Servers

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Introduction

This article is about the list of Servers, which are officially referred to as "Worlds". For the in-universe lore meaning of "world", see World.

Servers or Worlds are individual instances of Final Fantasy XIV. Servers are located in 4 places on Earth: North America, Europe, Japan, and Oceania. Each region is further divided into Data Centers. Each Data Center has multiple servers.

There are no regional limitations on servers. Anyone can create characters on any of the 4 regions. During Character Creation, players can select the world server of their choice to begin the game on. An indicator by each world in the world list indicates population density, represented by chocobo icons, as low, average, or high. For more information about Preferred Worlds, please refer to the Play Guide entry on population balancing.

Characters cannot be created on servers under any of the following conditions:

• Servers that have received a "Congested" designation by Square-Enix. The classical example are all servers on the highly-populated Aether data center. This is an indefinite status that is re-evaluated every patch.
• Servers where too many players are currently logged on. This is a temporary status that changes depending on the time of day. This status is updated every five minutes on the character creation server selection step.

To transfer a character from one server to another, player needs to use the World Transfer Service, which costs real world money. This fee is waived only if transferring from a Congested server to a Preferred one, or from any non-New server to a New server. You can check a World's current status on the official world status page. However, players can temporarily visit other servers with the World Visit System and Data Center Travel, which have some restrictions.

Note that Legacy servers are servers that existed before the A Realm Reborn (2.0) relaunch. Each server has an internal ID number that was retrieved from the API via datamining; it is unknown what these IDs are based upon.

There are separate servers for the Chinese and Korean regions, and those versions of the game are totally isolated, run by local subcontracted companies, and incompatible with the international version. If an international player finds themselves in a Chinese or Korean region, a VPN may be needed to connect to the international servers.

Data Center Selection

When logging in for the first time, you will be prompted to select a regional data center. Your choice of data center will determine the Worlds you may choose from after creating your character. Please note that characters are bound to the World and physical data center on which they are created, unless a Home World Transfer Service is purchased from the Mog Station.

• The data center that you connect to can be changed at any time via the Data Center Selection window at the title screen.

1. Select a data center.

If you have previously logged in with a character, the data center of the last character played will be denoted with a ★ symbol.

2. Review the list of data centers and their associated Worlds.

Worlds listed under the data center of the last character played will be highlighted.

North American Region

Aether Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
73	Adamantoise	August 16, 2013	No
79	Cactuar	August 16, 2013	No
54	Faerie	August 18, 2013	No
63	Gilgamesh	August 16, 2013	No
40	Jenova	April 04, 2014	No
65	Midgardsormr	August 16, 2013	No
99	Sargatanas	August 16, 2013	Yes
57	Siren	August 18, 2013	No

Crystal Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
91	Balmung	August 16, 2013	Yes
34	Brynhildr	September 12, 2013	No
74	Coeurl	August 16, 2013	No
62	Diabolos	August 16, 2013	No
81	Goblin	August 16, 2013	No
75	Malboro	August 16, 2013	No
37	Mateus	September 12, 2013	No
41	Zalera	September 12, 2013	No

The Crystal Data Center was added on April 23, 2019, and certain existing Worlds were redistributed to it.

Primal Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
78	Behemoth	August 16, 2013	No
93	Excalibur	August 16, 2013	Yes
53	Exodus	August 18, 2013	No
35	Famfrit	September 4, 2013	No
95	Hyperion	August 16, 2013	Yes
55	Lamia	August 18, 2013	No
64	Leviathan	August 16, 2013	No
77	Ultros	August 16, 2013	No

Dynamis Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
406	Halicarnassus	November 1, 2022	No
407	Maduin	November 1, 2022	No
404	Marilith	November 1, 2022	No
405	Seraph	November 1, 2022	No
408	Cuchulainn	June 11, 2024	No
411	Golem	June 11, 2024	No
409	Kraken	June 11, 2024	No
410	Rafflesia	June 11, 2024	No

European Region

Chaos Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
80	Cerberus	August 16, 2013	No
83	Louisoix	June 16, 2017	No
71	Moogle	August 16, 2013	No
39	Omega	June 16, 2017	No
401	Phantom	July 5, 2022	No
97	Ragnarok	August 16, 2013	Yes
400	Sagittarius	July 5, 2022	No
85	Spriggan	June 18, 2019	No

Light Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
402	Alpha	July 5, 2022	No
36	Lich	September 4, 2013	No
66	Odin	August 16, 2013	No
56	Phoenix	August 18, 2013	No
403	Raiden	July 5, 2022	No
67	Shiva	August 16, 2013	No
33	Twintania	June 18, 2019	No
42	Zodiark	April 04, 2014	No

The Light Data Center was added on April 2, 2019, and certain existing Worlds were redistributed to it.

Shadow Data Center (Historical)

ID	Name	Activation Date	Closure Date	Legacy Server
???	Innocence	June 11, 2024	August 27, 2024	No
???	Pixie	June 11, 2024	August 27, 2024	No
???	Titania	June 11, 2024	August 27, 2024	No
???	Tycoon	June 11, 2024	August 27, 2024	No

The first four worlds on Shadow Data Center entered service on June 11, 2024, but as what are officially referred to as probationary worlds, meaning no characters can be created on them or moved to using the World Transfer System (on the Lodestone, they will be listed as congested from the get-go to reflect this). This was to be a temporary measure to help mitigate any potential server congestion on other data centers during Dawntrail’s release window. As such, the worlds on Shadow DC were available for the purposes of Data Center Travel. The data center was shut down on August 27, 2024.

Japanese Region

Elemental Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
90	Aegis	August 16, 2013	Yes
68	Atomos	August 16, 2013	No
45	Carbuncle	August 16, 2013	No
58	Garuda	August 16, 2013	No
94	Gungnir	August 16, 2013	Yes
49	Kujata	August 18, 2013	No
72	Tonberry	August 16, 2013	No
50	Typhon	August 18, 2013	No

Gaia Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
43	Alexander	August 16, 2013	No
69	Bahamut	August 16, 2013	No
92	Durandal	August 16, 2013	Yes
46	Fenrir	August 16, 2013	No
59	Ifrit	August 16, 2013	No
98	Ridill	August 16, 2013	Yes
76	Tiamat	August 16, 2013	No
51	Ultima	August 18, 2013	No

Mana Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
44	Anima	August 16, 2013	No
23	Asura	September 12, 2013	No
70	Chocobo	August 16, 2013	No
47	Hades	August 16, 2013	No
48	Ixion	August 18, 2013	No
96	Masamune	August 16, 2013	Yes
28	Pandaemonium	September 4, 2013	No
61	Titan	August 16, 2013	No

Meteor Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
24	Belias	September 12, 2013	No
82	Mandragora	August 16, 2013	No
60	Ramuh	August 16, 2013	No
29	Shinryu	April 4, 2014	No
30	Unicorn	September 12, 2013	No
52	Valefor	August 18, 2013	No
31	Yojimbo	September 12, 2013	No
32	Zeromus	September 12, 2013	No

The Meteor Data Center was added on July 5, 2022, and certain existing Worlds were redistributed to it.

Oceanian Region

Materia Data Center

ID	Name	Activation Date	Legacy Server
22	Bismarck	January 25, 2022	No
21	Ravana	January 25, 2022	No
86	Sephirot	January 25, 2022	No
87	Sophia	January 25, 2022	No
88	Zurvan	January 25, 2022	No

World Visit System

Main article: World Visit System

Players may visit other World servers in your data center to party with friends, purchase items, and tackle duties as of Patch 4.57.

Data Center Travel

Main article: Data Center Travel

Players may travel between logical data centers to embark on adventures with players from those data centers as of patch 6.18.