Island Sanctuary Suggestion Megathread

So my current list of wanted tweaks would be (I know a lot of these have already been mentioned):

• A crafting log or a way to easily pin an item that you're working on

• Bump up the XP gained once you've upgraded your tool. 1 item is 10 XP and so 2 items should at least 20 XP.

• For the workshop, take out materials as you place items on the agenda so you can actively see what you're working with. If you remove an item off the agenda, refund the mats. This would help to avoid the 'insufficient materials' message if you were off busy upgrading/building other items and accidently dipped into your workshop materials.

• Let us move or hide mammets. Those things do not need to be up in my treehouse and crawling all over my house.

• While I appreciate the workshop & granary NPCs being in one location, let us manage both of these items from the actual placard as well. It's kinda weird to me that once they're built and upgraded to your liking, there's no reason to ever visit them again.

• I'm hoping that there is a buff to the number of materials gathered at each node at some point. I'm only level 6, so not sure if that's yet to come.

• Let your friends be able to actively gather/catch animals while visiting. I really don't understand the draw of visiting someone's island at this point when they all pretty much look the same and you can't do anything as a guest.

I'm sure more things will pop up, but that's enough for now.

Several things have already been mentioned but the really big ones for me are

1) Some way to see the materials your short on for crafting. Like you can see the material allocation tab for your workshop, but when you're gathering materials to upgrade your cabin or workshop or something, you have to keep checking multiple menu's to see what you have/need

2) Names displayed on the nodes so you can tell if you want them from a bit of a distance when in gather mode

3) Allow us to filter the tracking of nodes on the radar. I understand we probably can't filter down to the specific item like 'apple tree's only', but if we could filter by type, ie only show ore nodes and logging nodes on my radar. That would unclog the radar a fair bit and allow you an easier time when going after specific materials.

Aside from those, I don't mind going to the mammets to check on garden/pets, but I certainly wouldn't mind having access to those menu's in the field. Also a weather reporting mammet would be nice to have.

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Originally Posted by Solarra

An idea for playing with friends:

Something like Hamlet Defence? I think it would be cool if you had to defend your base from pirates or maybe a large monster spawns on your island and you need to get a Light Party together to defeat it.

Should be optional of course and I'd definitely make it something you can schedule to suit your playtime but I think it could be a lot of fun. Success can be rewarded with blue cowries for everyone who participates, and some nice loot too! It would be great content for FCs or small groups of friends.

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Funny enough, 1.0 had a system similar to this. On top of that the crafter and gatherers were able to join as well by repairing/fortifying structures. That was really fun and it reminded me of a small scale Besieged from XI. I would love if XIV took a page from either one of those and introduced something like that.

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Originally Posted by Linadae

Customizable housing, of course is a huge one. What's the point of 'building the island sanctuary of your dreams' if you can't build and decorate the kind of house you want? There's also really no point in allowing visitation if everyone's islands pretty much look exactly the same anyway. Also, this will make a HUGE reduction in demand for private housing.

Also, let people visit even if they haven't unlocked island sanctuary.

If possible, allow players to pick from different island biomes. This would allow for not only further customization with the generic buildings (warehouses/granaries) but even allow for different tamable animals. Which could be expanded into allowing friends to trade tamed animals with one another once special biome specific pastures are built.

Some biomes could be the current tropical, someone earlier wanted a desert (I'm guessing similar to Rabanastre), I personally would like to see a temperate forest island similar to what you'd see along the east coast of America.

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All of this!

Different biomes- let us design our island & name it- it's no fun when our islands look exactly the same
More diverse Island Customization - I want to give my friends a reason to come to my island & put time into making a beautiful island of my dreams
An actual House on the island - I'd sell my current house in the goblet just to have a house on Island Sanctuary that's just as customizable

Well, now that my rank is higher, my biggest issue with IS is the lack of customization. If I unlock Cozy Cabin III why should I go back to the uglier II one? That's a downgrade. Why should I choose grassy or muddy grounds when I can have the nice stony one? I want more customization!

Give me stony grounds but with the torches from the muddy ones! Give me flowery grounds, seashell grounds!
There's a lot of sad empty space AROUND my buildings, give me decorations: planters, crates, grain sacks, benches, gigantic colorful seashells, lights, ponds, campfires, statues, mossy rocks and more! :)

I've looked forward to the Elemental Archfiends for years and I'm not even playing the EX! Because Island Sanctuary is so wonderful for my anxiety.

Please give us a subforum

The landmarks feel useless right now, I would love it if the landmarks gave us a buff. For example, maybe the windmill can increase gathering yield when gathering hemp, cotton bolls, and sugarcane. The bathhouse could increase gathering yield for items gathered with your gig, and the tree fort could increase gathering yield from trees.

I want to change my island to a sunset autumn theme full of pumpkin patches & giant twisted oaks

And also invite Thancred/ other scion NPC's to my island

Rename cozy cabin to cozy hut since it doesn't look anything like a cabin. Pretty sure a cabin has enclosed walls and not open walls.

Let me actually build the sanctuary of my dreams with tech out buildings and landmarks. I want to rebuild Allag... not live in a cabin with no walls.