the right heroes to your buildings drastically improves their efficiency. Each hero provides a base production bonus and a special effect. The following are the recommended optimal assignments:

Field: Hewynn or Parisa (Both offer a random harvest increase bonus, which is superior to a fixed percentage).

Hewynn

Parisa

Lumbermill: Corin (5% chance to double output) or Woodborne (8% chance to process logs without consuming materials).

Korin

Kitchen: Granny Dahnie (10% chance to refund materials after cooking).

Granny Dahnie

Ironhoof Forge: Damian (10% chance to refund materials after forging).

Damian

Ore Refinery: Vala or Fay (8% chance to smelt without using materials).

Vala

Fay

Mine: Lucca (raw ore production efficlency +10%~20%)

Lucca

Logging Site: Ulmus (Provides a random increase to log harvest output).

Ulmus

Elemental Altar: Satrana (Offers a random output increase). Avoid assigning Hypogean heroes, as they cause operational issues.

Satrana

Conclusion

Succeeding in your Homestead requires a blend of strategic team building for invasions and meticulous resource management. By using the recommended teams, focusing on high-yield orders, optimizing your production cards, and assigning the best heroes, you can ensure efficient and steady progression. Remember to leverage the community help system and resist the urge to spend diamonds. For more discussions and tips, feel free to share your own discoveries in the comments section.

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