Final Fantasy 14 Community Spotlight: Nature Museum
The world of Final Fantasy 14 is changing, and it’s all thanks to its remarkable players. The in-game environment is no longer simply setting the scene for your Warrior of Light’s antics, but has become a new canvas for the community to stretch its creative muscles. Free Company housing is being used to design areas beyond the scope of what was intended, unleashing the likes of roleplaying venues, theatres, and cultural buildings.
A couple of months ago, I visited the Eorzean Aquarium. This project was helmed by Fruity Snacks, who, with the help of a few friends, put together an impressive venue that houses every single in-game fish. At the time, Fruity expressed his wish to create a network of museums and cultural venues in the game, and as part of this, he recently unveiled the Nature Museum on Malboro.
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“I used the Nature Museum as proof of concept for a larger Natural History Museum,” Fruity explains. “I want to build a larger, more expansive ‘Eorzean Natural History Museum’ similar to the Eorzean Aquarium, so this is kind of Version 1.0 of that. The Nature Museum build showed that there are still some housing decorations that are needed to really make a Natural History Museum, make it really shine, and hit the level of immersion I want to see. For example, rocks.
“There are only four items that you can use for ‘rocks’ in the interior of your house - with two items being added in 6.2. It’s difficult to make a lot of exhibits that you’d expect in a natural history museum that tell the stories I want to tell with so few rocks. Overall, I think this was a good start, though! I’ll be continuing to toy with the design of the museum
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