Clearing the land

Gran's land runs down the lane from the cottage: the Home Pen, and wild ground below it waiting to be cleared.

Clearing

Open Estate, then Wild. Tap a clump (long grass, bracken, gorse, foxgloves, dog rose, brambles, boulders, stumps, logs, a tumbledown wall) to clear it for carrots, or clear everything round a clump at once.

The fields next door

Once the Deed has come, Mr. Pell sells the West and East Fields from his office in the village. "Have a look" glides the camera over one first. Each arrives as thicket with a ruin in it: the West Field's cart shed and the East Field's well. Clear a ruin, or have a tradesperson restore it into a potting shed or a wishing well.

Drawing pens

On open land you own, draw a pen of any size the land allows from Estate, Pens. The carpenter charges by the yard of fence and takes an hour; you can stop him in the first ten minutes and get everything back. Bigger pens hold more rabbits, up to twelve.

Building it up

Plant trees from the Garden tab (they grow over real days), lay paths and walls, dig a pond, and commission buildings from the carpenter, stonemason and glazier. Open the gates for an open day and the village comes to look.