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Resources

Timers

Ariyala

One of the most commonly used timers

Currently getting trolled, so be careful about what timers do/don’t make sense

FFXIV Hunt

Has moon cycle (18 hours and 40 minutes IRL per ½ month in game)

FFXIV The Hunt

Allows users to block ip addresses that are misreporting (only saved to that device)

Hunt Maps/Info

Grimm’s Maps

Now also on a website – TYSM Kastor Nevierre and Himiko Nevierre on Faerie!

Has maps for whole zone and by rank, simplified maps by zone and individual hunt, and A Rank scouting routes by zone

Cable Monkey Hunt Maps

Maps by individual hunt and zone

Contain discontinued spawn points and will most likely not be updated for 5.0

FFXIV Wiki

Maps by individual hunt, spawn conditions, list of coordinates, hunt respawn window, hunt drops, battle information, and Hunter Scholar’s descriptions

Intro to Hunts Guide

Outlines the basics of hunts

Will be updated after cross world visiting releases

Let’s Talk About Hunts Thread

Where people theorize about spawns and windows

Spawning Tools

Garland Tools

Select bell then turn on 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, hunts (mandragora symbol) and everything else off – gives times of possible pops for weather/moon related hunts and gathering nodes related to hunts

Is not server specific, so if it says Laideronnette is going to spawn in 20 minutes, check that whatever timer your server uses is also open

Super-Aardvark Weather Predictor

Looks for when __ weather is transitioning to __

Windows

A hunt’s window is the time frame in which a hunt can become spawnable. They are usually written as “hours since last kill” or “hours since the servers restarted”.

Somewhere within a hunt’s window, the server ticks to allow it to spawn. For A ranks, this is their only spawn condition and they will pop as soon as this condition is met. For S ranks, their other condition must be met after this tick for the hunt to spawn

Example: “Luminare’s window is 4 to 6 hours after kill” mean that Luminare (an A rank) can spawn 4 to 6 hours after it has been killed. It could randomly pop, also known as spawn, at 4 hours 30 minute after killed, 5 hours after killed, 5 hours 17 minutes after killed, etc.Example: “Minhocao’s window is 57-63 hours after kill” means that Minhocao (an S rank) will become spawnable 57 to 63 hours after it has been killed. After it BECOMES spawnable (for example it could randomly become spawnable at 60 hours after killed), its spawn condition must also be met (in Minhocao’s case, killing 100 Earth Sprites) for it to spawn. Therefore, once 100 Earth Sprites have been killed AFTER it has been dead 60 hours, Minhocao will spawn.

S rank hunts are still spawnable once their window is over. The window ending only guarantees that the servers have ticked to allow spawn. Basically, the window is the time in which the server’s rng can tick to make the hunt spawnable, not the time in which the hunt can spawn. Also, many hunts still have an element of RNG after their timers have ticked to allow spawn, so it can take more than one attempt (even hours after their window has been maxed).

Example: Nandi’s window is 47 to 54 hours long. Nandi can randomly become spawnable at 47 hours after kill, 48 hours after kill, 52 hours and 27 minutes after kill, etc. Before Nandi becomes spawnable (at a random time within that 7 hours long window), any attempts to spawn Nandi will fail. After 54 hours have passed, it is guaranteed that Nandi has become spawnable, and attempts to spawn Nandi will succeed. For different hunts, like Agrippa The Mighty, there are rng elements. Because of this, you may need to make multiple attempts to spawn Agrippa even after his timer has reached max.

Windows are a set amount of time, but vary from hunt to hunt. All windows are reset (start counting up from 0 again) when the servers restart, and hunts have a shorter respawn window their first spawn cycle after this. Servers are reset during most maintenances. You can tell if the servers reset based on your Marketboard wishlist; if your wishlist reset, so did the servers. If there was a maintenance and the servers were NOT reset, the time the game was inaccessible still counts towards the window.

Example: Lampalagua’s post-maintenance window is 40-47 hours after servers restart, instead of 66-78 hours after killed. Example: For the purpose of this example I’m using an imaginary S rank hunt with a very short window (8-10 hours after last killed). There was a maintenance, but your Marketboard wishlist did not reset. At 10 PM (an hour before servers go down for maintenance at 11 PM), you kill said hunt. The servers open at 4 AM the following day (after 5 hours of maintenance, 6 hours after the hunt was killed). The time the servers were inaccessible still counts for the hunt’s window, so it is spawnable from 6 AM to 8 AM (8 to 10 hours after 10 PM), NOT 1 PM to 3 PM (8 to 10 + 5 hours, how long the maintenance was, after 10 PM).

Oftentimes, after maintenance the servers are restarted before they are open to players. This means that windows can be open hours earlier than if calculated by the time the server becomes accessible to players.

Example: The server restarted at 2 AM. Players were able to join the server at 3 AM. The hunts will start counting up from 0 at 2 AM, not 3 AM. A hunt whose window is 11 to 13 hours after maintenance will have their window from 1 PM to 3 PM.

Mapping

After A/S ranks are killed, they “reserve” their next spawn location; nothing else will spawn there until the A/S rank spawns (at the reserved spot), dies, and picks another spot.

This means that, when spawning S ranks, you don’t need to kill A/B ranks in case the S rank wants to spawn where they are.

Where an A or S rank is going to spawn can be determined. This is especially useful for S ranks whose spawn conditions must be completed on their chosen spawn location (Brontes, Croakadile, Nandi, Mindflayer, Kaiser Behemoth, Orghana, Gamma).

How to map an S Rank’s spawn location: Hunts cannot spawn in the same location twice; mark off where it previously spawned. You can idly mark off anywhere you see the A/B Ranks spawn OR actively kill B ranks to determine the spot.

When killing the B Rank(s) over and over again, keep in mind that the A Rank(s) also reserve spots. When you get down to 2 or 3 spots left (depending on the expansion), wait for the A Rank(s) to spawn, and mark those off as your last spots – this should narrow it down to 1 spot left.

Hunt Link Storage

/echo is a chat channel that links things only to you. A tab that only shows Echo channel can be used to easily store hunt flags, as you can tab into that chat tab and grab links at any time.

Spawn Conditions

A Realm Reborn

Croque Mitaine

Middle La Noscea Window: 67-75 (13 hrs) Post-Maint: 39-45 (6 hrs)

Gather Grade 3 La Noscean Soil

Level 50 miner with 353+ Gathering required
Truth of Mountains required to see the node
7-10 PM Eorzean Time at the southern tip of zone
Slot 8
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Croakadile

Lower La Noscea Window: 50^✦ Post-Maint: 30^✦

✦ Croakadile has been known to not spawn night one on some (but not all) servers, even when the spawn condition is completed – suggesting that there is a small window after the time listed, so if it does not spawn night one try again the following.

Run over Croakadile’s chosen spawn point between 5-8 PM Eorzean Time during a full moon

This is called a “mine pop”, as you must run over the hunt’s chosen spawn point as an additional condition

The Garlok

Eastern La Noscea Window: 42-48 (6 hrs) Post-Maint: 21-29 (8 hrs)

200 irl minutes of no rain/showers

This condition is retroactive; it can be met before the timer ticks to allow spawn (ie. if there have been 210 minutes of no rain and The Garlok ticks to allow spawn, it will immediately spawn).
The Garlok is NOT a mine pop.

Bonnacon

Western La Noscea Window: 62-75 (13 hrs) Post-Maint: 39-45 (6 hrs)

Gather La Noscean Leek

Level 50 botanist with 408+ Gathering required
Truth of Forests required to see the node
8-11 AM Eorzean Time NW of Swiftperch
Slot 6
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Nandi

Upper La Noscea Window: 47-54 (7 hrs) Post-Maint: 28-32 (4 hrs)

Run over Nandi’s chosen spawn point with any minion out

Whether you are mounted, unmounted, running, walking, or standing there has no effect on spawn

Chernobog (formerly Mahisha)

Outer La Noscea Window: 65-71 (6 hrs) Post-Maint: 39-43 (4 hrs)

Die

Setting Home Aetheryte to Camp Overlook makes spamming deaths easy
Blue Mage’s Self Destruct DOES work
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Laideronnette

Central Shroud Window: 42-48 (6 hrs) Post-Maint: 25-29 (4 hrs)

Rain 2x in a row

Pops 2:17 hours Eorzean Time into the second rain
Laideronnette is NOT a mine pop.

Wulgaru

East Shroud Window: 66-78 (12 hrs) Post-Maint: 40-47 (7 hrs)

Initiate OR complete a Battlecraft or Grand Company Leve

Which leve (as long as Battlecraft or Grand Company) and whether the leve is completed or just initiated has no effect on spawn
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Mindflayer

South Shroud Window: 50^✦ Post-Maint: 30^✦

✦ Mindflayer has been known to not spawn night one on some (but not all) servers, even when the spawn condition is completed – suggesting that there is a small window after the time listed, so if it does not spawn night one try again the following.

Run over Mindflayer’s chosen spawn point between after Midnight Eorzean Time during a new moon night

If Mindflayer does not pop the first night, it can spawn after 5 PM Eorzean Time the following nights
This is called a “mine pop”, as you must run over the hunt’s chosen spawn point as an additional condition

Thousand-cast Theda

North Shroud Window: 58-68 (10 hrs) Post-Maint: 35-41 (6 hrs)

Fish a Judgeray

Level 50 fisher with 330+ Gathering required
5-9 PM Eorzean Time at Fallgourd Float

Wildfowl Fly bait (purchasable from Syneyhil in West Hawker’s Alley)
Snagging not needed
Must hit your inventory (cannot hook the fish and lose it, nor can your inventory be full)
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Zona Seeker

Western Thanalan Window: 58-68 (10 hrs) Post-Maint: 35-41 (6 hrs)

Fish a Glimmerscale

Level 50 fisher with 330+ Gathering required
Clear or fair weather at Horizon’s Edge (bridge in middle of southern half of the zone)

Butterworm bait (purchasable from Syneyhil in West Hawker’s Alley)
Snagging not needed
Must hit your inventory (cannot hook the fish and lose it, nor can your inventory be full)
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Brontes

Central Thanalan Window: 66-78 (12 hrs) Post-Maint: 40-47 (7 hrs)

Eat food on Brontes’s chosen spawn location

Which food, quality of food, and whether you are mounted, unmounted, running, walking, or standing there has no effect on spawn

Lampalagua

Eastern Thanalan Window: 66-78 (12 hrs) Post-Maint:40-47 (7 hrs)

Initiate OR complete a Battlecraft or Grand Company Leve

Which leve (as long as Battlecraft or Grand Company) and whether the leve is completed or just initiated has no effect on spawn
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Nunyunuwi

Southern Thanalan Window: 44-54 (10 hrs) Post-Maint: 26-34 (8 hrs)

No FATEs fail for an hour

Event FATEs do NOT count (eg. The Maiden’s Rhapsody FATE)

FATEs that you have to initiate DO count
- These FATEs stay up around 5-10 minutes before the NPC despawns and it is marked as failed
- Tested in January 2019; confirmed that you must do initiatable FATEs^✦
Watch out for the quest in middle of desert (blocks a FATE you have to initiate)
The hour of no failed FATEs must begin after the server ticks to allow spawn

✦ Last FATE to fail: 9:12 PM

Initiable FATE appears: 9:18 PM

Initiable FATE despawns: 9:27 PM

Nunyunuwi Spawn: 10:27 PM

Minhocao

Northern Thanalan Window: 57-63 (6 hrs) Post-Maint: 34-41 (7 hrs)

Kill 100 Earth Sprites

Core Blimey FATE allows for easy mass killing of Earth Sprites and can be used to approximate kills (1 Earth Sprite Core drops per 1 Earth Sprite killed)

Agrippa the Mighty

Mor Dhona Window: 60-84 (24 hrs) Post-Maint: 36-50 (14 hrs)

Open a Treasure Coffer from any Treasure Map that ends in Mor Dhona

Timeworn Toadskin, Boarskin, and Peisteskin maps: gathered by botanists and miners at any level 50 node; fished by level 50+ fishers with Snagging on at Lake Tahtotl (North Shroud), Parata’s Peace (Western Thanalan), Isle of Umbra Southshore (Western La Noscea), Reaver Hide (Western La Noscea), Witchdrop (Coerthas Central Highlands), North Shards (Mor Dhona), Rathefrost (Mor Dhona), The Tangle (Mor Dhona)
Mystery Maps (Alexandrite): Must complete the Animus stage of Atma weapon and begin the Novus stage to unlock; cost 75 poetics from Auriana in Mor Dhona
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Safat

Coerthas Central Highlands Window: 60-84 (24 hrs) Post-Maint: 36-50 (14 hrs)

Get to “critical” (1) hp by jumping off of things

Witchdrop is an easy place to spam this and is close to the Camp Dragonhead Aetheryte
If you want to, can have 1 person jump then everyone else aim for them in a game of human darts
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Heavensward

Window: 84-132 (48 hrs)^✦ Post-Maint: 50-80 (30 hrs)

✦ Ariyala displays Kaiser Behemoth, Pale Rider, and Bird of Paradise as open after 85 hours; meaning that they’re displayed as open an hour late. It displays Gandarewa, Senmurv, and Leucrotta as open after 92 hours; meaning that they’re displayed as open 8 hours late.

Kaiser Behemoth

Coerthas Western Highlands

Stand on Kaiser Behemoth’s chosen spawn point with the Behemoth Heir minion out

Buy at The Forgotten Knight for 400 Centurio Seals
Vertical distance and whether you are mounted, unmounted, flying, on the ground, moving, or standing still has no effect on spawn

Gandarewa

Churning Mists

Gather Aurum Regis Ore or Seventh Heaven

Aurum Regis; 2 AM/PM Eorzean Time, slot 6
Seventh Heaven; 4 AM/PM Eorzean Time, slot 1
Truth of Mountains/Forests required to see the node
Tome of Geological/Botanical Folklore – Dravania required to see the node
- Tomes of Folklore cost 50 Rowena’s Tokens (Blue Gatherers’ Scrips) from the Splendors Vendor at Idyllshire (x6,y7). Each token is 25 Red Gatherer’s Scripts from the Script Exchange (same location) – making it a total of 1250 Red Gatherers Scrips per tome.
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Senmurv

Dravanian Forelands

Complete the Cerf’s Up FATE 5x in a row without failing

Just south of Anyx Trine
Only one of Cerf’s Up, El Miacid, Elephant in the Brume, or Special Tarasque Force can be up at once, so doing these FATEs can push respawn

Pale Rider

Dravanian Hinterlands

Open a Treasure Coffer from a Wyvernskin Map

Gathered by botanists and miners at any level 60 node; fished by level 60+ fishers at Iron Feast (The Dravanian Forelands), Thaliak River (The Dravanian Hinterlands), Upper Thaliak River (The Dravanian Hinterlands), Aetherochemical Spill (Azys Lla), and Delta Quadrant (Azys Lla)
Map Locations
RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Leucrotta

Azys Lla

Kill 50 Allagan Chimera (x32,y6), 50 Meracydian Voivre (x11,y37), and 50 Lesser Hydra (x11,y37)

Bird of Paradise

Sea of Clouds

Squonk (one of the B Ranks) using Chirp

Good place to afk, just let him hit you
RNG; can take more than 1 Chirp

Stormblood

Window: 84-132 (48 hrs)^✦ Post-Maint: 50-80 (30 hrs)

✦ Ariyala displays SB S Ranks open after 80 hrs and maxed (missing) after 128 hrs, meaning they’re open 4 hours later than displayed and are at max 4 hours after Ariyala displays them missing.

Salt and Light

The Lochs

Discard items 50 times anywhere in zone

Stacks count as 1 item, but can be split into separate items to discard
Multiple people can contribute to this (eg. 2 people can drop 25 items each)

Udumbara

The Fringes

Kill 100 Diakka (Dimwold) and 100 Leshy (East End)

Bone Crawler

The Peaks

Ride Chocobo Porters

Spawns halfway through route
Route doesn’t matter
Ala Ghiri to Ala Ghana is easiest route to go back and forth
RNG; can take more than 1 trip

Orghana

The Azim Steppe

Complete Not Just a Tribute FATE (x13,y15)

Mine pop; must fly over Orghana’s chosen spawn point after completing the FATE
Some sources say the FATE only needs to end, not be successfully completed (silver failure rating or higher HAS spawned Orghana); just doing the FATE is usually faster, though

Okina

The Ruby Sea

Kill 100 Yumemi and 100 Naked Yumemi

Can spawn from noon Eorzean Time before the first night of the full moon through the rest of the full moon, assuming enough Yumemi have been killed
Any Yumemi killed after the random timer ticks to allow spawn count towards the required number; before then kills do not count
Both Yumemi spawn in the 3 underwater caves
- With 1 person in all 3 caves takes about 30 minutes

Gamma

Yanxia

Stand on Gamma’s chosen spawn point with the Toy Alexander minion out between 5 PM – 8 AM Eorzean Time

Minion drops from Alexander – Soul of the Creator (A12) normal and savage mode
Vertical distance and whether you are mounted, unmounted, flying, on the ground, moving, or standing still has no effect on spawn

Windows Chart

	Window	Ariyala	Difference (“Ariyala shows this as ___”)^✦	Maint Window
Croque-Mitaine	65-75 (10 hrs)	65-75 (10 hrs)	–	39-45 (6 hrs)
Croakadile	50	69-74 (5 hrs)	Open 19 hrs late	30
The Garlok	42-48 (6 hrs)	40-48 (8 hrs)	Open 2 hrs early	25-29 (4 hrs)
Bonnacon	65-75 (10 hrs)	65-75 (10 hrs)	–	39-45 (6 hrs)
Nandi	47-54 (7 hrs)	44-54 (10 hrs)	Open 3 hrs early	28-32 (4 hrs)
Chernobog	65-71 (6 hrs)	65-71 (6 hrs)	–	39-43 (4 hrs)
Laideronnette	42-48 (6 hrs)	43-48 (5 hrs)	Open 1 hr late	25-29 (4 hrs)
Wulgaru	67-78 (11 hrs)	66-78 (12 hrs)	Open 1 hr early	40-47 (7 hrs)
Mindflayer	50	69-74 (5 hrs)	Open 19 hrs late	30
Thousand-cast Theda	58-64 (6 hrs)	58-68 (10 hrs)	Open 4 hrs late	35-41 (6 hrs)
Zona Seeker	58-64 (6 hrs)	58-68 (10 hrs)	Open 4 hrs late	35-41 (6 hrs)
Brontes	67-78 (11 hrs)	64-78 (14 hrs)	Open 3 hrs early	40-47 (7 hrs)
Lampalagua	67-78 (11 hrs)	66-78 (12 hrs)	Open 1 hr early	40-47 (7 hrs)
Nunyunuwi	44-54 (10 hrs)	44-54 (10 hrs)	–	26-33 (7 hrs)
Minhocao	57-63 (6 hrs)	58-63 (5 hrs)	Open 1 hrs late	34-38 (4 hrs)
Agrippa The Mighty	60-84 (24 hrs)	60-84 (24 hrs)	–	36-51 (15 hrs)
Safat	60-84 (24 hrs)	60-84 (23 hrs)	–	36-51 (15 hrs)
Kaiser Behemoth Bird of ParadisePale Rider	84-132 (48 hrs)	85-132 (47 hrs)	Open 1 hr late	50-80 (30 hrs)
Gandarewa SenmurvLeucrotta	84-132 (48 hrs)	92-132 (40 hrs)	Open 8 hrs late	50-80 (30 hrs)
Stormblood	84-132 (48 hrs)	80-132 (52 hrs)	Open 4 hrs late	50-80 (30 hrs)

✦ Missing time correct unless stated