My First Final Fantasy 14 Building Project

My latest adventure in Final Fantasy 14 involves interior decorating. Part of the recent patch was an expansion of how many housing items could go into your various player spaces. Every single one of them increased by fifty percent for interiors and doubled for exteriors–which have much smaller numbers than interiors, but that kind of makes sense because all the interiors are their own instances and the exteriors are part of a shared map with thirty other houses, many NPCs, and the graphical infrastructure of making someplace a neighborhood. For the spaces I have access to, a “Private Chamber” in my Free Company’s house and my own “Cottage,” there wasn’t a lot of change. Fifty extra items for the private chamber and one hundred for the cottage. That said, I’ve never really been that heavy of a decorator and my cottage still had plenty of space for more stuff that I’ve never really filled in. I don’t really feel the need to clutter up my character’s home yet (for character reasons) and my private chamber was just a place I put all of the free furniture I got from quests or various activities, jokingly arranged so all of the themed furniture (it was “carbuncle” themed, which is an often-blue fox/cat-like creature used by the “aracanist” combat job) appeared to be looking at anyone who came in the door. It was a fun little joke that I enjoyed, but given my work for my Free Company running workshops and stuff, it felt like it was time for a change. I wanted something to reflect what I actually did for the FC and, after some thinking, settled on making a warehouse.

Continue reading