How to Expand Facilities in Three Hopes

Learn how to expand facilities in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes! Discover the benefits of upgrading Training Grounds, Tactics Academy, Blacksmith, and more.

Alright, so you've been playing Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes for a bit and you're wondering how to make your Base Camp even better, right? It's all about expanding facilities! Once you clear a few Side Quests in Chapter 4 and head back to camp, one of your pals will nudge you about this. They'll point you towards the Facilities Master, who's basically your go-to person for all things upgrades.

Chatting with the Facilities Master kicks off a tutorial, and trust me, this is a huge part of getting stronger in the game. Upgrading these spots unlocks new services and makes the ones you already use way more effective. Let's break down what each facility does when you give it some love:

• Training Grounds: This is where you'll boost the number of available Training Slots. Plus, you can unlock the ability to promote to those awesome Advance and Master classes, make leveling up cheaper, and even increase how much training helps (it gets better based on weapon type!).
• Tactics Academy: Want more Warrior Gauges? This is your spot. You'll also unlock higher stat caps, get access to Concoctions and Elixirs, gain more uses for recovery items in battle, open up more ability slots, and improve Unique Actions, Support Abilities, Tactical Abilities, and Crest effects. Just remember, these upgrades need to be bought for each character individually to actually work.
• Blacksmith: Upgrading here means cheaper blacksmithing costs. You'll also unlock the ability for the blacksmith to repair and reforge higher-grade weapons, get new crest effects, and increase the might and durability you get when forging.
• Recreation Quarter: This expands the variety of dishes you can cook and boosts your success rate when cooking or volunteering – meaning more 'Great' or 'Perfect' results instead of just 'Nice'. You'll also be able to travel to different locations during expeditions.
• Marketplace: Need more stuff? This facility increases the variety of gifts, weapons, resources, ingredients, and other goods sold at shops. It also reduces prices and increases the amount of gold you earn from battles.
• Battalion Guild: This one lets you buy higher-tier battalions, increases their endurance, lets you hire more at once, and reduces the cost of hiring them.
• Supply Depot: Here you can gather random materials (which you get from battles), increase the types of items you can trade Smithing Stones for, get more Smithing Stones when you trade, and reduce the cost of trading for items.

See? These facilities touch pretty much everything – how much it costs to level up, the classes you can access, what you can buy, how good your battalions are, how many Warrior Gauges and abilities your characters have, their max stats, and even how easy it is to get gold and materials. Seriously, upgrading facilities is super important.

So, how do you actually *do* this expanding?

Once you've unlocked the Facilities Master, you can visit him anytime to upgrade. Alternatively, you can just interact directly with the facility you want to upgrade. Either way, you're going to need two things: Gold and Materials. Gold is pretty straightforward – just fight battles. Materials, though, are a bit trickier. They're tied to your progression, so don't expect the really good stuff to show up until you've made some headway in the main story.

While you might stumble upon some Materials here and there, the main ways to get them are:

• Clearing Side Quests and exploring Survey Spots: These give you a good chunk of Materials, but remember, they're usually a one-time deal.
• Trading Smithing Stones at the Supply Master: You can get exactly what you need this way, but Smithing Stones are also vital for repairing and forging weapons, so use them wisely.
• The "Form a Supply Squad" Upgrade: This is for the Supply Depot. Once you get this upgrade, you'll snag Materials every time you finish a battle. It's a slow but steady stream, and what you get is random, making it more of a secondary source, especially early on.

Keep an eye out for those Materials, and you'll be upgrading your facilities in no time!