Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

More carbucle furniture. Also, either dyeable or the current stuff in different colors.

This may be an unpopular one but: in 6.0.5 or whatever (before 6.1 patch, but not like, release week 6.0), apartments that haven't been entered in 3+ years should be demolished. Apartments were added in...3.4? That would give them some wiggle room to come in for the latest expansion if the hot new thing is what's needed. Honestly, even demolishing them sometime soon probably wouldn't be a big deal.

By no means am I suggesting that apartments should get auto-demolished every 45, 90, or even every few months, but there are some apartments that have no doubt gone unused since they were released five years ago.

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Originally Posted by Arielen

This may be an unpopular one but: in 6.0.5 or whatever (before 6.1 patch, but not like, release week 6.0), apartments that haven't been entered in 3+ years should be demolished. Apartments were added in...3.4? That would give them some wiggle room to come in for the latest expansion if the hot new thing is what's needed. Honestly, even demolishing them sometime soon probably wouldn't be a big deal.

By no means am I suggesting that apartments should get auto-demolished every 45, 90, or even every few months, but there are some apartments that have no doubt gone unused since they were released five years ago.

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Honestly, I think "demolishing" an apartment that has not been entered by the owner in 90 days is perfectly generous. They either need to vacate the lots that have gone unused all these years or they need to expand the buildings beyond the 90 tenants like Yoshi claimed they could do years ago.

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Originally Posted by Jagick

Honestly, I think "demolishing" an apartment that has not been entered by the owner in 90 days is perfectly generous. They either need to vacate the lots that have gone unused all these years or they need to expand the buildings beyond the 90 tenants like Yoshi claimed they could do years ago.

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Apartments aren't a problem on any server except the top percentile ones like Balmung and Gilgamesh, so I feel like 90 days is too short, but a demo every 2 years moving forward probably wouldn't be too bad. When Ishgard housing comes in, it'll be getting another 24 wards and subwards worth of apartments. With demo every 2 years even the biggest servers should (probably) be fine. Part of the incentive of apartments is that you have them forever, I just feel like people who haven't played in years probably aren't going to come back anyway.

Also: YorHa furnishings! Like the things in this room:

https://i.imgur.com/IgD8RQp.png

I noticed that we can play a few tunes from the housing instruments like the big piano and harp, but it would be cool if we can play performance mode while interacting it as a bard (with special instrument playing animations). Hoping that SE can see this.

Considering this thread is quite long if this has already been suggested then fair enough.

It would be amazing if SE would just let us freely position items up down wherever without the need for tedious glitching. They already know people use glitching for designing and all their contest winners practically do as well so it would be an amazing QoL improvment for making your house look nice.

(Also being able to add housing interior skins would be great, like roof/wall section pillars all of that).

Sincerely,
someone who is redecorating their FC house after 4 years.

Grimoirs, More potion-themed shelves, human skull decoration, more arcane/ dark fantasy pharmacy themed items

Wooden, rounded arches
rounded doors & doorways
European Cottage themed items
Stone arches
Roots
Spiderwebs/ cobwebs
Birdcages
Wooden tubs
Lattice windows
Floral printed curtains
small, wooden pillars with beams
small Beams
More indoor plants
Indoor Chocobo
Hay & firewood
Placeable weapons without mannequin- both wall attachment & tabletop variants
Bay windows
Walls with changeable wallpaper without ugly paneling
More "alphascape" Scenery without digital lines or ugly border.
Fall scenery/ winter scenery/ forest scenery/ ocean/ beach scenery

More interior house customization- Remove all pillars attached to house & remove all house-paneling to only have the wall design.
Placing items should be easier- Players shouldn't have to glitch or use 3rd party programs to create house designs. It's not fun.

Introduce new style of small house- Small house design with an attic, not a basement
Increase interior item limit & storage by 100 for each house size


SE team & Yoshi P should try to recreate their favourite player house designs to understand how frustrating the decorating system is.

- set house as optional return point
- option to have the original 1 story cottage or the current basement version (the difference between inside and out is jarring). adding an attic as HeyMcFLy said would be cool too.
- option to change the indoor paneling/ceiling/pillars
- ability to move fc chamber door and ceiling light
- wallpaper-able version of the square partition
- z axis placement
- proper weapon displays, jobs like mnk and nin cant make do with mannequins
- why is the glade bed the only one out of the 3 that is undyable? this keeps me up at night
- let me sit properly in the mist deckchairs, my fat roegadyn ass keeps clipping through them

*Full interior stone options, as in enough indoor items to fully kit the space out in old/dark stone. Walls, partitions, benches, windows, arches, baths, window frames, etc. I want to make a Gelmorran or medieval monastery style living space for my Duskwight.

*Non-point source lighting, as in a light source that's not tied to a lamp, lantern, or other physical object.

*Pre-fabricated recess for walls. Having to take up a decent amount of floor space to create a recessed garden or what have you isn't great. I'd love to have a variety of single-piece recesses with the table/floor keywords that we could use rather than having to use up valuable space and item count for in-wall things.

*Option to make food items non-consumable so that they act purely as decoration and not something people can eat if/when they come into your house.

*Attics rather than basements

*Personal rooms tied to individually-owned homes. It would be a great way for Tennant alts to have a room associated with a main character's house. Make entering the personal room count as interaction for the purposes of demolition timers.

*Floor items with a lip and drain to put under showers. It drives me nuts that they discharge onto the floor and not some containment to keep from flooding the room.

*All plants be usable both inside and outside.

That's it for now, more likely to come at a later date.

I'd really like a greater variety of NPC's to place inside my home to make it feel more 'lived in'.

There's a few merchant NPC's who can be used as a stand in for a butler or barman but it'd be neat if we could also have cosmetic guards that stand around on 'patrol'.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I'd really like a greater variety of NPC's to place inside my home to make it feel more 'lived in'.

There's a few merchant NPC's who can be used as a stand in for a butler or barman but it'd be neat if we could also have cosmetic guards that stand around on 'patrol'.

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I used mannequins for that but I really wish I could place my retainers inside my home, not outside.

New housing styles -
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/37/0a/fa/3...40ef59a67c.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/51/0c/b9/5...d25d72d8c8.jpg

Add Attics instead of basements in small houses

Make apartments larger/ allow 2 tenants

The option to remove all interior windows.
Allow floating/lowering of objects without the floating loft trick. To be able to float/sink in open space.
An additional tenant to apartments, making 1 owner into 2.
Add surface placement to ALL flat surfaces. This includes all partitions, beds, lofts- sides of lofts, doors, windows, chairs etc. without having to use floating tricks to do so.
The option to remove unused floors entirely.
Fix the placed item selection. If I place a window in the front of the house, I do not expect to accidentally grab something from across the room simply because it is given priority for no reason.
The ability to use separate floors and wall papers on the same level. Half tile, half wood, half brick, on one floor.
Increased item limit by 100 for every house/apartment.
add more partitions types with archways.

Blank Floormats - basically a ground equivalent to the blank partitions: A floormat that we can apply any of the Flooring-options to.
Dimensions and default look could mimic the Flooring Mat we already have.

I would like to see wardrobes or a new type of one gain an interaction function similar to dressers.
And that we could sleep on our private chambers bed the same way as if we did if we were to at an inn's bed when we logged off and online again.

Bee hives on Trees
Bee Apiary for Yard

Pumpkin patches

New chocobo Stall with farm equipment/ Gates attached

Houses with yard themes, since items are limited, having a blank yard is really ugly. Design new houses that also have yards to match.
Tree house with overgrown vegetation.
Ishgardian Tudor home with stone entrance & overgrown ivy pillars, etc.
Witchy house with creepy looking trees, etc


Rounded windows; cottage style
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/79/52/4f/7...1b0eb85dd1.jpg




More Spiral stairs, that are stone and have solid steps, no gaps as seen in image
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/27/f6/6a/2...7671b6285e.jpg


Old, Stone steps
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/dd/1e/ef/d...38e213d2b9.jpg

I've suggested a housing idea before on the forums but it didn't get much recognition maybe me posting the link to a blog i made towards it could help receive recognition https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../blog/4603795/

I didn't know I needed these exterior options in my life until now. The ivy covered one just screams Lavender Beds.

I don't know f this has been mentioned, but the ability to toggle the ceiling light fixture on or off, in addition to changing it would be pretty nice.

Rounded doors
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/28/88/29/2...4095eb8b4e.jpg

Recent Reddit thread brought up a few good suggestions to prevent harassment and griefing in associating with a house:

* Disallow players on the owner's blacklist from entering a personal house even if it is unlocked.
* Disallow players on the owner's blacklist from entering a private room in an FC house, even if it is unlocked
* Disallow players on the owner's blacklist from entering an apartment even if it is unlocked
* Option to manually kick individual players from a FC house or personal house temporarily (but they can enter again if it's not locked). For FCs, this right can be included under the FC rank for housing options.

Blacklisting a player is a great way of stopping you from having to see their text, but doesn't prevent them from entering your personal house without you locking everyone out. For the edge cases where stalkers don't take the hint, having the door shut in their face might help.

1. Placing objects in our loft without performing levitation magics to get them up there. I have a FC Private Chambers and space is cramped. I need my loft space.
2. A toilet.
3. Indoor planters that hold 3 plants for cross-breeding

Yeah I know 1 and 3 likely won't happen because of technical reasons.

Housing item request: (possible spoiler for PotD)

The bench from floor 200, and the tree as well.

Rounded doorways/ archways that aren't Hingan or Marble

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/24/bb/82/2...2060473547.jpg




European castle themed items & Ishgard items/ walls/ pillars

- Enable upper door to go to balcony + add a ladder/trapdoor that leads to the roof (or add exterior furniture that easily allows you on balcony & roof cuss the HoH structure is ugly, in the way and not high enough for a lot of house exteriors)
- Enable us to move the workshop door, the pillars & maybe also the stairs (and maybe even provide us with choices on which stair we want to use).
- Allow you to lock your door(s) for people on your blacklist.
- Allow you to change lighting inside the house separately for each floor.

Wooden, european style tubs
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/73/b2/81/7...0ba07945c3.jpg

Small round rugs! Smaller, round & oddly shaped rugs to fit into small rooms
Rugs with Jute & more floral patterns

Animated Phasmascape scenery (With no visible weird design on the border of the screen) with Summer forests, Rainy forests, snowy Ishgardian Hills, Autumn plains, Desert & canyon landscapes, Lavender Forests of Lakeland

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Originally Posted by HeyMcFly

Small round rugs! Smaller, round & oddly shaped rugs to fit into small rooms
Rugs with Jute & more floral patterns

Animated Phasmascape scenery (With no visible weird design on the border of the screen) with Summer forests, Rainy forests, snowy Ishgardian Hills, Autumn plains, Desert & canyon landscapes, Lavender Forests of Lakeland

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They implied pretty heavily that we'll be getting more of the Phasmascapes as time passes, so hopefully at least some of that will come to pass soon enough. I would absolutely love to see them without borders too though. Those are awkward. And it would be awesome if they could reality check the spacing on the vendor sold ones... you can't get that one nearly as flush to the wall as you can the moon without glitching currently. And that's a pain in the butt to do.

Increased item limit placement & storage limit for housing- all house sizes

More underwater/ ocean themed items

I don't know if it's possible to have a larger fish tank?
and how about cylindrical fish tanks? Ones that go from the floor to the Ceiling
I'd also suggest taller plants/ kelp-like plants
Again; more indoor tree variety - giant oak trees etc

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/c7/f7/fe/c...ffb2b0f967.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ed/5d/55/e...a61e760c60.jpg


Ilymlaen statue for our garden
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...Uux4M&usqp=CAU

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Originally Posted by Kytrin

They implied pretty heavily that we'll be getting more of the Phasmascapes as time passes, so hopefully at least some of that will come to pass soon enough. I would absolutely love to see them without borders too though. Those are awkward. And it would be awesome if they could reality check the spacing on the vendor sold ones... you can't get that one nearly as flush to the wall as you can the moon without glitching currently. And that's a pain in the butt to do.

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That's wonderful, thank you!

With starlight season coming on I am always excited to decorate my fc house with all the pretty lights. But it just breaks my heart that the grass and flowers in my yard ruin the whole winter effect. I just wanted to throw out the idea of a new house shell (perhaps a reward in the starlight event) made to look like there is snow on the roof and decorated with lights, but most importantly with a layer of snow that fully covers the yard.

We need 1/2 and 1/3 size walls of all varieties, curved walls, basic dyeable pillars, blank lofts you can apply flooring options to, blank doorways and archways, blank flooring furnishings (like rugs you can apply flooring to), basic dyeable picture frames, planter partitions with multiple vase like slots we can arrange flowers in, hanging flower pots and more variety of flower pots in general. It would also be nice to be able to dress the venders how we want (for some reason they let us dress the custom delivery npc in this way), Elemental effect "lamps" think darkness, snow, electricity, etc.

1) Upper floor for small and medium houses, the tradeoff would be no lower floor in these cases.
2) Balcony for apartments & large houses
3) Option to remove all chandeliers
4) Add wardrobes
5) Add float/sink/lower option to all items
6) Removal of all built in windows
7) Larger item limit for apartments and small houses.
8) The ability to use multiple floorings on one floor

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Originally Posted by juicybug

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1) Upper floor for small and medium houses, the tradeoff would be no lower floor in these cases.
2) Balcony for apartments & large houses
6) Removal of all built in windows

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1. An upper vs. lower floor would be spectacular. I'd be happy with an option for all houses to have private rooms, ala FC rooms, that would be the equivalent of an upper floor/attic, even if we don't get a non-instanced extra floor.

2. This would probably have to be instanced, as mentioned above.

6. This thought, and others' suggestions of removing pillars has me wondering if the interiors of houses are a skin like we have for exteriors and not a conglomerate of individual items. If so, perhaps making all interiors be straight blank slates would be a good thing. That way we could make/buy custom interior skins if we wanted one of the stock interiors.

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Originally Posted by juicybug

1) Upper floor for small and medium houses, the tradeoff would be no lower floor in these cases.

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1) A medium house already has 3 floors (an upper and lower floor plus the main floor). I'm confused what you're asking for here, especially since you don't include the large house as well.

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Originally Posted by juicybug

1) Upper floor for small and medium houses, the tradeoff would be no lower floor in these cases.
2) Balcony for apartments & large houses
3) Option to remove all chandeliers
4) Add wardrobes
5) Add float/sink/lower option to all items
6) Removal of all built in windows
7) Larger item limit for apartments and small houses.
8) The ability to use multiple floorings on one floor

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This

I want all of this and item limit increase for housing and apartments
and to better clarify what you mean by sink/ float etc- that would be like an x,y,z axis menu which would make decorating 100x easier

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Originally Posted by MizArai

1) A medium house already has 3 floors (an upper and lower floor plus the main floor). I'm confused what you're asking for here, especially since you don't include the large house as well.

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Basically that we would have a ground floor, an upper floor, and an attic for our mediums instead of a basement, ground floor, and upper floor.

Allowing us to save our furnishing layout (and load them) would be nice and useful in several ways:

1. We can avoid having to redo our existing decoration after relocation to another plot.
2. We can try out new furnishing / concepts without having to redo the decoration if it turned out to be unsatisfactory.
3. Quick switching of decoration themes based on seasonal dates/occasions becomes a reality.

Hopefully the development team could consider it and at least look into the feasibility of implementing this. Thank you :D

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Originally Posted by Yuumei

Allowing us to save our furnishing layout (and load them) would be nice and useful in several ways:

1. We can avoid having to redo our existing decoration after relocation to another plot.
2. We can try out new furnishing / concepts without having to redo the decoration if it turned out to be unsatisfactory.
3. Quick switching of decoration themes based on seasonal dates/occasions becomes a reality.

Hopefully the development team could consider it and at least look into the feasibility of implementing this. Thank you :D

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This is a good idea.
As a complimentary idea:

The owner could also export that layout, so designers could do decoration commissions without having to make alts in other servers, level up to unlock dyes, etc.