Free Company Airships

See also: Subaquatic Voyages

Free Company Airships built from Free Company Crafting can undertake Exploratory Voyages, the exploration of uncharted lands in The Sea of Clouds. These explorations are carried out automatically, with airships returning after a fixed amount of time. Upon completion of an exploratory voyage, you will receive a voyage log detailing the results. You will also receive various items depending on the results of the voyage. As you continue to deploy airships on voyages, you will eventually discover new areas to survey.

Craft and Deploy Airships

Free Company Crafting in the Company Workshop is needed to craft and register airships using requisite components and flight credits. Each airship is built with four components: Hull, Rigging, Forecastle and Aftcastle. Each component has many types and requires numerous materials, multiple phases, lengthy wait time and a group of crafters to build. Note that you cannot build HQ components with HQ materials. However, quality determines the odds of excellent or outstanding progress being made, which results in the next stage of the craft requiring fewer materials.

Airships require Ceruleum Tanks to be deployed on exploratory voyages. They can be purchased using company credits from the resident caretaker in any of the housing districts or the mammet in the company workshop.

Multiple Airships can be maintained for a Free Company, with a second being unlocked once your airship visits Sea of Clouds - Sector 8. A third airship is unlocked upon exploring Sector 14. Each requires a certain amount of flight credits: 1, 3 and 5, respectively.

Components will lose condition with each exploration, similar to how gear does for players. To repair them, Airship Repair Materials must be in the player's inventory. The higher the tier of the component, the more materials needed.

Airship Stats and Performance

The combination of parts used to build an airship will determine the distances it can travel, as well as the rewards you will receive from voyages.

Rank

When a voyage is complete, airships will gain experience points depending on its selected flight path, and eventually, increase in rank. Higher rankings will allow you to outfit airships with new components to improve their performance on future voyages, as well as accessing more sectors. Currently, airships can reach up to rank 50.

Stats

The stats of an airship affect the distance it can travel, the time required for voyages, as well as the rewards received from voyages. Stats of an airship can be altered by changing its components.

Stat	Effect
Surveillance	Influences the probability of gathering a 2nd item per sector. May also influence the probability of finding new sectors.
Retrieval	Increases item extraction rating (higher quantities of a specific item).
Speed	Influences voyage duration.
Range	Allows you to visit more sectors per voyage.
Favor	Unknown, speculation seems to favor that this may affect chance of HQ items and/or affect weather

Airship Components

Airships are comprised of four primary parts—the hull, rigging, forecastle, and aftcastle. Bear in mind that durability of these parts will gradually deplete when sending airships out on exploratory voyages. When the durability of any given part reaches zero, it will require replacement or repair.

Rank

The rank required to use airship components.

Component Costs and Airframe Capacity

When assembling an airship, the total cost of the components cannot exceed the airframe capacity. The airframe capacity increases with the rank of the airship.

Sectors

Sector	Unlocked in Sector	Rank	Unique Items	Common Items
1	-	1	Bamboo Weave,   Vivianite	Ferberite,   Wind Crystal,   Lightning Crystal
2	-	1	Bamboo Weave,   Vivianite	Fire Crystal,   Gold Ore,   Quicktongue Materia III
3	1	4	Red Moko Grass,   Balsa Wood Scrap	Craftsman's Competence Materia III,   Craftsman's Command Materia III,   Earth Crystal,   Ice Crystal
4	2	7	Red Moko Grass,   Balsa Wood Scrap,   Far Eastern Coin	Scarlet Sap,   Gatherer's Grasp Materia III,   Gatherer's Grasp Materia II,   Water Crystal
5	2	10	Empty Crystal,   Deep-red Crystal,   Toy Box Schema	Birch Branch,   Savage Might Materia III,   Lightning Crystal,   Wind Crystal
6	5	14	Empty Crystal,   Deep-green Crystal,   Shrub Seedling,   Dravanian Mote (rare)	Dark Chestnut Branch,   Piety Materia III,   Earth Crystal,   Ice Crystal
7	5	17	Fine Alumen,   Red Clay,   Deep-blue Crystal	Ferberite,   Craftsman's Command Materia III,   Fire Crystal
8	7	20	2nd Airship Permission,   Balsa Wood Lumber,   Raw Celestine,   Iron Giant Core	Savage Aim Materia III,   Wind Crystal
9	8	24	Balsa Wood Lumber,   Raw Celestine,   Toy Box Schema	Quickarm Materia III,   Lightning Crystal,   Wind Crystal
10	7	27	Raw Celestine,   Black Clay	Water Crystal
11	6	30	Chemically Treated Chimera Hide,   Synthetic Fiber,   Magnanimous Mogcrown	Birch Branch,   Quicktongue Materia IV,   Earth Crystal
12	10	34	Chemically Treated Chimera Hide	Heavens' Eye Materia IV
13	11	37	Synthetic Resin,   Dravanian Mote (rare)	Ferberite,   Craftsman's Competence Materia IV,   Craftsman's Cunning Materia IV,   Ice Crystal,   Earth Crystal
14	11	40	3rd Airship Permission,   Aetherochemical Fiber,   Cassia Log
15	13	44	Aetherochemical Fiber,   Cassia Log
16	12	47	Cassia Log,   Empty Cluster
17	15	50	Cassia Log,   Deep-red Cluster
18	17	50	4th Airship Permission,   Cassia Log,   Deep-green Cluster,   Dusk Leather,   Faded Copy of Engage,   Iron Giant Core,   Cloudsbreath Seeds	Dark Chestnut Branch,   Electrum Ore,   Quickarm Materia III,   Quickarm Materia IV
19	15	50	Dusk Leather,   Deep-blue Crystal	Piety Materia IV,   Piety Materia III
20	19	50	Cassia Log,   Deep-red Cluster,   Dusk Leather,   Iron Giant Core,   Cloudsbreath Seeds	Antique Leather,   Gold Ore,   Battledance Materia III,   Battledance Materia I,   Battledance Materia V
21	20	50	Cassia Log,   Deep-green Cluster,   Dusk Leather,   Toy Box Schema,   Cloudsbreath Seeds	Platinum Ore,   Wind Silk,   Spoken Blood,   Quicktongue Materia III,   Quicktongue Materia IV,   Quicktongue Materia V,   Savage Might Materia III,   Savage Might Materia IV,   Savage Might Materia V
22	20	50	Cassia Log,   Deep-green Cluster,   Dusk Leather,   Toy Box Schema,   Cloudsbreath Seeds	Platinum Ore,   Wind Silk,   Spoken Blood,   Quicktongue Materia III,   Quicktongue Materia IV,   Quicktongue Materia V,   Savage Might Materia III,   Savage Might Materia IV,   Savage Might Materia V
23	19	50	Cassia Log,   Deep-red Cluster,   Faded Copy of A World Apart	Ferberite,   Bear Fat,   Heavens' Eye Materia II,   Heavens' Eye Materia IV,   Heavens' Eye Materia V
24	21	50	Cassia Log,   Dark Chestnut Branch,   Deep-green Cluster,   Iron Voyage Spoil,   Cloudsbreath Seeds	Minium,   Savage Aim Materia III,   Savage Aim Materia IV,   Quickarm Materia II,   Quickarm Materia IV