Airship Guide

[AerisVII]

Please help!
If you send the airships always to the same sectors do you start seeing diminishing results?

I have 4 Lv 50 Frugal Freighter Design Airships that I send out for crafting materia but the last 10 trips they brought back less then 20 IV back, is it just bad luck or is their some mechanic that I don't know about in play?

[kenshinjr]

Love this guide. I wanted to say I found Cassia Logs in sector 17. They aren't currently listed there. Not sure if this is the place to report findings, but wanted you to know.

[Ranzan]

Ok I need help because I can't get materia from sector 13 to save my life. All I get are either motes (have way too many) or crystals.
Hull: bronco
Rigging: tatanora
Forecastle: invincible
Aftcastle: tatanora

It was previously a freighter but it kept getting motes.

[Jeycht]

That's all about rng.
With any airship comp sometimes I obtain tons of materias (and items) or nothing.
2 last times on sector 13 (and 17 I think): first time 0 materia and some cristals/useless items, second time ~20 materias and a lot of valuable items.

btw I never get any mote.

[Taross]

Not sure if this is added yet, but our FC airship discovered an alternate Diadem (hard) route in Sector 17.

[LionFranco]

So my FC was able to get a large house(we luckily got one before the auto demolition on Xmas), so we had to start all over from scratch with our Airships, etc. I've literally been trying to unlock sectors 13 and 14 for weeks now, and no luck. I've got both airships going to sector 11 and only sector 11, one air ship is at 104 surveilance, and other is at 90.

Has anyone went so long without getting sectors 13 and 14 unlocked?

[Alice_89th]

Has anyone went so long without getting sectors 13 and 14 unlocked?

It took us a lot of trips as well, same for unlocking diadem (for which we even had 3 ships to try with).
I can't say for sure how many weeks it cost us, but at least two and probably three.

[Mithrahn]

Hi, I've upgraded "Opercival Aurora of Cactuar"'s spreadsheet with a few additional functions, as well as fixing a few formulae.
The version that I modified can be found here
Mainly, I've added a "Search" tab and "Airship Materials" tab.
The search tab allows you to input the material name and it will search the 6 airship tabs to look for that said material and tell you how many you still require in total for all of those 6 airship projects, it also shows the amount required by airship, in a single tab.

The "Airship Materials" tab is basically just the 6 airships tabs combined into one so for people who only want to reference which material they require without switching tabs.

Though in the end, for input, people will still need to input the numbers into the individual project tabs, the two tabs I mentioned are mostly for reference when you don't want to keep switching between each project tabs to check on... stuff.

To everyone, feel free to make a copy and edit to your own needs.
To the original creator of the original spreadsheet, if you want me to take it off public, give more accurate credits, or anything else, please send me a PM or something, but I also need some method of knowing you're the original creator :3

[Susurrus]

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone in this thread figuring out how the airships work and which sections have which items and what not. Sadly I can't provide feedback from my own airships as my main char is banned from forums but since I have this account from the Humble Bundle I thought I'd come and say thanks <3

[AkashiXI]

Hey all! I have a few questions, I'm really hoping I can find an answer here, as I've searched and searched, and can't find a proper answer. I apologize if this has been answered before, but I have a Free Company who's itching to be future proof for 3.2+ content .

Right now my Free Company is using one airship for endgame content, and it's the Mostly Invincible Build (Hull: Invincible II, Rig: Enterprise, Fore and Aftcastle: Invincible II), and we have still not gotten Hard Mode Diadem. What's even worse is that we've been stuck on Sector 20 for almost a month now .-.;. My question is: should we invest in another airship with higher Surveillance, or is it all RNG? Also, can I survey multiple sectors (19-20 mainly) to increase my chances of unlocking Diadem HM, while also retaining the chance of unlocking Sector 21? At this point we believe there's some voodoo magic that can help us, so we're only taking it to sector 20 in hopes of unlocking 21 <_<. Thanks to anyone with a proper response! Much love, and amazing guide!