FFXIV Automatic Housing Demolition Paused Due to Los Angeles Fires

Square Enix announced that it will temporarily pause all FFXIV automatic housing demolition on the game’s North American servers due to the fires in Los Angeles, California. It expressed sympathies to those affected by the natural disaster. This is a measure to ensure players from the area wouldn’t lose their in-game property due to dealing with real-world events.

Typically, there is a counter that would determine when unattended homes in FFXIV would be torn down so the lots could be offered up to others, but a pause on automatic housing demolition halts that and ends that process on servers. This is because the only way to stop things from being destroyed and removed is to log into the game and either build a home on your plot or visit the place your character “lives.” Since the Los Angeles fires resulted in things like internet outages, power outages, and evacuations, it meant people wouldn’t be able to play FFXIV and visit their properties as usual. 

The four North American Data Centers affected by the FFXIV automatic housing demolition pause are Aether, Crystal, Dynamis, and Primal. This means the following worlds are temporarily safe from sudden teardowns.

• Adamantoise
• Balmung
• Behemoth
• Brynhildr
• Cactaur
• Coeurl
• Cuchulainn
• Diabolos
• Excalibur
• Exodus
• Faerie
• Famfrit
• Gilgamesh
• Goblin
• Golem
• Halicarnassus
• Hyperion
• Jenova
• Kraken
• Lamia
• Leviathan
• Maduin
• Malboro
• Marilith
• Mateus
• Midgardsormr
• Rafflesia
• Sargantas
• Seraph
• Siren
• Ultros
• Zalera

It isn’t uncommon for Square Enix to take natural disasters, in-game issues, and other situations into account when it comes to FFXIV and automatic housing demolition. After the February 2023 earthquake in Turkey, the company paused teardowns on the Chaos and Light data centers. In January 2024, it paused it in Japan due to the Noto Peninsula earthquake. One of the more recent ones happened for European worlds in November 2024 due to torrential rains in Spain.

Final Fantasy XIV is available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC worldwide, and the FFXIV automatic housing demolition is temporarily paused until further notice.