Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[OoglieBooglie]

It would be nice if the partitions could have the same wallpaper as the room they're in. It just looks wonky when 3 walls of a room (with 1 wall as a partition) have one wallpaper and then the fourth wall has another wallpaper that you can't change.

[Theodric]

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Yeah, I mean...realistically most players aren't going to be able to afford a medium or large house. Being able to build up a small home (by adding additional floors underground) would be neat.

[Muin]

I was just lost in the see also section of Wikipedia the other day and stumbled across this link on Salmagundi sometimes abbreviated as salmi. This would be such a neat food item for tables in FFXIV. Maybe it's a Limsan Lominsan dish since it also seems to be related to food served on pirate ships. Here's a link to a picture of what I'm thinking of in particular and lots more pics can be found on a Google image search. I'd use it as a replacement for the Stuffed Dodo platter during certain festivals of the year.

[Wilan]

I can't help noticing how lacking the game is about painting. We've got portraits, yes, and in spades, but I'd really love actual landscape paintings for a change, or maybe even illustrations.

We already have some in the game, too. I would love to see them added as housing items:







You wouldn't even need to make any new art. FFXIV has an abundance of beautiful and stunning concept art that would look lovely in my living room. The fan kit and the concept arts featured in the game's artbooks would be great candidates. Wouldn't you like to see this illustration framed? Or this one or this one? We sure aren't starving for beautiful art with FFXIV, let us make our own personal art gallery!

[Beckett]

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Oh god yes! I would kill for large paintings that weren't portraits. Every house in the game has half a dozen portraits because they're currently the only way to fill up tons of empty wall space.

[MsParis]

Please give us the option to "preview" dye colors before dyeing exterior and interior fixtures/furniture!

I'd also love to have some of the decor/furniture/interior walls/floors from the "Ceremony of Eternal Bonding." Even just the flowers/plants or walls would be nice.

[Zhexos]

Greetings,

We previously mentioned a jukebox like furnishing called the Orchestrion, and this is finally confirmed for Patch 3.2. This furnishing will allow players to change the music inside the inn, housing, and personal chambers by collecting sheet music.

Since we made the announcement, our friends over in Japan received some questions related to this item, so I wanted to share this information with everyone.

Q: It mentioned that players would need to collect sheet music, does this mean that everyone who would like to listen to that music inside the house needs to have the sheet music as well, or would it play that specific music for everyone as long as the person who set the music has the sheet music?

The music played by the orchestrion can be heard by all players inside the house. However, since private chambers and the workshop are different areas, it will not apply to players who are in these areas.

Q: Will the sheet music play an actual music, or just sound effects?

Unlike the current existing musical instrument furnishings, this feature will change the BGM itself.

[Chewy2nd]

Will this item work in the outdoor housing area?

[Atoli]

Will this item work in the outdoor housing area?

Pretty sure the answer is no. Since it doesn't work in the private rooms and the workshop, it is likely only changing the BGM of the instance that your house is.
The outdoor area is not instanced but shared with everyone on the map, so...^^

[Morbid]

So how many extra housing item slots are you giving us you so we can actually use these? :0