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Final Fantasy XIV: Complete Housing Guide

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So, you've finally decided to look for a quiet place to store your things and invite your friends over for a barbecue on the weekend, but you don't even know where to start? You've come to the right place!

By Luiz Otávio

translated by Meline Hoch

Unlocking the Housing system

First, I'll mention that the Housing system isn’t available in the Free Trial. However, players can visit houses and apartments. Currently, there are five residential areas, each linked to one of the game's main cities, as follows:

Ul’dah: Its residential district is The Goblet, which can be unlocked by completing the mission Where_the_Heart_Is_(The_Goblet)

Limsa Lominsa: It has a coastal district known as The Mist, unlocked by the mission Where the heart is (Mist)

Gridania: Nestled within its forests is the residential district The Lavender Beds, unlocked by the mission Where the Heart is (The Lavander Beds)

Kugane: On the distant east coast lies the Shirogane district, unlocked by the mission I Dream of Shirogane

Ishgard: Finally, in the metropolis of Ishgard we have the Empyreum district, unlocked by the mission Ascending to Empyreum

Features

Chocobo Stable

Yes, your faithful companion also gets a place all to itself!

The stable allows you to feed your chocobo special foods that grant buffs and can even change its color. As you can see, my chocobo isn't yellow.

To change the color of your chocobo, I highly recommend using the color calculator

. It's a website that, based on the desired color, explains what foods you should feed your chocobo to achieve that color.

Furthermore, when you feed the same food ten times in a row, it becomes its favorite food and can grant it buffs such as attack or defense bonuses, for example.

List of foods. Source: FFXIV Console wiki

Training Dummies

Available only for small, medium, and large houses, it's basically a dummy for you to practice your combos. I highly recommend using a low-level dummy, as high-level dummies can cause some attacks from lower-level classes to miss, which can be disruptive during training.

Crafting Stations

Great for those still leveling up their crafters. These stations increase your Crafting Points by 10 as long as they are below level 90. Don't know what that is? Take a look at our Complete Crafting Guide

Mini Aetheryte

This should be one of your first purchases. This is the item that allows you to teleport directly to your house.

Letter Box

It's used to receive in-game emails. Every time you buy an item from Mogstation, it arrives via email, so having one of these at home is very convenient at times like these. In addition, referral rewards and rewards for being a subscriber for a while are also delivered using this method.

Summoning Bell

Used to summon your retainers, which function as the game's banking system. You can store up to 175 items in their inventory, as well as put items up for sale at the player auction and send them on missions.

Crystal Bell

This is the bell used to call the hairdresser in the game. If you haven't unlocked this feature, it's a very quick mission in the Upper Decks of Limsa Lominsa. The mission in question is Beauty is Only Scalp Deep.

Orchestrion

It's a music box that lets you choose the music that plays in your house/apartment. There are several models to choose from!

Armoire

It’s used to store some equipment without using up precious Glamour Dresser slots. Most items from the Mogstation and events can be stored here.

Gardening

Available only to homeowners with plots of land, there are 3 types of planting plots to buy: 4, 6, and 8 slots.

Seeds can be obtained by collecting them with a Botanist or purchased from NPCs and other players. For example, a tree that has oranges will also have orange seeds available for collection.

Besides the seed, you also need to obtain the soil for planting. This can be acquired through mining or purchased from other players. Different soils have different buffs. For example, La Noscea Soil increases the chance of a high-quality harvest, while Thanalan soil increases the chance of plants cross-pollinating and generating new crops!

It’s also possible to fertilize plants with "Fish Meal" sold at the NPC Material Supplier in residential areas.

Finally, be sure to water your plants once a day so they don't dry out!

Types of houses

Free Company Apartment/Room

There are 100 item slots inside, but it's not possible to place items from the outside.

Up to four NPCs and two crafting stations can be placed in the space, but there are no gardening slots.

Despite not having an outdoor area, every apartment grants access to a condominium stable!

Is it worth buying one of these when it’s got so little space?

Small

It has space for up to 200 items to be placed inside, with an additional 20 slots for garden items on the outside.

Up to 6 NPCs, 4 crafting stations, and only 1 gardening slot can be placed in the space.

Furthermore, the house itself has a ground floor and a basement level, offering approximately three times more space than an apartment.

Medium

It has space for up to 300 items to be placed inside, with an additional 30 slots for garden items on the outside.

Up to 8 NPCs, 6 crafting stations, and only 2 gardening slots can be placed.

Furthermore, the average house has three floors, which is about twice as much space as a small house.

Large

It has space for up to 400 items to be placed inside, with an additional 40 slots for garden items on the outside.

Up to 10 NPCs, 8 crafting stations, and only 3 gardening slots can be placed.

This is much larger than average.

Example of a large house. Luxury not included.

Differences between Free Company and Personal Housing

Free Company

Members of a Free Company can build rooms the size of an apartment inside the Free Company house for 300,000 Gil.

Free Company houses also have access to the Company Workshop, which is where submarines, airships, and other projects are built.

If no member of the Company uses the land within 45 days, all rooms and the house itself will be demolished. All work that was underway will also be lost.

Personal Home

It doesn’t have a workshop.

You can't have rooms built like in Free Company.

The house can be shared with up to 3 friends using the Tenants system. This allows other people to edit and use the house's features.

If the owner of the house doesn’t use it for 45 days, it will be demolished.

Acquiring a house

Requirements

You must have at least one combat class at level 50.

You need to hold the rank of Second Lieutenant in your current Grand Company. If you’re going to buy a house for your Free Company, it’ll need to be at least rank 6.

Luckily for you, we have a complete guide right here on the website! Check it out!

If you’re going to buy the house for the Free Company, you need to have been a member for at least 30 days and the company needs to have more than 4 members.

It's also worth mentioning that it's not possible to transfer a house directly between players, or even convert a house you already own into a Free Company house, and vice versa.

Buying the House

Before we move on to this step, it's worth mentioning that you can only buy land in your home world, also known as your original server.

Go to the Aetheryte of one of the cities that have residential districts and click on “Residential District Aethernet”.

Here you can see the Wards and who’s in which slot. Slots that show a gil value are vacant slots and can be acquired in the next cycle.

Price list and locations. Source: FF XIV Console Wiki

Finally, each residential district has 30 Wards, which are like neighborhoods. There are some slight differences between them, which you can notice by the symbols at the top of each column.

Explaining the symbols from top to bottom: 1) Houses here can only be purchased via lottery; 2) Land only for Free Companies; 3) Land only for individual players; 4) Land for everyone.

Lottery System

As I mentioned, this is the current system used to acquire land in the game. It works through a 9-day cycle as follows:

Entry period: This lasts 5 real days and is when buyers can bid on the land.

Result Period: This lasts 4 real-time days, during which winners can claim the land and those who didn't win can recover the gil they invested. Players have up to 90 days to recover their invested gil; if they fail to do so, the gil will be lost.

You can check these periods by going to the land and interacting with the sign in front of it or through the Character > Timers menu.

Entering the lottery

Once you find a plot of land you like, interact with the sign in front of it.

On this screen, you can see how many buyers are interested in this house in this cycle, as well as the price and when the drawing will take place.

If you already own a plot of land and win another draw, you will be reimbursed 15% of the value of your old plot.

Building the house

You've only purchased the land; now you need to build the house itself. You have 45 days to build the house, or the land will be put up for sale again. When interacting with the land, you must purchase a "Housing Permit" of the appropriate size; that is, if the land is small, purchase a "Housing Permit" for a small house. Once that's done, we can move on to customization!

Customizing your home

It's worth mentioning that, in addition to the items that are part of the house itself, it's possible to preview how an item would look in the house. To access this, simply go to the Social menu > Housing > Preview Outdoor/Indoor Furnishings.

Exterior

The exterior of the house consists of 4 mandatory items: Roof, exterior wall, windows and door, with 4 optional items: Roof decoration, exterior wall decoration, sign and fence.

Since my house is a prefabricated model, I can't make any changes

Interior

Each floor can be decorated with a unique flooring, wall, and lighting design.

Inside, you can place pictures, paintings, and even an aquarium to display achievements!

Example of a decorated floor. Yes, I have an arapaima and his name is Ricardo.

It’s also possible to place a guestbook inside houses and apartments so that visitors can comment on their decoration.

Demolishing your house

If you wish to give up your home, regardless of the reason, you have a few options:

You can simply wait for the demolition period to pass and recover 80% of the land value by speaking with the Resident Caretaker.

Emptying the inventory of the house and asking to relinquish the land. This method is faster but won’t return any gil to you.

Conclusion

After all this reading, I'm sure you're excited to get your house.

My recommendation is that you get a $500,000 apartment to test the land and see what you can do with it. If you really want to expand, just look for a small plot, but be aware that getting medium and large plots is more difficult because there’s a lot of competition.

See you in the next article.

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Luiz Otávio

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