Airship Guide

[Eldeniel]

Don't really know about you guys, but even if it's less often than before i still get between 12-30 lvl IV materias regularly. So still worth it for me.

[ServerCollaps]

Airships are Dead.

same here, Only trash from sector 13+17 since 3.3, silver ore and other useless crap

they nerfed it really hard

[Dustytome]

I almost wonder if this was done to discourage people from buying up additional housing just for airships? Been having some pretty poor loot myself. Getting a lot for tier 3 materia lately that I only make a profit off of because people keep putting it on the mb for less than vendor cost.

[Sylvaneste]

I do not know what other people are doing. But we just got our "frugal freighter" airship back from its THIRD 60 hour trip to sector 19. It has not opened up sector 20 in these three trips. And teh last voyage. Above average yield....SEVENTEEN, that's right. 17 HQ Gold Sand!!! The previous two trips, with average yields. Brought back CRAP! What is even worse. Is our second airship, which is nothing but bronco parts. Are bringing back more variety of loot from teh lower sectors than this "beast" of a ship.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

While not a huge haul, and potentially not available due to other concerns, do not forget that you can get up to 18 per week (9 crafting, 9 gathering) through the red tokens. That won't be a huge windfall the way that Airships used to be, but if you have no other use for your red scrip, they are better than nothing.

[Valenth]

Not sure if it's been said already, seeing as this thread has a 101 pages by now (wow!), but when my FC moved from a medium house to a mansion, we found that the actual crafting unlocks (house glamours, ship parts building, etc) of our workshop remained unlocked. The only thing we lost destroying and rebuilding the workshop was the unlocked airships slots, their progress/rank and their sector unlocks.

[PepperPandemic]

Not sure if it's been said already, seeing as this thread has a 101 pages by now (wow!), but when my FC moved from a medium house to a mansion, we found that the actual crafting unlocks (house glamours, ship parts building, etc) of our workshop remained unlocked. The only thing we lost destroying and rebuilding the workshop was the unlocked airships slots, their progress/rank and their sector unlocks.

Wow, so airships gear and progress are wiped to zero, but you can still have all the recipes unlocked to build things at the crafting station? That is useful information. Thanks!

[Solarra]

Not sure if it's been said already... but when my FC moved from a medium house to a mansion, we found that the actual crafting unlocks (house glamours, ship parts building, etc) of our workshop remained unlocked. The only thing we lost destroying and rebuilding the workshop was the unlocked airships slots, their progress/rank and their sector unlocks.

We recently moved too, but we lost nearly all our recipes and have to unlock them again. All we had unlocked was the Bronco airship, the merchant wall skins and the first upgrade of the Aetherial wheel stand.
So, did something go wrong for us, or did you just benefit from a very lucky glitch?

I'd be interested to hear how other people fared when they moved.

[joegoku]

Sector 4 - Fine Alumen

[Lago]

Can anyone confirm that sectors 11, 13, and 15 drop deep-color crystals and clusters? I've been sending a ship there for weeks trying to get materials for aetherial wheels and gotten plenty of everything listed on their drop tables except those crystals and clusters.