Patch 7.31 makes the daring hop to Phaenna─the next destination for the Cosmic Exploration Initiative─and brings new phantom weapon enhancement quests.

* Additional features will be implemented in future updates:
Yok Huy Allied Society Quests, a new deep dungeon (Pilgrim's Traverse), and Inconceivably Further Hildibrand Adventures sidequests are scheduled to release in Patch 7.35.

* Updated on Monday, September 22, 2025 at 6:30 a.m. (PDT)

FINAL FANTASY XIV Patch 7.31

• Playable Content
  • Areas
  • Quests
  • FATEs
  • Housing
  • The Manderville Gold Saucer
  • Miscellaneous
• Battle System
  • PvP
• Items
• System
• Resolved Issues
• Known Issues
• New Items
• New Recipes

Patch 7.31 contains content that can only be accessed by registering the expansion packs for FINAL FANTASY XIV to your service account. To distinguish between adjustments that are and are not affected by the registration of these expansions, the following notations will be used throughout the patch notes:

These additions and adjustments require the purchase and registration of FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn, FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward, and FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood.

These additions and adjustments require the purchase and registration of FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers.

These additions and adjustments require the purchase and registration of FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker.

These additions and adjustments require the purchase and registration of FINAL FANTASY XIV: Dawntrail.

These additions and adjustments contain elements that may require the purchase and registration of the expansion packs noted above.

Playable Content

The arrival coordinates when teleporting or returning to Bestways Burrow have been adjusted.

New sidequests have been added.

Cosmic Exploration

* You may only access and progress through cosmic exploration quests from your Home World.

Phantom Weapons

A new item is available in exchange for bicolor gemstones from Rral Wuruq in Yak T'el.

New furnishings have been added.

New orchestrion rolls have been added.

New Triple Triad cards have been added.

A new emote has been added.

Battle System

The following adjustments have been made to the Palace of the Dead:

The minimum aetherpool gear strength enhancement from opening silver coffers has been increased from +1 to +5.

The success rate of aetherpool gear strength enhancement when opening silver coffers before floor 101 has been increased.

Enhancement to aetherpool gear strength when defeating a boss has been increased from +1 to +10.

* Aetherpool gear strength can only be enhanced up to a certain level before floor 51.

Aetherpool gear strength is now guaranteed to be enhanced upon defeating bosses on every boss floor, and upon completing floor 200.

Defeated enemies will now drop sustaining potions.

New phantom weapon quests have been added.

Players will be able to enhance the strength of their phantom weapons by completing these quests.

Requirements

Enhancing Phantom Weapons

Upon completing the quest "Wrought by Hands Phantasmal," players will receive one enhanced phantom weapon based on the job with which they progressed through the quest.

In the preceding quest "Aether, Aether, Everywhere," players will receive an Aetherwell Array which can be used to confirm progress during that stage of the enhancement process.

Enhancing Additional Phantom Weapons

After completing the quest "Wrought by Hands Phantasmal," players may exchange Allagan tomestones of heliometry with Dodokkuli in the phantom village (X:6.7 Y:7.1) to enhance additional phantom weapons.

Class/Job-specific Quests

Phantom weapon quests employ a system which will require players to proceed using the same class or job with which they accepted the quest.

The following adjustments have been made to PvP actions:

Further explanations of PvP action changes and adjustments can be found in the job guide.
View the job guide.

All Jobs

Dark Knight

Monk

Dragoon

Ninja

Samurai

Viper

Bard

Machinist

Dancer

Black Mage

Summoner

Pictomancer

White Mage

Scholar

Astrologian

Sage

Items

New items have been added.

View the new items.

New recipes have been added.

View the new recipes.

When using an item registered to a hotbar, the icon will now appear grayed out if the target character is out of range.

Phaenna, the next destination for the Cosmic Exploration Initiative, has been added.

Requirements

Upon unlocking Phaenna, players may travel to the star using the Bestways Burrow aetheryte, speaking with Drivingway in Mare Lamentorum (X:21.9 Y:13.2), or by speaking with Cruisingway in Sinus Ardorum (X:20.6 Y:19.5) and selecting Phaenna as a destination.

Learn more about Cosmic Exploration.

Phaenna Credits

Players earn Phaenna credits by participating in stellar missions and projects on Phaenna. These credits can be exchanged for mech op pilot applications while on the star, or used to draw cosmic fortunes.
* While on Phaenna, Phaenna credits will be displayed on your exotablet in the same location as lunar credits. Lunar credits can still be earned and used while in Sinus Ardorum, and will continue to display as usual.

Phaenna Exploration Tokens

Phaenna exploration tokens can be exchanged for a special mount.

These tokens are awarded upon the completion of EX+ stellar missions. Both the tokens themselves and the mount available for exchange can be sold via the market board.

Stellar Successes

Daily Successes

Upon completing the quest "Go Forth, Brave Explorers," lunar credits earned via daily successes will be converted to Phaenna credits. Please note that daily success points can also be accrued in Sinus Ardorum.

Standard Successes

Phaenna has been added as a separate category, and the Stellar Successes window will now display standard successes corresponding to the star on which you currently reside. Players may check the progress of standard successes on other stars via the pulldown menu toward the top of the window.

Starward Standings

Tallying for Starward Standings has been changed, and will now be based on player contributions from stellar missions, mech ops, and projects undertaken on Phaenna. Players can check their current standing by speaking with Scanningway on Phaenna (X:28.1 Y:12.6).
* Contributions made in Sinus Ardorum will not count towards your contribution score.

Commendation

Star Contributors will be honored for fourteen days in the following ways:

• A hologram of the player will be displayed on Phaenna (X:27.9 Y:12.7).
  
• The player's name will be displayed on the starward standings stela on Phaenna (X:28.0 Y:12.6).
• A special visual effect will be applied to the character in cosmic exploration areas.

Star Contributors cannot be reselected for fourteen days. However, if the current Star Contributor still holds the highest contribution score on the fourteenth day after being selected, they will be designated as Star Contributor again on the following day.

* Commendations received on Phaenna will not apply to Sinus Ardorum.

The Infrastructure Index will now open automatically upon project completion.

* This setting can be disabled via the Cosmic Exploration Settings window.

Cosmic tools can now be further enhanced.

By participating in cosmic exploration, players can obtain class-specific tools for Disciples of the Hand and Land which can be enhanced.

Enhancing Cosmic Tools

By completing stellar missions, players will obtain research data critical for tool enhancement. Cosmic prototypes do not need to be equipped to accrue research data.

Players can confirm required research via "Cosmic Research" on the exotablet.

Once players have accrued sufficient research data, they may report to Researchingway on the star on which they currently reside. Doing so will allow players to obtain enhanced prototypes and cosmic tools.

While players may obtain numerous cosmic prototypes and tools, research data can only be accrued via stellar missions for any given class.

New mounts have been added.

New minions have been added.

New facewear has been added.

System

In order to reduce server congestion, we will be implementing multiple field instances for Phaenna.

* We will monitor server activity and remove this feature when congestion is determined to no longer be an issue.

The division of Shaaloani, Heritage Found, Living Memory, and Lower Jeuno into multiple instances, added to alleviate congestion in Patch 7.3, will be removed.

New achievements and titles have been added.

New trophies have been added. (PlayStation®5)

New achievements have been added. (Xbox Series X|S)

New music and sound effects have been added.

Resolved Issues

• The following issues have been addressed.
• An issue wherein framerate would drop during certain instanced dungeon battles added in Patch 7.3. (PlayStation®5 / PlayStation®4 / Xbox Series X|S versions only)
• An issue with San d'Oria: The Second Walk wherein the radius of certain boss attacks differed from the intended range.
• An issue with Vault Oneiron wherein the damage dealt by the enemy action Acceleration Bomb was lower than intended.
• An issue with the Shifting Altars of Uznair, the Shifting Oubliettes of Lyhe Ghiah, and the Shifting Gymnasion Agonon, wherein certain enemies would erroneously spawn in the center of the battlefield.
• An issue when obtaining Enlightenment silver pieces or Enlightenment gold pieces on the Occult Crescent: South Horn, wherein the corresponding log message would erroneously display twice.
• An issue with Eureka Orthos wherein graphic text appeared in German on floors where demiclones were unavailable. (English only)
• An issue in Crystalline Conflict custom matches wherein, under certain conditions, after a pictomancer was incapacitated and they did not use the PvP action Creature Motif through the end of the match, they would be unable to use this action after selecting the “Rematch” option.
• An issue when executing the gunbreaker PvP action Relentless Rush or the dancer PvP action Honing Dance in Crystalline Conflict, wherein players were unaffected by the knockback effect caused by Turbulence in Cloud Nine or Tatami Twist in the Clockwork Castletown.
• An issue wherein motions of certain PvE and PvP actions did not display correctly.
• An issue when playing as Miqo'te with the hairstyle granted by Modern Aesthetics - Scion Special Issue IV, wherein equipping certain headgear would sometimes cause characters' ears to display incorrectly.
• An issue when playing as a female Viera wherein equipping the headgear Assassin's Hood would sometimes cause facial clipping issues.
• An issue wherein the icon for Phoenix Down registered to a hotbar did not correctly indicate whether the item could be used when the target character was out of range.
• An issue in Group Pose’s portrait mode wherein the orientation of certain enemies was incorrect, and certain weapon effects were misaligned.
• An issue wherein receiving a chat or closing the tutorial window for transportation or escort quests could cause the game client to crash.
  * The above issue was detailed under headings ② and ③ in this news post.
• Other minor text issues have also been addressed.
• An issue with the character settings backup feature wherein downloading certain data uploaded before Patch 7.3 would cause configuration settings to be applied incorrectly.

Other various issues have also been addressed.

Known Issues

• An issue with cosmic exploration mech ops when changing class after submitting a pilot application, wherein players who switch their primary tool directly via the methods listed below are unable to subsequently change class or participate in the mech op, leading to the forfeit of their submitted application.
  ・Selecting and switching their primary tool via the Character window
  ・Selecting and switching their primary tool via the Armoury Chest
  * We are currently investigating the cause of this issue and working on a fix as a matter of priority. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. For the interim, players can avoid the issue via the methods listed below:
  ・Refraining from changing class between submitting a pilot application and beginning the mech op
  ・Changing class by swapping gear sets
• An issue with the quest "Go Forth, Brave Explorers" wherein quest icons do not display on the map in areas outside of Sinus Ardorum.
• An issue with the quest "Keeping the Old Ways Alive" wherein quest icons do not display on the map in areas outside of the phantom village.
• An issue when speaking with Scanningway during cosmic exploration wherein, under certain conditions, dialogue indicating the player has not made any contributions during the current ranking period is erroneously displayed, despite the player having contributed.
  * This is a text-only issue.
• An issue with fishing stellar missions during cosmic exploration, wherein the explanation for certain critical missions not accessible due to cosmic exploration progress erroneously states "Data unavailable for incomplete missions."
• An issue with cosmic exploration wherein completing a project while the cutscene in which players receive a cosmic tool is playing causes the cutscene to display incorrectly, and the environment to appear unchanged for the affected player, despite having completed the project.
  * This issue can be resolved by changing areas or logging out and logging back in.
• An issue with the cosmic exploration mech op directive "Shatter Glass Clusters" wherein the delivery range of certain field scanners is incorrect.
  * Players encountering difficulties as a result of this issue may need to move closer to an affected field scanner to deliver resources.
• An issue when undertaking certain mech ops on Phaenna during cosmic exploration, wherein players can clip through terrain while traveling to the mission site as a pilot.
• An issue in Group Pose’s portrait mode wherein animations and weather effects do not display correctly when completing a cosmic exploration project or while glass rain is active.
• An issue wherein players are unable to mute characters while undertaking a duty.

New Items

New Recipes

Carpenter
Blacksmith
Armorer
Goldsmith
Leatherworker
Weaver
Alchemist
Culinarian

Carpenter

Blacksmith

Armorer

Goldsmith

Leatherworker

Weaver

Alchemist

Culinarian