Assassin's Creed Shadows: Best Hideout buildings and upgrades
All the best buildings to go in your Hideout in AC Shadows
Want to know more about the buildings in your Hideout in Assassin's Creed Shadows? Once you have access to the Hideout in the early hours at the beginning of the chapter "Rebuilding", you have the option to expand it with more buildings and rooms.
The more you outfit your Hideout, the more you can make your life easier in feudal Japan. This guide will go over all of the Hideout buildings and themed rooms in Assassin's Creed Shadows, the requirements for building them, the benefits they offer, and what perks you get for upgrading them.
Assassin's Creed Shadows: All Hideout Buildings
The following are all of the Hideout buildings you can build, as well as the important gameplay features they provide. Given they cost vital resources to construct, it's best to prioritise certain structures over others.
Hiroma
The Hiroma is a starting building in your Hideout. Aside from serving as a place for holding important meetings, this room allows you to improve the Hideout by building more rooms. You can also access your mission objectives by interacting with the diorama in the left corner of the Hiroma and the painting depicting the Onryo respectively.
Stables
The Stable, another of your starting Hideout buildings, allows you to tag stockpiles for scouts to smuggle. It's an important building that becomes especially vital as you acquire more and more resources. Upgrading it to rank 2 will allow stockpiles to only require one scout to smuggle, provided at the end of a season, and costs 70 crops, 50 wood, and 20 minerals. At rank 3, scouts smuggle 20% more resources from stockpiles, which costs 350 crops, 260 wood, and 90 minerals.
Kakurega
The Kakurega is an incredible pivotal safehouse management master building. Constructing it allows you to unlock additional safehouses on the map that you can use for fast-travel as well as for picking up contracts, refilling supplies, or refilling scouts with money. You'll also unlock an additional scout on top of the initial two you have when you first access the Hideout. It costs 60 crops, 30 wood, and 5 minerals to build.
If you upgrade the Kakurega to Rank 2, safehouses will provide seasonal rumours that reveal locations of collectibles, unique treasures, and more. You will also be able to use scouts to clear that region of alerts. This upgrade costs 580 crops, 440 wood, and 150 minerals.
For the Rank 3 upgrade, additional safehouse locations become available while the cost of unlocking them is reduce by 30%. This upgrade cost 930 crops, 700 wood, and 230 minerals.
Study
This is the building you need if you want to continue adding more scouts to expand your network. It also reduces the search zone for quests by 25%. It costs 60 crops, 40 wood, and 10 minerals to build. Each time you unlock and upgrade the Study, you acquire an additional scout, and at the maximum rank it reduces the search zone for quests by 60%.
The Study costs 350 crops, 260 wood, and 90 minerals to upgrade to Rank 2, then a further 810 crops, 610 wood, and 200 minerals to upgrade to Rank 3.
The Forge
Here, you can upgrade and dismantle your gear as well as transmorg it so that you can visually customize your loadout. It costs 40 crops, 30 wood, and 10 minerals to build. You also need a blacksmith to run the forge, so it's actually also part of the questline, "Way of the Blacksmith".
The Forge can upgrade weapons and armor up to level 20. If you upgrade it to Rank 2, you can then upgrade weapons and armor up to level 40 as well as apply non-Legendary engravings to enhance their stats. This upgrade costs 350 crops, 260 wood, and 90 minerals.
Upgrading the Forge to Rank 3 will allow you to upgrade weapons and armor up to level 60, as well as allow you to apply Legendary engravings to them. This upgrade costs 700 crops, 520 wood, and 170 minerals.
Dojo
You need to have recruited an ally before you can unlock the Dojo, but this room will allow your allies to train and therefore reach a higher rank, becoming even more effective in combat. This requires 350 crops, 260 wood, and 90 minerals to build.
If you upgrade the Dojo to Rank 2 with 470 crops, 350 wood, and 120 minerals, you will be able to call in two allies for support during combat. For a further 700 crops, 520 wood, and 170 minerals, you will upgrade it to Rank 3, allowing allies to be trained up to Veteran rank.
Assassin's Creed Shadows: All Hideout Themed Rooms
Themed rooms not only cost lots of resources but also money. While some are purely for decorative purposes, others will also grant very helpful perks. The rooms that provide actual benefits are detailed below.
Tera
This room houses a Buddhist altar and will increase the experience you gain by 10%. It costs 740 crops, 550 wood, 180 minerals, and 1930 mon to build. You also need to have unlocked the ability to play as both Yasuke and Naoe before this can be built.
Jinja
This Shinto affects prayers made at shrines. Praying grants a boon for the next 15 minutes while all shrine boon effects increase by 20%. This will unlock after you have prayed at a large shrine and costs 690 crops, 510 wood, 170 minerals, and 1800 mon to build.
Nando
This room reduces the cost of replenishing scouts from safehouses by 30%, but requires having more scouts and allies before it can be built. It costs 440 crops, 330 wood, 110 minerals, and 1160 mon to build.
Zashiki
This will increase the health that consuming rations restores by 20%. It costs 90 crops, 370 wood, 280 minerals, and 960 mon to build, and you must also offer support to a Settsu merchant before you can build it.
Tea Room
Just like Zashiki, building this will increase the health restored from consuming rations by 20%. It costs 640 crops, 480 wood, 160 minerals, and 1670 mon to build, and you must offer support to a Yamashiro tea master before you can build it.
Gallery
Building a Gallery displays your gear, and as such, it means you can create a custom equipment loadout that you can easily switch to. You can also build multiple Galleries for more custom loadouts. Each costs 490 crops, 370 wood, 120 minerals, and 1280 mon to build.
And that's it for the guide to the best hideout buildings in Assassin's Creed Shadows. For more on important features in Assassin's Creed Shadows, be sure to peruse our guides on how to change characters, the differences between Naoe and Yasuke, and how to parry and deflect. If you'd rather dig into locations, see our guide on all Kuji-kiri in Izumi Settsu, which will help you get started on the first steps of this expansive adventure across 1579 Japan.