How to Get Link's House in Tears of the Kingdom + Layout Tips! 

As a Navajo and a dad to a blooming 3 year old daughter, this lil quest made me think of my daughter's inevitable "Coming of Age" ceremony, or Kinaalda, we'll be holding for her... I did enjoy this part of the game so much.

The construction guy getting in my way is so frustrating! Lol. I hope in a dlc or something they let us change the color of the outside and let us have more than 15 modules

"That's definitely the child of those two people." 😂😂😂 Yeah, I laughed so hard when I first saw Mattison. Absolutely perfect character design.

Something I find comical is that Link’s ultra hand can move an entire house without strain at all. So, theoretically, Link could take his entire house and slam it onto Ganondorf’s head as a means of defeating him.

I must say, I'm impressed at how accurately Grantéson is able to recreate the photographs you show him. He even paints in the JPEG artifacts!

Tip: If you have an open room without a roof use flower beds as a roof! It looks pretty from the outside! (The inside roof will be green)

Im surprised there isnt an "armor stand" room. I know you can hold them all but it would be nice to put some on display

Rhondson really sent her daughter off to a place that is famously having horrible regional phenomena. What a good mother, I hope mattison finds her own independence and doesnt get mauled by a skeleton

I liked the ability to customize the house but I feel like the development of it needed some more love. Honestly I dont think there should really be a limit on how many rooms you use so long as it fits in the confines of the building area. Secondly why on earth cant I paint each segment? every single other house in terry town and in Hateno that is built in the modular style has various colors for the various parts. Why cant we do that. and Last. Where the hell is Links windows!

Praying the inevitable DLC expands on this at some point. This has a lot of potential but with the limited aesthetics and building options it's hard to make something I feel happy with. More room options and the ability to close unused walls would be a godsend.

This seemed like such a cool concept at first that I was really excited when I first discovered it. It turned out to be a little lackluster, but using ultrahand to build a houae is such a good concept that I hope they improve it with DLC or patches.

The "inspection" Robbie's son does is just to make sure your house stays within the rope and on your actual property

I would LOVE a series going into various house designs!!!!

Pro tip: If you want to add more rooms but don't have enough open slots to build any more, consider ditching the stairs or multiple entrances for rooms you can just ascend into. 😉

I’m a 36 year old father. I wept like a baby for this storyline. It was SO well executed. Everyone was lovingly respectful of tradition while vulnerable and honest about attachments and sacrificial love. Excellent storytelling

I’m not gonna lie I completely started crying when Mattison left We are the entire reason why she has such a loving family in the first place

Also love the little nod to OOT when you're in and building your house as it's the tune that plays at the very beginning of the game when you wake up in the tree house. There's also a picture, on the staircase module I think, of OOT Kakariko Village

My favorite home layout is to have the ground floor be 3 triangle rooms put together like the bottom of the tri-force (middle one is furnished). Where the top triangle of the tri-force would be is an indoor staircase, and the rest of the open sides are closed with a bedroom and 3 weapon rooms. The 2nd floor has a furnished square room attached to the top of the staircase, a kitchen directly across from the stairs, and a goddess statue counter-clockwise from the staircase. The entrance room closes off the last open wall of the square room, and has an outdoor staircase leading down to the ground. The horse paddock is attached to the outside wall of the first-floor room which sits below the entry way, and the garden pond is placed on top of it to surround the outside of the porch area. I then place a travel medallion down right in front of the outdoor staircase like a welcome mat.

Tip: you can store your weapons rooms and still keep your weapons when you want it back, so you can store up to 9 weapons of each category

I hope if and when there’s DLC for this game, they expand a bit more on the home designer. Changing the outsidewall color, more rooms, an expansion on how many rooms we can build with, more rooms with functions, like a weapon training room, an archery target room, allowing us to have a pet dog watch the area as well as our own cuckoos, goats, and cows, and the garden allowing us to grow our own food like carrots, pumpkins, peppers, etc.

I arranged all the weapon, bow and shield rooms vertically on a tower separate from the main house. It's a lot of fun to use ascend on this tower! But with Tulin you can also reach every floor directly from the shrine.

I really think they should have added a feature to actually plant in the garden and put live fish in the pond

Finally!! The days where Zelda and Link lives in a small shack are over, I upgraded them with a three story mansion. With a functioning kitchen, I mean the hero of Hyrule and the princess of hyrule living together in a shack with no functioning stable nor kitchen, how will Link ever showcases his culinary expertise of cooking bokoblin guts, that's ludacris. No, they deserved to live in a mansion. I'm dedefinitely getting a little pond, and garden for them.

Tip: if you want some extra stuff in your yard, you can throw down brightblooms. I assume (haven't checked) that if you lift the house and move it around, they'll be destroyed, but so far even when i leave/return to the area, they've stayed put as decor.

I made a room that can only be accessed with ascend and I love it. It's like my own little secret room!

Sadly I already built my house a few hours ago but for my favorite Zelda news reporter I’ll watch the video

I'd love to see a series where you build houses or check viewers houses! I'm having a hard time coming up with something that doesn't look like absolute trash lol

Quick note if you kill the fish or pick up the fish in the pond they reset every blood moon.

I made a hexagonal house with the triangle rooms and connected the weapon rooms to the outside

I do agree the limitations on house building is upsetting considering they could have used the designated space to allow the player to lock in all kinds of ultra hand constructions along side the rooms. But to me what is really missed potential here is the Gallery Room. They could have allowed screenshots from the player's Switch to be displayed here, which means we could have had captures from cutscenes, Skyward Sword HD, Link's Awakening or a Minecraft rebuild of Hyrule Castle. If the photo storage works the same a BotW however that does mean you could potentially inject photos into your in game camera when emulating.

I really love the idea of building your own home from scratch, its a natural evolution of building the house in BOTW.. but... They really missed a lot of potential this time around, like you cant even set up walls or anything like that, if you have a room and don't want something on each open space then there's just gonna be no walls in that room.. and you only have 15 rooms you can use at a time. I wish it was more expanded on.

The inspection is only to make sure that all the parts are within the rope lines, they don’t have to be connected to each other as long as it’s within the plot

My partner somehow made the triangle rooms work, they amaze me!

This feature seems very under developed. I hope it get's updated at some point. Building parts like a ladder, hot tub or roof are things I would've liked. (When I say "hot tub" I am thinking of a manmade version of the healing waters found mostly around Death Mountain) or.. ya know, all the parts the other buildings are using. Also the colouring of building parts, your building is always green while the rest of these buildings have different colours for every cube. And finally the limit needs to go up, like waaaaay up. Building a house should be yet another creative way to express yourself. However, I cannot even come close to recreating other buildings, let alone creating something unique. I was very happy when I unlocked this feature, but quickly got bored from a lack of options.

I had no idea getting a home was a thing in this one. I only just went to Tarrey Town a few days ago and was blown away that there was a guy who could un-fuse my gear and let me keep my stuff…looks like I need to go back! Been hunting Korok seeds like mad since I never seem to have enough weapon slots, so getting 9 more will definitely help

How. Literally just how. I am just doing this and I got stuck, you’re always reading my mind. Perfect timing as always.

we're going to home depot today boys

The stands are great if you're nearing breakage and you want to get them repaired by the Rock Octorok. Just save them until the next blood moon

That gallery was actually a lot cooler than I anticipated. Got a few sick selfies of Link wearing Majora’s mask posing in front of a blood moon like he’s holding it in the palm of his hand, which makes for a very awesome decoration.

Magic rods/staves/scepters with gems on them kinda look like torches in weapon rooms, if you're keen on decorating. You can also store a LOT of weapon bases, if you're the type to want to hoard them - with Tarrey Town nearby, you can always split them, so fearlessly fuse weapon bases together for bulk storage. Three weapon storage rooms, with three slots each, each of which can have essentially two weapon bases - that's 18 weapon bases you can store in those alone. You can store a further 9 melee weapons in your 3 shield rooms if you fuse them to shields first.

When I first found out this, I was so excited and spent so much rupees! But after some play, it’s missing something. I desperately need hallways, roofs, and different color buildings-and I hope in a future update that will be given.

I was wondering how to get the house. Thanks for the awesome videos.

3:49 Bro it's like you were talking to me. It pulled my heart strings, because I have a little girl around her age. When I saw her sleeping, it made me think of when my daughter helps me with projects and falls asleep. This game is amazing.

Austin, you are awesome for doing all of this for us. I have watched every video. And you’re hilarious which is appreciated. Much love

13:00 Eventide Island depths, royal and royal guards broadsword, and claymore, spawn here VERY consistently. HUGE tip for finding pristine versions, you DO NOT have to unlock an area, aka do the regional phenomenon, to get pristine weapon spawns. Just find and break an unfused version you want to start spawning (personally i found that I had to break 2 for it to start, but ymmv). Then go find a ghost in the region you wanna spawn, take their weapon, and this starts their spawning scycle each blood moon. Wait for a blood moon, and go check your ghosts and use saves to rng the weapon and modifiers you want. (Note: the ghosts are locked to regional specific weapon types, meaning, for example, gerudo ghosts will spawn gerudo weapons, and each ghost will be 1 of the 3 types of melee weapons, sword, claymore, or spear) I have over 50 hrs of testing on this with just the wind temple done. As far as I can tell unlocking the region just ups the spawn rate, but does not unlock the weapon spawn specifically. I have Gerudo and Royal guards weapons, with not much story done, but I also have a high xp level since I hunt lynals and gleekos for fun. So take that as you will, happy weapon hunting. 🤘😎

Thanks because I really needed a nice layout

Getting ready to send my daughter off to college and Hudson's departing words made me cry.

This video was so helpful! My house before was 4 stories high and just didn’t work. After I used this design it is so much better and my house is now comfy and cozy! 😁

I just realized something: Grantéson is Granté, Robbie’s and Jerrin‘s son who sold you another Hylian Shield in BOTW if yours broke. It appears he changed his name to be able to work for Hudson Construction!! Also, thank you Austin for all of your helpful videos. You’re the best!

Tip you can make hidden rooms above your house and enter them using ascend

That gallery room is already a MENACE. Iykyk *referring to that one Sidon image*

I appreciate this video, I found it helpful. Thank you AustinJohn. 💚

The inspection is just about everything being within the perimeter (the ropes). That's it. The rooms don't have to be connected properly, or even at all. I tested it, they can be disconnected or connected in completely nonsensical ways and it still works. You can even have a room that is essentially magically suspended in the air by only being connected to one tiny corner of the room below, with most of the upper room just hanging over nothing.

I love your videos keep up the great work!

You really are awesome. Thank-you for everything you post. Truly. You are Always my go to for videos and tips.

This quest absolutely pulled on my heartstrings as a father and grandfather. Amazing game

i personally have 3 weapon stands, 1 bow stand, and 1 shield stand for all the unique weapons (champion and amiibo) since there are 9 weapons and 2 of each of the others. then just bedroom, statue room, and kitchen plus a nice layout looks great and fits what i need. i just wish you could change the outside more to look nicer

You can easily find a Pristine Version for your Lynel Killer Weapon in the Depths under Eventide Island. Near the small Monster Camp Outside of the Arena is a Shadow Statue took me 2 Trys there first was Knights Claymore second Royal Guard Claymore

😁😊 Thank you for the most detailed and clear guides! Our hard earned rupees are saved. I especially appreciate you mentioning which rooms have effects and which do nothing.

Great episode. There are a few cut scenes for story lines in this game that were SO well done, (this one, and the Rito one for example) I can relate.

Inspection only checks to make sure everything is within the build limits, not sure if there is a height limit but it has to be within the ropes

Love the concept of being able to build your own house in-game! And it's fairly well-executed. Overall, I'm happy! BUT, I would LOVE to see the concept expanded in future DLC!! ((tldr: more of the same sentiment below.)) While not a popular aesthetic choice, the modular design is a great choice for a simple yet (mostly) seamless home-building feature. Plus, the style has roots in the world...which is awfully convenient, and makes me wonder if they had something similar planned for BotW but had to scrap the idea at the time. But I digress. I want more landscaping and exterior design options. I want a rectangular hallway, as opposed to just squares and triangles. I want a smaller foyer that I can use as a back door or as an upstairs balcony door. I want at least one other 1x1 room to pair with the study. I want to be able to add (and remove) walls. (Not entire rooms--just walls, like interior walls to partially or fully close off a room from the rest of the house, or an exterior wall to cap off an open room.) Unfortunately, I can think of several excellent reasons why most of these things aren't available (yet). The main one: this isn't The Sims, or any other kind of life sim. In fact, it's a pretty low-priority side feature of a truly excellent adventure/RPG game. What we got is about the simplest and most efficient method the developers could have used to give us the freedom of customizable houses without bogging down game performance, requiring a massive and probably clunky interface for home editing, and/or requiring an undue amount of time/effort on the part of developers/testers/artists. Windows, for example. What if players want to put two rooms side-by-side or back-to-back? The game designers would have to: 1. let windows and walls conflict with each other, 2. limit the ways in which players can build their homes to prevent conflicts, 3. design a complicated (and probably glitchy) logic algorithm that decides whether windows should appear on any given wall, or 4. just don't have windows. From that perspective...well, jeez, it's no wonder why they went with option 4! At least, that's what I try to remind myself whenever I look upon my windowless in-game home. ...Sigh. That said, I really, really would love to see this feature expanded upon even a little bit in some future DLC!!!

I found your house video, I need to add more weapon rooms to my house. I have some in storage that I bought and didn't use yet. Thanks for all the hard work your do.

Thank you so much I have been trying to figure this out for so long

I was hoping this feature would be more customizable. It’s kinda hard to make a house that is not just a plus-shaped green box.

The inspection is to see if everything is inside the ropes, that’s the only restriction

Why are you so amazing Austin John!!?

Thanks I assumed this would take all day to get to the home building part but was a good length for a side quest!

my own house is pure utility, 3 square rooms, all 9 weapon storing rooms, the entrance, a bed and the stairs. I made it by merging two square rooms together like you did, and centering the entrance and stairs between both rooms. Connected the last square room on top and had enough space to place all 10 remaining rooms

If you're trying to maximize how many different rooms you can use don't use the triangular ones(I'm using 2 non furnished squares, 1 indoor staircase and 1 furnished square). If I sacrificed the layout I was going for I could have every non-structural room type, presently I'm only lacking the gallery, but with the view and open upstairs patio with open air kitchen, garden and balcony ledge pool facing the valley, who needs a gallery.

I love Zelda: Happy Home Designer with your host Austin John!

Love this feature, I just hope they expand it in DLC. Feels very very limited, especially for the amount of space they give us. I don’t want a house. I want a mansion. That’s my power fantasy.

2:50 - This part is great, Nintendo put soo many different ways to obscure his view. I personally threw a puffshroom at his feet & blocked his view that way. I might try & see if I can blind him with Dazzlefruit in my next playthrough.

I included my Paddock on the top floor, giving me a super-nice balcony that overlooks the ocean. I love how it turned out, plus I get to have my favorite horse in my house haha

I enjoyed having the horse in the stall. The big boys and girl fit too. But I also loved the subtle touch of the music...for those that didn't hear it..its the same song from ocarina of time when he wakes up in his tree house.

The net is so annoying lol, when i’m moving stuff i wanna be able to see what’s on the inside clearly, and to be able to walk in the house to see how it actually looks

The only thing that bothers me about the house is that I really like the study, but it is the only single-wide room and it makes it incredibly hard to use well!

I mainly use the weapon/shield/bow displays to do the shock dupe glitch.

Hey Austin! Are you going to be making a guide on what all are the unique weapons/ bows/ shields in the game and how to get them? I also wanna get them all and have them stored in Link’s house. Really enjoying the vids you have been working so hard to make thank you :)

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Watching this, I finally realized the use of the study. You can use it with the foyer to make a room within the house. Also, the house REALLY needs a way to add exterior colors, a roof, and GD WINDOWS! That said, based on the restrictions the house currently has on it, I suspect they’re already pushing things give us this.

1 Puff shroom also works for the rail car scammer! Love how they let you problem solve in so many different ways

Here's to hoping that when Link winds down from all the chaos of battling he can live in his dream home with Zelda. So wholesome 🥹🫰❤️❤️❤️

I thought I would not get spoiled by watching your videos, but indirectly you spoiled me about the Master Sword and Zelda without a warning, though it was probably an accident 😔😔😔still great video

I'm glad you did this video because I was wondering how to get it since I just found the plot

Ahhh this helped me so much, thanks!

I really liked Link’s old house but after BoTW I always thought that it fit best for Link to live in Tarrey Town

How the hell do you have 30k rupees???

I built the leaning tower of Hyrule with 15 stairs all stacked on-top each other, leaning ever so slightly to the side.

I love Mattison's quest. Its very short but we helped build this town and Hudson and Rhondson meet. We went to their wedding. They really dont mention it but i honestly feel like Link is her godfather, and thats why he has such a role in her goodbye with her family. It also broke my heart so much to see she wrote in her journal not to cry and how strong her and her dad were trying to be for each other. What a sad heartbreaking tradition, yet you can respect how important traditions are to the Gerudo Probably my favorite part of thos game is how much you get to see how both Link and Zelda have made an impact everywhere they go, literally changing lives for the better and earning everyone's love and respect. For Link it feels obvious cause we personally do all those quests but it turns out Zelda has been very busy the last 7 years too, and has so quickly earned the love and admiration of a people who never even knew her before as their princess. Even in Age of Calamity there is such a strong emphasis on helping people in the middle of a crisis, in the middle of a war, and not just doing quests to help yourself. Feels like one of the strongest themes across all three games in this Hyrule.

Love all of your videos they are very good and helpful. I ended up building my house on my own way. Which is pretty awesome in my opinion I had two horse places. I love my open grass in my house it looks very nice but thank you for showing me. Another way to set up a weapon and shield rooms.

The pun (home on arrange) was perfect.

just a suggestion... if you can put the materials needed before starting that would be amazing since I normally follow along I had to stop and go get sundelions. Amazing work as always ASJ!

Thanks for helping

This game keeps getting better and better

i could not for the life of me find a layout i liked, thank you

Stay healthy, awesome grind man

Thanks Austin

If you want to fit as many rooms as you can onto a square central room, my tip is to place them on a corner and have the open part come up against the outside of another room. This way you can have 2 rooms on one side of the square central room. You can also do this with the stairs so that there is not a gap where you jump down onto the stairs. I hope that makes sense. Also, 3-corner small room add-ons are useless unless you want a fun shape. Better to put rooms on corners with the open remainder part up against the outside of another room. If you have rooms sticking out of other places like entryway, stable and study, you can put the open part against those. But this will help you squeeze as many rooms as you can with only 2 square central rooms on 2 floors.

The music for your house is a remix of the homes music in minish cap. Wow that's awesome