Month: July 2026

Crafting is the highest-ceiling way to earn Gil in Final Fantasy XIV: experienced crafters who pair Market Board knowledge with fast crafting can clear several million Gil an hour. This guide covers what actually sells, how to level Disciples of the Hand to the cap, and how to time your sales so your effort turns into profit instead of a retainer full of unsold stock.

Crafting rewards preparation over reflexes. The Gil comes from making the right items at the right time, not from crafting as much as possible.

Why Crafting Pays

Almost everything on the Market Board that isn’t a raw drop was crafted by a player: gear, food, potions, furnishings, glamour and more. That constant demand is what lets skilled crafters convert materials into Gil at a rate other methods struggle to match — figures of roughly three to five million Gil per hour get quoted for elite crafters who flip crafted goods efficiently.

What Sells Best

Demand shifts with each patch, but these categories are dependable earners:

Category	Examples	Why it sells
Raid consumables	Food, potions, tinctures	Bought constantly for Savage and prog
Glamour & housing	Outfits, furnishings, dyes	Players pay for style, not stats
Crafted gear	Fresh-patch best-in-slot pieces	Huge spike when new content drops
Materia & melds	Overmelded gear, crafted materia	Endgame players always need it

Leveling Your Crafters

You’ll want your Disciples of the Hand at or near level 100 to make current-patch items. The fastest routes are the crafting class quests, daily crafting society (tribe) quests, and turning in collectables:

• Collectables: craft flagged collectable items and hand them in for Scrips, which buy crafting materials, materia and gear.
• Custom deliveries: weekly NPC turn-ins that give strong EXP and Scrips with no market risk.
• Melded gear: as you approach the cap, meld materia to hit the crafting stats high-end recipes demand.

Timing the Market

The biggest crafting profits happen in the first days of a new patch, when best-in-slot gear, fresh food and new furnishings are in short supply and high demand. Prepare materials in advance, craft the moment content goes live, and list before the market floods. Outside patch windows, steady earners like food and glamour keep ticking over. If you need working capital to buy materials in bulk before a patch, some crafters top up with FFXIV Gil so they can corner mats early.

Read also: more FFXIV Gil guides

• Market Board flipping
• turning the Island Sanctuary into profit
• the housing lottery and Gil planning
• making Gil on patch day

Timeworn treasure maps are one of the most reliable group Gil activities in Final Fantasy XIV: gather or buy a map, dig up the treasure, and — at the top tier — open a portal to a treasure dungeon packed with materia, dyes and Gil. This guide explains how to get maps, how solo and party runs differ, and roughly how much Gil a session is worth in Dawntrail.

Map gathering is limited per character on a timer, so the usual routine is to hoard maps through the week and run them together in a coordinated party for the best returns.

What Are Timeworn Maps?

Timeworn maps drop while you gather with a Disciple of the Land class (Miner or Botanist) once your gathering stats are high enough for the current tier. Each map points to a hidden dig spot in a specific zone; decipher it, travel there, and dig up a treasure chest guarded by monsters.

The current top tier in Dawntrail is the Timeworn Gargantuaskin Map (level 100, introduced in patch 7.3). If you don’t gather, maps also trade freely on the Market Board, so you can simply buy a stack and run them.

The Vault Oneiron Portal

The real payout comes from the portals. When a high-tier chest is opened in a party, it can spawn a portal to a treasure dungeon — for the Gargantuaskin tier that’s Vault Oneiron. Inside, your group clears themed rooms and chains as far as you can, with each room dropping materia, dyes, orchestrion rolls, crafting materials and Gil pots.

Solo vs Party Runs

• Solo: you can dig and clear your own maps for the base chest rewards, but portals are hard to sustain alone, so the long dungeon chains are mostly out of reach.
• Party (up to 8): pooling maps means back-to-back portals and far more rooms cleared, which is where the multi-million Gil sessions come from.

How Much Gil Per Run?

Returns depend on portal luck and how many maps the group brings, but community figures land roughly here:

Run type	Time	Rough Gil
Solo, base chests only	~15–30 min	a few hundred thousand
Full 5-map personal chain	~30–45 min	~1–2 million
Coordinated 8-person session	~90 min	~2.5 million per player

Because the value is spread across materia, dyes and mats, your actual Gil depends on selling those drops well. If you’d rather not wait on gathering timers and map parties, you can buy cheap FFXIV Gil directly instead.

Tips to Maximise Map Income

1. Bank your maps and run them in a full party for portal chains, not one at a time.
2. Bring classes that clear rooms quickly; faster clears mean more rooms before the portal closes.
3. Sell materia and dyes when prices peak (often right after a patch) rather than dumping everything at once.
4. If you gather your own maps, keep your Miner or Botanist gear current so you can farm the top tier.

Read also: more FFXIV Gil guides

• the complete Gil farming guide
• Market Board flipping
• turning the Island Sanctuary into profit
• the housing lottery and Gil planning

Retainer ventures are the closest thing Final Fantasy XIV has to passive income: you send your retainers out on timed jobs and collect Gil, materials and rare drops when they return, all without playing your own character. This guide covers how ventures work, the difference between combat and exploration ventures, what Venture Coffers can drop, and a simple daily routine that quietly adds up over a week.

Ventures won’t replace focused farming, but they run in the background while you do dungeons, raids or crafting. Over a full week a couple of active retainers can bank a few million Gil worth of materials and drops for a few minutes of clicking a day.

What Are Retainer Ventures?

Retainers are NPC assistants you hire to store items, sell on the Market Board and — once you unlock ventures — gather resources for you. To send ventures you spend Venture currency (earned from your Grand Company), and you assign each retainer a Disciple of War, Magic or Land class.

Each venture takes real time to finish, from around 40 minutes up to 18 hours, and returns items based on the retainer’s class, level and item level. The higher those are, the better the haul.

Combat vs Exploration Ventures

There are two broad venture types, and a common setup is to split your retainers between them:

• Combat ventures (a Disciple of War or Magic retainer) return monster drops and gear, and their Quick Explorations carry a chance at a Venture Coffer.
• Field ventures (a Miner, Botanist or Fisher retainer) return gathering materials such as ore, logs, fibres and reagents that you can sell or feed into crafting.

Whichever class you pick, the retainer’s stats need to be high enough for the top ventures, so it pays to keep their gear reasonably close to your own.

Venture Coffers and Dye Drops

The headline reward is the Venture Coffer, which has a chance to drop from short (roughly one-hour) Quick Exploration combat ventures. Coffers can contain highly sought-after items — most famously Jet Black Dye and Pure White Dye, which can sell for over a million Gil each depending on your server and current supply.

They’re not guaranteed, so treat coffers as a bonus on top of the steady materials income rather than a reliable payday.

How Much Gil Can Ventures Make?

Numbers swing with your server economy and the patch, but as a rough guide:

Setup	Effort	Rough weekly value
Two retainers, materials focus	~5 min/day	~1–2 million Gil
Two retainers plus coffer luck	~5 min/day	2–3 million Gil
Extra retainers (up to 10 with added slots)	scales up	several million Gil

The key word is passive: this Gil arrives while you’re busy with something else. If you’d rather not wait on timers, you can also top up your Gil balance and skip straight to spending it.

A Simple Daily Venture Routine

1. Log in and collect any completed ventures from your retainers.
2. Sell or stockpile the returned materials on the Market Board.
3. Re-assign each retainer — keep one or two on Quick Exploration combat ventures for coffer chances, the rest on the highest-yield field ventures they can run.
4. Restock Venture currency from your Grand Company when you run low.

Do this once a day and the returns compound quietly in the background while you play the content you actually want to play.

Read also: more FFXIV Gil guides

• solo Gil farming routes
• the complete Gil farming guide
• Market Board flipping
• turning the Island Sanctuary into profit