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Ranch

Your company's home base, founded at Tier 2, with buildings, storage, crafting stations and a mine.

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Where Ranch comes from.

PageSource
Tier 2 Unlocked byDev build Video: Jeff Kaplan + Tim Ford Play 10 MORE HOURS of The Legend of California at 51:43 (opens in a new tab)

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Patch history

6 versions

Every fact about Ranch by game version, newest first.

VersionWhat we know
Planned
  • Many new ranch prop and decoration options are being made.
  • Terrain under buildings is levelled; a way to move the ranch is planned.
  • Ability to modify voxels on a ranch is wanted later. Unconfirmed
  • Idea to allow building a ranch in PvP areas on regular servers once the ruleset exists. Unconfirmed
  • Developers may later add more detailed ranch-location buffs.
Dev build
  • Ranch founding is unlocked at Tier 2, via the ranch management panel.
  • Other players cannot attack or raid a ranch; AI enemies chasing you can follow you into the ranch.
  • Founded in a bird's-eye found-ranch mode; the company gets a fenced plot and a company name.
  • The plot is fenced; the mine entrance is usually placed in the centre so the underground area is large.
  • Cannot be placed on strongholds, outposts, other ranches, water, roads or in PvP; steep spots are allowed but hard.
  • Placement anywhere with space is allowed, even barren desert, but trees nearby help for early logs and the lumber mill.
  • Ranches may be placed close together; per-ranch private setting is not working yet, so strangers can ride through.
  • Players' ranch is in southeast California, near Palm Springs area desert. Unconfirmed
  • Cozy ranch play includes building, furniture and lighting customization, a player trading post, and exploring the mine.
  • Ranch land claim is roughly 80 by 80 meters.
  • More than one house may be placeable on the ranch, but devs thought they may have broken it. Unconfirmed
  • Each company has only one ranch; a solo player counts as a one-person company.
  • Press U to open ranch management and found the ranch after reaching Tier 2.
  • A ranch can be founded in a Tier 3 area.
  • The mine, lumber mill and workshop can be built inside the ranch house.
  • Players build their ranch at Tier 2 in the dev build.
  • New founding bonus: near an outpost, you skip the stagecoach fare to that outpost.
  • Founding a ranch away from outposts now reduces fast travel cooldown a lot.
  • Placing a ranch requires level 2.
  • Needs a blueprint to stake the claim; can be placed almost anywhere not already claimed.
  • Developers do not want ranch relocation to be easy.
  • Ranch land types include frontier and wilderness; the stream ranch was placed in wilderness.
  • Players found a ranch on a large piece of land and place buildings on it.
Alpha 5
  • Ranches can now be packed up and moved; buildings on the ranch can also be moved.
  • Packing up the whole ranch costs 1,000 gold; moving individual buildings is free.
  • Design goal is zero to one ranch moves per 30-day reset so players keep a home region.
Alpha 4
  • Tier 4 ranch progress requires jobs and challenges completed by the company.
  • Central Valley ranch sites have redwoods that can be felled and rolled to the lumber mill.
Alpha 3
  • Some items are limited to one per claim.
  • A player built a very tall structure at the maximum build height. Unconfirmed
March alpha
  • Players build their own ranch as a home base.
  • A player joining a company late can travel straight to the company ranch.

Sources

12

Official posts, videos and game data this page is built from.

SourceDateUsed
The Legend of California Dev Livestream (October) (opens in a new tab) VideoOct 17, 20264
Alpha Weekend Livestream - Jeff & Tim Play on Dread Rock (PvP server) (opens in a new tab) VideoSep 20, 20263
The Legend of California Dev Livestream (August) (opens in a new tab) VideoAug 15, 20264
Dev Update: Peak California (opens in a new tab) Steam postJun 18, 20261
Alpha 3 - Playtest Highlights (opens in a new tab) VideoJun 17, 20262
The Legend of California Dev Livestream (June) (opens in a new tab) VideoJun 6, 20264
The Legend of California Dev Livestream (May) (opens in a new tab) VideoMay 2, 20264
Dev Update: Alpha Recap (opens in a new tab) Steam postApr 10, 20262
Jeff Kaplan + Esfand Play The Legend of California Alpha (opens in a new tab) VideoMar 30, 20261
EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK - The Legend of California: A Sprawling Western Adventure (noclip) (opens in a new tab) VideoMar 28, 20263
Staking Your Claim on the Island of California (opens in a new tab) VideoMar 26, 20266
Jeff Kaplan + Tim Ford Play 10 MORE HOURS of The Legend of California (opens in a new tab) VideoMar 22, 202612

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