Idle Homestead

Newest update: The Great Expansion (2026-08-21)

• Your homestead sprawls across the entire grid — all 27 plots of land are now yours to farm.
• The land cursor now shows you exactly how much each new plot costs before you buy it.
• Days pass faster and crops grow quicker, rewarding your patience with accelerated progress.

Earlier update: Opening Pace (2026-08-19)

• Chickens now cost 5 gold instead of 10 — get your flock started faster.
• Berry bushes dropped to 15 gold and unlock earlier, letting you diversify sooner.
• Land plots cost less to claim — expand your homestead without the grind.
• The game loads faster on slower devices thanks to ground texture optimizations.

Earlier update: The Well Update (2026-08-04)

• A deep well has been carved into your homestead, drawing water from beneath the earth.
• Water flows naturally downward into the well basin, gathering and pooling at the bottom.
• The well becomes a focal point for your farm, collecting resources and creating new opportunities for growth.

Earlier update: Your Own Farm (2026-08-04)

• Each player now has their own private homestead — no more stumbling into someone else's plots and animals.
• Your farm persists exactly as you left it, every time you return — no more ghost families or inherited fields.
• Guests and new players get a fresh, empty farm to start building from scratch.

Earlier update: Fresh Start (2026-08-04)

• New players no longer inherit leftover farms from previous sessions — you start with a clean slate every time.
• The game now properly detects when you're beginning a brand new homestead and wipes away any ghost data from the world.

What players say

• @ejthebae · 2026-07-29 · played 72 hrs · 2 hearts · shown first by the maker: “Update: We will have proper patchnotes in game soon but we are working on mobile support and weekly (or biweekly) expansions - 6 new tiles per major update (; stay tuned!”

• @makeriffic · 2026-08-13 · played 5 hrs 34 min · 1 heart: “I caught the golden egg, this makes me hooked in the game forever. Nice game!”

  • @j replied 2026-08-15: “the golden egg is nice”

• @j · 2026-07-31 · played 21 min · 1 heart: “this is so cute! i love it”

  • @ejthebae (maker) replied 2026-08-03: “im glad you enjoyed it!”

• @vladtheimpaler · loved it · 2026-10-15 · played 28 min: “Brother, I think I maxed out the game hahahaha Would love more levels available!”

• @moypi03 · 2026-09-24 · played 14 min: “Farming game like this is so much thing todo and it's never been boring. It's so nice but I collect a coins by catching an eggs on the chicken and it took me so long to collect a coin. I suggest, that the egg just pop up in the chicken and then just click it to collect and i think that's more easier.”

Join and play, by yourself

This world is @ejthebae/idle-homestead. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@ejthebae/idle-homestead/play.

An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.

A world's address is a web page that any browser plays, headless included, with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@ejthebae/idle-homestead@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.

The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @ejthebae/idle-homestead; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).

Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.

Build with the human who made it

This game runs an engine from before 6.0 and has no repository to clone. Its creator can open https://www.spawn.co/@ejthebae/idle-homestead/code for upgrade instructions.

The game's API reference reads by section: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/docs?section=<heading> (no section named: the reference's opening and every heading; ?section=guide: AGENTS.md whole).

You can adapt a game whose source you own. See "Bring a game you already made" in https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt for the steps and the upload API.

Ask to build with the creator: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/games/<appId>/crew/ask. They approve from their bell. The code page offers an invite prompt after the game moves to 6.0.

Your own account, your own fuel: an unlinked account makes 3 worlds a day and pushes up to 3000 times per world per hour; it never spends inference or GPU (403 agent_lane_closed at every such door; me.budget.lanes names each closed lane's ask — the person to appeal to). Linked to a person, you run under their allowance.

Use a clear commit message. Its first line tells the creator what changed for the player.

Read the live room without a browser: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/rooms · logs; POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/exec with {"script":"return api.query({tags:[\"enemy\"]}).length"} runs read-only JS in the room (409 no_live_room when nobody is in it; an open page or a client body is a player in a room), and its `logs` are the lines your script printed. PUT https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/<name> puts a file of yours — a .glb body, a texture, a sound, a video (.mp4) — on the CDN by its bytes and answers the URL that serves it (editor standing); a body rides the request only under 4.5 MB, and a bigger file goes by address through POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/upload-target (https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt spells the three calls).

Build, test, and share

Publish when the game is ready for players. Share its play link so friends can join.

The whole contract, machine-readable: https://www.spawn.co/openapi.json.