The Hideout is a special customizable hut that works similar to The Farm, it comes with the Battle for the Edge expansion though it was available separately for 200 (160 for members) until February 27th, 2020 where the Hideout is now for free and available for everyone. Unlike the Farm, the Hideout can only be accessed in Dragon's Edge and New Berk.
Location Overview[]
The Player's Hideout is a general wooden structure with an oval shape, the roof has the base of a wyrm dragon with a half-pipe system that leads the water to a small lake outside and to the left of the Hideout. By the entrance, there are two torches and a sign that says "HIDEOUT". Because the Hideout is located on top of a large sea stack, a bridge connects the main isle to the said sea stack. If the player enters the Hideout without the Expansion, a pop-up to buy the Hideout will appear, though, if the player has bought the Hideout, they can freely enter the Hideout.
Inside the Hideout, the player has a specific amount of room for customization, both ground and walls, the floor is made of round, natural stone tiles and the walls are made of wood planks, to the top right, there's a high ledge with a window to the outside - this is where the active dragon will be located at. A newly bought Hideout will always be empty without any furniture as opposed to have already-placed furniture, giving the player the head-start into customizing the Hideout.
Customizing the Hideout[]
To customize a Hideout, you must click on the two utensils doing an "X" symbol to the middle right section of the screen, doing it so will open a special menu similar to The Farm on the right side, listing every item you've bought or received by types. Within the menu, it will show the respective item and how many do you have, to place it on the Hideout:
- On Desktop, click the item and it will automatically appear in the mouse;
- On Mobile, click and drag it to the Hideout.
When the item is selected, three new options will appear:
Due to a lack of Tutorial regarding the Customization of the Hideout, there's no indication about how some items can be stacked on top of another, specifically smaller items such as Bows, Cups and even Boxes. To stack an item, move them into a table or a box and the item will automatically appear on top of the table/box and will stay on top unless it's out of the collision detection range of said table/box. The "item will stay red if it's into another collision range of another item" rule still applies to stacked items, for example, if the player has a bow on a table and tries to place a box nearby the bow, if the box is touching the bow's collision range then the box will stay red until the player moves it out of said range.
Also due to no indication or tutorial within the game, you can stack multiple items on top of another item on top of a table.
Types of Furniture[]
There's a total of 8 types of items available, some with their own systems.
Type | Icon | Description | Stackable? |
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Beds | A type of mobility who's often relatively big and requires a big of space to fit in, unfortunately they aren't interactable much like the others. | No | |
Tables | They serve as a furniture for players to stack items on, they come in variable shapes and sizes, though for unknown reasons, the Small Dresser (a now exclusive item unless its bought in a bundle) is also located under Tables category. | Yes | |
Chairs | Chairs are divided in two forms, Chairs, Benches/Stools and Thrones:
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Depends - Thrones can have stacked items. | |
Wall Hangings | Have a wide variety of items, from plants to maps, each with a wide range of size. | No | |
Wall Lightings | Just like Wall Hanging, they have a variety of size, though the amount of Lighting it gives depends on the size of the Wall Lighting. | No | |
Lightings | The Terrain form of Wall Lighting, they also come in different sizes and the amount of lighting it gives depends on its size. | Depends - Small lights can be stacked. | |
Decorations | A hoard of a variety of items for the player's need to fill in the Hideout, they range from boxes to dishes. | Depends - small items can be stacked. | |
Statues & Totems | Another type of Decoration to fill the Hideout, the Statues & Totems also range from size, though the problem about these items is the Store will often increase their size and make them seem like they're much bigger than they really are. | Depends - small items can be stacked. |
Rewarded Furniture[]
Throughout the course of the game, some quests and events will reward Hideout Items.
Item | Type | Icon | Description | Rewarded from |
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Phlegma's Felt Rug | Decoration | A felt rug made out of fresh, new wool. | Completing Shrinking Sheep! | |
Bucket's Painting of Stormfly | Wall Hanging | The winning painting done by Bucket. | Completing Paint up a Storm | |
Gingerbread Viking House | Decoration | A Viking House made out of Gingerbread. | Completing the 2016's Loki's Maze of Cheers | |
Hiccup's Glowing Insignia | Wall Hanging | A Dragon Insignia ignited in red flames. | Complete the Time-limited In Honor of Our Chief. | |
Thawfest Trophies | Wall Hanging | A large Thawfest Banner with a medal hanging in the center. | Rewarded at 1000 in Thawfest Event. |
Glitches[]
- A common glitch that can happen in highly decorated Hideouts is the items not fully load, re-entering the Hideout should fix this.
Trivia[]
- The release of the Hideout may or may not imply players without a Hideout sleep and reside in the Stables.
- The colors on the outside of the Hideout are the ones of your active dragon.
- While the player may visit their friend's Hideouts by clicking the button from their Friend List, inviting their friends to visit them while in the hideout will not work.
- If the player attempts to visit a friend's Hideout without having acquired the Battle for the Edge Expansion, an ad of the latter will come up on the screen.
- Changing your active dragon in the Hideout will make you ride it.