Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Illmaeran]

1. Make ALL, yes, 100% all, current housing/building/environmental (plants, rocks, ponds, etc)/clutter (books, burlap sacks, papers, etc) assets available to players. The assets are already in the game, let us use them, PLEASE! The current list of assets is unnecessarily limiting. If it's a matter of feeling a need to have unique component requirements for each one, don't worry about it! Having the items available is a lot more important than the "realism" of separate component requirements for every single thing.

Go check out the Hawthorne Hut; it's a great example of what we're missing, particularly the kitchen. The multiple awnings and awesome big-ass window over the front door are great too.

2. Make ALL, yes, 100% all, furnishing, rug, wall hanging, tables, etc assets dyable. It truly boggles my mind why some items are, and some very similar items aren't, dyable (looking at you Manor furniture!).

3. Mirroring of items; particularly the L-shaped ones like counters and couches.

4. I'd love the ability to transfer my personal room at the FC house to my personal house. I would gladly give up the ability to have a room at the FC house if I could have it attached to my personal house. A one-or-the-other option per character wouldn't take up any extra server space than is already allocated though and would be a nice touch.

5. Add an upstairs floor/attic space in Small houses. See #4 above; this is a perfect combination.

6. Ability for Eternal Bond partners to have (selectable) rights to the house and attach his/her own personal room to it as well. I'm not asking for a pseudo-FC house where anyone can add a room, just my spouse. It would be nice to actually have private rooms that are more than blockaded/partitioned sections of the rest of the house though.

7. Increase the number of item slots by at least 20% (preferably more) for each size and location (indoor/outdoor) of house/plot. The current limitation in both item availability and number allowance makes even small houses feel somewhat empty. Increasing the number of items allowed in a house will allow us to add the "clutter" (more books, flowers, food, paintings, etc) that make a house feel like a home and not a hotel room.

8. Add the ability to stack table items such as crates, barrels, books, etc. Also, see #1 above. There are a ton of assets the environment team has used to create a more realistic world, including stacked items. Please let us do the same in our little space in the world.

9. This is a big one: Delayed Binding of housing elements. As it stands right now the immediate binding of an item upon use is a big problem. Oftentimes, if not EVERY time, it's rather difficult to get a real idea of what an element is going to look like until it's placed. Immediate binding is an unnecessary mechanic and only serves to create inventory bloat. Give us some time, maybe 24 hours of real-world play time, to mess with area/room design before an item binds. If you want to limit this feature to non-star items to preserve rarity of the more challenging items, go for it. If that Glade Chair I just made doesn't work in my space I'd like to be able to give it to a friend or FC mate.

10. "Magical Pictureframes" that allow us to import screenshots as wall hangings. The best thing about this is the image data are stored on our computers so you don't need to worry about additional server assets being used all the time!

11. Weapon racks. I've seen them in the game already, let us have some of our own please! Armor mannequins would be great too.

That's enough for now. If you're a player and read this far, props to you. If you're on the Community team, I hope you read all this and will pass it on. "I look forward to it!"

[AnnietheCat]

I can see why #1 would be desired, so I'm in full support of it. #2 is something I've been asking for since I got my fc's first house. #3 please and thank you! I like the L shaped furniture, but I hate I can't mirror it. It drives me crazy! #4 is great-I hadn't thought of that before. #6-this has been addressed in the recent live letter; the permissions will extend beyond just EB partners and go into friend groups. And the rest are all fantastic ideas as well!

[Zephrey]

Housing Items I want to see:

Twin-Size Beds
I would really love a legit twin side bed. It's already possible to have a double-bed which forces characters to sleep on a "twin-size" portion of the bed instead of directly in the middle. I would love a small shaped and framed bed for a single person.

Mirrored L-Shaped Counters
Why do you only ever have one direction faced L-Shaped table!? We need to be able to mirror them or there should be a "Right Side" AND "Left Side" table added.

Mannequins/Customizable NPCs
For Armor and Weapons, or even NPCs you can dress up INSIDE your house. I hate that you can use your retainers ONLY outside. I want cusomized NPCs to fit my house, not just random servent-like clothing they have on now.

PLEASE remove 1 per estate limit.
If I want to have 5 hot tubs, I should be able to have 5 hot tubs of the same type not just 1 type of each. You cant build a consistant theme if you're stuck having to use different styled furniture to try to match.

Miniture wall-waterfalls
I want plant-like boxes that pour water in a set location, similar to the showers but a wall unit. This would go really well with nature-like themes and I could make good use for it, especially with the hot tubs!

Lower tables
I love the kotatsu but it's not as functional as I would like. It clips all over the place if you try to use it and it just seems messy. I want functional low tables.

Remove the slot food items take in the house
Food items shouldn't count as furniture and should be in a different type of bracket as far as limit. There are so many cool food items I can't use because we're so limited on housing space.

Dye-able Everything
I dont think this needs to be explained.

Music Boxes/Instruments On/Off
I want to be able to toggle music boxes to make them STAY ON playng music until I turn them off.

Jukebox Furniture
Allows you to change the music in your house to like any of the music in the game. They can even have a way or winning or earning music if they want

Fix Breakable Bounded Items
I'd like A storeable inventory for housing items that is LINKED to your house. Exclusively for the rare/ex stuff, its BOUND to your house. Once you place it if you pick it up it goes into its own little housing inventory thing and doesn't break it forever.

Overall Housing item Limit Increase
Mansions have such a small item count it makes having one pointless. I think all of the houses should have an item increase but mansions should have an increase double the amount of medium houses. For example, if there was a 10% increase in items, mansions should have a 20% or even 30% increase in items.

Indoor Combined Furnitures
They did this outside already with one of the new items. It was a table that comes WITH chairs, and small little details like fruit bowls and a candle. If they don't want to increase the limit, having something like this with the small details for only 1 item slot would be greatly welcomed.

Fish tanks
I also want to be able to put any fish that I catch into them.

[Chewy2nd]

I'd love to be able to put an Ishgardian Dragonkiller somewhere on my house, they look so badass, lol.

Also, a picture of Ser Aymeric and an Ishgardian banner wouldn't go amiss! (Would complete my Eorzean alliance wall)

[Shikiseki]

With summer coming up, can we have a big outdoor pool and maybe the ability to change the grass into another type of terrain like sand/rocks/flower fields.

[Nyonmyan]

With summer coming up, can we have a big outdoor pool and maybe the ability to change the grass into another type of terrain like sand/rocks/flower fields.

We don't have enough water-relater outdoor items in general.

[Nalien]

Airship Glamours.

Pretty self explanatory I hope, but given how all Airships are either going to end up being of the Tatanora-type, or some chimera of that and other parts in order to maximize certain stats... Yeah, it would be great to be able to glamour them...

[Cuervo78]

I am still in favor of implementing instanced housing, so everyone can have one.

Aside from that: I want to get rid of the pillars in the walls of oasis houses.

And as others mentioned:
increased item limit for the outside/inside
Make all items retrivable, especially the seasonal items like the bomb lamp
Let us change the type of outdoor ground: sand, stone, short/long grass, flowers....

[Quintalian]

Being able to dye airship parts would be great. Eventually, being able to identify airships at a glance might be useful, so greater visibility of FC emblems and being able to recolor them would be a good start.

[Odeda]

3. Mirroring of items; particularly the L-shaped ones like counters and couches.

8. Add the ability to stack table items such as crates, barrels, books, etc. Also, see #1 above. There are a ton of assets the environment team has used to create a more realistic world, including stacked items. Please let us do the same in our little space in the world.

I need these, especially the mirroring one. Was so disappointed to find out the crates don't stack.

On top of these I would like the ability to scale items, just like you can with UI elements. It wouldn't even need to be that many different sizes, even 3 would make a difference (smaller, default, bigger).

10. "Magical Pictureframes" that allow us to import screenshots as wall hangings. The best thing about this is the image data are stored on our computers so you don't need to worry about additional server assets being used all the time!

Exept if you would want to actually share the screenshot. It would be pretty lackluster if only you could see the images and they would just show up as empty frames for everyone else. You would need to upload the image and that would be insanely easy to take advantage of, someone would need to moderate everything that comes through (unless you want to rank up the game rating to Mature) and I would rather have the support team on more important tasks. There's a reason we don't have custom (meaning self made images) FC emblems.

The only way I see this even remotely possible is if we could pick freeze frames from cutscenes that are available at the inn. This could be vulnerable to abuse also because of spoilers but that could be easily prevented by showing it empty or a placeholder image if there's something from a quest you have yet to finish.

On another note, I would love to see flying in housing areas, made a dedicated thread for it with some suggestions.