Farming Furnishing Plans In ESO - For GOLD Or For FUN! 

Other noteworthy parts of the video: 1) The video 0:01-9:48 2) see #1

There are no cooldowns it seems. Heared from, and myself got 2 purples after each other. theoretically with passive you can have 2x 2 purples in a row, just depends on luck

@@luzifersohn5010 Hey, thanks for sharing your experience! When you received the purples one after another, was it all at once, like, from looting *one* container? Or did you receive two purple furnishing plans from two different containers (one from a wardrobe lets say, and then another from a nightstand). What I'm trying to ask is if your CP passive is what gave you the double purple drop, or if that was not the case. If it's the former situation, then yes, ofc this is definitely possible. What I am not so sure is possible is the ability to get two purple plans from two different containers in such a short span of time. This is why the community prefers farming a location on a bunch of different toons, rather than sticking to the same toon and farming the same spot - because they can not receive another purple plan for some time, and they find it more reliable to swap toons instead (since those toons would not be on a cooldown).

Pls pin comment thank you

@@benjordansslave8002 It is the pinned comment!

Ahh good point!

How do u get that?

Edit: i realized just bow that this comment is from two years ago! I'm sure you've figured it out, but in case you didn't, I'll leave my previous comment below:​ It's in the thief tree of the champion point system (the green one). You have to use your champion points on that skill, then equip the skill to your active champion skills bar (you can have 4 active champion skills from each differently colored skill tree). Just go into the champion points menu and into the green tree and you should be able to get it done- alternatively there are probably guides here on YT and elsewhere on how to do it step by step 😊​@@amandahamm8987

Impressive data collection

Oh my goodness!! Congrats, that’s some amazing RNG!! 🥳🎉

Reading this made my day :D I will definitely have to return to my channel's roots at some point and showcase some more farming routes - although this time I may do material farming routes :)

sweeeet! I think I could afford to lower the background music a teeensy bit more next time, but I'm glad to hear that I am on the right track (:

Thank you so much! One of my buddies that I met in ESO made it specifically for me, and I love it :D

@@Arttea Do they make more music like this or mainly short jingles?

​@@johnnybojan They are a freelance recording engineer and producer, so they've actually worked with a fair amount of different kinds of music. He's produced a lot of coldwave/darkwave, 80's sounding music! (: Mostly whole entire songs, not really jingles!

Nut churn hurts haha that’s brilliant 😅

Oooo I had no idea about the glitched containers!! Shhh no one tell the devs 👀

good luck!! (: make that moneh!

I don't think you are the only one haha, I have seen some forum posts about how some people swear that their cooldown lasts an entire day! That is some bad RNG lol And thank you very much! :D

Welcome to PC NA! Haha I’m not quite sure what you mean by “lonely”, but I’ve only ever played on PC NA so I wouldn’t know about any kind of social differences to be fair

I like your profile pic lmao But thank you!! :D

Oh man once you start with housing it’s hard to stop! 😅 Thank you for the sub! I hope my content can continue to serve you well!

@@Arttea Totally true ;-). I bought the "Lucky Cat" some time ago, but did not really know what to do. Then someone showed my what you CAN do. (He created a small castle where before ther was only a frozen lake). There is so much room for creativity - and you can also add a bit of RPG to it. And it will become THE money sink for me. Btw, I already found some more good tips in your other videos. One more time - thanks a lot.

Thanks for the heads up and sharing your experiences! I had updated the pinned post a while back to mention the green and blue plan adjustments. But yeah, because cooldowns are "soft" in the sense that being on a cooldown does not GUARANTEE that you will NEVER get a plan, but rather that your chances at receiving a plan are greatly throttled, it can be difficult to assert how they work, or what items have them. So even if you are on a cooldown for daily reward coffer motifs in Senchal, you *can* still possibly receive another motif from opening daily coffers, but you're better off saving any additional reward coffers to open at another time when you are not on cooldown for Shield of Senchal motifs. The same can be said for plans, although as you mentioned - it's come to like that it is very unlikely that blue plans have a significant cooldown, if any at all.

@@Arttea I have just spent so many hours doing plan farming that when something new happens I just start blastin and throwing grenades.

Thank you! I use Cyberlink's PowerDirector to edit my videos (:

Oh neato, I did not know! Thanks for the info! :)

Omg hey! Nice to see ya haha, good luck with the home! I look forward to seeing pictures of it on twitter ;)

@@Arttea Yeah. I'm stuck between wanting the Alinor Crest Townhouse and Lucky Cat Landing. I'm leaning more toward the Alinor Crest Townhouse because I like the interior more, however I like the exterior of Lucky Cat Landing more than the Alinor one.

Oof, why not both? ;) I guess it depends on what you're looking to furnish. I LOVE interior decorating (I'm not as good with the outdoor stuff) so I'd go with the Alinor Crest Townhouse if I had to choose ;p

@@Arttea Well I do plan on getting both, but not at the same time because I'm gonna have to spend crowns on both, and Lucky Cat Landing can only be bought with crowns too Someone did tell me Lucky Cat Landing seems to have a more Khajiit theme

Yess it really does! One of my buddies is a Khajiit main and he did an awesome job decorating his Lucky Cat Landing. The interior synergizes well with Anequina and Khajiiti furnishings! I know that you can buy the Alinor townhouse with gold (is it 1mil?) once you get the Summerset Saviour achievement; does the Lucky Cat landing have something similar to that? It'd save ya a lot of crowns if so!

haha I am glad to hear that I wasn't the only one ;p

Ok yeah I have read a fair amount of posts on the forums from players that have had the same experience as yourself, where they suggest that a cooldown is applied to the possibility of looting another furnishing plan of the same colour, rather than the possibility of looting ANY furnishing plan, regardless of colour. I've also heard that the cooldown for purple furnishing plans lasts far longer than the cooldown for a lesser colour (blue or green). It would be really awesome if zos just straight up told us what is really going on here haha And that is a pretty efficient grind there! Take notes people!

Yeah, I think purple has a longer cool down. I've also looted two green furnishing plans in less than 2-3 minutes apart from eachother (this was in the servants quarters in the Reach).

Nice one! Yes, those world event chests do not count as “containers” (like backpacks, drawers, cabinets, etc) so cooldowns do not apply to them!

@@Arttea thanks for explaining)

Ohhh that is really good to know! I would imagine that the CD can be applied in every region of the game, so I think what this means is that there isn't one universal cooldown that affects all rarities of furnishing plans, but rather, there is a separate cooldown for each rarity! So once you loot a green plan (like the nord torch), you get put on a cooldown and are unable to receive other green plans until the green-plan CD is over This means that you may still be able to loot a blue or purple plan though, as seen when you grabbed the cured meatpile shortly afterward. This discovery reinforces what a few others have said in the comments of this video as well! Man, I wish I had known this beforehand so that I could have included this in the video! I will be sure to add this info to the pinned comment (:

@@Arttea Thank you for the reply. I did a bit of browsing and came across this, quote "a plan of a certain quality drops-e.g. blue or purple-there is a 15-minute cooldown until another plan of that quality can drop for that character". So guess that would make sense. I was a bit baffled when I got 2 plans in a row as you did not mention any rarity specifics in the video :)

Hmm that is a good question! I have not heard anything about there being any cooldowns associated with receiving furnishing plans from daily reward coffers... I’d like to think that these cooldowns are only associated with the notion of looting/searching, and that receiving a plan from a reward coffer would not be affected by this. From my personal experience (spamming solitude dailies way back in the day), it definitely felt like I was getting solitude plans at a rate that was much greater than only 1 plan per 15/30 minutes, which would suggest that there is no cooldown. Unless there IS a cooldown that lasts much shorter than 15/30 minutes - argh I wish all of this information was made readily available haha :’)

Hey there! Those redguard furnishings are worth so much because they do not drop from the hlaalu master furnisher’s document, so you can’t farm them that way. They are base game furnishings, so they also can’t be farmed in any specific location, which further explains why they are so expensive. So I’m afraid I can’t point you in the direction of some location that would drop them, sorry!

@@Arttea No worries. I wasn't sure if you knew a overland, delve, public dungeon, etc., location where people would have a farming route with containers and such that had a confirmed chance to drop them, even if rare. I'll keep looking around and see if I can't find some kind of farming route for Redguard plans. Ty for your response!

actual facts tho

In addition to this, I neglected to mention, this 20h cooldown per type of plan is account wide

Please ignore everything I've said in these comments. I learned that it's not true. Not entirely. I made assumptions and got too excited with the stuff. I finally figured it out though. You get one guaranteed purple plan. Once a day per account, and the chance refreshes during the daily reset. So if, say, I wanted to farm purple ayleid plans, I'd need to make sure I didn't get any other purple plans that day before farming that location for plans. Blue plans are 1 hour per toon, and greens 10 mins, but purples had been elusive for awhile.

Also, I challange you to test this out yourself if you feel inclined to do so. Go find some rare purple plans and make some stonks. XP

I had not heard of that place before - thanks for sharing (:

@@Arttea it's in reachwind Depths. Near the bottom left hand side of the reach map. Once you enter go right untill you see a grate enter it and keep following the path until you find the zone should be about the 3rd zone

That is actually the default walk from the "Treasure Hunter Personality" - it makes its way into the crown store from time to time!

@@Arttea Ahh, okay thanks deff gonna keep an eye out for it.

Ah yes, the pinned note has been updated to state that greens and blues don't drop on cooldown, as this was an old video. It's generally understood that the way cooldowns work as well is not that an additional item WILL NOT drop within a certain time frame (on cooldown), but rather that it's drop chances plummet significantly while on cooldown. This means that it is still technically possible to receive items within the specified time frame, but so long as you still remain on cooldown, your chances are significantly hindered.

My understanding is that there are separate timers for each colour, rather than just one global cooldown - many thanks to those that commented and shared their experiences in the comments of this video! :) So if you were to get a green plan, you will be placed on a cooldown for being able to pick up another plan that is green, but you still have a chance to grab a blue or a purple. If you were to then grab a purple, let's say 3 mins later, you would get placed on another cooldown for purple plans. Given what folks have said in the comments, it seems like the green plans have shorter cooldowns, blue plans have a little bit longer ones, and purple plans have very extensive cooldowns.

@@Arttea - Thanks. I had a guildy say the same thing but was curious what others had experienced. I haven't done much pattern hunting yet. I've done quite a bit of treasure boxing and stealing primarily for specific equipment but also to raise skill lines and make some money. I've gotten patterns stealing but don't recall if I've gotten patterns or recipes treasure boxing. Probably did but don't remember.

After much more research and discussing my findings with many other players, yes, it seems like green plans are not on a cooldown, but it appears as if blue and purple ones are. Their cooldowns are also independent of one another. For example, finding a blue plan will not put you on a cooldown for purple furnishing plans. I'm glad to hear that you've been able to find some decent plans there! And yes, that is the general consensus among my community*: swapping toons to farm the same area after you've received a blue or purple plan is the way to go, seeing as you won't be hindered by any cooldown.

@@Arttea thanks for your response, i might've missed it but do you know where i can find the khajiit blueprints?

Greens and blues do not drop on cooldown - this information has since been updated in more recent videos and in my pinned comment

Aww sorry to hear it! Farming furnishing plans really is an RNG game - it's why it isn't one of my preferred ways to make gold, but rather, something that I do passively, or from time to time for just a few moments. I don't think you are doing anything wrong, purple plans are just rare in nature (it's why they are so expensive! some leyawiin plans still sell for upwards of 1 mil on PC NA for example!) so it will just be very difficult to find one! Should you continue searching containers in Blackwood, I wish you all the best! May RNGesus have mercy on your soul ;p

@@Arttea Thanks for your reply, I guess RNG can be cruel sometimes but I will persevere until I get that expensive purple plan! Then maybe start getting my accounts ready for crafting writ dailies Gained a sub from your great response, ty again!

Daily crafting writs is another amazing way to reliably make gold - and a lot of it too once you have a whole army of toons that can do them, albeit not a very thrilling way to make gold haha. Good luck with the plan hunting, and thank you for your sub! :D

Yeah and I'm only just starting daily writs at 930CP obviously now I wish I started training my alts earlier :') Also omfg I literally just got a purple leyawin plan the octopus pie or something worth 1.2m-1.5m :D im stoked, thankyou again!!

Ahh best of luck with that one! I heard that the mobs in the public dungeon "The Forgotten Wastes" have an EXTREMELY rare chance to drop it!

Nice! What were the colours of the plans? Cooldowns are colour-specific, so you may get a blue and a purple back to back since they do not share a cooldown

@@Arttea let me get back to you, it may actually be a furnished and crafting motif let me see

@@Arttea yea nvm it was one purple furnishing and then blue furnishing

@@Slynozn ah gotcha! glad I could help clarify that for ya!

@@Arttea could you remind me, if I get a furnished from let’s say a dragon drop in Elsweyr, can I get one from the dailies there in the same 20 hour time frame or is the cool down for the whole zone?

Were they all furnishing plans? Purple recipes and motifs are not on the cooldown that I am referring to. And when you say “run”, how much time were you referring to? This is the first I’ve ever heard of someone getting multiple *purples*! Lastly, where did you farm these motifs. Supposedly, there is an area in Markarth whose containers ignore the cooldown!

@@Arttea for me a run is just once through somewhere. I’ve had it in markarth, western Skyrim, vvardenfell. And yes they were furnishing plans. I usually get anywhere from 5-20 per run depending on where I am and how big the run is. Never take a me more than 15 minutes for one run

@@Arttea I’m also on PS4 I don’t know if that makes a difference

@@geektasticcrafts2537 20 plans in 15 minutes on the same character? Oh my goodness that is insane! I mean it, totally unheard of! You are very lucky my friend 😄 Don’t let the devs find out haha I wonder if the drop rate differs across platform, that’s the only different piece of data that I can see here. The cooldown theory has been pretty well established by community members on Reddit and the eso forums, but perhaps they were all PC players? I’ll have to take another look!

Oh also I should add - each plan supposedly has a different cooldown timer. White plans have no cooldown, greens have around 5 minutes, blues around 15-30, and purples even more. Does that line up with your experience? We’re you mostly picking up white or green plans? Thank you by the way for answering my questions, they will come in really handy for others that are also interested in this (:

Are you certain that they were furnishing plans and not just other purple items like motifs or books or recipes*?

Yes, they were two purple furniture plans from leyawiin. But the chance of this happening is once in every blue moon...

@@tenarustdbrngr1203 ah yes, so if you got 2 purple plans at the same time, that is from the homemaker cp passive. The regular cooldown rules would have still applied right after you looted those 2 plans. Indeed it is! But when you do get two purple plans, it’s amazing 😄

I am talking of two different plans. And from different containers.

say please

Facts. I still haven't mapped out a super-efficient route for clam gall, but I definitely need to for an upcoming farming video fo sho