To purchase your first stronghold, you must be able to reach the Republic or Imperial Fleet – so you can get your first stronghold after you finish your first quest.<\/p>\n
There is also a great introductory quest to strongholds that I highly recommend doing which becomes available at Level 15 or higher, which will give you some free decorations. To start the quest, head to the Strongholds & Crew Skills section of the Fleet and look for the holographic questgiver.<\/p>\n
After you have accepted the quest from the strongholds hologram questgiver, turn around and walk over to the Stronghold terminals. This is where you can purchase and unlock your first stronghold.<\/p>\n The least expensive Imperial<\/strong> stronghold is the Dromund Kaas<\/strong> stronghold, which costs 5,000 credits.<\/p>\n The least expensive Republic<\/strong> stronghold is the Coruscant<\/strong> stronghold, which costs 5,000 credits.<\/p>\n You can have more than one stronghold, so most players start with one of those two!<\/p>\n To purchase a stronghold, right-click the directory terminal, then choose “Purchase”<\/strong> from the menu on the left, as by default, it shows you the Public Listings tab, which you can use to travel to and visit other people’s strongholds. Once you are on the Purchase tab, you can click the Purchase button if you have enough credits.<\/p>\n The next step of the quest is to go to your stronghold.<\/p>\n Once you have purchased your first stronghold, you can use the strongholds panel to travel to it. To open the Stronghold panel, hover over the icon of a triangle in the main menu, and choose “Strongholds”, or you can use the default shortcut by pressing the “U” key on your keyboard.<\/p>\n On the left, you can switch between Personal and Guild strongholds. If you are in a guild, they may also have a stronghold or flagship you can visit!<\/p>\n To go to your stronghold once you have purchased it, click the “Travel” button in the strongholds panel, and you’ll be teleported to your stronghold.<\/p>\n To complete the quest, take a few steps forward, and you’ll receive a handful of free basic decorations. You can do this quest on every one of your characters for more free decorations for your stronghold!<\/p>\n Your strongholds and decorations are legacy-wide, and all your characters on your server can visit and decorate your strongholds.<\/p>\n When you are ready to leave your stronghold, press the “Exit Area” button or the elevator button.<\/p>\n The most common exit point is the “Return” option which allows you to travel back to your original location – so if you are questing, you can make a quick run to your bank, your mailbox or the GTN in your stronghold then travel back to exactly where you were. However the “Return” option will only bring you back to the correct planet (NOT the correct location) if you log out in between. You can also exit to the planet the stronghold is located on, and subscribers can exit to the Fleet or to their Starship.<\/p>\n If you have completed the initial stronghold quest, the first time you travel to your stronghold you should receive a bundle of starter decorations. To make them useable in you stronghold, you need to right-click those items in your inventory.<\/p>\n Be careful – once you use them you can no longer sell them or give them away, so think before you right-click any decorations you get! Once you have right-clicked a decoration item from your inventory, it will be added to your decorations list<\/strong>. That decoration will now be accessible by all your characters on your server in any of your strongholds. If you haven’t already, right-click and use all the free decorations you got from the strongholds quest.<\/p>\n Once you place a decoration down, it will subtract 1 of those decorations from your available decorations. However you can pick it back up again and put it down somewhere else. You can have multiples of the same decoration as long as you acquire multiples of the item and use them. For example, you can have 4\u00a0Basic Metal Chairs<\/em> as long as you buy four from the vendor, and you will be able to place a total of four down across all your strongholds.<\/p>\n To view all your decorations, open the Stronghold Panel. On the left sidebar, click the ‘Personal’<\/strong> button with a score under it. You can then sort to show by All, Unlocked and Available. This panel is just for checking which decorations you have – you do not decorate from here.<\/p>\n Whenever you are in your own stronghold, you can use the green “Edit Mode”<\/strong> button to decorate your stronghold.<\/p>\n You can usually find it near the bottom of your User Interface.<\/p>\n When you are done decorating, you can press the “Hide Hooks” button in the same place to exit the decorating mode.<\/p>\n Once you are in Edit Mode, you will see a bunch of glowing squares appear around the room.<\/p>\n These are called Hooks<\/strong>. You can only place decorations on hooks, you can not put them wherever you would like. Decorations only fit onto certain types of hooks – for example, you can’t put a ceiling light on the floor, a large decoration might only fit on a centerpiece hook, and rugs will only fit on a rug hook.<\/p>\n To place a decoration, right-click a glowing hook, which will open up the Decorations panel for decorating. By default, the Decorations list will show you decorations you have unlocked and fit in to that hook. If the number beside the decoration is green, that means you can put the decoration down by clicking “Place”<\/strong> under the preview of the decoration. If the number is red, it means you have the decoration available, but you’ve already put it down somewhere. If you want to see which decorations you actually have on hand to use, you can change the dropdown on the Decorations list from “Show Unlocked”<\/strong> to “Show Available”.<\/strong> If you have a lot of decorations, there’s also useful Category and subcategory dropdowns<\/strong> you can filters your decorations with, and the Search bar<\/strong> will search for decoration names if you want to place a specific decoration. The decoration list is a bit finicky – if you are trying to find a deco on the list, and it’s not showing up, you may need to erase the search, reset the categories and reset the dropdown to “Show All”.<\/strong><\/p>\n For your first decoration,<\/strong> I recommend placing down a Mailbox<\/strong> in one of the small green hooks on the floor, then using the “Hide Hooks” button to exit decorating, and look at your newest mail, as it contains another free decoration!\u00a0 This free decoration is called “Felusio Static (Basic Decoration)” and she actually acts as a vendor you can buy more decorations from, or sell junk items to. Make sure to claim her from your mail, and use her item from your inventory, as you won’t be able to place her decoration down until after you right-click the item in your inventory.<\/p>\n If you need help figuring out which hooks your new decorations fit on, you can roll over the item before you use it, or you can open your “Personal” decorations list using the “chair without an arrow” icon near your “Edit Mode” button, finding the item, then hovering your mouse over the decoration you want to learn about. In Felusio’s case, she’ll fit in a Floor Small hook or Floor Medium Narrow hook… but she won’t fit in any of the larger hooks.<\/p>\n The second decoration you should place down is the Legacy Stronghold Storage<\/strong> decoration you also got for free from the quest into a different green hook, as it’s really handy for storing unbound or legacy-bound items when you aren’t in decorating mode.<\/p>\n Once you have placed a decoration, you can nudge it around using the X and Y Offset sliders<\/strong> under its preview. You can also spin it around with the Rotation slider.<\/strong> Unfortunately there’s no way to affect the height of the decoration, so there’s no way to stack or layer decorations. You don’t actually need to use the Apply Changes button, but if you want to reset all your offset and rotation, the Reset Changes<\/strong> button is useful to put the decoration back on the hook the way it started.<\/p>\n You can easily pick up decorations and move or remove them by right-clicking the hook they are on and clicking “Pick Up”<\/strong> under the preview. Placing down a decoration is never permanent. There is a common bug where you will right-click a hook with a decoration on it and the decoration adjustments panel just won’t show up – try either clearing out your search and categories, or try right-clicking and different type of empty hook and then right-click the hook you wanted to edit again.<\/strong><\/p>\n There is also a button near the Edit Mode button called “Reset Decorations in Room”<\/strong> that looks like a chair with a golden up arrow. This is a very dangerous button<\/strong> <\/span>– it may also pick up any and all decorations in any nearby rooms as well. Do not click this button unless you are 100% sure what it will be picking up, or you’ll be sad that you accidentally lost all your decorating work you did in a nearby room.<\/p>\n Each stronghold has a different number of decorations you can place in it. To see how many decorations you can put down in the stronghold your are currently in, hover over the percentage bar<\/strong> near the Edit Mode button and it will tell you how many total decorations you can put down and how many you have put down so far.<\/p>\n You can also sometimes change the layout of the hooks – for example, you could change one large blue square hook to four smaller green ones, if you wanted to place down four little decorations instead of a single medium sized one. To find out what layouts are available for a hook, right-click the hook and click the “Layouts” tab in the Decorations panel. You can click through the different hook options to see a preview of their layout. If you see one you like, select it, and click Apply Layout – just keep in mind it will reset and pickup any decorations that were on those hooks and you’ll need to re-place them.<\/p>\n Many strongholds, including the starter strongholds, only allow you to walk through and decorate certain parts of the stronghold to start. You can walk up to the various doors in the stronghold, and it will tell you how many credits it costs to unlock more of the stronghold. The unlocks can often be very expensive! You might want to check a guide before spending credits on unlocking a Stronghold or its additional rooms so you know what you are paying for and decide if it’s worth it to you.<\/p>\n![\"swtor](\"https:\/\/e97et4x6scn.exactdn.com\/decorations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/swtor-2015-05-16-11-00-45-27.jpg?strip=all&w=2560\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>How to Use the Strongholds Panel<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nLeaving Your Stronghold<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>How to\u00a0Unlock Decorations<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a>How to\u00a0Decorate<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\nHook Layouts<\/h2>\n
Unlocking More of Your Stronghold<\/h2>\n
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