Airship Guide

[PROBOUND]

IMO: Airship Crafting / Gathering materia got nerfed in patch 3.3. With the addition of lower level materials to each sector, the loot tables are now much larger and in-turn, have less a chance of dropping materia. My sector 13-17 route now returns with chimerical leather and minium (wooot!). Thx SE! QQ

[Hempen_Kecks]

I just received Silver Ore from Sector 17. Silver. Not Hardsilver. What the what, SE.

[DarkCometII]

Voidrake on 14 as well.

[Eldeniel]

Some confirmations here :

Secteur 18 : New Orchestrion Scroll Engage
Secteur 11 : Althyk lavander seeds

[Sylvaneste]

I am not sure what is going on. We are new to this whole airship thing. We built our airship using the frugal freighter build. Sent it to sector 19, after a SIXTY hour trip. ALL it came back with, is ONE Deep-blue cluster....ONE....nothing else.

Oh and teh report said it was an "Average" Yield

[Dustytome]

Sounds like some bad luck, but I don't think I've had one of the heavier yield flyers come back with that little. As long as the surveillance and retrieval are high you should be getting better yield. I'd double check the ship's stats (view airship status via the flight control panel in the workshop) and make sure the correct parts went in. If so then give it another try. Perhaps you just got a very bad roll of the dice.

[PROBOUND]

"Additional Anomalies detected... But lost"

I wasnt sure if this was a new airship message or not. Can someone confirm?

I have a strange suspicion that this entire system has been reworked. The addition of low level trash to the loot tables of all sectors and the seemingly stealth nerfed materia yields lead me to believe they weren't happy with the previous output.

That and the fact they added a "Script/Token Sink" to the splendors vendor. Seems moving forward, SE wants us to get our materia from scrips/spiritbonding (work for it) instead of from airships.

[hqdm]

I really wish they'd add new item/materia achievements if their intent is to funnel people towards spiritbonding, it's just a little bit more dull grinding stuff without some meaningless number to work towards.

Not pleased with the low level junk either way though. Minium has fringe use in carbonweave stuff iirc, but not so much any of it needed to be flooded to this degree since it's still a 200gc seal mat, and adding to high-end airship ventures is just kind of insulting. At least you can use birch branches in lvl 60 gc turn-ins zz. The fuck am I supposed to do with silver ore / electrum ore? It's not even worth the retainer slot to try selling it. Oh boy I can craft hardsilver nuggets at higher base cost than just buying it from the Vath npc.

If they wanted to include more "not-materia" fail-states I mean, there's always deep-color clusters, crafting crystals/clusters, even mats that are ACTUALLY RELEVANT TO THE CURRENT TIER like lumythrite sand or aurum regis sand.

[PotatoTree]

My alt's FC airship brought back 3 of the Engage scrolls.

[TaurusGilgamesh]

Sector 22 drops deepeye tears now.