Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

An outdoor swimming pool that's dug into the ground please.

Alternate mini aetherytes. A rougher beast tribe style, or the tribal one in Ok'Zundu, or an Amaurotine decorative version.

Not a BIG deal/change but I'd love for this cherry tree WITH the lights to be ingame as an actual furnishing item!

https://i.imgur.com/PS37O0n.png

& will suggest again as I've suggested this in the past, not a big deal/change but I would love MORE retainer poses for our retainers on our front lawn (sitting position, leaning, dancing etc).

Haukke Manor style wall style. I want to live in creepy manor!!

A special felt mat with an adjustable umbrella position please.

If Ishgard Restoration really is leading to housing, maybe the construction thing can serve as in-universe way of adding wards and stuff. That way, if more wards are needed, they can expand with player effort at least. Since SE doesn’t seem inclined to do Instanced Housing, this seems like a happy medium between current system and suggestion to auto-add wards as needed.

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Originally Posted by kujoestars

If Ishgard Restoration really is leading to housing, maybe the construction thing can serve as in-universe way of adding wards and stuff. That way, if more wards are needed, they can expand with player effort at least. Since SE doesn’t seem inclined to do Instanced Housing, this seems like a happy medium between current system and suggestion to auto-add wards as needed.

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They have to allocate resources ahead of time for the wards because of how they work and they keep all the servers at the same capacity of wards. Infinite ward housing will never be a thing with wards.

SE should also set for reconstruction other war torn areas like ala mhigo, doma, and mhor dona.

I really want an invisible light fixture ala "the emperor's new <insert armor slot here>". When doing fancy house design with second levels, the light fixtures often get in the way and building around them isn't always an option for some concepts.

I need the hedges, plants and fountain from The Grand Cosmos please.

- Would have less stuctures to render when porting into the distict, save for a number of sorrounding apartment buildings and landscapes.

- no need for wards as one apartment district can contain massive apartment buildings, housing a multitude of apartment units.

- Apartment units would have bigger horizontal and vertical spaces for non constricted placement of lofts and other interior design decorations.

- Apartment districts can be established at reconstructed war torn areas like ishgard, hopefully ala mhigo, mor dhona, and doma.

- Enabled for indoor gardening the capacity of a large house.

- auto clean public stables.

- Has a balcony with an outdoor view of sorrounding buildings and landscapes, following day and night cycle as well as weather conditions.

- still subject for auto demolition but it takes 365 days of inactivity for auto demolition to be applied.

- readily available for players that have completed the necessary quest for housing eligibility.

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...b0f5c1be48.png

- additionally, people can still attempt to buy plotted houses but will have to take into account that it is a limited resource, thus there is no guarantee of its availability at the desired time of purchase.

Why the heck can't we wallpaper white (blank) partitions? It still baffles me that this isn't possible. Wallpaper can be placed on other "blank" partitions, but they have the all that trimming getting in the way. >_> Please give us proper blank partitions!

For that matter, how about just blank walls and ceilings, without the pillars and other visible framework?

I'd love to have a plain white wall with a door... particularly a version of the small rectangular wall with a door.

So the garleans will stop their invasion:cool::cool::cool:

And a half partition with doors please.

I would like to see models of the submarines, just like we have airship-models!

Also: Signs (both for in- and outdoors) that we can write on ourself. It doesnt has to show on the actual piece of furniture, that could just have some eorzean generic letters on it, but when interacting with them anyone with furnishing rights can write something, everyone else can read whats been written. A bit like how we can leave notes in the guestbook (something that tells me that this is actually possible). I'd be okay with being limited to a certain amount of those or only being able to put a limited amount of letters on one such sign.

I'm not sure if this has been requested before but as someone whos currently struggling with the housing menu again, one feature I'd like to see would be the option to lock furniture in a place - a bit like we can lock our hotbars/skills. Right clicking the funiture in the housing menu would give you the option to "lock that furniture in place" (a little lock icon could appear next to furniture that has been locked) and until you unlock the item, it cant be moved.

Make an utlra elite ward with only M and L plots.
Double the price on those wards, remove the FC restriction (that only FC's can buy)

This could serve as a "beverly hills" of housing wards, its a good Gil sync, andit fixes the supply shortage of M and L houses.

The challenge then becomes working your ass off to aquire the gil. (and not beating other players to the punch whichis what the challenge is now...)

Suggestion: Slanted Wall Partitions, Arch Doors, Slanted Door Partitions

I'm just posting this from my other thread!
There are alot of frustrating things when it comes to trying to decorate your house in FFXIV- to get any specific look, you'll most likely have to glitch items to high heaven just to replicate floating, fancy kitchen cabinets for example which can take up a nasty amount of Housing item limits.

Want a bay window? Combine 3+ windows & there are abunch of items slots you wouldn't of had to waste if there were premade Bay Windows already in game.

Alot of ideas come to mind when I think of bettering the decorations & build mechanics we already have --
One such item is an inverted stairwell wall, or Slanted wall that can cover the gap/giant space underneath placed stairs. I'll just make a list of items that could improve QoL for house decorators.

-Inverted or Slanted Wall Partition

-Arch/ rounded Doorway (with a matching, rounded dye capable door)

-Dyeable Brick Partition

-Stairwell Partition that comes in Small, Medium or Large (it would have the grooves to fit nicely under stairs)

-Stairwell Partition with a Door (For the tiny room to shove Potter in)

-Premade Small, Medium & Large Bay Window

- Fancy Drapery, complete with tassles!

-Inverted/ Slanted Stair or guard Rails

-Marble Partitions you can apply wallpaper to

-Dyeable Brick anything (brick doesn't just come in Red SE)

-Arch/ Rounded windows that don't have indoor shutters

Also, add more item slots to housing- all house sizes.
That completes my list for now!

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Elevation tool.

For m+kb it could be an up and down arrow right between place and rotate, and for Gamepad I could see it as Right Trigger/Button up Left Trigger/Button Down.

So I was thinking, if increasing the item limit like we've been howling for would be too difficult... why not make it easier to block off parts of the house, or partition in general, instead?

I'm thinking specifically for a medium here (so not entirely sure how to make this work with a large's central staircase), but basically the idea would be to have two items. One would be for the downstairs and one for the up.

For the downstairs, it would be a floor extension. You drop it down and it perfectly fills that gap (covering railing and all) that leads to the downstairs. It's actual floor so any floor items can go on it without any problems, and you can apply whatever floor pattern you want for it. So if you wanted a section of tile or stone for a kitchen perhaps, you could do that without it affecting the rest of the flooring. And it would free up that space very nicely for use in designs. Like if someone wanted an extra large kitchen, or a downstairs master suite, or whatever.

For the upstairs, you would have something similar in wall form. It would completely hide the stairway, gap underneath, and banister without cutting off an extra foot or two of space trying to deal with partitions. It can hold whatever wallpaper or paint is wanted and unless you're in decorating mode you can't tell there's even a stairway there.

Branching off this idea, you could have a similar setup for hiding pillars with walls that take any wallpaper and are dyeable. You could also have prebuilt rooms along a similar theme.

I think for the walling things off, or pillar removal, that might work best as an optional interior feature in the same way floors, walls, and lights are set up. You activate it by adding the item to the slot, and can dye it from there any color you want. To add flooring or wall patterns, they're interactable so you just click on them to apply the specific pattern wanted.

For the pre-built rooms, those are actual furnishings, and count against your slots, but you can drop one down wherever you like and it will superimpose itself over the current walls and floor for whatever size it is. These would be simple squares and rectangles of various sizes, but if you add a door to it the door will slot through the wall without blocking anything off, and the same for windows. You could even have Emperor's arches if you wanted to create an open dining room or something. If you wanted to get really fancy you could also have the external and internal wall able to be done with different colors or wallpaper.

Heck, we could even have rooms with built in lofts or stairs for the smaller races to work with. The possibilities with this are endless and would add a whole new level of customization.

I grant, this setup isn't exactly peel and stick either, but it would radically cut down on the amount of slots we use decorating with partitions and would solve a whole lot of some of the more often asked for things and general frustration people have.

I would like you to add this furniture.

Windows:

- With its correct lighting depending on the time.
- Dyeable preferably.
https://i.imgur.com/LcxY3Gg.png
https://i.imgur.com/LuFFEnD.png
https://i.imgur.com/Dc6IUrH.png
https://i.imgur.com/bjqn06h.png
https://i.imgur.com/17MjtGe.png

Chairs and Tables:

- The giant table with a reduced size to be able to use at house.
- Dyeable preferably.
https://i.imgur.com/q1thBNS.png
https://i.imgur.com/XBsUxf2.png
https://i.imgur.com/x7hlA03.png
https://i.imgur.com/dYy037b.png
https://i.imgur.com/hwLcf1L.png

Flowers and Plants:

https://i.imgur.com/tI0tn04.png
https://i.imgur.com/fmRXRnL.png
https://i.imgur.com/ADGor4b.png
https://i.imgur.com/mFWacHn.png

Paintings:

https://i.imgur.com/PM8kaQ4.png
https://i.imgur.com/ZjBj9ya.png
https://i.imgur.com/uiVT8Sx.png

Others:

- Loft and platforms of other materials.
- More dyeable rugs
https://i.imgur.com/Bdv8Gkz.png
https://i.imgur.com/6P6YkA9.png
https://i.imgur.com/48RBGlz.png

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Originally Posted by Gula

Repost from another thread:

Elevation tool.

For m+kb it could be an up and down arrow right between place and rotate, and for Gamepad I could see it as Right Trigger/Button up Left Trigger/Button Down.

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After spending four hours tonight trying to do the mental gymnastic necessary to set up my apartment via the float glitch, I definitely second this. I kinda feel like SE is taking a 'well the community figured out how to do it, so it's not our problem' sort of approach to this. Which is all well and good but half the time you practically need detailed diagrams and a lot of luck, or actual housing, to even get the glitches to play nice with each other. One wrong move and suddenly everything snaps back to the floor and you're left screaming into the void as hours of work just disappear. Having a dedicated elevation tool would help alleviate so much stress.

As for personal suggestions..

-Treat all furniture as if it's a tabletop item when it interacts with the wooden loft. Half the glitch frustrations wouldn't even be an issue if this happened

-A fridge item, since currently it can take anywhere from 2-5 items to make one via item combinations.

-More interior lighting options with more colors available for the lights. The crystal chandeliers are my favorite lights in this game purely because they cast blue and purple light instead of the default yellow, and I'd love to see more lighting options offer a variety of colors. Like green, seriously SE, where is my green light?

-The option to change ceiling colors.

-Higher pixel version of the Steppe Bed. I kinda feel bad for whomever submitted that entry for the contest because SE did them dirty with it's implementation. Not only is it tiny but it's pixelated worse than Hien's Mogstation outfit. At least up the resolution for the fur, as it's the part that stands out the most due to it's low quality.

-More aquatic items. I've been itching to make a sea scape room for awhile now but there's just not enough out there to make it a reality yet. I'd love a shell bed or for SE to finally implement that floor aquarium that won a spot in the last design contest.

-A counter top table that matches the height of the Southern Kitchen. None of them do except the bar and it's irksome.

Increase housing item limits.
200 items is hardly enough for small if you were wanting to actually build something that involves the entire house + being unique & well done. With 200 in a small, there will always be something lacking & limiting. Increasing the item cap amount by a significant portion would give players a chance to enjoy others designer homes as well as for the decorators, not feel bound & punished to such a low limit.
I think increasing housing item limits would help quell some of the demand for more medium & large houses as well. I know many people seeking a Medium or Large house just for the item limit.
I do think that the item limit needs to be increased by 75-100. So, small would then be 275 or 300. Medium would be 375 or 400 & large would be 475 or 500.

Can we get a button that resets everything in our home? I hate to individually take things down one by one if I wanna remodel the interior.

An option to make summoning bells and vendors open to anyone. Off by default, like teleportation or home access.

While waiting for Upgraded Apartments, or additional Housing Districts and Wards. Why not have a Tent, the setting up action of which would be just like the firmament parasol.

- can be set-up anywhere in the open world.
- tent area automatically becomes sanctuary.
- comes with:
- a grand company style utility cot inside the tent.
- shaded space for a chocobo mount.
- bonfire for cooking.

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...0826290f13.jpg

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...eaf27bdbd2.jpg

Honestly, I would just love to have partitions and panels available in all of the wallpaper styles, instead of just flat panel that we can dye multiple colors. It'd be nice to be able to mimic stone walls, etc.

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Originally Posted by Vasch

Honestly, I would just love to have partitions and panels available in all of the wallpaper styles, instead of just flat panel that we can dye multiple colors. It'd be nice to be able to mimic stone walls, etc.

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There are Blank Riviera, Blank Hingan, Blank Glade and Blank Oasis Partitions available at the Housing Merchants and Estate Servants for 9,000 gil each. You can apply your choice of wallpapers to them. Keep in mind that changing a wallpaper on a Blank Partition will replace and destroy the previous wallpaper instead of returning it to your inventory like the Remodel Interior will.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

There are Blank Riviera, Blank Hingan, Blank Glade and Blank Oasis Partitions available at the Housing Merchants and Estate Servants for 9,000 gil each. You can apply your choice of wallpapers to them. Keep in mind that changing a wallpaper on a Blank Partition will replace and destroy the previous wallpaper instead of returning it to your inventory like the Remodel Interior will.

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Plus, you have to apply wallpaper to each partition individually.

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Originally Posted by Vasch

Honestly, I would just love to have partitions and panels available in all of the wallpaper styles, instead of just flat panel that we can dye multiple colors. It'd be nice to be able to mimic stone walls, etc.

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This so hard
I'd love to add wallpaper to Arch Partitions & wallpaper to the Door partitions- it makes 0 sense as to why they're so limited & they only come in 1 setting- atleast by now, we should have Partitions with doors that we can apply wallpaper to

I'd like a blank partition that automatically pulls its design from the wallpaper of the floor it was placed on.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

There are Blank Riviera, Blank Hingan, Blank Glade and Blank Oasis Partitions available at the Housing Merchants and Estate Servants for 9,000 gil each. You can apply your choice of wallpapers to them. Keep in mind that changing a wallpaper on a Blank Partition will replace and destroy the previous wallpaper instead of returning it to your inventory like the Remodel Interior will.

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Oh, I had no idea. Thank you!

While decorating my garden I couldn't help thinking how nice it would be to have a ground template. Pretty much like a house skin it would basically change the ground texture from the default grass to perhaps grass with a path or with flower borders or perhaps entirely paved/gravelled over. Maybe there could even be a super expensive one that digs out a nice pond/swimming pool.

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Originally Posted by ElianaGoldstein

While decorating my garden I couldn't help thinking how nice it would be to have a ground template. Pretty much like a house skin it would basically change the ground texture from the default grass to perhaps grass with a path or with flower borders or perhaps entirely paved/gravelled over. Maybe there could even be a super expensive one that digs out a nice pond/swimming pool.

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Yesssssss! That sounds great! We could put down snow that way too!

we need private rooms for individual housing, just like the one for FCs. Simply too much housing items and not enough storage.

It would be great if lofting didn't have to be glitched anymore.
Higher beds for the taller races that don't look ridiculous.
Reclining chaise lounge chairs.
Ishgardian/Victorian style housing.

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Originally Posted by ElianaGoldstein

While decorating my garden I couldn't help thinking how nice it would be to have a ground template. Pretty much like a house skin it would basically change the ground texture from the default grass to perhaps grass with a path or with flower borders or perhaps entirely paved/gravelled over. Maybe there could even be a super expensive one that digs out a nice pond/swimming pool.

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This would have been a better idea than what they tried with the Lakelands grass. I can't even cover the front of my medium with the 30 item limit, nevermind have any slots left for furniture. I rather just be able to change all of the grass around my estate like you suggested.

Can we please have windows shine light regardless of which side of the room they happen to be placed on. Make it dependent on the time of day of course but there's nothing more annoying than making a room with special glitched windows and frames then realizing halfway through, after hours of float glitching, that you need to dismantle a good portion of it because you put the windows on the /wrong/ side.

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Originally Posted by Enla

Can we please have windows shine light regardless of which side of the room they happen to be placed on. Make it dependent on the time of day of course but there's nothing more annoying than making a room with special glitched windows and frames then realizing halfway through, after hours of float glitching, that you need to dismantle a good portion of it because you put the windows on the /wrong/ side.

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While we're at it... can we have an option to turn off the static windows so I don't get random god rays shining through my bookshelves and things? <.<