Where is the Community Center in Paralives?

In the Old Town district of Melino — a ruined building near the Town Hall, the Museum and Castle Plaza, across the railroad tracks. Look for the small blue map icon. The tutorial goal Discover the Town also points you there.

How do I donate to the Community Center?

Put the required items in your household inventory (Build Mode → Add to Inventory), then interact with one of the four color-coded books inside the ruins: Yellow for Art, Green for Funding, Red for Food, Blue for Technology. Donated lines get a checkmark, and you claim each reward manually once the bundle is complete.

What painting value do I need for Art Bundle 2?

P1,000 at launch; patch 0.1.5 lowered it without giving a number, and the community wiki currently lists P700. That figure is likely but not officially confirmed — if a P700 canvas is rejected, try a more valuable painting.

Does the Community Center get rebuilt when you finish all bundles?

Nothing documented as of 0.1.6b. A player who completed all 15 bundles (and the museum) after ~65 hours reports the building is still ruins, and no patch note or roadmap entry announces a restoration. The community-made "Rebuilt Community Center" Workshop mod is the current workaround.

Why won't the game accept my meal donation?

Since patch 0.1.4 the food bundles require group portions, not single servings — cook a group-sized meal. Also move dishes into the household inventory fast, because Paras autonomously eat food left out.

What do the Money Bundle rewards actually do?

Money Bundles 2–4 pay out the Water Recycler, the "Minico" Solar Panel and the "Minico" Wind Turbine. Since patch 0.1.5 these objects reduce your household bills when placed on your lot, which is what makes the expensive Funding category worth completing.

Paralives Community Center: All 15 Donation Bundles & Rewards

Quick answer

What is the Community Center?

The Community Center is a ruined, vegetation-covered lot in Melino's Old Town district, near the Town Hall, the Museum and Castle Plaza — look for the small blue map icon across the railroad tracks. Townies are rebuilding it as a "Citizen Project" and asking for donations. Inside the ruins stand four color-coded donation books: Yellow for Art, Green for Funding, Red for Food and Blue for Technology. Required items must be in your household inventory when you interact with a book, and each completed bundle's reward has to be claimed manually from the donation screen. The books have no opening hours — you can donate at any time.

The ruined Community Center shell in Paralives Old Town beside the castle district with grass paths and outdoor seating in front. — The Citizen Project starts as overgrown ruins — donation books are inside, not at a finished building.Watch at 7:00

Donation mechanics

How donating works

Each book lists one category of Community Bundles. Interacting with a book opens the donation screen; items you already donated show a checkmark.

Yellow book — Art: your own painted canvases and famous painting collectibles.
Green book — Funding: straight Parafunds donations in five escalating tiers.
Red book — Food: group portions of cooked meals and foraged mushrooms.
Blue book — Technology: Buy-catalog electronics and furniture.

1Cook, paint, forage or buy the required items — Technology items come straight from the Buy catalog.
2Move everything into your household inventory (Build Mode → "Add to Inventory").
3Interact with the matching book inside the ruins and select the bundle.
4Once every line is checked off, claim the reward manually from the donation screen.

Watch out: Paras autonomously eat cooked meals left lying around. Move food-bundle dishes into inventory quickly, or cancel the Eat action before it starts.

Paralives Community Center interior donation shelves where players contribute items toward color-coded Community Bundles. — Four books (Art, Funding, Food, Technology) list bundle requirements — rewards must be claimed manually.Watch at 7:30

Master list

All 15 Community Bundles

Every bundle verified against the 0.1.6b-era wiki. Several unlock in chains — the Requires column shows which bundle gates each one.

Art — Yellow book

Donate your own painted canvases or famous paintings dug up from buried chests around town. Duplicate famous paintings are possible, so extras are never wasted.

Bundle	Requires	You donate	Reward
Art Bundle 1	—	Painted canvas worth over P300	P2,000
Art Bundle 2	Art Bundle 1	Painted canvas worth over P700	P5,000 + "Ati" Painter's Easel
Famous Painting Bundle 1	—	Landscape with the Good Samaritan, Emma Hart as Circe, Woman Combing her Hair	P5,000
Famous Painting Bundle 2	Famous Painting Bundle 1	Liberty Leading the People, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Mona Lisa	P10,000

Food — Red book

Since patch 0.1.4 the meal bundles ask for group portions, not single servings. Mushrooms are foraged collectibles.

Bundle	Requires	You donate	Reward
Cake Bundle	—	Group portions of: Confetti Cake, Chocolate Cake, Cheesecake	P10,000
Simple Meal Bundle	—	Group portions of: Microwaved Hamburger, Spaghetti Marinara, Ham Sandwich	P1,000
Gourmet Meal Bundle	Simple Meal Bundle	Group portions of: Croissant, Hawaiian Pizza, Fluffy Pancakes	P10,000
Common Mushroom Bundle	—	Oyster, Porcini, King Trumpet	P2,000
Rare Mushroom Bundle	Common Mushroom Bundle	Black Trumpet, Turkey Tail	P10,000

Funding — Green book

Pure Parafunds donations totaling P700,000. The cash rewards across all 15 bundles only add up to P40,000 — Funding is a money sink, so treat the item rewards as the real payout.

Bundle	Requires	You donate	Reward
Money Bundle 1	—	P5,000	"Hector" Plush
Money Bundle 2	Money Bundle 1	P20,000	Water Recycler
Money Bundle 3	Money Bundle 2	P50,000	"Minico" Solar Panel
Money Bundle 4	Money Bundle 3	P125,000	"Minico" Wind Turbine
Money Bundle 5	Money Bundle 4	P500,000	"Topi" Museum Castle Miniature

Technology — Blue book

One bundle: the complete Gamini gaming setup, bought from the Buy catalog for about P1,965.

Bundle	Requires	You donate	Reward
Technology Bundle 1	—	"Gamini" Gamer Computer, Gamer Desk, Gamer Chair	"Giki" Wall Sword

The rewards actually worth chasing

Most bundle rewards are cash, but four items stand out. Money Bundles 2–4 pay out the Water Recycler, the "Minico" Solar Panel and the "Minico" Wind Turbine — and since patch 0.1.5 these objects genuinely lower your household bills, which makes the P195,000 Funding ladder the only part of the Citizen Project that pays for itself over time. Beyond those, the "Giki" Wall Sword from Technology Bundle 1, the "Ati" Painter's Easel from Art Bundle 2 and the "Hector" Plush from Money Bundle 1 are the standout decorations. The same solar panel, wind turbine and castle miniature also appear as Museum donation milestones (30/60/90 donations), so the Community Center is not their only source.

How the energy items cut your bills

Source conflict

Art Bundle 2: what painting value do you actually need?

At launch the threshold was P1,000 — guides published before patch 0.1.5 (and Steam players at the time) all cite "the 1,000 Parafunds painting", and many of those guides still show P1,000 today. Patch 0.1.5 (2026-07-02) says it "lowered the value of the painting needed" without stating a number. The community wiki's current table lists P700, the best available figure — but it has never been officially confirmed, and the same wiki's trivia mislabels 700 as the original value. If a P700 canvas is refused, aim higher and treat the exact threshold as unknown.

Patch history

What 0.1.4 and 0.1.5 changed

0.1.4 (2026-06-18) — food bundles switched from single portions to group portions "to make it easier to complete".
0.1.4 also fixed paintings losing their sell value in the household inventory — the bug that had made Art Bundle 2 impossible to finish.
0.1.5 (2026-07-02) — fixed Art Bundle 2 properly and lowered the required painting value (exact new number unstated; see above).
0.1.5 — Water Recyclers, solar panels and wind turbines placed on your lot now reduce your bills, retroactively making the Money Bundle 2–4 rewards useful.

No Community Center changes shipped in 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.6 or hotfix 0.1.6b.

Connected systems

Life goals, story cards and townie requests

The Citizen Project is woven into several progression systems, so a few early donations pay off beyond the bundle rewards.

Discover the Town

The tutorial goal (10 Personality XP) includes the objective "Make a donation to the Community Center" — the game funnels new players to the ruins in the first days.

Town Contributor

This Community life goal (40 XP) requires completing 3 Community Center bundles alongside 25 museum donations and 15 shop purchases. Its story card only enters the draw pool once Discover the Town is finished.

Townie Requests involving the Community Center

Community Center Initiative (Common) — talk about the Community Center while in a group, 3 times.
Points of View — look at the memorial sign near The Cellar Door, then look through binoculars to see the ruins' former glory.
Hang Out with People Around Town — one of the possible bench spots is at the Community Center.

Finish all 15 bundles… and the ruins stay ruins

The honest answer

This is the question every completionist asks, and no source documents any visual restoration. One Steam player reports completing every Community Center bundle and the museum after roughly 65 hours (one full ParaYear): "My center is still in shambles." The wiki only hedges that the surrounding neighborhood "may" improve. So as of 0.1.6b, finishing everything gets you the per-bundle rewards and goal progress — no rebuilt building, no new venue functionality, no completion cinematic. The proof that players want one: a Workshop mod called "Rebuilt Community Center" manually restores the lot as an open-air art gallery — it would have no reason to exist if the base game did it.

Not yet verified

What nobody has published

We list these openly instead of guessing, the way competing guides do:

The exact Art Bundle 2 painting threshold after 0.1.5 — P700 is the best current figure, never officially confirmed (see the evidence chain above).
Opening hours: the wiki says the books work at any time, but game-file lot metadata mentions 07:00–23:00 with a 5-NPC cap. Likely an unused data field, but untested.
Who runs the Citizen Project — no named NPC coordinator is documented anywhere.
The official German, Portuguese and Chinese names for the bundle system and its four categories — only the Community Center itself has verified localizations (Gemeindezentrum / Centro Comunitário / 社区中心).
Whether a restored Community Center is planned for a future update — the post-release roadmap never mentions it.

Frequently asked questions

Where is the Community Center in Paralives?: In the Old Town district of Melino — a ruined building near the Town Hall, the Museum and Castle Plaza, across the railroad tracks. Look for the small blue map icon. The tutorial goal Discover the Town also points you there.
How do I donate to the Community Center?: Put the required items in your household inventory (Build Mode → Add to Inventory), then interact with one of the four color-coded books inside the ruins: Yellow for Art, Green for Funding, Red for Food, Blue for Technology. Donated lines get a checkmark, and you claim each reward manually once the bundle is complete.
What painting value do I need for Art Bundle 2?: P1,000 at launch; patch 0.1.5 lowered it without giving a number, and the community wiki currently lists P700. That figure is likely but not officially confirmed — if a P700 canvas is rejected, try a more valuable painting.
Does the Community Center get rebuilt when you finish all bundles?: Nothing documented as of 0.1.6b. A player who completed all 15 bundles (and the museum) after ~65 hours reports the building is still ruins, and no patch note or roadmap entry announces a restoration. The community-made "Rebuilt Community Center" Workshop mod is the current workaround.
Why won't the game accept my meal donation?: Since patch 0.1.4 the food bundles require group portions, not single servings — cook a group-sized meal. Also move dishes into the household inventory fast, because Paras autonomously eat food left out.
What do the Money Bundle rewards actually do?: Money Bundles 2–4 pay out the Water Recycler, the "Minico" Solar Panel and the "Minico" Wind Turbine. Since patch 0.1.5 these objects reduce your household bills when placed on your lot, which is what makes the expensive Funding category worth completing.

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