Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Patch Notes - Grand Companies, Free Companies, And Housing

Today Creative Studio III published the complete patch notes for Dawntrail on The Lodestone. I thought I would try to cover the patch notes similar to what I have done for the last few EVE Online expansions. I have to put in similar because I do have a real life job and CCP drops their patch notes on Fridays so I have the weekend to work on them.

Five days to go until the launch of Dawntrail

This fifth post in the series will cover information about the changes in Dawntrail to Grand and Free Companies as well as housing. Given the importance to housing to free companies, I thought I should put the two together in one post.

Grand and Free Companies - The following changes were made to content involving Grand and Free Companies.

• Additional items will now be accepted for supply and provisioning missions. This change is only in Dawntrail.
  
  
• Viper and pictomancer symbol options have been added to the Charge category of the Company Crest editor.
  
  
• New craftable items have been added to the company workshop. I'm unsure if these are only for items level 90 and above.
  
  
• The following additions and adjustments have been made to subaquatic voyages:
• New areas have been added.
• New items have been added.
• Maximum submersible rank has been increased from 115 to 120.

Housing

Ward classifications - Ward classifications are changed for all worlds on the Dynamis Data Center as well as on Phantom, Sagittarius, Alpha, and Raiden. All other worlds are unaffected. Also, the changes will not affect any estates already purchased on these worlds.

The changes go into effect on Saturday, June 29, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. (PDT) / 15:00 (GMT) / June 30, 2024 at 1:00 (AEST).

• Free Company Only Estates: Wards 1-6 and 25.
• Private Buyers Only Estates: Wards 21-24 and 30.
• Both Free Company and Private Buyers: Wards 7-20 and 26-29.

The Estate Holder Rights system - Beginning in Dawntrail owners of an estate and their designees can bar characters from their estates and gardens. The feature is important enough I will copy verbatim from the patch notes.

• To bar a character from your property, you must first be on your estate grounds and have the requisite authority. Target the character you wish to bar, and select "Bar from Property" in the subcommand menu, then choose "Register as Barred Character." They will be ejected from the estate grounds and moved to the housing area entrance.
  
  
• Barred characters will remain on the Barred Characters list for 10 days. During this time, any attempts to enter your estate hall or garden will instead transport them to the housing area entrance.
  
  
• To view or adjust these settings, select Housing from the Social menu, followed by Estate Settings, then Estate Holder Rights. Authorization settings will differ according to the type of residence.

Below are the rules for the three classifications of estates.

• Free Company Estate
  
  
• The free company master is the main rightsholder, and may appoint up to four free company members as secondary rightsholders.
  
  
• Personal Estate

• The estate owner is the main rightsholder, and may appoint up to three tenants as secondary rightsholders.
  
  
• Apartment / Private Chambers

• The apartment or private chambers owner is the main rightsholder, and cannot appoint secondary rightsholders.

An important note about secondary rightsholders. When secondary rightsholders with the setting enabled are present on an estate, characters on their blacklist may also be denied access to the property. Which rightsholders' blacklists will be included to determine who is barred from the estate may be adjusted via the Estate Holder Rights window.

Purchasing Estates

• After entering the lottery for an estate, viewing the placard for a different plot before confirming the results of your entry will now remind you of the estate address of the plot you bid on.

Furnishings

• New furnishings were added. This includes player designed items from the 2019 and 2022 Furnishing Design Contests.
  
  
• Crafting facility furnishings can now be used by crafting classes up to level 90.
  
  
• In accordance with the increased character level cap, level 100 striking dummies have been added.

Orchestrion rolls

• New orchestrion rolls are now available.

Aquariums

• New aquarium fish have been added.

Flower pots

• A new type of seed, Garden sunflower seeds, are now available.
  
  
• Garden sunflower seeds can be purchased from the following NPCs:
  
  
• Mist (X:11.0 Y:11.4) - Material Supplier
• The Lavender Beds (X:11.9 Y:8.3) - Material Supplier
• The Goblet (X:10.9 Y:8.9) - Material Supplier
• Shirogane (X:10.5 Y:12.1) - Material Supplier
• Empyreum (X:10.2 Y:12.2) - Material Supplier
• Apartments - Apartment Merchant
• New Gridania (X:11.0 Y:11.2) - Tanie