Best Tips to Customize Your Home in Heartopia
Designing your home can be one of the hardest aspects of Heartopia due to the variety of creative options available and the way homes are built from scratch. Players who have not designed anything themselves or struggle with the design process will find it pretty difficult to put together a home they are happy with as they expand their plots and unlock new furniture.
This Heartopia guide will provide players with tips for the design process, as well as some example builds from the community to aid in inspiration, to hopefully make building your next home less overwhelming and more exciting, and ensure your high rank when it comes to Home Evaluations.
How to Submit Home Evaluations in Heartopia
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Home Design Tips for House Exteriors in Heartopia
The first part of this Heartopia home design guide is dedicated to the exterior of your home. This includes the walls, floors, roof, windows, and doors, as well as the outdoor decorations.
Blueprints are Your Best Friend
One of the best ways to make home building less stressful in Heartopia is to build everything in Blueprints. Building through the Blueprints app will prevent you from living in a half-finished house because you ran out of time or inspiration while making your home. It also lets you start from scratch immediately, rather than removing everything from your house plots.
One nice feature of the Blueprints tab is that you can create a copy of your current house and edit it through the import button on a new Blueprint. This makes it easy to try out different colors and designs on your current home if it just needs a few adjustments.
Decide on a Floor Plan Before Building
One of the best ways to make building easier is to have an idea of what you want your house to be. In particular, there are a few questions you should ask yourself:
- Would you like your house to have an open-floor plan, or do you want walls separating the rooms?
- How much space do you want your house to take up?
- Where will you plant your crops?
- How many stories will your home have?
- Where do you want your front door to be?
A building can have, at most, four stories without a roof. Most buildings will be three stories with a roof at maximum height.
The height of a wall panel is counted as one story in the game. This means that player buildings can be four
wall panels tall at their highest.
Once you have your layout down, go ahead and start putting your home’s flooring into place. This will help give you an idea of how much space you actually have to work with. It will also give you room to adjust a room’s size or placement before you start placing walls and windows.
Once the floor is to your liking, you’ll want to start on the first floor’s walls. I would recommend doing one wall at a time, then placing the windows and doors on that wall. If anything doesn’t fit right, it will be easier to change it now than later in the build.
Some players may find it more helpful to place the walls first, then work on the floors. Do them in whichever order helps you visualize the build better.
Use Advanced Build Mode Wisely
Advanced Build Mode can be a little tricky to use, but it’s pretty helpful for building larger sections of your home at once. Just keep in mind that interacting with the left side of the screen will move the camera, while doing so with the right side of the screen will rotate the camera.
One of the major benefits of Build Mode is that you can place multiple wall panels and flooring tiles at once. This is done by selecting the wall or flooring tile and using the surrounding arrows to make it as big or small as you’d like.
Advanced Build Mode is great for placing your roof tiles and adjusting their size. It is also helpful for players who want to do a lot of decorating on the exterior of their homes. Instead of placing staircases everywhere to reach high places, they can enter Advanced Build Mode and place items from there.
Count the Wall Panels While Building
While placing walls, it’s helpful to keep track of how many panels you have for each section. This will particularly help players who want their windows evenly spaced apart. It will also be useful for players who prefer to align their doorways perfectly in the center of a wall.
Making these kinds of placements is why it is so important to build your home one wall at a time. You never know when a window will take up more space than you thought, or when a door will be misaligned with the center of your wall.
Use Multiple Roof Tiles to Make a Pretty Roof
Roofs can be one of the most difficult parts of building a home in Heartopia. The best tip we have for making a better roof is to use multiple roof tiles when making larger builds. This is because using just one tile could make your build look flat, and in some cases, it won’t actually cover your entire home.
Additionally, just because the roof is technically one element of your home does not mean each tile you use has to be the same. Flip your tiles to be in different directions, give them different heights, and make other changes to make your roof more interesting.
If you want your roof to extend out from your home, you’ll need to place extra floor tiles in the area where you want it to stick out. They will give your roof something to attach to.
A House Does Not Need to be Fully Indoors
It’s easy to get lost in the conception that a house needs to be one structure, complete with walls, windows, and a structured doorway. However, that is not the case. A home can be made of multiple smaller structures separated by decorated outdoor spaces.
If you prefer outdoor living, you can even build a mostly outdoor space inspired by camping or fantasy homes. It does not need to be realistic as long as it has all the basics you and your pets need to survive.
Floors can be Customized to Look Like Outdoor Paths
Since there are a few floor designs available, it is easy to find one that looks like an outdoor path. You can change the color of these patterns to help them match whatever color scheme you choose for your exterior.
Players can also use rugs to create outdoor paths! More natural paths can be created using smaller rugs colored to be brown, green, or gray.
Home Design Tips for House Interiors in Heartopia
These tips are all about making the interior of your home as beautiful as its exterior.
Floor Tiles can be Colored Differently on their Top and Bottom
Coloring your flooring tiles differently on the bottom and top is a great way to have a nice ceiling in one room and a matching floor in the room above it. The only potential mismatch is on the side of the flooring tile, which will mimic the ceiling design and not the floor design. This can cause a little disconnect when making a staircase in your home.
Anything Can Be Used as Decor
One important thing to remember about interior design in Heartopia is that you make up your own rules. If you love cooking and want to decorate your home with plates of food, there’s nothing wrong with that. You can place outdoor plants inside your home, cover your entire home in flowers, or make it themed after your favorite game or franchise. The sky is the limit.
In-game items do not have to be used for their intended purpose. Stools can be used as end tables, floor tiles can be recolored to use as rugs, and even cars can be used as decor.
Use and Redesign the Game’s Furniture Sets
Furniture sets are an easy way to make rooms of matching furniture without too much struggle. To make them more personalized, change the color of the furniture and always add extra decorations in your preferred style. Add art to the walls, a funky rug, and anything else you own that makes the home feel more comfortable to live in.
One of the best ways to get inspiration for your Heartopia home is by looking at other players’ builds. R/heartopia on Reddit is a great source of inspiration. We’ll showcase some of the prettiest and most unique builds we’ve spotted on Reddit so far.
A Lush Home with a Modern Twist
While the natural, exploring-the-outdoors nature of Heartopia inspires ideas of cottages and woodland cabins, Seinisteria shows just how good modern-style homes can look. It also showcases some great design concepts players can incorporate into their own builds.
This includes the floor tiles recolored to look like a pool and the way elements can be placed beneath a home to raise it slightly off the ground.
If you want to raise the foundation of your home off the ground, you can place half-walls or low walls and add floor tiles on top of them. The floor tiles will serve as the raised base of your home.
A Natural Treehouse Home
This home by Aaedyn demonstrates how people and nature can live in perfect harmony in a Heartopia home. The treehouse-inspired home feels natural and sturdy, and it fits well with the scenic backgrounds behind it.
Though unfinished, the home emphasizes the difference made by combining the game’s outdoor plants with your home design. Placing trees and bushes so that they clip into your home can look extraordinary when placed in the right spot.
A Japanese-Inspired Home
One of the best aspects of No-Perception-1234’s home is how it highlights the beauty of utilizing both indoor and outdoor elements in your home. There are plenty of outdoor pathways and courtyards that make the house feel alive and thriving. At the same time, indoor spaces use dark woods and colorful furniture to give the home a cozy, lived-in feel.
It is a delicate balance, but this home gives players plenty of material to reference. Make sure to pay careful attention to the areas that are raised or lowered beneath the home’s typical floor height. The elevation changes add visual interest to rooms and gardens that would otherwise be one flat square.
A Magical Mushroom Cottage
SayawKikaySK’s home is a great example of taking inspiration from other franchises and bringing them to life in Heartopia. The red mushrooms found in Minecraft were the motivation behind this build.
This build is also a perfect example of players not needing to craft a realistic, typical home. They could choose to live in a mushroom, a large tree, or even a giant turtle if they prefer. The main focus should be to build something you like that will bring you joy when you play Heartopia.
A Large, Multi-Story Home
As your home plots get bigger, sometimes there’s nothing as satisfying as building a huge home. This villa by StrawberrySodaPopCat is a wonderful example of a large home that shows off interesting design choices.
Firstly, there are plenty of open-air balconies scattered between the home’s closed-off rooms. These balconies make the home feel less imposing while it still takes up a large amount of space. The division between the balconies and regular rooms also helps divide up the roof, allowing players to craft it from plenty of smaller roof tiles for a more unique look.
Additionally, this house shows the beauty of combining different textures to make your home stand out. The stone walls highlight the roof’s light colors, which contrast nicely with the wooden flooring on the balconies to make them look rich and luxurious. It is visually stunning in a way that could not be achieved if every part of the home used the same texture.
- Released
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January 8, 2026
- Developer(s)
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XD
- Publisher(s)
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XD
- Number of Players
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Single-player
- Steam Deck Compatibility
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Unknown