No Place Like Home Walkthrough

No Place Like Home is an adorable farming simulator by Chicken Launcher. This game was released in Early Access back in 2020, and it has been lovingly altered and updated ever since. The full release came around in March 2022, and anyone who hasn’t played this little gem in a while will be pleasantly surprised by all the lovely changes that the developers have made.

Here is a complete walkthrough of the game as of Update 1.0K_190 on March 29, 2022 and for Nintendo Switch. We also have you covered with our guide detailing much of what you need to know to enjoy the game to the max. Find that here.

Chapter 1: Grandpa’s Old Farm

Once all the trash is cleared from Grandpa’s old farm, Ellen should have a clean, single room house to sleep in, a trash recycler, two birdhouses, a decoration building bench, a food preserver, a small plot of fertile soil to plant veggies in, and a regular building bench. Inside all the boxes will earn Ellen enough recycled materials and preserved food to purchase an upgrade or two and build it.

By the time the entirety of the farm is cleaned up, players will have:

• Seeds: Potato, Tomato and Pumpkin seeds
• Access to Rudy for upgrades, to the Village, the Fast Travel doors, and one section of the underground
• Recipes: Basic Stuffed Pumpkin, Fried Egg, Tomato Soup, Fries with Ketchup, Animal Food, Mashed Potatoes.

All Quests in Grandpa’s Old Farm:

Welcome Home: In order to get started, look under the front porch of Ellen’s house. There will be a chicken wearing a red-and-white-striped hat, and he can help her get started on the farm.

“Wait a minute… I’m not a dummy!”: The book Farming for Dummies is located under the trash close to Grandpa’s House. Once players find it, they will need to bring it back to Cornelius, the talking chicken.

Feathery Friends: Players need to use the building bench near Grandpa’s house in order to build a basic chicken coop for some chickens. Once built, place it somewhere on the farm that is clean of trash and other items. There should be a few free chickens running around near the farm and in cages; free them and feed five of them each a potato to make friends. The chickens will walk or teleport over to the coop once fed. These chickens will also provide one egg a day so long as Ellen feeds and waters them.

Chicken Chef: In order to complete this task, Ellen will have to make her way to the Village and talk to Mark. He will sell her the blueprints for a basic kitchen for 5 Preserved Food and 2 Tomatoes. After building it, make some Pet Food. Any combination of food that doesn’t make a recipe that players have access to will turn into Pet Food, so make sure to shove as many veggies or eggs into the kitchen as possible to make as many Pet Foods at one time as you can.

Excuse Me, Mr Chicken: After building the coop, befriending chickens with potatoes, feeding them Pet Food, and making sure they are happy in their new little home, return to Sir Cornelius the Talking Chicken under the deck of Grandpa’s house.

Party Preparations: Look for fabric scraps around the farm under the trash. Bring these back to Cornelius, and he will make a chicken-sized hat. Players can name and dress their pets and livestock by walking up to the animal and pressing R.

Hats! Hats! Hats!: Put one of the hats that Ellen has found in the boxes around the farm or the hat that Cornelius made on a chicken, then report back to Cornelius under the deck.

Chicken Handyman: Look for clean glass around the farm under the trash and give it to Cornelius.

Chicken Disco Dance: Place the disco ball near the chicken coop and the chickens will party down.

Fowl Triumph: Once the disco party is over with, Cornelius will dub Ellen “Friend of Chickens” and give her the Friends of Chickens Trophy. This will be needed for a quest in the Village. The talking chicken will then be willing to tell Ellen everything he knows about her Grandfather, and he will leave his roost under the deck of Ellen’s home to start travelling again.

Llama Drama: Collect Old Wood and Rubble (Ellen will need the first upgrade to her drill to get Rubble), and fix up the Robot Llama home near Grandpa’s Old Home. Once it’s fixed, look for five robot llamas and feed them batteries. They will come and hang out in the llama home and collect materials for Ellen once there are five.

There is one underground location near Grandpa’s Farm. It is along the fence near the entrance to the Village. This underground area has four treasure chests, one of which is locked behind the Rubber Waste upgrade.

The Village

There is a lot to do in the Village, and Ellen will need to keep upgrading her tools and her shoes with Rudy in order to get it all done. Players will come across an apple tree, lettuce, eggplants, oats, peach trees, and even more potatoes and tomatoes and pumpkins as well. There are two main NPCs in the area; make sure to visit both Mark and Howard.

All Quests in the Village:

Oh! Hi Mark!: Find the NPC Mark right outside of the entrance to the village. He has a small shop that sells upgrades for some of the farming equipment.

An Apology to the Poultry: Remember that trophy of Chickeny Friendship that Sir Cornelius gave you for throwing the chickens a disco rave? Give that to Mark to prove you are now a friend of chickens.

Extreme Recultivation: Look around the Village for 15 trees that are covered in trash. They have to be torn down and replanted. Ellen will need acorns for this, but she should have plenty from the trash around Mark’s and Grandpa’s places. Replant them, and when they are full-grown, you can collect more acorns from the bases of the trees.

Frantic Filtering: Collect the hydraulic parts and bring them back to Mark. He will create a filter to help clean up the river by Harold’s home.

Cleanse the Waters: Install the filter that Mark gave Ellen to clean up the waters.

Huntin’ Harolds: Talk to Harold after fixing his house.

Doggy Cooking: There are dog food cans scattered all over the Village, and Ellen needs to bring them back to Harold in order for him to make a dog treat.

Woof Woof: Harold has now given Ellen a dog house and a doggy treat to feed the stray that is hanging out near Mark’s. Just place the dog house somewhere on the farm and then feed the stray the treat. He’ll come live with you at Grandpas.

Yet Another Lair: Harold’s house was destroyed, but Ellen can help. Bring 80 old wood and 80 rubble to rebuild his cottage.

Call Me the Pigman!: Get the blueprints from Harold to build the Pigsty and use five honey to tame five pigs you find in the wild.

A New Customer: Have a chat with Mark.

Fox Fest: In order to complete this quest, Ellen will need to do three things. First, she needs to rebuild the fox den north of Harold’s home. Next, she needs to break all the fox traps with her drill.

Once that’s all done, she just needs to befriend three of the five foxes hanging around the area.

Vive la Napoleon??: Harold has lost his pet pig, Napoleon. Find him in the underground to the far south of the Village and speak to the pig about “Liberty” in order to get him to head home.

There are several underground areas in the Village:

• The one to the south of Mark’s place contains a treasure case, a golden treasure case with a recipe, and dog food.
• The second underground area contains one blue treasure case and dog food.
• The third location is past the entrance to the Frozen Peaks to the south. This one contains several common treasure cases as well as a hydraulic part.
• The fourth underground section is a little bit to the north of the entrance to the lonely hills. This underground section contains the pig Napoleon, one of Sir Cornelius’ hiding places, a recipe, and several treasure boxes.

Lonely Hills

Partial Architecture: Frank needs help rebuilding his home in the Village. Bring him 10 wood and 5 House Parts from around the Lonely Hills.

Earth’s Finest: Bring the building kit that Frank gives you back to the Village and rebuild his home.

Rogue Action: Talk to Rudy in the Lonely Hills.

The “Great” Bulbulator: Bring Rudy 5 Bulbulator parts.

Detoxination: Spray water on 10 toxic trash piles (these will not be interactable until Ellen gets this quest).

Fix The Connection: Find bridge parts and fix the bridge to the other side of the Lonely Hills.

The Good Kind Of Fungus: After rebuilding the bridge, Ellen will have access to the other side of the Lonely Hills. There, she will find a bunch of hidden mushrooms that Rudy needs to finish the Bulbulator.

Roguelike: Talk to Harold.

The Great Bulbulator: Look for the collection of houses around a massive hole in the Lonely Hills near Rudy. There will be a ladder down into the underground, and there Ellen needs to install the Bulbulator.

Duck Hunt: Harold asks Ellen to find and save some ducks around the Lonely Hills.

The Woodlet: Before Harold will give Ellen the final Bulbulator part, he asks that she help the deer at the far end of the Lonely Hills. Players will need to rebuild the deers’ homes with old wood and rubble. After that, she will need 10 oranges and 10 peppers to feed the deer.

Once the woodlet is back up and filled with food, Ellen will need 5 Quality Wood in order to make it perfect. After that, walk around the eastern Lonely Hills area and befriend deer with acorns.

Frozen Peaks

Oaks of Might: Find six special oak seeds and plant them in the six empty spots around Jay’s home in the Frozen Peaks. This will help the birds to make new homes.

Collect Feathers: There is a collectable in No Place Like Home that are feathers found in bird nests. Here are all the locations of the feathers; they are found everywhere. Players only need five feathers to complete this quest, but she will continue to accept all the feathers that Ellen finds.

Repair the Robot: There is a robot that won’t stop tearing down trees near to Jay’s. Jay’ll ask you to stop it.

Collect Robot Parts: The robot is broken and asks Ellen for help finding his missing pieces.

Disrupt the Satellite: The robot cannot stop his task until Ellen stops the radio signal that is keeping him going. Head up the mountain and stop the signal to get the robot to stop.

Forced Winter’s Sleep: There are four massive blocks of ice that Ellen will need dry firewood which can be found in treasure boxes all over the area.

The Boar Minimum: Fix up the boars’ home with dry firewood, glass, rubble, and wood.

A Perpetual Stream of Acorns: Plant some trees around the boars’ home to make it more boar friendly. Befriend all the boars with beets.

Help The Cows: Build a cowshed and find some of the stray cows around the Frozen Peaks. Befriend them with wheat.

Find Lilly In Frozen Peaks: Talk to the NPC Lilly who lives in the eastern-most part of the Frozen Peaks. She lives in an old power plant.

Destroy the Toxic Wall of Ice: Talk to Rudy to get the Bulbulator back. Then Ellen will ne asked to find several algae.

After that, find the minecart parts to fix the minecart.

Place the Bulbulator in the minecart and press the button.

Collect Mushrooms: Lilly needs to make medicine for all the poisoned sheep. Bring her Frozen Peaks mushrooms to make it.

Fix Leaking Pipes: Part of the Frozen Peaks is actually a swamp. There are several leaking pipes that Ellen can fix-up.

Collect Fenugreek: Fenugreek is the last ingredient that Lilly needs to save the sheep. Bring her some from the swamps.

Sheep: Grande Finale: Cure-all the sheep with Lilly’s meds.

Veggie Collector: Bring Lilly one of each kind of fruit and veggie crop. She won’t need the non-plant things that Ellen can collect, like honey, and she won’t need tea or any of the crops that are exclusive to Creative mode, like coffee or pears.

The Desert

There’s No Water In The Desert: There are four pipes located around the desert. Fix them and they will begin to water the area again, allowing new life to grow.

The Floral Touch: Build 16 flower pots, then place them in the spots located around the pipes. Insert both the desert plants and the flower pots into each of these 16 slots.

The Desert Foxes: Clean up all the trash around the fennec fox dens and befriend all five of them.

The Life of a Waterbearer: Fill all the giant holes with Ellen’s water hose.

Greatest Of All Time: Help all the goats that are stuck in the sand by spraying them with water. Befriend five total goats.

Panta Rei: There is a dam in the Desert, and opening the dam will help to rewater the area and allow for new plant life. Janet asks Ellen to fix the dam control unit and open it.

Sunken City

The Robotic Menace: Head to the Sunken City. Ellen can get there through the underground fast travel doors which are by where Rudy hangs out in Grandpa’s Farm. There is also a boat that Ellen can take in the Desert to get there.

Attack Of The Chickens: Ellen has been granted a massive number of super chickens to help defeat Grandpa’s evil twin. Save grandpa!

Revenge Of The Newlands: Free grandpa from his cage!

Animal Adventures

The Amazing Travels of Sir Cornelius: After Ellen completes all of Sir Cornelius’ quests at the farm, he’ll move from place to place, chatting with Ellen in each location about the local flora and fauna. He can be found in five locations around the map.

Brother, I Require Oats: Two strange pig brothers are hungry for oats, but all the oats are gone. Bring them some to see what happens.

A Treat for Who?: Up by the radio control tower in the Frozen Peaks, there is a hidden altar that demands cookies and milk be left. A very special Christmas gift awaits all those who leave these presents.

Collectables: Decoration Blueprints

Players can collect decoration blueprints from treasure boxes and from a specific quest chain.

House Expansion 1: Bring Frank 5 old wood and 5 house parts. This will expand Grandpa’s house and also give a collection of Blueprints.

House Expansion 2: Give Frank 5 more old wood and one Pepperonata to get yet another new room as well as a second collection of blueprints.

House Expansion 3: For yet another 5 old wood and a homemade apple pie, Frank will give Ellen yet another room and the third collection of decoration blueprints.

House Expansion 4: Another room and blueprints will cost 5 old wood and a watermelon salad.

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