House of Legacy is a popular city builder and management title, where you get to manage your own clan in ancient Chinese settings making them the mightiest among all. You start from scratch and have to slowly but steadily improve your family’s finances, genes, and much more.
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While it might sound easy to do at first, as you progress, you’ll realize that it comes with a steep learning curve and can get overwhelming very quickly for most players, especially beginners. So, to help you with that, here’s a complete Beginner’s Guide for House of Legacy to help you get started.
Best Starting Character For House Of Legacy
Your starting character plays an integral role in the game, as it’ll determine how hard it is for you to rebuild your clan. While you can’t depend on them for long, getting a strong starting character can still help you out significantly.
For starters, there are eight stats that you can influence when creating your starting character, apart from their appearance. This includes Writing, Might, Business, Arts, Cunning, Charisma, Luck, and finally Renown. Among these, Writing is the best one you’d want to invest in.
Writing can help you complete early to mid-game gigs and earn a decent chunk of money. Moreover, it also lets you clear Government Exams, letting you pursue the Civil Service path that can net you tons of renown and gold.
Unlike other Strategy titles, you can’t get all the good stuff for free. If you want the Scholarly Trait for your character, you’ll have to sacrifice all the other stats to gain enough points to unlock it. But, it is definitely worth the sacrifice.
How To Grow Your Family In House Of Legacy
Your Family, which is your Clan and its members is the crux of House of Legacy. You need to make sure that every generation has enough members and offspring so that your clan can thrive for years to come. But, this is easier said than done.
When you start off, you’ll meet some family members in the first few years whom you can use to get going. But as the years pass, you need to grow that number. To grow your family, you first need to make sure every clan member, whether male or female gets married.
Once married, they can start producing offspring who will be the next generation of your family. They can again be trained to have better stats and talents, and again granted marriage when they turn 18. Repeating this cycle three or four times is enough to make sure your family is well off.
How To Find And Use Matchmakers
While you can marry off your family members to random strangers from the city streets, that isn’t enough to ensure that your family’s genes improve. So, if you want to get stronger or better offspring, you need to find better marriage candidates.
If you’re lucky, you might find one in some city, but more often than not, you won’t get someone with 90+ stats and unmarried. Then, you can use Matchmakers. They pop up randomly in houses and let you choose customized marriage partners but at a cost.
Best Buildings To Build In House Of Legacy
The city-building aspect of House of Legacy also plays quite an important role in helping you manage your family’s finances. You can build various buildings, specifically, Stores, that generate income every month. These can be from buying and leasing homes to even buying others’ shops.
The best buildings to build would be Smithies and Exchanges. They can help you generate around 150K-400K coins every month from every building if you’ve set them up right, in high Prosperity provinces.
Do note, that Houses are, in our opinion, the worst investment in most cases. The rent you get from leasing them is quite low in terms of ROI and setting them up for Retainers is fine for the early game, but gets irrelevant very quickly.
How To Use The Exchange
The Exchange building is a mid to late-game building, which even though quite costly, is one of the best ones you can build. Having an Exchange Building in a province lets you buy and sell all kinds of resources in that province based on the local price.
So, for example, if Shu Province has Vegetables at 72 coins which is 41% of the actual value, you can create a bulk buy order of 500K vegetables. Then, if the price of Vegetables in Nan Province is 210 coins, which is 120% of the actual value, you can create a sell order of 500K Vegetables and rake in a huge profit.
Do note that only attempt then once you’re in the late game and have a few Million spare coins, since it can take some time for the orders to be completed. Also, prices are not fixed and fluctuate monthly, keep an eye out for that before trading resources.
Not only does the Exchange let you buy and sell tons of resources for profit, but it also lets you stock up on essential resources like Grains, Vegetables, and Meat without having to scour the shops every month. This becomes very helpful, especially when you’re preparing for war.
Provinces And How To Unlock Them
The Empire Map of House of Legacy is quite important, you’ll be spending a lot of time on it. It contains various Provinces, which will be unavailable in the beginning, and in the center is the Royal Palace where the Emperor resides.
Your starting Province, in most cases, would be surrounded by a certain number of small cities, ranging from four to six in number. These will be initially occupied by Rebels and need to be fought off to conquer.
You can either choose to wait for the Empire to go to war against the Rebels states or wage war yourself by pulling connections, leveraging relationships, and funding your own army, but that isn’t economical, especially if you’re a beginner.
Once you’ve cleared all the Rebel states in a Province, you get the choice to unlock any one of the connecting Provinces. As you continue freeing the Rebel cities, you can unlock more Provinces. These give you access to new cities, where you can start businesses to get more money.
How To Befriend Clans In House Of Legacy
Building relationships with neighboring clans and even the Imperial Clan is an essential aspect of House of Legacy. This allows you to build real connections that you can leverage later in the game for various benefits from their clan.
There are various ways to befriend other clans, the best way among them is to ‘Set Duty’ of one of your clan members to ‘Build Relations with Clan’ and dedicate a good chunk of money every month towards that.
If this isn’t economical for you, you can try to manually visit your nearby clans and directly interact with them and choose ‘Flatter’ to send gifts which increases Relationship value. This is especially true in the case of Imperial Clan, which is the clan of the Emperor.
How To Make Money In House Of Legacy
Making money, like in any management game, is extremely important. Having a strong financial cash flow will allow you to do a lot more things, which you wouldn’t have been able to do before. The ideal way to make money is from Businesses, specifically Smithies.
But since you can’t build a Smithy till your clan reaches level 12, you need to compromise and settle for something less. So here’s a step-by-step guide on how to farm money in House of Legacy:
- Build Stores (General or Grocery in the early game) and set the Employees hired to a maximum.
- Then reduce the Wage to a minimum, which is around 400 coins for Smithies. This helps you maximize profits from each building.
- Keep trying even if you see the ‘Couldn’t hire any employees’ message, since this is based on RNG. The more money you offer, the quicker you find employees.
- Repeat the above steps for as many businesses as you can build, and repeat the same in different Provinces as well.
Once you’ve got 24-36 Smithies with the above setup, you will have enough money to fund you for the rest of your playthrough with ease. If you’re short on coins in the beginning, either try hiring retainers or gamble to earn it quickly.
How To Get Gold In House Of Legacy
While coins are easier to get, Gold ingots are quite different. These are Royal currency in the House of Legacy and are essentially backed by the Imperial Clan and can be exchanged interchangeably for coins.
More often, you can buy Gold from banks for as low as 8,000 coins per ingot to as high as 12,000 coins per ingot. If you feel like it, you can buy low and sell high to make regular profits. But, you can buy and sell more than 60 ingots every month.
Gold is also the salary for every character in the Civil Service. As a beginner, your character would get around two ingots every month in salary. This can go up to 20-40 ingots every month for Minister or General level ranks. Most late-game buildings and land require tons of ingots to purchase.
Estate Guide For House Of Legacy
Your Clan’s estate is the first area that you unlock when you start playing House of Legacy as a beginner. This is where your clan members will reside, and your future generation is cultivated.
You need to build Main Suites for clan members and Wings for keeping servants. Moreover, important buildings like Warehouses, Barns, Treasuries, and even Libraries can be built on the Estate.
Here’s every building that you need to build in your Estate and why they are important to have:
| Building | Cost | Reason To Build |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouse | 20,000 Coins | Lets you store up to 50K items per Warehouse. |
| Library | 70,000 Coins, 400 Gold | Let your Clan Members borrow books and train stats. |
| Ancestral Shrine | 120K Coins, 2,000 Gold | Lets you create idols of Clan Members for Renown. |
| Private School | 50,000 Coins | Lets you train young clan members’ Writing, Business, and Arts stats. |
| Training Ground | 60,000 Coins | Lets you train young clan members’ Might stat. |
Do note that every Estate is limited to 25 acres of space. If you’ve taken up all the space that your Estate had, you’ll have to buy another one to expand. You can find Estates for sale on the Empire Map for the fixed price of 2,500K Coins and 5,000 Gold.
House Of Legacy
Strategy, Management, City Builder
