Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

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Originally Posted by Altena

1. PvP and/or indoor striking dummy

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There are a few issues with using the house for PvP matches:
-People can phase through furniture if they keep running into them long enough.
-I think people can also select and interact with things on the other side of player placed partitions and walls too.
-Marking where the arena begins and prevent people from leaving it.

A long time ago, when they added Workshops for FC Houses, someone suggested adding similar areas like an arena/training room, a dressing room, a storage room, etc. I think that might work better, especially if the arena/training room let you customize it.

I'd just like to second any ideas that provide an incentive to visit friend's houses and increasing the number of friends you can share your teleport to. I feel like any FC member should be able to teleport directly to other FC members houses. I find all my friends and I all sitting in our own separate houses or in our FC houses.
It would be nice to get some buffs or special effects for visiting friend's houses. Such as every 5 min spent within a friend listed player's housing unit provides an hour long buff to health, gp, mana, whatever.

In addition, the ability to stack furniture on stages, not all houses have flat flooring designs and it would provide more room separation for our already very small spaces. Not to mention more than 2 floors for small houses. Basements for the win.

I still want to wall/flooring based on the stonework in Labyrinth/Syrcus Tower/Fractal Continuum.

Can we have new variety of Mail Boxes please :(

It would be nice to be able to put the Manor musical instruments on the stages.

With the addition of really tall bookshelves, can we now get a indoor tall ladder added? How ever do adventurers reach the books up top otherwise. I think everyone knows how Lalafells feel now. D:

More Chocobo stuff please ffs not fair theres all this moogle crap and practically no Chocobo stuff

How about weapons made into furniture? After getting a spoiler gift from House Fortemps, I can't do anything with it. But I really would like to hang it on my wall. If a player chooses to make this decision, the weapon could not be turned back into a usable weapon, it would be permanent furniture.

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Originally Posted by Clethoria

How about weapons made into furniture? After getting a spoiler gift from House Fortemps, I can't do anything with it. But I really would like to hang it on my wall. If a player chooses to make this decision, the weapon could not be turned back into a usable weapon, it would be permanent furniture. And for the case of, say quest specific weapons, like, unattainable by any other means- those cannot be mounted.

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What about a loop (wall), hook(wall), weaponrack(floor/tabletop) or something that just acts as a visual storage device for a weapon with a maximum of 5 or something?

I would like the ability to set tables, chairs, and what not on the new stages added last patch.

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

What about a loop (wall), hook(wall), weaponrack(floor/tabletop) or something that just acts as a visual storage device for a weapon with a maximum of 5 or something?

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Pardon the contradiction. I wasn't thinking. And yes that'd be good to. I just want to hang it up high in their shrine... it's normal to build one right?

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Originally Posted by ErikMynhier

I would like the ability to set tables, chairs, and what not on the new stages added last patch.

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Originally Posted by LunaSidhe

It would be nice to be able to put the Manor musical instruments on the stages.

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I know I'm repeating myself, but please help show support at this thread

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

What about a loop (wall), hook(wall), weaponrack(floor/tabletop) or something that just acts as a visual storage device for a weapon with a maximum of 5 or something?

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I wonder if it's feasible to do a customizable weapon rack or armor stand using a modified system of the new aquarium tank... (Pick a couple items and turn it into one furniture)

Would need a way that doesn't consume the item for this though, for the same reason I'd always explained for a glamour log; want to display your relic at your house? Burn the item and start from scratch again! Granted we have replica now for the relic but the same can't be said for other weapons/armors.

Copied here from my original thread:

Dear SE,

Please consider allowing us to mount the shield of our dear friend Haurchefant in the hallowed halls of our private and company estates.

More technically:

Please consider allowing static housing items which can take glamours, similar to how picture frames are working. I would like to have a rack to display my collected weapons, a case to contain my SCH and SMN books, a place to display armour, and of course, a place to hang Haurchefant's shield for all to see.

Raimille's portrait would be nice

I would love to be able to turn off the white arrows that show when an item is interactive. It was already a bit much with lamps, foods, aquariums and the like, but with the picture frames added in, all I see is white arrows everywhere.

How about a toggle, on/off check box in the housing menu somewhere?

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Originally Posted by Velisra

I would love to be able to turn off the white arrows that show when an item is interactive. It was already a bit much with lamps, foods, aquariums and the like, but with the picture frames added in, all I see is white arrows everywhere.

How about a toggle, on/off check box in the housing menu somewhere?

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Character Config > Display Name Settings > NPCs tab > Housing Furniture

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

Character Config > Display Name Settings > NPCs tab > Housing Furniture

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Oh wow! Now I feel silly. :o

Thank you so much!

Not a request, but I just want to say - thank you, SE.
Page after page I kept on asking, again and again, sometimes begging, sometimes snarky and ironic, and this patch, all my dreams came true @_@
Still dizzy from actually having simple, pattern-free white walls. From having countless picture options. From having big pictures now! Indoor mini cherry trees! So much happiness..♡_♡


Now if you could actually finish up that feature we got promised back in ARR with the freeroaming minion in the house, then my basket of yarnballs would actually have a purpose :3 *lets fat cat free to play*

Other request is:
Can you please give us the option to freeze growing plants in a certain stage? It could even be an item like the fertilizer, only that it adds to growing time instead of shortening it, so that way, the player would need to keep interacting with it to keep it on a certain stage. It's just such a waste to having to replant and regrow pretty plants every few days from 0 :(
And no, vases are not helpful for that; they only hold the finished flowers, no lush rose bush or delicate cherry bonsai.

I'd like a Bonsai pot, to transplant all kinds of different colored cherry blossom Bonsai inside the house!!!

I prefer the plant not to glow.

Bonsai pot, or ceramic pot, can also hold the other two fully bloomed indoor plants as a little bush of a flower, would be also very adorable. :D

Again a huge thank you for the white partition we can dye!!! and the white wall option is nice too :)

This is a long list of things I really think would make housing more creative and enjoyable, especially for those that have a "need" to let loose their creative side. They are not demands!!!...nor any indication of disappointment.. please see them as positive possibilities!!! :oD.

Hopefully the housing developers can dip into some suggestions when time/resources permit :)
They are merely suggested for those who crave to be as creative/expressive as possible.

-first and foremost: double item limit
-toggle ability to hide decorative wood pillars along walls or/ an option to dye them
-partitions that can mimic all wall coverings, including half partitions.
-ability to dye ceiling tiles + wood ceiling dividers (dye separate colors would be awesome ^^)
-addition of floor we can dye
-ability to dye the current white wall ^^
-ability to dye pillars
-ability to deeply bury partitions , in fact any furnishing, deep into the exterior walls and into the permanent pillars
-removal of "no place zones" near staircases, all exterior wall depth limitations , all of them. ability to place items on staircases (without the need of the glitch to achieve) would then be possible as one example.
-rugs up staircases we can dye, ability to choose color of staircase wood
-ability to hang wall mount items from stair railings/banisters (again without having to use glitch)
-ability to add more ceiling lights anywhere we choose (even if smaller versions only are available to accent directly over an item /area etc)
-addition of a musical carousel furnishing, using mini "primal" ponies.
-outdoor: taller trees double height of ginkgo tree with branches starting farther up to allow for walking under but with a very broad canopy
-spooky erie old dead tree for halloween - large and creepy
-more night glowing "tree of life " style trees

Next are the not expected suggestions, difficult ideas ...BUT would loveee them and will mention just in case its possible one day!!

-**possible removal of "tabletop" and "floor" only limitations, as well as " outdoor" only limitations.
allow us to use anything...anywhere we choose. exceptions would be gardens, chocobo stable. but 99% of items could be used indoors or out. which leads to the next suggestions directly...

-**ability to resize any item...to very large and very small.
This alone would relieve much of the item limit issues and one could scale items to cover more area but also improve creativeness to allow...large items like gargoyle statue to be scaled down to mini table top size/shelf size for display etc...or even an outdoor tree scaled down to become an indoor plant display .. Resizing would add a lot more creativeness for players. Scaling to enlarge would also be very enjoyable, add this with the ability to bury...and tilt on any axis and we have the ultimate winning combo! :)

-**ability to dye every item

-**ability to suspend any item, mid air, any height, anywhere (without the current glitch needed)

-**ability to bury items into the roof, floor. (any amount)

-**ability to tilt and manipulate any item to any angle ie: to achieve a spilled drink or a chair that has been knocked over. upside down fun house with the ceiling as the floor and floor as the ceiling Oo. etc

-**trees that change leaf color/shed leaves with seasons

-**addition of personal screenshots as new "paintings" option

-**allowance of a few minions to wander outside or inside home

-**addition of ffxi music to orchestrion ( I know...but I would love it) lol

-**addition of special "effects" Rift has items in which an items icons are only visible in "edit" mode but display beautiful special effects when placed ...ie/ a spotlight of ANY chosen color light.., a raising smoky effect, dripping water effect, flame effect, lightning , sparkle etc. This can accent and highlight an area specifically or a single item this way..many many possibilities and results.

-**non destruction of housing glamours ie/ moogle, chocobo ,eatery etc. allow us to freely interchange without needing to destroy. ppl would be encouraged more to collect all of them if they are NOT destroyed each time (I know I would ^^)

-**remove 1/estate limitations on items like the indirect lighting

-**adjust lighting per floor

-**addition of room expanding doors eventually to increase size of interior homes ..ie patio door to exit into a sunroom/conservatory/pool room something like that..

-** the best possible suggestion, however not expected(but hoped for one day) : ability to build from scratch.

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Upping the limit would be wonderful. I slammed right into it before I got to finish my basement up.

I would also love to see the Heavensward Vistas available for the frames, hoping to see that in a later patch.

Weapon racks would be lovely--I really want to hang the Dual Haken up.

Mannequins for armor and stuff.

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Originally Posted by Shyluv

I need a nature themed mail box.

My yard is more or less a flower garden. The only available mail boxes stick out like a sore thumb.

I'd like a mail box that has moss on the top, and vines growing on the pole part. Maybe some flowers that have a slight glow. If a moogle has to be on the mailbox for lore reasons, maybe add a tiny moogle, or a moogle pom.

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I'd still love something like this. :)

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

While I love the cute and funny Moogle, Chocobo, and Paissa houses, could we maybe see more serious houses? Like maybe we can have an Ishgardian Brume house and an Ishgardian Pillar house, or maybe a house that looks like a fort or fortress?

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Yes, more serious themes would be great.

How about a skin in the style of Haukke Manor? The exterior is really lovely (apart from the voidsent and the cages), and I'd love it if we had Haukke inspired topiary items for the garden to match.

Just thought of another cool one!

How about those maps of the Sea of Clouds Leofard has hanging up/on the table?

Tabletop Link

Wall Mounted Link

I don't know if this has been asked for before. Maybe there is something already in game I haven't found yet in which case please tell me! A futon style bed would be awesome!

I really want those glowing mushrooms that are in the Sylphlands. More glowing plants in general is good (yes, I know mushrooms aren't actually plants). Maybe some tall glowing grass. And glowing trees. Or just some tall trees with green leaves.

Wanted to echo some earlier posts from up-thread:

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Especially now that we have the beautiful new cherry blossom trees, it seems a shame that the designer's hard work can only be appreciated for a few days before the plant withers. (Even the apple and orange trees, or the exotic-looking shard plants, are worthy of appreciation in my opinion -- so this could possibly apply to all plants.)

My suggestion is for an option that can be chosen for fully-grown plants in flowerpots that would:

• Make the plant unharvestable (it can only be removed)
• Remove the "ready for harvest" sparkle animation
• Allow the plant to persist indefinitely, as long as it is tended daily
• ...and possibly also fertilized on some schedule? (Daily, weekly?)

This way we can appreciate the devs' wonderful work for much longer!


It's fascinating to look through this thread and see how many suggestions from the earlier pages have been implemented. As someone who came to the game late, it makes me feel very thankful!

Couple of things, and these may have been said before, but...

I would love more tall trees! I ADORE the autumn trees (I'm now up to 6 in a small yard, and about to buy #7), but while the maple is beautiful, it's just so darn short...especially compared to my Elezen stature. I'd love more trees at the height of the ginkgo! They're so much easier to use than the kinds that look like they'd clothesline me as I walk through my yard.

I'd also love to see the leaf piles layer with the ponds. I wanted some leaves at the bottom of my ponds, but they layer UNDER the pond, so you can't see them at all. I think a layer of leaves at the bottom of the pond would be really beautiful.

I also dream of a koi pond.

I'm sure its been mentioned before, but a way to remove the pillars every three inches along the walls would be fantastic. Or being able to customize them with one of the crafted/event pillars would be at least better than what we have now.

More items! More more more items! My mansion has the entire basement walled off so I could make the rest of the house look like an actual house instead of just a place with a few random pieces of furniture here and there.

I'd like to be able to add another aquarium to my mansion as well. Maybe limit it to 1 tier 4 per estate only so we can use the smaller tanks to decorate bedrooms/library/den areas?

Echoing the above suggestion: A way to 'freeze' or stop a plant in a flower pot from wilting would be lovely. The new cherry blossom trees are so pretty fully bloomed but they wilt and die so quickly.

More variety of items would be nice too. I would love to see some new potted flowers/plants. Or give us the ability to dye things like the Potted Azaela plant. More variety of lots of items honestly, more paintings that aren't tinted brown because of the sightseeing log. ><

Also, theres a weird bug where if you have too many items you can interact with in a house, some of them will just glitch out and disappear if you move away from them. Fixing that would be lovely.

+1 to the non wilting plants idea and also to add it for outdoors. I would love to have the violas in my garden.

Also can we have more sofa/armchair colours? I know the manor is dyeable but the style is wrong for what I want. I realise making everything dyeable would be a ridiculous amount of work but would it be too hard to add say the basic styles in a couple of extra colours? Even if they do a black version and a white or cream version it would help.

I want to be greedy and say "Please give us the ability to freeze plants in ANY state, not just fully bloomed!".
For example, the second to last stage of the cherry tree with the tiny red leaves is super pretty, I'd love to keep that! Or the tiny violet flowers before flax seeds fully grow. In the other thread someone also proposed to make it possible to harvest dried plants from the pots to put them into vases to allow for more eerie housing themes. I fully support that idea °-°

Need a Gazebo the likes of which would make Hildy proud.

Housing Exterior Ideas
~Like Solarra and so many others have suggested on the forums, a Haukke Manor style exterior
~Unlock the Oasis, Glade, and Riviera housing options for all areas
~Ishgardian Brume style
~Ishgardian Pillar style
~Dun Scaith style
~Scathach's Castle Style
~Alexander style
~Allagan style
~Idyllshire/Sharlayan Style
~Grand Company Style (make them look similar to the Grand Company buildings)
~Fortress style
~Grounded ship style
~Astronomy Tower style
~Cave Style
~Beast Tribe Styles

Please add some different fencing options. Or even just keep what we have but let us have it without the gate arch. All the glade arches are so huge and ugly.

I would really like to be able to preview furnishing before byuing, just like we can do for equipments and weapons.

Also, I'd love to get a smaller bathtub, like vintage ones, or even a cleaning set as a tabletop item to be put on a desk
https://archzine.fr/wp-content/uploa...in-moderne.jpg
https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzU4WDYwM...X5KuL/$_35.JPG http://www.lacledestemps.com/11155-l...e-fontaine.jpg

Appartments and rooms are quite small and it's a pitty the bathtubs we have right now are so big...

Walls, ceilings, and floors should be allowed to be fish aquariums. So that i could walk into my room and be surrounded by fish and blue, brightly lit, water. Also having the walls, floors and ceiling covered by an aquarium partition type object would be fine also.

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Originally Posted by xJimmehx

Walls, ceilings, and floors should be allowed to be fish aquariums. So that i could walk into my room and be surrounded by fish and blue, brightly lit, water. Also having the walls, floors and ceiling covered by an aquarium partition type object would be fine also.

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Give this man a pot of Lala Stew!

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Originally Posted by SokiYagami

Give this man a pot of Lala Stew!

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Better yet, give him scuba lalas for his aquarium room!

I LOVE THAT IDEA! I don't know how they'd do the ceiling, but the aquariums could be interior wall and flooring options.

Gotta' admit, I would love to have ceiling slots in housing. That bright white ceiling in the Riviera architecture really clashes with some walls.

Could we get a house option that doesn't have the support pillars on the walls, like the White Partition?
Decorating around those support pillars is annoying. I wouldn't even mind if it made the wall thicker to compensate.

Also, how about curtains and portiere (curtains hung over doorways)? >w>