Subaquatic Voyages
- See also: Free Company Airships
“Construct a submersible in your company workshop and hunt for hidden treasures in the depths of the ocean. Who knows what mysteries await?
— Patch 4.2 Official Website
Obtaining a Submersible
Your free company must own a house before purchasing a workshop or undertaking subaquatic voyages. The size of the house has no effect on crafting or exploration.
In order to craft a submersible, you must first obtain the required recipe from the schematic board in the Company Workshop. After gathering the required items, select the plan of your desired recipe. It will then be added to the company crafting log.
Registration
After obtaining the requisite components and Dive Credits, access the voyage control panel in the company workshop to outfit and register your submersible. Three additional submersibles may be registered after visiting the following sectors:
Sector | Rank | Cost |
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Unidentified Derelict | 20 | 3 Dive Credits |
The Wreckage of Discovery I | 30 | 5 Dive Credits |
Purgatory | 40 | 7 Dive Credits |
A free company may own up to four submersibles plus four airships, but only four ships of any kind may be deployed at a time.
Submersible Performance
- Main article: Submersible Components
The combination of parts used to build a submersible will determine the distances it can travel, as well as the rewards you will receive from voyages.
When a voyage is complete, submersibles will gain experience points depending on their selected route, and eventually increase in rank. Higher rankings will allow you to outfit submersibles with new components to improve their performance on future voyages.
Stats
A submersible's stats affect the distance it can travel, the time required for voyages, as well as the rewards and amount of rewards received from voyages. Stats can be altered by changing its components.
Stat | Effect |
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Surveillance* | Higher surveillance increases a submersible's ability to get rare items and/or HQ items. Does not affect what sectors the ship can visit. Does not affect chances to discover new sectors. |
Retrieval* | Increases item extraction rating (higher quantities of a specific item). Note that many rare items are limited to one, regardless of the ship's retrieval. |
Speed | Influences voyage duration. |
Range | Affects which sectors, and how many of them, a ship can reach in a single trip (maximum five sectors). |
Favor* | Increases the chance that a ship may re-survey a sector. More favor past the minimum does not increase the chance to re-survey. |
*Details about the necessary surveillance, retrieval, and favor stats can be found on the FFXIV Airship/Submersible Loot and Builder.
Repairs
Components will lose condition with each exploration, similar to how gear does for players. To repair them, Magitek Repair Materials must be in the player's inventory. The higher the tier of the component, the more materials needed. Components do not need to be repaired until the condition is 0%.
Undertaking Subaquatic Voyages
Registered submersibles can be deployed to explore uncharted waters. These explorations are carried out automatically, with submersibles returning after a fixed amount of time. Upon completion of a subaquatic voyage, you will be provided with a voyage log detailing the results. You will also receive various items depending on the results of the voyage.
It should be noted that both airships and submersibles can be deployed at the same time. However, there is a limit to the number of airships and submersibles that can be deployed simultaneously.
Ceruleum Tanks
Submersibles require Ceruleum Tanks to be deployed on subaquatic voyages. They can be purchased using Company Credits from the resident caretaker in any of the housing districts or mammet voyager #004A in a company workshop.
Vendor | Location / Coordinates | Section | Cost | Unlock req. |
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Mammet Voyager #004A | Company Workshop (6.2, 6.2) | General | ![]() |
Free Company rank 6 |
Resident Caretaker | Empyreum (10.2, 11.7) | Company Credit Exchange | ![]() |
Free Company rank 6 |
Resident Caretaker | The Lavender Beds (11.9, 8.3) | Company Credit Exchange | ![]() |
Free Company rank 6 |
Resident Caretaker | Mist (11.4, 11.4) | Company Credit Exchange | ![]() |
Free Company rank 6 |
Resident Caretaker | Shirogane (9.5, 13.5) | Company Credit Exchange | ![]() |
Free Company rank 6 |
Resident Caretaker | The Goblet (11.3, 9.4) | Company Credit Exchange | ![]() |
Free Company rank 6 |
Charting a Voyage
As you continue to deploy submersibles on voyages, you will eventually discover new areas to survey. Discovery of new sectors is not guaranteed, and a ship may need to survey a sector several times before unlocking the next sector.
Sectors
- See also: Deployment Sector
Every major patch, the maximum submersible rank will typically increase by 5, and new sectors will be added.