Airship Guide

In my experience upgrading the forecastle for more surveillance really helps to discover new sectors. With the best forecastle you can equip I've nearly one shotted all the sectors past like 10 or 11.

Finally unlocked sector 8, my airship leveled in ranks from 10 to 41 though before managed to unlock both sector 7 and sector 8. I always tried to have the highest amount of favor and surveillance possible as each airship component set got unlocked and crafted. I am not sure how many trips in total it took but I generally ranked up another level after each trip (sometimes every 2 trips). As a guess I think it took like around two dozen 17-47 hour voyages to unlock sector 7 then another half dozen for sector 8. I actually had good luck with the early sectors from 1-6 and which unlocked one every few trips but unlocking 7 took forever and 8 took a while too.

I currently have sectors 1-8 unlocked plus 11 and 13. If my luck changes maybe I will unlock 14 within this current voyage too. I have sent my ship to sectors 8 (to gain access to another airship and also trying to unlock sector 9), 11 (to hopefully unlock sector 14) and 13 (trying to unlock sector 15) with my current 47 hour voyage. If does unlock 14 in this trip it will grant me quite a quick succession of the 2nd and 3rd airship which would be nice. Now I just have to wait for it to get back from sector 8 so can finally start on my second ship. I assume there is no RNG involved in the unlocking of the ship when visit sector 8 and the unlock is 100% guaranteed with a single voyage?

Yes, once you visit a sector that unlocks a new airship, the ship will always unlock

Acquired a faded copy of Engage from Sector 18.

Edit: Just realized it's the Diadem's bgm.

I am trying to plan out 4 final builds for ships but struggling to decide on parts for each

The sectors which interest me are 3, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 17, 22, 24 (maybe 15 and 19 sometimes).

I want to maximize the materia amount collected in a quick succession travel time wise. Speed is less important than quantity though. No major importance towards the rare items at the moment since there is so few actual useful rare items (vastly too much duplication and too few unique loots in general) plus most are very cheap to already buy on MB instead. I have little to no interest in the workshop items since I have unlocked most current workshop recipes already.

I have no real need for crystal farming either since I am extremely well stocked on all types. How would you spread those sectors I mentioned above across your 4 ships if was in my position and what ship part combinations would you use on those ships based on what I said above? If you cant help with what I am asking maybe you could let me know what sectors you generally go for, how they are spread across your own ships and what ship builds you use for all 4?

Regardless of sector, I've had the best luck (which at this point is still iffy) on the Inv/Bronc/Vilt/Ody ship. It's slow with max surveillance and can't hit many sectors at once, but it can snag quite a few items when it does. Everything about these ships is rng though, so you'll still be getting plenty of all the stuff you don't want. As for the sectors I go for, that generally depends on what the FC is after. Just work your way from the take off point outwards on the map to each of the sectors you want to hit that are close together and see what you can manage to squeeze in.

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Originally Posted by Dezwaan

I've been sending two ships out to sectors 19 & 21 since 3.2. One ship is fast and can only hit one sector, the other hits both sectors but takes much longer.

Does anyone have any anecdotal, circumstantial, or otherwise evidence that helps to unlock sectors aside from RNG? Is the Survey required slightly higher or is there a minuscule higher chance to unlock sectors by having other players send the ships out?

It's been >100 days trying to unlock two sectors... At this point after sacrificing all Lala's I've seen I'm willing to try anything...

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Just like to state that I've still been trying and haven't had luck. I'm about to give up and think the whole internet is just lying to me.

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Originally Posted by Dezwaan

Just like to state that I've still been trying and haven't had luck. I'm about to give up and think the whole internet is just lying to me.

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I find it better to try and unlock one sector at a time and send both ships to that one only. Otherwise every so many days you are losing out on a full attempt at a sector.

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Originally Posted by Dezwaan

Just like to state that I've still been trying and haven't had luck. I'm about to give up and think the whole internet is just lying to me.

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What's the surveillance on both ships? You could try getting one ship hopped up on surv/speed and see if that helps any. Unfortunately the only info we have is from trial & error (and rng, always rng) as no official explanation of the airship functionality/sector discovery was ever given to my knowledge.

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

Regardless of sector, I've had the best luck (which at this point is still iffy) on the Inv/Bronc/Vilt/Ody ship.

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A lot of the sites and guides (links) which are mentioned at the start of this thread have no mention of the Vilt airship build, the calculator pages/links also do not cover it so not sure how to work that one into my potential build setups.

That's probably because those guides predate the Viltgance parts (added in 3.2). The "ship builder" page on the airship logs spreadsheet does include them.

anyone got a guide up to date for sector's items drops ?

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Originally Posted by Aesan

anyone got a guide up to date for sector's items drops ?

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Someone posted a more up to date list couple pages back, I will quote it below. Not sure if 100% up to date but it's more up to date than the one on first page of thread I think.

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Originally Posted by MysticSpirit

Since no one updates the loot table anymore, then I have made my own with information from here and the newly reported items.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1485770991

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I have tried to update the loot table as much as I could, at this point I'm not really sure if it's 100% up to date, since no one report their findings. So from this, I expect that it's 100% up to date, but I will check the sectors I''m insecure about, when I'm finished gathering Dinosaur Leather. :)

Thank you for your continued work on this Mystic Spirit. I am new to this airship scene though I'll report any findings if I manage to get anything new.

Grade V materia findings....

Not enough surveillance with fast/medium ship build Ent/Ody/Ent/Ent to ever bring these back. Changed out to Inv II Forecastle and have gotten them. Favorite build still:

Inv/Bronco/Vilt/Ody

although Inv/Bronco/Tant/Tant is also good.

Unfortunately, my spreadsheet covering the loot table is no longer available, due to an error. I will take contact with Google and ask whether or not they are able to restore the file

I have now talked with Google Support, and they was able to restore the spreadsheet with loot table, so you can now access it :) It took some time, but they seemed to work in a different timezone than me, as I got replies at the middle of the night :)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

Have you seen new object with airship exploration in the patch-note ?

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Originally Posted by Evangelus

Have you seen new object with airship exploration in the patch-note ?

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Patch notes say there's new stuff I think. Doesn't actually say what.

New World Macrame from airship exploration maybe? Would sort of fit into a certain lore. Kind of messed up thinking about mammetts subjugating indigenous cultures though.

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Originally Posted by aesteval

Patch notes say there's new stuff I think.

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maybe not, they say exactly :

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The number of items yielded by Exploratory Voyages has been adjusted.

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and nothing all about Exploratory voyages. But it's difficult to say.

Still wholly theoretical, but I was watching the AH like a hawk at about the 18 hour mark since the update went live, just in case the New World Macrame was from the airship missions. Sure enough, about 21 hours after the update, three New World Macrames got put up on the AH.

Purely speculative, but I'd say it's a very solid chance that New World Macrame comes from exploratory missions. Which one and how rare remains to be seen.

And now to the next mystery: what level recipe and what class is the New World set crafted from? :(

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Originally Posted by Raseleanne

And now to the next mystery: what level recipe and what class is the New World set crafted from? :(

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Head, chest and legs are 3 star lvl 50 wvr crafts. Hands and feet are 3 star lvl 50 lwr crafts.

Ive been attempting to furnish everyone in my FC with a copy of engage for ages without much luck, since patch 6 hits on sector 18 have yielded 3, and MB price has dropped from several mil to 90k - I'd say theres an adjustment.

@ Mystic
Craftsman's Competence III materia from sector 17

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Originally Posted by Evangelus

maybe not, they say exactly :



and nothing all about Exploratory voyages. But it's difficult to say.

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Aww, I got the wording wrong in my head. ;_;

Thanks for the correction.

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Originally Posted by Solarra

@ Mystic
Craftsman's Competence III materia from sector 17

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Already listed :)

I timed about 30 airships to come back on Tuesday morning (patch day) but did not get any new items...

I did notice that the deep-colored clusters and crystals drop in much larger quantities as I'm now getting 20-30 of them per voyage where I was getting only 1-9 prior.

Currently I am deploying my 54 airships to cover all the sectors. I will be sure to post if I get anything new :)

did you noticed a reduction of the materia V drop rate since 3.4?

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Originally Posted by Xenora

... 30 airships ... 54 airships ... :)

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How is that possible? I guess if you two accounts, 7 alts per account, each alt has a FC, it would be. But O.M.G.

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Originally Posted by Evangelus

did you noticed a reduction of the materia V drop rate since 3.4?

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I haven't actually noticed any difference in the V rates with the build I use for my Rank 50 airships.
I've been using Hull=Invincible, Rigging=Invincible, Forecastle=Tatantora, Aftcastle=Odyssey

Competence III

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Originally Posted by MysticSpirit

Already listed :)

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Sorry, maybe I'm being dumb, but I see Control and Craftsmanship listed for sector 17. Am I following the wrong link? Airship Parts

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Originally Posted by Solarra

Competence III
Sorry, maybe I'm being dumb, but I see Control and Craftsmanship listed for sector 17. Am I following the wrong link? Airship Parts

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It is the correct link, but Craftsman's Competence Materia IS Craftmanship, which is already listed along with Control materia :) If you refer to Cp materia, then I can list it if I get confirmation on it :)

So I was being dumb! /facepalm

... I'll get my coat

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Originally Posted by ChameleonMS

How is that possible? I guess if you two accounts, 7 alts per account, each alt has a FC, it would be. But O.M.G.

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14 houses taken up by 1 person? Sounds accurate lol
We have someone on our server that has about 10 houses all under the same or similar fc tag

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Originally Posted by Raseleanne

Purely speculative, but I'd say it's a very solid chance that New World Macrame comes from exploratory missions. Which one and how rare remains to be seen.(

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I'm hearing this is dropping in Aquapolis(4+), and have yet to see anything new on airships. Starting to think a tweaked drop formula is all we have on airships this patch :(

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Originally Posted by DarkCometII

I'm hearing this is dropping in Aquapolis(4+), and have yet to see anything new on airships. Starting to think a tweaked drop formula is all we have on airships this patch :(

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I can confirm New World Macrame is definitely in Aquapolis it dropped for us last night floor 4. Also not seeing anything new so far on airships.

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Originally Posted by Evangelus

did you noticed a reduction of the materia V drop rate since 3.4?

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I've actually had an increase in V drops. Got 9 Spell Speed Vs from 2 airships the other day (6 and 3). RNG just being its usual self.

I have noticed an increase in nearly all items since the patch.

On an unrelated note, does anyone have an updated version of the Pomwreath Airship Route Planner? One that has the data put in for sector 24? I have been using it to min/max some routes and it would be super useful. I'd do it myself but I don't know how to use spreadsheets very well.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1734365538

great guide but this hasn't been updated in 2 patches. Has anyone got a decent sector guide like this. Quite a few items released aren't in this including Faded copy of Engage