Hello, guys and gals. I want to share my newish idea of "housing" in SK, with the explanation of colonization inside cradle, because we are stuck here and better just waiting in camps for "thought to be" rescue, so let's explain it:

Let's start with the "mechanics" of doing this, the main thing is: buying and accessorizing cradle pieces, kinda like animal crossing, but larger scale.
Start with buying: You can at first only buy "starter sets" of differentiating sizes of cradle islands, which different sizes, added in useful or decorative furniture and "styles", kinda like a background, a tileset and basic atmosphere.

The basic ones would be: *Small shard of land* pack, which has a 100 "tiles squared" island, escape pod, basic crafting station, and a post box.
The different parts explain themselves partially, but nonetheless, i explain them:
The 100 tile squared island is your basic plot of land, but build or decorate on, and from which you expand your owned land, with expansions in form of extra islands or "buildings". The islands can be randomly generated, but mainly trees, rock, and random add-ons.
The escaped pod is basically your "ready room" house, so if you enter in, straight to ready room.
The *basic crafting station* is the main place of self-made furniture, deco or other kinds of machines and stations.
And lastly, the post box, which is just a box where are your mail is sent, with a cute red light lighting up when you get mail to send.

The second "starter" pack I invented is the *Deserted island* pack, which has inside it: A 400 tiles squared island, a small hut, basic crafting station, small pack of furniture: for both outdoor and indoor deco and lastly, the post box.
I won't explain the repeating stuff, but I need to point out stuff on the hut and new island:
This island will have a more drastic random generation, with a certain part missing, having a water source inside it, old ruins like in wolver den or just plainly having a big old hole on the corner of your island.
The hut is an enterable building on your island, which has inside it 3 rooms, one being blacked out for being the "read room" from your normal game. The other two are free to furnish and decorate.

And the last "starter" pack I gonna write, is the: *Lost land of cradle* pack, which includes: A 900 tile squared island, a house, advanced crafting station, a big pack of furniture of varying sizes, decorations, a small pet based on "style" chosen for the pack and the aforementioned: post box.
Now whats wrong with this pack ? Well: This island has a more crazy generation style, with more drastic changes from the other, you can see on those: Small woods, large ruins with seeing even statues, large patches of flowers, jelly fields like "farm plots", medium sized ponds or even lakes, rivers flowing through your land and ending with a waterfall, a cliffside or increased plateaus, or just finding a giant meadow.
The normal house is larger than your hut and to having inside it a ready room, but adding in 4 rooms, which YOU can choose where to put, can be a straight corridor, square or just across, but you MUST add to the ready room, or you cant finish building.

So we are finishing with the packs, so now, how are we gonna get an island and how much are we gonna pay for? Well, for all three, you need first to meet a NPC, in the merchant square of haven, which works as a "Plot seller for starting colonist on the new world", this guy will explain to you everything needed on plot buying and too the guy where you buy expansions and extra "island buildings", but you could too, just build them yourself, but gonna dig deep into your material storage. So, whats gonna cost to just get the smallest island? Well, you gonna need to be: at least a 4* defender knight, have ready 20k crowns and 50 energy, and some spare mats.
For the larger ones: 50k crowns and 500 energy, plus you need to be a vanguard.
And for the *lost land* pack, you need 200k crowns and 1000 energy and need to finish this eras final mission, AKA "Dreams and nightmares".
He will announce the news to you through the mail, in a waxy "English gentleman" voice, plus be adding some bonus, like 100 crowns or spark of life.

We have now explained how we get islands, but what kind of islands can we get and do we need to do something extra to get those? Well, for some you need to finish certain missions or have certain gear ready, to be worth your money spend, Here are all "styles" of tilesets, atmospheres and such:

Lush meadows being one of the "basic" styles, with no extras and hooks in the papers, this *style* adds in the jigsaw valley tileset, background, and music, with wolver den extras as trees, stones and small ruins, same with jelly farm ruins and "farm plots".
Clockwork magic, the basic "clockwork tunnel" tileset, with a compound like bio parts added in and heavy use of machine-like tiles, even adding walls or gears in the generation AND being too part of "basic" style.
Ghost town chapeau, basically the candlestick keep tileset, but adding in the glow of soul and normal candles on every part of the tileset and adding some part of firestorm citadel with a candlestick keep twist. For this "style" need to dig 5kcrowns deeper into your pockets and you need to bash out extra mats, to scare off all enemies from the place. This is part of the "advance" kit of styles, so be prepared.
Coal warmed home: This place you get available after you done the "firestorm citadel" series of missions, and this place is just a less fiery style of firestorm citadel, but still looks comfortable and warming to live in, adding damaged or repaired versions of the vana furniture with a nice smell of burned wood in cabin. This style is too part of the "advance" kit of styles.

And much more will be added in into the rooster, if you met the requirements for being available for your choosing, some might just be for rank, other force you to have already done a variety of missions, or certain just wanna give them extra mats, or just nothing. So that all might be all and done.

Thanks for reading this wall of text and sorry for my crappy English, I am not a native English writer, so take most of my writing with a grain of salt.