The Manaan player housing stronghold was introduced with Star Wars: The Old Republic’s game update 5.3, and was one of the many locations that players requested that developers add a stronghold to. Manaan was often requested due to its serene and unique environment, and was different enough from the other existing strongholds to be a great addition for players to decorate.

The Manaan stronghold is the smallest and least expensive luxury stronghold. If you are interested in the player housing in SWTOR but are low on credits, don’t worry, there are other houses on Coruscant and Dromund Kaas that start at as low as only 5,000 credits! This review and guide will be covering the new Manaan stronghold’s 5 rooms, how much they cost and what they look like.

Manaan Full Tour & Review Video

Want to see a full view of the stronghold in video with commentary? Watch the Manaan Stronghold tour video above!

00:46 Cost in Credits & Cartel Coins

1:55 Initial Unlock

3:45 Interior Expansion

4:49 Rooftop Gardens

5:55 Underwater Observatory (part of the Interior Expansion)

6:47 Deepwater Sanctuary (South)

8:03 Deepwater Sanctuary (North)

8:33 /stuck trick

9:00 How to get underwater trick

Manaan SWTOR Player Housing

The initial Manaan unlock includes a large outdoors area with two centerpieces hooks, built-in fountains, open pedestals and many hooks. There’s also a Starship Hook high up on top of the main building which you can place a starship on, but is not accessible to players.

Features deeper inside the stronghold include underwater viewing ports where aquarium life swim by, underwater hooks that you can see through the deep water windows, a beautiful rooftop garden area open to the sky and a second-level room that looks out over Manaan.

Manaan Stronghold Cost and Unlocks

Fully unlocking the Manaan stronghold costs just over 8 million credits or 7,000 cartel coins, and unlocking the stronghold through credits is considered the best deal.

If you wanted to buy it purely with cartel coins, you could get $60 worth of cartel coins, or you could buy the $99 cartel coin card and get 14,500 cartel coins plus an exclusive bonus pet.

If you plan on paying for cartel coins, a more frugal way of doing it would be to use cartel coins to buy items that sell well on the GTN. At the time of making this, items that have a great cartel-coin-to-credit ratio include outlander tokens, CXP boosts, and character slots. Unfortunately, you do need to wait about 2 days for the items to unbind, and for the time it takes them to sell on the GTN, so you won’t be able buy your Manaan stronghold right away.

Room Credit Cost Cartel Coins Visitors Decorations Initial Unlock 2.5 million 2,500 CC 5 250 Room 1 – Interior Expansion 2 million 1,400 CC +10 +200 Room 2 – Rooftop Garden 975,000 800 CC +5 +50 Room 3 – Deepwater Sanctuary (South) 1,450,000 1,150 CC +5 +75 Room 4 – Deepwater Sanctuary (North) 1,450,000 1,150 CC +5 +75 Total 8,375,000 7,000 CC 30 650

Manaan Stronghold Intro Cutscene

In the Manaan Stronghold intro cutscene you are shown some of the features of the Manaan stronghold, including its underwater viewing ports and a glorious view of your character looking over the ocean. Right now there is a bug that causes the stronghold intro cutscene to play every time you enter the stronghold.

Speaking of bugs there may be a bug that causes all your companions to appear in your stronghold’s hooks without their armor. Sometimes logging out fixes this, sometimes going into edit mode fixes this.

Manaan Stronghold Screenshots

Below are screenshots of the fully undecorated Manaan Stronghold!

Manaan Initial Unlock Screenshots

This is the area you get when you pay 2.5 million credits to unlock the stronghold. This area is HUGE. The Starship hook is located on top of the large building, not on the landing pad.

Room 1 – Interior Expansion

The Manaan Interior Expansion unlocks the elevator hallway, an underwater room below surface level and a second-floor room with windows.

Room 2 – Rooftop Garden Screenshots

The Rooftop Gardens is on the second floor of the Manaan Stronghold. You can not jump over the bushes, there is an invisible barrier.

Room 3 – Deepwater Sanctuary (South) Screenshots

You can place decorations on the hooks outside the Deepwater Sanctuaries!

Room 4 – Deepwater Sanctuary (North) Screenshots

Hooks outside the Manaan stronghold here too! The two rooms are mirrored.

Manaan Decorations

There are many Manaan decorations available for players who want to keep to the underwater lab theme or to decorate their stronghold like a true Selkath. Check out the guide to see them all!

View the Manaan Decorations Guide >>

Manaan Deepwater Essentials Bundle

A new cartel pack of Manaan-themed decorations were release with the stronghold.

Manaan Stronghold Ideas

Players can decorate their strongholds however they like, but here are some ideas to get you started:

Underwater scientist lab for studying biology, chemistry, or the field of your choice

Healing retreat for Jedi, cut off form the rest of the galaxy

Spa retreat for Smuggler’s

Most exclusive club in the galaxy

Secret underwater treasure or bounty stash

Kolto laboratory with heavy security

Manaan medical lab for long-term care

Luxury cybernetics surgery practice

Cryogenics lab where loved ones are “frozen in time beneath the waves”

Hidden force-users training temple

Follow the darkside and recruit force-sesensitive Selkath into your cult so you can one day overthrow Manaan

Bunker, the perfect place to ride out the bumpy waters away from the Alliance, The Empire and the Republic

Art and History vault, with the galaxy in turmoil help preserve the culture of the galaxy

Here are some ways others have decorated their stronghold…

Manaan SH finally 100% -A lot of effort, crafting and money but happy with result #SWTOR #StarWars see https://t.co/fXz0PUWwyE for more pics pic.twitter.com/tgYa7NJZ4y — Merc Zachiele (@Zhachiele) July 17, 2017

Here are a couple of screenshots from my WIP (64%) Manaan Stronghold! #SWTOR #swtorfamily pic.twitter.com/Gr9MBAmmBZ — ✨Xam Xam [Rach]🐉 (@Rach_Games) July 14, 2017

Pretty little #Manaan stronghold screenies. I am seriously in love with this place. Great job, #SWTOR!! pic.twitter.com/HiLkMPzeOt — Cipher Mandy (@CipherMandy) July 12, 2017

I really want a #swtor Manaan stronghold. I'd make a palace and publicly list it for once. Put all my statues in it! https://t.co/mqc6Gnn5hS pic.twitter.com/7IUw8aB5ve — Swtorista (@swtorista) September 23, 2016

Below Manaan Stronghold (aka “swimming”)

To get below the Manaan stronghold requires “breaking” the game a bit. To get under there, jump over the water and log out while you are still in the air. Note that this is not intended, so the bottom portion of Manaan is not completed because no one is supposed to be there. To return, type /stuck to return to the top of your stronghold. You can also see the giant Firaxa shark swimming around this way. If you need help figuring out how to do this watch the video at the top!







