With the help of glitches and furniture, a player built a giant robot in Final Fantasy XIV. Do-it-yourself at its finest.
The housing is undoubtedly one of the most popular features in Final Fantasy XIV. In fact, it is so popular that fans threatened Square Enix with boycotts when there was a massive housing shortage.
Players spend hours and days decorating and renovating their houses. Some have even become professional interior designers who are hired by others for in-game currency to design their homes.
The player Pieta Nano from the Typhoon server took it a step further: He decided to use various housing glitches to build cars, bikes, and even giant robots from ordinary furniture.
LALA RANGER ROBO MEGAFORCE!
On his Twitter, the builder regularly showcases his creations, and one of them gained significant attention on social media. It is the “Lala Ranger Robo”.
Pieta built the giant robot in a friend’s house because “there was a lot of free space”.
According to him, his creation is based on the robots from the anime series Gundam, which is so popular in Japan that there is an almost 20-meter tall statue of a Gundam mech in Tokyo.
It took Pieta about two weeks to create it, placing all furniture pieces himself. He also incorporated a little trick.
Due to a glitch, the robot is “walkable”. If you stand in a specific spot underneath it and jump, you will be teleported directly onto its shoulder.
The giant was mainly built using the Asian Hingan furniture introduced with the “Stormblood” expansion and the subsequent content patches.
The spikes on the shoulders are the horns from the Ifrit wall trophy, while the shins consist of cellos.
In a small interview with housing enthusiast Merry Matsuri on her YouTube channel, Pieta mentioned that he wants to leave the robot standing like this for about half a year.
He also receives regular visits from players on other servers, who come by to check out his creations.
A Love for Classic Cars and Bikes
The Lala Ranger Robo is by no means Pieta’s only work. Besides regular home decoration, he loves to build various types of classic cars and bikes.
His classic car consists of around 150 individual furniture pieces, according to his own statements. It is so detailed that it even features a radio and gear shift inside.
Additionally, you can open the hood to admire the replica V8 engine, which was constructed from a footstool and several microscopes.
Pieta’s personal favorite piece is his “SUWARU – 34HQ” bike, which consists of 34 components. The player mentioned that he kept a picture of a real motorcycle open while creating this piece.
The next big project of the builder is supposed to be a truck. He did not provide any details about it but hinted that it will be “not just any truck”.
So we can expect great things.
While we’re on the topic of glitches; a new glitch in FFXIV causes monsters to run in circles endlessly, and it’s hilariously funny:
In Final Fantasy XIV, cacti are currently running around crazily in circles
