Airship Guide

[Solaires]

Is there any chance this'll be updated for 3.3? The song Engaged is from Sector 19.

[Snugglebutt]

Unlocking sector 7 is really doing my head in, my first airship is now rank 25+ and has visited sector 5 over a dozen times ever since it hit rank 10 it has gone to sector 5 in every exploratory venture so far since unlocked 5 itself...yet it has only unlocked 6 and still not 7 from sector 5. I just hope when does finally unlock 7 it won't take this long for unlocking sector 8 too. How long did it take everyone else to unlock sector 7 (how many trips to sector 5)?

[Alien_Gamer]

I believe unlocking sectors is a purely random thing. Based previous posts there's a belief that Surveillance helps but its a weak link. I think you've just had some uncommonly bad luck. Go sacrifice a few dozen lalas and see if it helps.

[Zigabar]

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

Thank you for sharing this.

[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.

[Greyfrost]

Heya, new to the Airship system here, been using your guide throughout for my FC's Airships. Thanks for the effort jotting it down here guys.

I would like to ask a question here though, if I may,

According to the sector route, sector 14 is unlocked by going in to sector 11 vs. the RNG it has, Does it only unlock sector 14 if I'm going to only and ONLY sector 11?

or can I chain route to, let's say 1-6-11, can I still unlock sector 14 that way?

[Alistaire]

Yes, unlocking through a sector doesn't require you to go just to that sector. You can do the 1-6-11 trip and be fine, only limitation is that you'll do it faster of course if you just hit the 1 sector, but it may not be enough of an increase in speed to be worth it to you.

[Greyfrost]

Yes, unlocking through a sector doesn't require you to go just to that sector. You can do the 1-6-11 trip and be fine, only limitation is that you'll do it faster of course if you just hit the 1 sector, but it may not be enough of an increase in speed to be worth it to you.

Thank you! Yeah, I think moving to more area is worth the extra time unless situation needs it otherwise.

[Snugglebutt]

I am not having good luck with airship sector unlocks, I may end up unlocking and being able to visit sector 14 before sector 8 at the current rate. My question is will airship 3 unlock from sector 14 even if have not unlocked and visited sector 8 for airship 2 and essentially the sector 14 airship becoming airship 2...then when unlock sector 8 and visit it the airship unlock from that one becoming airship 3? Or will the sector 14 airship unlock only after unlocked the sector 8 airship?

[Dustytome]

Yes, as soon as a ship actually visits sector 14 you'll have another ship unlocked. I know it's frustrating when there's so little info on the functionality and rng is taking its sweet time siding with you. It gives you that feeling like there's something you're doing wrong, but you're not. You have no control over the unlocks, so take a deep breath and just check back with your ships whenever they return.