Essential Buildings to Prioritize in Assassin's Creed Shadows Hideout

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is an expansive game filled with various gameplay mechanics, such as the need to gather resources for gear upgrades and to explore different map areas. The good news is that you can simplify the grind by utilizing the hideout, which serves as a crucial hub in the game.

As you settle into your hideout, you have the opportunity to construct different buildings that influence multiple gameplay features. You can also enhance these buildings, providing greater benefits while raising the overall level of your hideout.

Unlocking the Hideout

Since the hideout is central to your experience in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, unlocking it is straightforward. You’ll start off with a lengthy prologue that takes a few hours to complete. During this time, you will meet Tomiko, and at the end of the prologue, she will offer her homestead to serve as your operational base for tracking down the Shinbakufu. This moment marks the official unlocking of the hideout and introduces the basic mechanics associated with it.

Once you’ve unlocked the hideout, it becomes available on your map as a fast travel point in the Izumi Settsu province. It’s advisable to visit frequently to stay updated on upgrades for both your hideout buildings and your gear.

Constructing Hideout Buildings

Inside your hideout, you can either build or upgrade structures by accessing the central area and clicking the "Improve Hideout" button or by heading to the Hiroma building and interacting with a desk equipped with a lamp. By getting close to this desk, you’ll find the same option available.

When you first access the build menu, you’ll notice it is organized into various room types. There are six main rooms that provide essential buffs to enhance your gameplay, and you can also acquire themed rooms from different merchants scattered throughout the world.

To construct or upgrade these rooms, you’ll need a specific amount of crops, wood, and minerals. The best way to gather these resources is by raiding enemy territories and tagging stockpiles for your scouts.

Initially, the Hiroma and Stables will be built for you, and you can also create a Kakurega if you have the necessary resources. However, to construct a Study, Forge, or Dojo, you’ll need to progress through the story, recruit a blacksmith, and enlist an ally, respectively.

Here’s a brief overview of what each main and themed room provides:

Room Type	Name	Effect
Main Rooms	Stables	Marks stockpiles during raiding, doubling resource collection.
	Kakurega	Enables new fast travel options and access to contracts, ration refills, and additional scouts.
	Study	Allows for increased scout capacity each season, essential for marking quest locations.
	Forge	Upgrades the gear of your characters.
	Dojo	Manages and upgrades ally abilities.
Themed Rooms	Tera	Provides a 10% experience boost from all sources.
	Jinja	Enhances the effects gained from praying at shrines, lasting for 15 additional minutes.
	Nando	Offers a 30% discount on scouts purchased at Kakurega.
	Zashiki	Increases healing from Ration usage.
	Tea Room	Also boosts healing effects.

In addition to the main rooms, you can also earn themed rooms of various sizes, which can be customized to your liking. In the build menu, you have the option to browse different tabs to find paths, decorations, trees, and pets you’ve collected during your adventures. These elements can enhance the appearance of your hideout, making it more visually pleasing. You can discover various decorative items, plants, and paths through exploration and trade with merchants. For pets, you may encounter dogs, cats, and other animals in your travels, and interacting with them allows you to add them to your hideout.

Additionally, by completing the "Thrown to the Dogs" side quest, you’ll unlock a dog named Tsuki-maru, which can also be included in your hideout.

Prioritizing Upgrades in Your Hideout

When you build your main rooms, they initially come at a white rarity. With upgrades, all but the Hiroma can reach a blue rarity, implying that they can be improved twice. Such upgrades may either impose new limits or introduce fresh benefits related to each building. However, it’s essential to prioritize these upgrades wisely since they demand more resources compared to the initial construction.

Here’s the recommended order for upgrading different rooms, ranked by priority:

Upgrade Priority	Building Name	Effect
1	Stables First Upgrade	Allows one scout to mark stockpiles, effectively doubling resource collection.
2	Forge First Upgrade	Lets you upgrade gear to level 40 and adds the option for non-legendary engravings.
3	Study First Upgrade	Increases your scout capacity by one.
4	Dojo First Upgrade	Enables two ally ability slots.
5	Forge Second Upgrade	Upgrades gear to level 60, enabling legendary engravings.
6	Stables Second Upgrade	Offers 20% more resources when tagging stockpiles.
7	Study Second Upgrade	Provides another scout slot and reduces quest search zones by 60%.
8	Kakurega First Upgrade	Grants provincial rumors while inside Kakurega and lets two scouts clear the "wanted" effect.
9	Dojo Second Upgrade	Unlocks an extra ability for each ally at a cost in Mon.
10	Kakurega Second Upgrade	Unlocks more Kakurega locations across the map and reduces their unlocking costs.

Understanding Hideout Levels

Beyond the effects gained from constructing and upgrading your hideout, there is also a hideout level system. You’ll find your current level displayed in the top left corner of the building menu. As you create or upgrade both main and themed rooms, you earn XP toward this level.

Increasing your hideout level unlocks additional gameplay benefits. Here’s what you can expect as you progress: