Free Company Airships

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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 icon1.png  Bamboo Weave, Vivianite icon1.png  Vivianite Ferberite icon1.png  Ferberite, Wind crystal icon1.png  Wind Crystal, Lightning crystal icon1.png  Lightning Crystal
2 - 1 Bamboo weave icon1.png  Bamboo Weave, Vivianite icon1.png  Vivianite, Shrub seedling icon1.png  Shrub Seedling Fire crystal icon1.png  Fire Crystal, Gold ore icon1.png  Gold Ore, Quicktongue materia iii icon1.png  Quicktongue Materia III
3 1 4 Red moko grass icon1.png  Red Moko Grass, Balsa wood scrap icon1.png  Balsa Wood Scrap Craftsman's Competence Materia III.png  Craftsman's Competence Materia III, Craftsman's Command Materia III.png  Craftsman's Command Materia III, Earth crystal icon1.png  Earth Crystal, Ice crystal icon1.png  Ice Crystal
4 2 7 Red moko grass icon1.png  Red Moko Grass, Balsa wood scrap icon1.png  Balsa Wood Scrap, Far eastern coin icon1.png  Far Eastern Coin, Fine alumen icon1.png  Fine Alumen Scarlet sap icon1.png  Scarlet Sap, Gatherers grasp materia iii icon1.png  Gatherer's Grasp Materia III, Gatherers grasp materia ii icon1.png  Gatherer's Grasp Materia II, Water Crystal.png  Water Crystal
5 2 10 Empty crystal icon1.png  Empty Crystal, Deep-red crystal icon1.png  Deep-red Crystal, Toy box schema icon1.png  Toy Box Schema Birch branch icon1.png  Birch Branch, Savage might materia iii icon1.png  Savage Might Materia III, Lightning crystal icon1.png  Lightning Crystal, Wind crystal icon1.png  Wind Crystal
6 5 14 Empty crystal icon1.png  Empty Crystal, Deep-green crystal icon1.png  Deep-green Crystal, Shrub seedling icon1.png  Shrub Seedling, Dravanian mote icon1.png  Dravanian Mote (rare) Dark chestnut branch icon1.png  Dark Chestnut Branch, Piety materia iii icon1.png  Piety Materia III, Earth crystal icon1.png  Earth Crystal, Ice crystal icon1.png  Ice Crystal
7 5 17 Fine alumen icon1.png  Fine Alumen, Red clay icon1.png  Red Clay, Deep-blue crystal icon1.png  Deep-blue Crystal Ferberite icon1.png  Ferberite, Craftsman's Command Materia III.png  Craftsman's Command Materia III, Fire crystal icon1.png  Fire Crystal
8 7 20 2nd Airship Permission, Balsa wood lumber icon1.png  Balsa Wood Lumber, Raw celestine icon1.png  Raw Celestine, Iron giant core icon1.png  Iron Giant Core Savage aim materia iii icon1.png  Savage Aim Materia III, Wind crystal icon1.png  Wind Crystal
9 8 24 Balsa wood lumber icon1.png  Balsa Wood Lumber, Raw celestine icon1.png  Raw Celestine, Toy box schema icon1.png  Toy Box Schema Quickarm materia iii icon1.png  Quickarm Materia III, Lightning crystal icon1.png  Lightning Crystal, Wind crystal icon1.png  Wind Crystal
10 7 27 Raw celestine icon1.png  Raw Celestine, Black clay icon1.png  Black Clay, Red clay icon1.png  Red Clay Water Crystal.png  Water Crystal
11 6 30 Chemically treated chimera hide icon1.png  Chemically Treated Chimera Hide, Synthetic fiber icon1.png  Synthetic Fiber, Magnanimous mogcrown icon1.png  Magnanimous Mogcrown Birch branch icon1.png  Birch Branch, Quicktongue materia iv icon1.png  Quicktongue Materia IV, Earth crystal icon1.png  Earth Crystal
12 10 34 Chemically treated chimera hide icon1.png  Chemically Treated Chimera Hide Heavens eye materia iv icon1.png  Heavens' Eye Materia IV
13 11 37 Synthetic resin icon1.png  Synthetic Resin, Dravanian mote icon1.png  Dravanian Mote (rare), Fine alumen icon1.png  Fine Alumen Ferberite icon1.png  Ferberite, Craftsman's Competence Materia IV.png  Craftsman's Competence Materia IV, Craftsman's Cunning Materia IV.png  Craftsman's Cunning Materia IV, Ice crystal icon1.png  Ice Crystal, Earth crystal icon1.png  Earth Crystal
14 11 40 3rd Airship Permission, Aetherochemical fiber icon1.png  Aetherochemical Fiber, Cassia log icon1.png  Cassia Log
15 13 44 Aetherochemical fiber icon1.png  Aetherochemical Fiber, Cassia log icon1.png  Cassia Log
16 12 47 Cassia log icon1.png  Cassia Log, Empty cluster icon1.png  Empty Cluster
17 15 50 Cassia log icon1.png  Cassia Log, Deep-red cluster icon1.png  Deep-red Cluster
18 17 50 4th Airship Permission, Cassia log icon1.png  Cassia Log, Deep-green cluster icon1.png  Deep-green Cluster, Dusk leather icon1.png  Dusk Leather, Faded copy of engage icon1.png  Faded Copy of Engage, Iron giant core icon1.png  Iron Giant Core, Cloudsbreath seeds icon1.png  Cloudsbreath Seeds Dark chestnut branch icon1.png  Dark Chestnut Branch, Electrum ore icon1.png  Electrum Ore, Quickarm materia iii icon1.png  Quickarm Materia III, Quickarm materia iv icon1.png  Quickarm Materia IV
19 15 50 Dusk leather icon1.png  Dusk Leather, Deep-blue crystal icon1.png  Deep-blue Crystal, Iron giant core icon1.png  Iron Giant Core Piety materia iv icon1.png  Piety Materia IV, Piety materia iii icon1.png  Piety Materia III
20 19 50 Cassia log icon1.png  Cassia Log, Deep-red cluster icon1.png  Deep-red Cluster, Dusk leather icon1.png  Dusk Leather, Iron giant core icon1.png  Iron Giant Core, Cloudsbreath seeds icon1.png  Cloudsbreath Seeds Antique leather icon1.png  Antique Leather, Gold ore icon1.png  Gold Ore, Battledance Materia III.png  Battledance Materia III, Battledance Materia I.png  Battledance Materia I, Battledance Materia V.png  Battledance Materia V
21 20 50 Cassia log icon1.png  Cassia Log, Deep-green cluster icon1.png  Deep-green Cluster, Dusk leather icon1.png  Dusk Leather, Toy box schema icon1.png  Toy Box Schema, Cloudsbreath seeds icon1.png  Cloudsbreath Seeds Platinum ore icon1.png  Platinum Ore, Wind silk icon1.png  Wind Silk, Spoken blood icon1.png  Spoken Blood, Quicktongue materia iii icon1.png  Quicktongue Materia III, Quicktongue materia iv icon1.png  Quicktongue Materia IV, Quicktongue materia v icon1.png  Quicktongue Materia V, Savage might materia iii icon1.png  Savage Might Materia III, Savage might materia iv icon1.png  Savage Might Materia IV, Savage might materia v icon1.png  Savage Might Materia V
22 20 50 Cassia log icon1.png  Cassia Log, Deep-green cluster icon1.png  Deep-green Cluster, Dusk leather icon1.png  Dusk Leather, Toy box schema icon1.png  Toy Box Schema, Cloudsbreath seeds icon1.png  Cloudsbreath Seeds, Iron giant core icon1.png  Iron Giant Core Platinum ore icon1.png  Platinum Ore, Wind silk icon1.png  Wind Silk, Spoken blood icon1.png  Spoken Blood, Quicktongue materia iii icon1.png  Quicktongue Materia III, Quicktongue materia iv icon1.png  Quicktongue Materia IV, Quicktongue materia v icon1.png  Quicktongue Materia V, Savage might materia iii icon1.png  Savage Might Materia III, Savage might materia iv icon1.png  Savage Might Materia IV, Savage might materia v icon1.png  Savage Might Materia V
23 19 50 Cassia log icon1.png  Cassia Log, Deep-red cluster icon1.png  Deep-red Cluster, Faded copy of a world apart icon1.png  Faded Copy of A World Apart Ferberite icon1.png  Ferberite, Bear fat icon1.png  Bear Fat, Heavens eye materia ii icon1.png  Heavens' Eye Materia II, Heavens eye materia iv icon1.png  Heavens' Eye Materia IV, Heavens eye materia v icon1.png  Heavens' Eye Materia V
24 21 50 Cassia log icon1.png  Cassia Log, Dark chestnut branch icon1.png  Dark Chestnut Branch, Deep-green cluster icon1.png  Deep-green Cluster, Iron voyage spoil icon1.png  Iron Voyage Spoil, Cloudsbreath seeds icon1.png  Cloudsbreath Seeds Minium icon1.png  Minium, Savage aim materia iii icon1.png  Savage Aim Materia III, Savage aim materia iv icon1.png  Savage Aim Materia IV, Quickarm materia ii icon1.png  Quickarm Materia II, Quickarm materia iv icon1.png  Quickarm Materia IV

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