inZOI Build Mode Lot Types Explained
The world of inZOI is structured around various Lots, which are distinct parcels of land or designated spaces within the cities where Zois live, work, and play. Understanding the different lot types is crucial for navigation, gameplay, and utilizing Build Mode effectively.
Each lot type serves a specific purpose and comes with its own set of rules regarding accessibility, ownership, and customization.
Identifying Lot Types on the Map
When viewing the City Map ([M] Key), lots are typically marked with distinct icons:
- Blue House: Occupied Residential Lot (another family lives here)
- Grey House: Unoccupied Residential Lot (empty, furnished or unfurnished house/apartment)
- Grey Down-Arrow: Empty Residential Plot (bare land for building)
- Green Tree: Community Lot (public space like parks, libraries, cafes)
- Purple Building: Career Lot (workplace for Active Jobs)
(Note: Specific icons may vary slightly)
Main Lot Types
1. Residential Lots
These are the primary living spaces for your Zois and other families in the city.
- Function: Where Zois live, sleep, eat, and satisfy most basic needs. Forms the base for household management.
- Sub-Types:
- Houses: Standalone structures on their own plot of land. Offer full exterior and interior customization.
- Apartments: Units within larger multi-story buildings. Offer full interior customization and limited exterior customization (balconies).
- Occupied: Currently inhabited by a pre-made or player-created family. You can visit but not move your active family in without evicting the current residents (which happens automatically if you choose to relocate your family there).
- Unoccupied: Either an empty, pre-built house/apartment or an empty plot of land ready for construction. Available for purchase and moving into.
- Customization: Fully customizable via Build Mode when it's your active household's home.
- Cost: Have a purchase price (Meow) based on size, location, and existing structures/furnishings.
2. Community Lots
These are public spaces accessible to all Zois in the city, offering various activities and services.
- Function: Provide locations for socializing, skill-building, fulfilling needs (e.g., eating at a cafe), attending events, and general recreation.
- Examples: Parks (Central Park, Clover Park), Libraries (AR Library), Cafes (Cafe Gaon, Cafe Mar), Shops (Nook's Select Shop), Galleries (Lumiere Art Gallery), Banks (Narae Bank), Fortune Tellers (Oracle Fortune Teller), Beaches, Plazas (Nuri Plaza, Liberty Square), Temples (Ullim Temple).
- Customization: Some community lots are designated as "(Editable)". Players can enter a limited version of Build Mode (Edit Public Property/Edit Street button, not the [I] key) to place objects, furniture, and landscaping items within these designated public areas, personalizing the community space. Editing these lots does not cost household funds.
- Cost: Free to visit and use available interactions.
3. Career Lots
These are specific community lots that also serve as workplaces for Zois engaged in Active Careers.
- Function: Function as both a visitable community lot and the physical location where Zois perform tasks for specific jobs. Players follow their Zois here during work hours.
- Examples: Adam Entertainment (Idol Trainee, Planning Team), Dowon Fire Station (Firefighter), AZ Convenience Store (Convenience Store Employee), Bliss Bay Amusement Park (Park Worker/Office Staff), Mackenzie Furniture Store (Furniture Store Employee).
- Customization: Generally not editable in the same way as residential or editable community lots, though some might overlap with editable public spaces.
- Cost: Free to visit, but working there requires being employed in the associated career.
4. Business Lots
Added with v0.5.0 in December 2025, business lots are properties your household owns and operates — cafes, bakeries, restaurants, bars.
- Function: run your own business with employees, business hours, pricing, and customers.
- Editing: they have their own Business Property Edit mode, containing 39 exclusive items including display showcases and models.
- Ownership: managed independently of property, so a business can be moved to a different property or inherited on marriage or separation.
- Presets: v0.5.3 added 12 business lot presets — 5 in Dowon, 6 in Bliss Bay, 1 in Cahaya.
- Caveat: owning or working at a business blocks City Travel.
Other Location Types (Not Traditional Lots)
Rabbit Hole Locations
These aren't distinct lots you can visit or edit. They are locations associated with Rabbit Hole Jobs (e.g., Law Firms, Developer Studios, Military Bases, Newspaper Offices). When a Zoi goes to work for these careers, they simply travel off-screen and are unavailable until their shift ends. You interact with their work tasks via a UI pop-up, not by visiting a physical lot.
Unmarked Locations
Some named areas exist within the larger city map but lack a specific lot icon and cannot be fast-traveled to directly (e.g., Muscle Beach within the Bliss Bay beach area). These often contain interactable objects but aren't treated as separate, editable lots in Build Mode.
Every major update since August 2025 has added or reworked properties in existing cities. On a "Continue" save these don't apply until you run Refresh Property Manually under Game Options → Gameplay → Other (the button was added in v0.4.3). Residential properties are left untouched either way. Since v0.4.3, newly created properties update automatically.
You can also open Build Mode directly on a non-player property: select it in Edit City (M) and press Edit Property (v0.4.0).
Lots added since launch
| Lot | Added | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Funeral Home & Columbarium | v0.4.0, Oct 2025 | All three cities |
| Cemetery | v0.4.0 | All three cities |
| Beach Club, Wedding Studio | v0.4.0 | Cahaya |
| Flower Shop | v0.5.0, Dec 2025 | All cities |
| Theater | v0.5.0 | Dowon and Bliss Bay — still under construction and inaccessible |
| Courts | v0.5.0 | For trials |
| Suspicious Job Agency | v0.5.0 | Shady jobs and crime information |
| Business lots | v0.5.0 | All cities |
| Hanok properties | v0.6.0 / v0.6.1, Feb 2026 | Ullim Temple, Junghwa Parkville, Aram Estate |
v0.4.0 also installed pool tables and bowling lanes in the Dowon and Bliss Bay club lounges, and added street objects — drinking fountains, fitness equipment, parasols, lifeguard stands, trash cans — throughout the cities.
Understanding these different lot types helps you navigate the world, manage your Zois' lives, and utilize the creative potential of Build Mode within the structure of inZOI's cities.