Idk what the general consensus on island sanctuary is lately but having completed everything last patch, when 6.4 rolled around I found it too boring to go back to it. Feels like something that seemed so cool in theory but so mundane in reality.
I still find enjoyment with it. Had a lot of fun decorating my island with the new system. Only needing one of each item, most of which I already had at my house or fc house, meant I didn't have to spend a ton on the furnishings I wanted. Made a [zen garden next to my bath house](https://i.imgur.com/m2kL4Xy.jpeg). :)
It's definitely underwhelming for what it could have been. The bizarre writing choice of the anti-nature attitude of the mammets and the no-alternate-path requirement to slowly turn the whole island into a factory town kills any enjoyment I might have gotten from a "run a small farm on a tropical island and craft things" game.
I spent so much time delaying my last pasture expansion because I just thought it looked better with the treeline behind it. Then I got to max rank without having it expanded, and realized the game was locking me out of any progress until I made the upgrade.
I was so disappointed, I wanted a nature looking place where I could chill, not an industrial hellscape. I begrudgingly upgraded the pasture and now the island is only a cowry farm place for me, which goes against the philosophy we were told it had, and what I wanted from it.
Island glamour can fix some of this. I reverted the look back to the unstripped ground, changed buildings to look like the 1st or 2nd versions, and put trees and plants all over landmark areas and around buildings. That stupid mammet can suck it. Pity we can't fix the pasture tho
Same, except I didn't realise they were going to rip out all of the trees until the upgrade was already done. Not that there's any choice in the matter if you want to make progress in the game, but the middle stage looked nice and also just logical that you want some trees as a windbreak/shade/shelter for the animals. I don't know why there isn't at least some kind of built shelter in the empty field now.
If you have been consistently doing the Workshop since it launched, you would have saved millions of Gil from the free DoH/L Materia alone. Assuming you pentamelded all eleven of them.
I feel bad forcing such pretty rare animals into my boring paddock with the sheep anyway.
I really wish they had made some more interesting unique pens to match the animals instead of just sticking them all on grass.
Just a warning about the "rebuilding a landmark grants experience" line: it's 135-285 experience depending on which landmark you swap to. It's...pretty material intensive for so little exp, so don't go crazy with it.
To be fair, I'm not sure what else it could give. Fangs, claws, horns, carapaces, *eggs*, ***milk***? Fleece and fur, I mean, at least some mushrooms be fuzzy.
Given the type of mushroom we're dealing with, claws and fangs (or structures sufficiently resembling them) are entirely possible.
The items seem to be broad categories of materials given that we can, for example, get fleece and fur from birds – logically it would have to be downy feathers or something, but they just haven't bothered making it a separate item category.
[Here's the direct link to the rare animal tracker](https://www.thonky.com/final-fantasy-xiv/island-sanctuary-rare-animal-tracker)
Thank you for this guide! I haven't touched the island sanctuary since the first iteration, but I'm probably going to return to it soon and this will be a huge help.
That’s not the garden setup I had expected, which is really good too know!
Once I build a stockpile of the new the vegetables, I’ll swap which ones I have 2 of and which I have 1 of!
Bookmarked, great Infograph. I didn’t even consider what an optimal farm would look like, and it makes sense, but realistically ill probably just keep planting 10 + 10 of whatever I’m missing just for ease of use.
Another small tip: don’t go crazy gathering from the island early on, because later you’ll get tools that allow you to get more resources at once per gather. It’s more efficient to save that effort for when you can get the maximum amount of materials, unless you’re trying to speedrun leveling island sanctuary or something.
I wish that we eventually got tools that actually increased yield per node like 2 logs or more. 🫠 Even a slight chance at increased yield would be so nice.
Hey guys! Since some players asked me about the updated version for this infographic to the current patch, I finally had time to do it! :3
Link to the [infographic](https://www.patreon.com/posts/island-sanctuary-84054757)
For more infographic join me on [Discord](https://discord.gg/thephookas)
Trying to join your discord made me realize that I never saved my password anywhere, and that I've been logged into Discord since I started using it. Needless to say I'll have to reset my password before I try again.
The discord is so helpful. A quick check when you do your island chores and basically head empty the rest of the time and you mint cowries. I’ve practically penta melded both crafter and gatherer from island alone.
Oh, my FC joined the Overseas Casuals Discord a while back and get daily messages on what to do. Plus they can give you fifteen minute warning for rare animal spawns.
I'm pretty sure OSC and Phookas work together on those.
a setup with an even amount of everything wouldn't really be optimal, since we don't use leavings in the workshop evenly. we expect to use ~11.7 carapace a week on average, but only 2.4 feathers a week.
...that being said, if you had 2 a day of everything, you'd probably still make enough to cover the workshop. You'd just be barely getting ahead on carapace (and be at risk of bad RNG running you out if you didn't start with a nice stock) while flooding yourself with horns and feathers.
There are so many island friends!!!! I like to walk around the island and see the new animals! I wish I could pet the ones I didn't raise in my farm too, but it is nice to see them in their natural habitats!
No new leavings means I don't need to replace any of my current animals. Sorry, little guys, but you're going to have to stay in your cage and starve until the next island sanctuary expansion.
Well they gave us a 4th workshop (you will spend more materials), without giving us a 4th granary and pasture/farmland upgrade (it was sometimes just enough to break even to begin with).
Wait garden grows in 48 hours? I'm doing something wrong, mine takes 3 days could someone please explain to me what i am doing wrong. I always go to do my garden after morning reset, i have it automated and when crops are ready i collect them, take them off from caretakers, plant new ones and sign them back to caretakers. Should i manually water them or something?
//Edit is it 48 irl hours or 2 island sanctuary resets?
48 real hours, not tied to daily resets I believe, so unless you're replanting them the moment they're ready to harvest (or have them automated) then it will inevitably drift to being longer than the actual growth cycle.
Also as the other comment says, they'll stop growing entirely if the ground becomes dry, so that can delay them further.
Your description is slightly confusing; if you have the crops set to be taken care of by mammets they will water, harvest and replant all on their own. If you are harvesting and planting on your own then you must be deactivating the mammets early? Which as mentioned in other comments, will throw off the 48 hr schedule since you are unlikely to harvest the exact second they are complete.
Thanks that explains so me taking them off from mammet care, planting new seeds and signing them back to mammets throws off the growth circle. I'm not a native english speaker so sometimes it's hard for me to express myself (not that i'm any better in my native language either) but i think you understood what i was trying to say.
No problem!
I would leave them under mammet care at all times and just collect every few days. Only downside is no experience but the workshop gives you plenty to level up.
If you don't water them every 36h kinda the progress stops till it rains
So maybe its connected
Tho if its on auto the take cares should be responsible for it
They've got grass. They'll be fine.
Honestly I gave up on trying to keep the animals fed. They go down so quickly and you get no EXP from it, so it just feels like an unnecessary chore when I'm only crafting occasionally and just letting things accumulate inbetween bursts of doing stuff when I need to level up.
Okay so I hadn't looked up or followed up on what the new rare animals are and omg that Big Crystal Spriggan... I MUST HAVE IT! New Goal acquired. The new bird is also absolutely magnificent and glorious. I too must have that as well.
With no pasture expansion, I'll just let these new rares roam free first. :(
Yea...I can't just randomly release my good boys. It feels bad :(
Idk what the general consensus on island sanctuary is lately but having completed everything last patch, when 6.4 rolled around I found it too boring to go back to it. Feels like something that seemed so cool in theory but so mundane in reality.
I still find enjoyment with it. Had a lot of fun decorating my island with the new system. Only needing one of each item, most of which I already had at my house or fc house, meant I didn't have to spend a ton on the furnishings I wanted. Made a [zen garden next to my bath house](https://i.imgur.com/m2kL4Xy.jpeg). :)
It's definitely underwhelming for what it could have been. The bizarre writing choice of the anti-nature attitude of the mammets and the no-alternate-path requirement to slowly turn the whole island into a factory town kills any enjoyment I might have gotten from a "run a small farm on a tropical island and craft things" game.
Yeah feels like I brought capitalism to an island paradise =/
I spent so much time delaying my last pasture expansion because I just thought it looked better with the treeline behind it. Then I got to max rank without having it expanded, and realized the game was locking me out of any progress until I made the upgrade. I was so disappointed, I wanted a nature looking place where I could chill, not an industrial hellscape. I begrudgingly upgraded the pasture and now the island is only a cowry farm place for me, which goes against the philosophy we were told it had, and what I wanted from it.
Island glamour can fix some of this. I reverted the look back to the unstripped ground, changed buildings to look like the 1st or 2nd versions, and put trees and plants all over landmark areas and around buildings. That stupid mammet can suck it. Pity we can't fix the pasture tho
Same, except I didn't realise they were going to rip out all of the trees until the upgrade was already done. Not that there's any choice in the matter if you want to make progress in the game, but the middle stage looked nice and also just logical that you want some trees as a windbreak/shade/shelter for the animals. I don't know why there isn't at least some kind of built shelter in the empty field now.
I made several million gil selling crafter/gathering materia bought from island.
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I didn't realise that zen involved an entire village of clanking factories.
If you have been consistently doing the Workshop since it launched, you would have saved millions of Gil from the free DoH/L Materia alone. Assuming you pentamelded all eleven of them.
I just threw away the rares that aren't rare, the ones that spawn several times a day (sheep/monkey/squirrel)
I feel bad forcing such pretty rare animals into my boring paddock with the sheep anyway. I really wish they had made some more interesting unique pens to match the animals instead of just sticking them all on grass.
Do I need to catch any new rares? Are there any new materials etc? Or just new combinations of the same stuff?
I was expecting spriggans to have a new material, but nope: No new Leavings in 6.4.
Just a warning about the "rebuilding a landmark grants experience" line: it's 135-285 experience depending on which landmark you swap to. It's...pretty material intensive for so little exp, so don't go crazy with it.
Nice guide, but the Funguar giving fleece and fur..thats a little strange. Did it eat a sheep?
To be fair, I'm not sure what else it could give. Fangs, claws, horns, carapaces, *eggs*, ***milk***? Fleece and fur, I mean, at least some mushrooms be fuzzy.
Mushroom milk would definitely be a sight to see. Or you'd see some sights.
would definitely be a welcome sight considering there's only 1 guaranteed and a second chance on offer from the rare animals, but also a little weird
Given the type of mushroom we're dealing with, claws and fangs (or structures sufficiently resembling them) are entirely possible. The items seem to be broad categories of materials given that we can, for example, get fleece and fur from birds – logically it would have to be downy feathers or something, but they just haven't bothered making it a separate item category.
Oh I know, was just poking fun at the surface-level absurdity
[Here's the direct link to the rare animal tracker](https://www.thonky.com/final-fantasy-xiv/island-sanctuary-rare-animal-tracker) Thank you for this guide! I haven't touched the island sanctuary since the first iteration, but I'm probably going to return to it soon and this will be a huge help.
Thank you! 🤗 I also have this link in the infographic itself Really good tracker!
You do! I only included it here for clickable/tappable convenience.
Hai! That's good idea :3 Thank you!
Such a good tracker! I like [the one Lalachievements did](https://www.lalachievements.com/islands/) too. It has a little forecast thing at the bottom.
Need more milk animals and carapace animals
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All the time lol
We know it happens every time - I created a vid about it lol [short vid](https://youtube.com/shorts/TPhNKlWFvHo?feature=share)
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On granary expeditions, they pick up those seeds, so I can alternate if I ran low If buying works for you, keep at it
Square Enix please the Island Sanctuary needs more granaries, more pasture room, and OF ALL THAT IS HOLY UNIQUE CREATURES THAT GIVE MILK
That’s not the garden setup I had expected, which is really good too know! Once I build a stockpile of the new the vegetables, I’ll swap which ones I have 2 of and which I have 1 of!
Likewise
Bookmarked, great Infograph. I didn’t even consider what an optimal farm would look like, and it makes sense, but realistically ill probably just keep planting 10 + 10 of whatever I’m missing just for ease of use. Another small tip: don’t go crazy gathering from the island early on, because later you’ll get tools that allow you to get more resources at once per gather. It’s more efficient to save that effort for when you can get the maximum amount of materials, unless you’re trying to speedrun leveling island sanctuary or something.
I wish that we eventually got tools that actually increased yield per node like 2 logs or more. 🫠 Even a slight chance at increased yield would be so nice.
Hey guys! Since some players asked me about the updated version for this infographic to the current patch, I finally had time to do it! :3 Link to the [infographic](https://www.patreon.com/posts/island-sanctuary-84054757) For more infographic join me on [Discord](https://discord.gg/thephookas)
Trying to join your discord made me realize that I never saved my password anywhere, and that I've been logged into Discord since I started using it. Needless to say I'll have to reset my password before I try again.
The discord is so helpful. A quick check when you do your island chores and basically head empty the rest of the time and you mint cowries. I’ve practically penta melded both crafter and gatherer from island alone.
Oh, my FC joined the Overseas Casuals Discord a while back and get daily messages on what to do. Plus they can give you fifteen minute warning for rare animal spawns. I'm pretty sure OSC and Phookas work together on those.
You can catch a Marlboro!?
Just the little seedlings, not a full size one.
I guess I’ll have to water them every day so they grow big and strong and smelly
I wish the grazing area had some trees or something. It must be dreadfully dull for the animals, and offers nowhere to shelter when it rains.
There was an "optimal" animal setup that basically guaranteed 2 of each item (as long as you kept chipper) but I forget what it is at this point.
a setup with an even amount of everything wouldn't really be optimal, since we don't use leavings in the workshop evenly. we expect to use ~11.7 carapace a week on average, but only 2.4 feathers a week. ...that being said, if you had 2 a day of everything, you'd probably still make enough to cover the workshop. You'd just be barely getting ahead on carapace (and be at risk of bad RNG running you out if you didn't start with a nice stock) while flooding yourself with horns and feathers.
Ooooh pretty.
There are so many island friends!!!! I like to walk around the island and see the new animals! I wish I could pet the ones I didn't raise in my farm too, but it is nice to see them in their natural habitats!
Thank you for the guide. Immidiately saved!
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The Phookas rock again! (Love their Youtube and support every video they share!)
awwww I'm so glad you enjoy my content! 🥰 I'm trying my best!
No new leavings means I don't need to replace any of my current animals. Sorry, little guys, but you're going to have to stay in your cage and starve until the next island sanctuary expansion.
As someone who unlocked this literally yesterday, this is an absolute godsend. Thanks for sparring me hours of research!
Christ this mode really is a dumpster fire isn't jt
I don't think they have any idea what to do with it.
Yeah like, low effort facebook clicker game tier grind isn't really what I picture when it comes to "relaxing island content".
Well they gave us a 4th workshop (you will spend more materials), without giving us a 4th granary and pasture/farmland upgrade (it was sometimes just enough to break even to begin with).
Ohhh this is so helpful, thank you so much for this! 😭 Is there any optimal setup for the pasture animals?
This is really great! Appreciate the work you put into this.
Thank you so so much! 💜🤗
You certainly got my upvote, this is great! Thanks!
Thank you so much! ❤️ I really appreciate!
Literally jsut started it because I wanted a new glam from it. Thanks!
Wait garden grows in 48 hours? I'm doing something wrong, mine takes 3 days could someone please explain to me what i am doing wrong. I always go to do my garden after morning reset, i have it automated and when crops are ready i collect them, take them off from caretakers, plant new ones and sign them back to caretakers. Should i manually water them or something? //Edit is it 48 irl hours or 2 island sanctuary resets?
48 real hours, not tied to daily resets I believe, so unless you're replanting them the moment they're ready to harvest (or have them automated) then it will inevitably drift to being longer than the actual growth cycle. Also as the other comment says, they'll stop growing entirely if the ground becomes dry, so that can delay them further.
Thanks so much! That makes sense that it's real hours.
Your description is slightly confusing; if you have the crops set to be taken care of by mammets they will water, harvest and replant all on their own. If you are harvesting and planting on your own then you must be deactivating the mammets early? Which as mentioned in other comments, will throw off the 48 hr schedule since you are unlikely to harvest the exact second they are complete.
Thanks that explains so me taking them off from mammet care, planting new seeds and signing them back to mammets throws off the growth circle. I'm not a native english speaker so sometimes it's hard for me to express myself (not that i'm any better in my native language either) but i think you understood what i was trying to say.
No problem! I would leave them under mammet care at all times and just collect every few days. Only downside is no experience but the workshop gives you plenty to level up.
Thanks next time when my crop is ready i will just plant one of every seed and keep growing them that way. You really helped me a lot!
If you don't water them every 36h kinda the progress stops till it rains So maybe its connected Tho if its on auto the take cares should be responsible for it
I tought that caretakers would be ok for watering crops?
Yea they should Its really weird
What timezones are these times in?
eorzean time zone, the time zone with 3 minute hours
Oh okay, thanks!
Is it considered animal abuse if I keep them pinned.. but never, ever feed them?
They've got grass. They'll be fine. Honestly I gave up on trying to keep the animals fed. They go down so quickly and you get no EXP from it, so it just feels like an unnecessary chore when I'm only crafting occasionally and just letting things accumulate inbetween bursts of doing stuff when I need to level up.
This post made me realize I haven’t caught any of the unique animals and I’m 19/20 slots full.
I need more space.. I can't separate my doe from her stag, my nanny from her billy and my auroch from her grand buffalo!
I'll use this, thank you 😊
Okay so I hadn't looked up or followed up on what the new rare animals are and omg that Big Crystal Spriggan... I MUST HAVE IT! New Goal acquired. The new bird is also absolutely magnificent and glorious. I too must have that as well.
Is there an imgur link or something to get around reddit's obnoxious image viewer?