Thread: Crafting in 2.0 and beyond!

Originally Posted by ellohwell

And hopefully they abolish the Random Number Game materia crap and replace it with some kind of skilful minigame or something that actually makes use of your abilities etc.

It would be cool if instead of LS housing they allowed Free Companies to claim non-instanced territory and build stuff on it - defenses and houses and an auction house. And perhaps limit auction houses to Free Company areas so as to provide some relevance to them as a gathering place.

You can talk about giving crafters a purpose in terms of making airships and stuff, but is it really a purpose if those things (airhsips, houses) don't even have a purpose unto themselves.

First you have to make houses, airships, and LS bases have a purpose before you consider making their creation purposeful.

Hmm this brings up a thought, what if players craft a generic piece of furniture, like bed couch armchair or something, but by adding materia, it changes the look of it.

We could use low level materia players aren't really willing to pay for. weapon materia and armor materia wouldn't really matter for furniture so just adding it give it a new look.

Originally Posted by Shikaree

Just as long as the materia'd furniture doesn't do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaI3WhUiFg0

I never thought it would come to life that like, haha now that is silly. Soon players will be talking with their weapons and armor.

Originally Posted by Allcars

As a level 50 carpenter, all I do is either make bows that nobody wants and spears everyone wants. In 2.0 I really want to be able to make furniture for mog-houses, ls housing, airship parts.

Who else would be interested in doing some crafting for houses and airships, instead of making some armor and weapons.

If possible I would like all the crafting classes to have a roll in crafting things for air ships, and housing.

An Alchemist, and goldsmith, could make the Myst-reactors for airships, if that is what airships run on in ffxiv.

Blacksmiths, could make crafting stations for player/ls houses, with the help of carpenters.

Armorers, could put, armor on the airships.

Weavers, could make the sails, and cushions for seats and beds.

Leatherworkers, could make all the belts that help drive the airships, make nice leather seats for houses and airships.

Alchemist, could make potion facilities for houses, and Myst the fuel source for airships.(again unsure if that is unused in ffxiv)

Culinary chefs, what would a ls/mog house be with out a well stocked fridge, buy at your own risk.


Goldsmiths, could make high quality pieces to furnish your house with.

These are just a few Ideas I had while writing this, I am calling on the community to help get some ideas, and maybe one of the mods can come and send these ideas to the Dev team.

Can the airship run out of fuel mid-flight?

*Alchemist main hand tool macro with Hasty Hand trait set, gets into position and tries to hurry before airship crashes*

Was it a gameplay video though? All I remember with the cake thing was seeing 2 lalafell standing around doing little working animations then a time lapse with the cake being more complete.

It would be nice if crafters had an impact on the non-instanced world, say:
1. 100 carpenter leves are done by the server at camp horizon/hamlet/settlement and we get a new...building etc
2. 100 alchemist leves ... and we get a new aethryte crystal
say, turning a settlement of one house and 3 npcs into a sprawling hamlet like Oaks Nest

but the downside is that the above can be attacked by garleans and beastmen (think campaign battle) and can be destroyed

i posted this a long time ago in another thread:

"Regarding Local Levequests - these should have a bearing on evolving the camp. Buildings/Tents should be erected and services offered. An inn, a chocobo pen, a garden, etc. Basically merge the hamlets idea into Camps. The Camps at the present time are really not immersive because they all look exactly the same. I would rather have come across smaller unique settlements like were put in the recent update. As an aside, allow for these constructed Camps to be raided by beastmen and garleans. Buildings can be damaged or destroyed, repaired or are built again when enough leves are processed. Camps should have the possibility to become as large as Hamlets. It seems absurd there is only one city and 2 hamlets in each region. I would love to come across Camps as big as say Owl's Nest in Coerthas. Allow more buildings to be erected and in turn add NPCs to the realm offering quests. Employ DoW/DoM support by making fully built up Camps housing an NPC who offers weaponskill quests or Trial of the Magian style quests for example. So basically, the DoW and DoM have an incentive to join in with protecting these settlements in the long term. "