I Remembered that Island Sanctuary Exists - Getting Every Achievement in FFXIV #22

[@oleub23]

gegeruju's story is that he was a 1.0 retainer (retainers in 1.0 were presets with specific names and appearances, though you still got to give them a nickname, and Gegeruju was one) who's employer never came back after the calamity and he made enough money selling the assets to become a very wealthy land owner.

[@oleub23]

(keep in mind that this isn't *100%* canon. They reused names and models of the 1.0 retainers, some of which have enough dialog to conclusively say that they were definitely not the retainer in question, for example Eijika Tsunjika of the eureka questline. But I want to believe that's why Gegeruju is a rich idiot, he didn't really earn that money)

[@jaeusa160]

@@oleub23 That's some neat lore. It's funny that most people don't respect between MSQ and some events, we did more quests for Gegeruju in ARR than pretty much anyone else but Minfilia. His wife spends plenty of her time on eyecandy too, it's all fair for that little pair of weridos.

[@nicholaschisholm7018]

Holy crap, just took him for just a rich guy... even minor side characters have lore

[@one_eyeddd473]

Hmm thatd be so much cooler. Findin rare unlockable retainers that habe the chance to bring u rare loot drips you can only get from those specific retainers....sorta like the npcs from your garrisons in wow

[@rustyjones7908]

Kind of based actually

[@AnchorJG]

"Custom delivery Teledji Adeledji" is just week after week of stronger adhesives to tape him back together.

[@NanoElite666]

And maybe a bit of super glue.

[@SynodicScribe]

Of course I check my Island. I had to converted it into a library and research center since Old Sharlayan won't make me an Archon.

[@jemm113]

"We are impressed by your devotion to saving the world and are sufficiently pleased by your double theses 'Investigations on Subspace Aetherology' and 'A Treaties on Aetherlogical Time-Space', as well as your archeological and anthropological work on Ancient culture, customs, and sciences. And a many further more and profoundly inspired on your most impressive field work on both botany and fauna, including your wondrous donations of both kinds to the council's various research institutes. I personally was amazed at the sheer variety and number of Behemoth samples you've managed to collect, let alone the sheer yet subtle differences between them. HOWEVER, we feel that your typical Modus Operandi is a rather ill fit for one at the status of Archon, and further we feel as if your paper on 'The uncanny presence of Shoebills' left a lot to be desired. One can only raise an eyebrow at the claim "a shoebill followed me to the bottom of The First's very ocean," and believe that without sufficient evidence or explanation the whole paper is a rather dysfunctional work of coincidental observations. As such, until you clear up a number of your more questionable published and unpublished works, we do not see fit to grant you the rank of 'Archon'. Council dismissed!"

[@SynodicScribe]

@@jemm113 Damn it! I was this close!

[@jemm113]

@@SynodicScribe You’ll get ‘em next time! I think ‘An Analysis of Herb Mixtures and their Effect on Goblin Disposition’ will knock their socks off!

[@shard4155]

Maybe it's because of those damn clouds on ilsabard's map again...

[@gateauxq4604]

Meoni’s-full of Namazu. Only logical that you’d have ALL THE BOOKS. Would double as an excellent Y’shtola and Urianger trap.

[@Amooseable]

Cider Spider: I love ignoring good advice! Also Cider Spider: Why do they always ignore the jumping baby? Truly, a final fantasy 14 moment

[@kevingriffith6011]

20:14 I have never looked at a lala in that mount closely enough to realize that they're *standing up in the driver's seat so they can reach the wheel*. They must be pushing the pedals down with their freakishly long lalafell toes.

[@KianaWolf]

"Cruise control, my good man."

[@Sniperbear13]

they also could have a specially modified Steering wheel so they can accelerate with their hands.

[@kevingriffith6011]

@@Sniperbear13 You think if they had the foresight to do that they'd have installed a booster seat.

[@jaeusa160]

When the FF15 car came out, I got 3 more Lalas to come with me, and took a few screencaps of a buncha Lalas driving the car around Costa Del Sol.

[@Walliard]

It's like the episode of Mr Bean where he drives his car from on top of the roof

[@red5robb1]

"how long have I been able to fly?" about 20 seconds ago

[@peachespeacher]

My anxiety gets pretty bad and these videos are now my go to "calm down you're alright you goober" videos so... yeah thanks for making them, your voice is super calming.

[@bananagher7555]

21:02 Wood opal is a real thing "Wood opal, also known as xylopal, is a form of opal, as well as a type of petrified wood which has developed an opalescent sheen or, more rarely, where the wood has been completely replaced by opal."

[@FinalDragoon]

Yes I have checked my island, every day since it dropped. I'm on track to hit 2 million cowries before Dawntrail so when you buy all those rare dyes for your newly granted dye channels, you can thank me for supplying you with your Dragoon Blues, Pearl Whites, Gunmetal Blacks and so on. You're welcome.

[@KianaWolf]

I have _four of them_ because I'm addicted to pearl white dye. (Also because health problems keep me out of savage / extreme these days, so had to find something to fill the time.) Edit: I made a lot of gil off the mount tokens before the market inevitably crashed... Which was probably partially my fault. Sorry.

[@Gamemaster-64]

@@KianaWolf I got two of the token mounts...no one is buying and the price just keep going down, ; ;

[@harryh6807]

I too have kept up on the island. You’ll have some dye competition.

[@RyuSaarva]

Actually people who did ishgard restoration already supplied those dyes to the market last expansion.

[@idontlikeURLs]

@@RyuSaarva and can do ... again. Prepare yourself for the big money

[@DameonStarflame]

It may not be the optimal way to level up my island, but holy crap do I spend a lot of time just mindlessly running in circles picking flowers, breaking rocks, and felling trees and just having something off to the side (like this video!). It's just so relaxing. The only "chore" is taking care of the animals and the farm, and then I just go picking. Unless it starts to rain, then I go hit up my cabin and plop on some tunes and just chill and watch the rain fall. It's freakin' perfect for me.

[@eFeXuy]

"Reincarnated in another world with my overpowered gun", the first NA anime.

[@bendragneel5337]

It's called gate. Not directly the same but similar

[@fnerXVI]

There is a manga called something like "Ultra Rank Sniper in Another World" Japanese title is "Magan to Dangan o Tsukatte Isekai o Buchinuku!" It's okay, 6/10

[@primalmeridian]

i kept up with my island every major update so i could get it to max rank each time, and while i haven't been fully filling up the market schedule every week now that i'm done, i do juuuust enough to get the weekly amount of Felicitous Tokens so i can add on to my ever-growing stack of gacha boxes in my inventory (right next to my Grand Company Materiel Containers)

[@Kirbyourgaming]

Island sanctuary discord, that's all there is to it.

[@RyuSaarva]

What is even faster is just reading the ingame text and not skipping it and not going to some random website to read the ingame text.

[@ruily276]

@@RyuSaarva He was probably talking about min maxing the pen and having an easier time getting all the crafts into your workshop for the Felicitous tokens.

[@CiderSpider]

Have you checked your island?

[@b99b12]

I never check it, i have so much to do ;-;

[@silvertayuun]

A few weeks ago I sold every island resource, spent all the currency, and said buh-bye to (imo) one of the most boring additions to the game!

[@StormyWitchnado]

Yes always do. Mine is leveled all the way. 😂

[@Dianbler]

Free trial, baby

[@LizzieQueen18]

Yes!

[@honkedoffjohn]

Patiently waiting for blue mage content.

[@NatiiixLP]

Oh you know it's gonna be lit when it hits! Just gotta believe!

[@henryhunter9643]

Then he can spam Drill Cannon and it'll just be a stream of Get Drilled Idiot!

[@karasutsuki1733]

the longer itll take, the sweeter itll be xD

[@flaywind2307]

What if we tell Cider, that there's 450 total achievement points behind BLU?

[@Kurinth]

nothing was better at killing time than when i was leveling crafters and had to gather mats from the diadem for 3 hours straight, just hitting rocks and trees, I understand your desire to hit rocks for extended periods of time, it fulfills that primal desire to do something, but not something especially hard, but still feel like you're doing something productive. Also, favourite show to rewatch annually is Code Geass

[@CassiusKent]

"Save your effort, and don't." Best advice anyone has given me in a while.

[@rune_prism]

i check my island twice a week, and recently had like 500k cowries (after having already gotten all the glams/mounts/misc dyes), and spent the rest on materia to penta my gear lol once it gets into the 'idle' stage, there's really no need to check it daily imo when needing smth to watch in the bg, i'll usually put on a long vod ranging from nature documentary to 'how do invisible walls work in mario 64' lmao

[@fenikkusu4893]

I'm still sitting on nearly 1mil cowries and 2 spare mounts from the random boxes. Thought about liquidating all those into gil with buying dyes (On my Server 1 sold dye could pay for 5-7 materia, thats why I'm not buying those), but after my gf constantly reminds me, that we get two color glamouring, I'm still holding onto my cowries. Dye prices probably go up, or down because a lot of people have the same idea. Now my island is just a hoarder place like my retainer.. Still havent figured out if cowries cap on 999.999 like those stupid vouchers, which cap at 150 for no reason..

[@thelastpillar]

There is already a collectable vendor with the backstory of a vicious capitalist: Rowena. Not only is she portrayed as such in most of her cutscenes, her capitalistic tendencies reflect in gameplay. The custom deliveries pay out big in scripts. Meanwhile, all the regular crafting and gathering collectables are traded in to Rowena for about half of what you'd get from a custom delivery, and only one type of script at once. Not to mention her outrageous prices on Earthbreak Aethersand; 300 purples for 1!? She's cut throat. Only thing is she does have a soft spot for orphans, so I guess she doesn't meet all the criteria.

[@Anergyne]

IT'S ALWAYS THE ORPHANS

[@moonelfe]

gerolt is an orphan? 😮

[@thelastpillar]

@@moonelfe No, but all the Custom Deliveries are subsidized by Rowena. That's how they can pay you scripts when Rowena is practically the inventor and sole banker of scripts.

[@maxjpz]

​@@thelastpillar Well, not ALL of them. Some of them are subsidized by Mowen.

[@Mizra1985]

If you enjoy documentaries and infotainment, I found a few channels to watch in the background about old Disney parks/ properties, etc. Defunctland is what the channel is. Even goes over old TV shows and their histories. It helped me on long nights when my son was a baby and I would be up at all hours of the night with him.

[@D3v1ance]

My island's animals are all named after my old friends who I don't see in game anymore.

[@MarekKowal-uu1pm]

Dayum. That one felt hard

[@saltiestsiren]

I named mine after Sanrio characters but I keep changing them to fit my fancy LOL. Before this they had mostly random names

[@arcanaobscura3519]

Mine are called opo 1 and opo 2 and sheep 1 and sheep 2😂

[@SoraShadowdancer]

That's really sad. And, not sad as in pathetic, sad as in heart-breaking.

[@Strider_Shinryu]

I didn't mind the Island at all as I didn't have any real expectations or desires for it. YoshiP said repeatedly it wasn't going to be Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing so I believed him. *shrug* I visited my island regularly until I finished it and got all of the rewards I wanted from it, and now it just exists as an outdoor photoset and an easy source for Pearl White and Gunmetal Black dyes (as those are the two colorus I use most).

[@ilitsa]

I didn't know what I wanted and kept my expectations minimal, but still just didn't enjoy what it is. The content just doesn't vibe with me unfortunately

[@ValkyrieTiara]

The number of people who convinced themselves it was going to be this super deep Harvest Moon-like side game that would also double as instanced housing and then threw a fit when the content they invented in their minds didn't match with reality continues to astound me.

[@SurrealLeaf]

It was just so much missed potential and baffling design choices, specially in UI bloat. It was stardew with only the boring parts of running in circle and clicking items. Like when they said you can grow crops: "but not housing crops!!", they could've literally fixed years of complaints about needing estate to cross*reed plants. Ability to add housing items? Crops? Striking dummy? House itself!? "No not those!!" They could've literally added small housing plot to be put down and bam, housing fixed. Or add submarines so people wouldn't hoard literal wards for FC houses for gil

[@anteprs7908]

@@ilitsa that fine it was made for casual players

[@ValkyrieTiara]

@@SurrealLeaf But that's just, like, your opinion, man. YOU call it boring, but I know a lot of people who think that's the best part of Stardew Valley. I also know a lot of people who really like Island Sanctuary. A lot of people hate crafting, but there are just as many people where that's the only part of XIV they care about. Same with the housing stuff. Not everybody WANTS instanced housing. Especially in JP, a lot of people like the limited nature of the housing and also like having real neighbourhoods with real people instead of isolated houses in a robot void. And giving everyone unfettered access to submersibles would completely break the feature and instantly make it worthless, which is arguably worse than the current situation. Same with housing crops. Striking dummies can be found outside of literally every major city in the game, there's no need to have your own private dummy. Hell, since you have to go to Aleport before you can teleport to your island, having dummies there would be LESS convenient than going to most of the overworld dummies. It's fine that you don't like a feature, or a feature's implementation. But you not liking something is not the same as that thing being bad. All your other complaints are still just being mad at Thing A not being Thing B, where Thing B is something you yourself completely invented and the devs never even implied would ever exist, and in many cases have outright said they will not do. Just saying "Island Sanctuary is boring, give me more housing" is no more helpful or constructive than those people who say "Delete crafting and housing and make more raids".

[@elara6969]

Runescape! I remember fighting people for ore spawns while I listened to Yahoo Radio in 2003 or 2004. I always had MSN Messenger open, too. Now it's 2024. I play FFXIV, I listen to Spotify and I have Discord open all the time. It really feels like nothing's changed.

[@Lrbearclaw]

16:00 - Usually "Berserk (1997)", "Burn Notice", "Psych", or "Sliders" are my go-to shows. Sometimes "RWBY" or "Red vs Blue".

[@Sifeus]

Sliders is a forgotten classic. Hell yeah

[@east3rcat]

The great thing about island is that you enjoy it how you want. I gathered during my long dps queues so it kept me occupied

[@bulshock1221]

Yours is the best Island Sanctuary content I've ever seen. Yours is also the only Island Sanctuary content I've ever seen.

[@Tenchinu]

i stopped playing FF14 a while ago, but i rly like watching ur content. The passion and love just oooooooooze out of every vid, and it keeps bringing me back. Ill try nd comment more to help with the all mighty algorithm, but still thnk u for the content :)

[@meara628]

Opal is technically a glass like obsidian and often is found in petrified wood so mining it out of a tree make sense :D

[@richs.500]

Thank you so much for quoting one of my favorite songs ("Luka", Suzanne Vega) in this vid. Loving the content.

[@mightyzekken]

Well, I don't have an essay on Island Sanctuary, but I did overhear this conversation at a show the other night: "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?" "No." "I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis... was a Dark Lord of the Sith so powerful and so wise, he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians... to create... life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side, he could even keep the ones he cared about... from dying." "He could actually... save people from death?" "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities... some consider to be unnatural." "Wh- What happened to him?" "He became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was... losing his power. Which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew. Then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. It's ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself." "Is it possible to learn this power?" "Not from a Jedi." Anyway, pretty weird stuff and not at all ominous. Good luck with your achievement hunting

[@Felunya]

You are the first person I heard saying that they are excited about the 30k Island Sanctuary Achievement. And I'm weirdly excited to see the result.

[@nikkicoyotie8431]

it warms my heart seeing someone else doing battlecraft leves

[@emeraldpichu1]

Good to see the infestation of green exploding cubic voidsent were delt with.

[@Xaelroth]

You've increased the gap between us even more this week, but I've been busy with final exams for the winter semester. I'm at 16390 lalachievement score, so 135 behind you. I did do a few things this week though: I got a custom deliveries achievement, and I participated in a triple triad tournament and got my 30th win, which is an achievement with a TT card for a reward. I also got 3 minions for my minion collection!

[@jaeusa160]

@1:55 Dude I've never used Sanctions, don't personally know anyone who ever has either, but I did see some of them during ARR. Players levelling up alts and such who spent GC seals on the green quality like ilvl 40 GC gear, and they had the little like red buff icon I think from using a Sanction. That's what it buffs. Like this is one of those features that has got to be some ancient archaic 1.0 holdover that remains in the game solely because they've simply forgotten to even bother deleting it.

[@bluezhift]

I loved this! It reminded me of how much I loved grinding in certain spots on my island and the solace it would bring!❤

[@stridera]

Favorite old school show to watch. Macgyver

[@Gearhook]

I have never heard any two people refer to the Chex-and-powdered-sugar-and-melted-chocolate snack as the same thing. I have heard puppy chow, monkey munch, toddler crunch, kid crunch, Scooby Snax, and more. Thank you for adding to the bewilderment this single snack has given me, in particular.

[@junkyard_dog18]

15:50 currently binging your videos as i level my botanist and miner ! you are a funny guy :)

[@microgravity]

My long grind go-to is to put on some music and let my eyes glaze over while my muscle memory guides the grind. As a result, the first job I ever maxed out was Botanist.

[@SharaArnen]

You Cider Spider are the BEST at Island Sanctuary! Keep up your insanity!!

[@MrLightlike78]

I rewatched the entirety of the venture bros and video essays on the venture bros while doing island sanctuary- Great content Cider ♥

[@spinerflame7922]

15:40 Lately I've been watching some KZbin series' about the Yugioh card game, on the Cimooo channel. Quick and easy explanation about what was going on during that time, then 2 bros emulate a matchup from the time. Fun series, good background content

[@GamingFoodie]

Nice My Name is Luca song reference! Thank you for catering to us older people haha!

[@ph0nez]

thank you in advance for what i reckon will be another great video :D

[@DBExplorer]

6:34 - ' I got isekai'ed into a fantasy world as an angry baby but I have a gun and many bullets so its fine!'

[@Jaciekakes]

I watch/ listen to your videos if I'm grinding 😅 you inspired me to start my own insane achievement hunting journey

[@Dawnkipcat]

My go-to content while grinding in an MMO is your videos, betcha didn't see that coming

[@itssovalentine]

My favorite long video to watch when grinding is "The Complete History of the A Button Challenge", a nearly six hour long video about the effort to beat Mario 64 with as few A presses as possible. It goes deep into all of the computer science stuff used to make it happen, wonderful video, highly recommend.

[@ValkyrieTiara]

My go-to series for long grinds is Drawfee, a hilarious youtube show where four pro artists draw based on ridiculous prompts. It's especially good because, since drawing is a whole process, you don't need to pay specific attention to the video itself. You just listen and glance over every once in a while to see how the drawing is shaping up, so if there's game content that's brain off but requires you to look at what you're doing (eg roulettes) even someone with severe ADHD like me can enjoy it without getting so distracted I bork up mechanics or have to pause the video constantly. Highly recommend!

[@woowar87]

Seconded! Drawfee are super fun and as another person with ADHD I find them easy to listen to/watch while doing my ffxiv chores!

[@azurechan]

Love Drawfee!!! I constantly pull up their old videos to watch while playing all sorts of video games, especially the episodes with Julia surprises.

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

With how many wars and catastrophes that world has seen, is it any surprise that you pretty much stumble across orphans around every corner? Hell, how many orphans have you as the WoL created across the story - directly or indirectly?

[@Victor-bl2ge]

2:10 ''Yo dawg, we heard you like small..."

[@QueenMuzzmuzz]

Honestly, the people who say 'FFXIV has content drought' feels hilarious when a dedicated achievement hunter like Cider has whooooole swathes of content that he's only dipped his toes into. It also makes me feel better that I keep discovering new stuff to do, even after playing for five years.

[@kiiturii]

been playing for years and he's showing me shit I never knew was even in the game almost every episode

[@Feraligatrfjhgujvgh]

Usually when I'm doing my grinds, I watch the massive backlog of KZbin videos I have in a playlist I assembled of all the people I'm subbed to. Which is what I may or may not be doing right now :P

[@Tsignotchka87]

lol, I love that the Lalafel stands on the seat to see out the windshield...and my Miqo'te sits so low she can't see over the steering wheel.

[@Aybrix]

Eureka with Collin Ferguson is free on Amazon Prime (or was) and I never get tired of watching it. Used to watch it air on TV and it's fuuuuuun.

[@sonicroze]

Quick and dirty Island Sanctuary - 1. Diversify your animals. (There are special animals that only spawn under certain conditions; get them for vanity or variety Typically their rewards are flipped from the normal version, so even if you neglect and abuse them they drop something you want) 2. I don't follow spread sheets. I make things based on one of 2 criteria - Do I have the materials? Is it something that is actually "Insufficient/Non-existent"? - End Island Sanctuary, I make things I need or just have excess materials to go toward. Oh yeah, similar items get "bonuses" so I guess you get more cowries if you string them together. 3. I use the easily gatherable seeds (Pumpkin/Parsnip/Cabbage/Potato) to make feed for my animals - Apples when I'm lazy. 4. Just check in once a day after reset to make sure the Mammets are doing their job and the crops and animals are good. If you feed/water manually? Water last (Damn rain happens too often while I'm doing things or after) 5. Profit. Make Mistress Tataru proud!

[@woadwarrior9857]

You are perfect content to watch while gathering and crafting.

[@PhoenicisEstuans]

11:00 cider spider is clearly a dwarf, lalafells are dwarves on the first, cider spider is natively from the first

[@relogos]

You're the best around. Nothing's gonna ever keep you down.

[@billy65bob]

If you want some advice for island sanctuary. Your robot slaves can only gather resources you've previous gathered, so try to gather at least 1 of each unique resource on the island.

[@nahliphen]

15:34 same here, Cider, same here... Such a trivial grind when you have KZbin or something else playing on the other monitor

[@tokimimen]

hey, may I know how can I use the same eyebrows as you do? I looked through all the option and can't find that thick variant.

[@Ntwolf1220]

“I come from a RuneScape background” It all makes sense now. Love me some osrs

[@kristiwinkle5686]

I rewatch House every couple of years too, and The Magicians!!!! I really should go play in my Sanctuary! I called it puppy chow as well. Time for me to go and log in and dump my weekly levequests, thanks for the reminder!

[@kariohki]

First time I've heard chex tossed in chocolate and powdered sugar as "monkey much" - around here it's called "puppy chow", though Chex sells it themselves as "muddy buddies" too

[@traviswilliams2348]

Muddy buddies is the way honestly. It's what I've always heard it called.

[@artfulduality2891]

I played FFXIV since the ARR beta on PS4, on and off, currently stopped at the end of Endwalker. I love your videos, as they give me the Eorzea fix I need to not relapse into the addiction, lol.

[@acehealer4212]

I like to listen to music when I'm grinding in a game. I dunno if I'm looking forward to doing Island Sanctuary (I'm currently doing post-ARR MSQ). I wonder if there's a good attitude to go into it with.

[@jessicawilson1751]

Hellsing Ultimate Abridged on KZbin by Team Fourstar is amazing and something I love going back to watch. Sadly, its only a few hours long in total, but a blast. Lots of dark humor.

[@Foxpawed]

My go-to background entertainment of choice to re-binge is DBZ Abridged, either directly or going through it with the commentaries.

[@arcanadawn]

I love the mount you use in this video! It's one of my faves. 😃

[@AwsomeGamer99]

You have inspired me to cap all my crafters, so i can become the pancake salesman. I will fill my whole inventory of pancakes.

[@Vash_tha_Stampede]

The tools tab of lalachievements shows where all animals appear and under what conditions. There are 21 super rare animals to collect.....with 20 pasture space

[@ChaosDX1]

Hey, someone else that likes digging holes in Minecraft! After a long day at work when I'm too tired for anything else, I have a solo world that I log into where there's just a giant 50x50 hole. I put on something to listen to and just DIG. It's relaxing. Favorite things to watch while I'm doing this are videos of someone playing classic RPGs I'll never get around to playing myself and DnD streams. Currently watching JoCat's "Heart of Elynthi".

[@Seandreams_]

samesies with the house md. binging the heck out of it in youtube clips from time to time lmao

[@MirinkaiserVODs]

"Don't write essays!" Okay, time to write 40 messages consisting of one sentence each, each sentence of the full essay being sent in a random order. Then you can play a game to try to put them in order! Edit: The cheffeur/chauffeur pun was top tier. Chef's kiss. (Get it?)

[@mychellevt]

Love that you started talking about watching shows during grind. Me watching this series as I grind Yo-Kai event medals 😂

[@apljack]

Island Sanctuary has become my Hi-Cordial printing facility. I stop by once a week specifically to check up on animals/crops/reset the weekly workshop stuff, and then let the automation do all the work. The only thing that really requires effort to min-max with it is if you are going for that last achievement for so many blue crowlies earned in a week from the Workshop. I'm not an achievement hunter, so I just eyeball expected interest, set my crafts, and move on.

[@jedimasterpickle3]

honestly didn't even realize the island could give hi-cordials. I just buy them w/ white gatherer scrips

[@anteprs7908]

that fine it was made for casual players who enjoy relaxing content something i have feeling you arent

[@apljack]

@@anteprs7908 I'm not sure if this was aimed at me intentionally or not, but I am actually very casual in general. Nothing I said above would indicate otherwise, as I even stated I don't bother min-maxing anything. I automate the island and spend maybe 5 minutes setting it up the crafts for the week. Hell, I don't even have all the animal slots filled. XD

[@apljack]

@@jedimasterpickle3 Yeah, once I was done with all the glam/mounts, I just ended up using the Blue Crowlies to get Cordials to save Collectable turn-ins for crafter scrips for relic mats and the like. I'm not a fan of going out and gathering for collectables.

[@anteprs7908]

@@apljack it depend on your mindset and if you play to relax and dont enjox challanging content.

[@slashley6106]

Cider, you are clearly the best Island Sanctuary player the world of Eorzea has ever seen.

[@Basheequa]

I'm 9:50 in and YEESSS!! I was excited for the island too only to be hit with a brick of disappointment. I got it to level 10 out of sheer stubborness then I released all animals, cleared the garden left and havn't been back, nor do I want to. I feel like the same is true with most other people, even if they don't wanna admit it.

[@GrimSavant]

Pretty much the same thing for me, I think. XIV gathering hits that sour spot for me where it takes too much focus to totally zone out for but not enough to be interesting, and that sort of "slow small grind" really doesn't do it for me. It sounds like you can eventually semi-automate the whole thing including the material collection, but the process of playing the mode feels like they found a way to make a "low-stress" mode into something you can do suboptimally, and that really bugs me whether I want to let it bug me or not.

[@Basheequa]

@GrimSavant I was hoping for something a little more animal crossing like... maybe even use that first person mode thing to do something like pokemon snap... instead it's just a place to do stonks with some annoying little robot jerks. I don't think the developers know that the appeal of having a private island is to forget work and simply escape.

[@CaptainThief]

@12:20 nice “my name is Luca” ref

[@shadders43]

"How long have I been able to fly?" According to the notification that popped up seconds early, about a few seconds

[@adjwindu70]

15:48 I usually listen to music when I grind. Either that or watch random YT vids.

[@musicalmarauder8352]

Last week i watched the entire first season of doctor who while leveling eureka. Ive seen it so many times, its great background content for grinding.

[@Ugouka12]

Schitt's Creek, The Office, and Corner Gas are my grinding shows. Runescape grinds were my Jam for ages lol

[@chernobyl169]

I have a question about the Regalia Type-G How do Lala drivers reach the pedals

[@KianaWolf]

We just glare at the speedometer and the car speeds up because it doesn't want to go to the scrap yard.

[@gamergirl24]

I only remember Island Sanctuary when they add stuff to it and when I glance over and see my brother working on his island sanctuary.

[@pyrotius]

Some of the Grand Company armor has like a small buff that you need a sanction to activate. You can get the same buff by talking to one of the Grand Company people that is infront of that keosk, I think its a lalafell that is near the entrance for the Maelsturm.

[@SoraShadowdancer]

Favorite thing to watch while grinding: I actually don't like watching videos while grinding because I find that I get distracted by the video and forget to grind. I'm very much a "one thing at a time" person.

[@kroznick1011]

There's a large set of nodes on the mountain for grinding out the manual gathering achievement.

[@clintonwilcox4690]

The only achievement I have remaining unfinished for my island sanctuary is the one where you have to gather 33,000 items from the wilds. Would you like to come grind that out for me? lol Those mindless grinds are the ones I hate. With a passion.

[@RafflesiaAr]

"I was isekai'd into a fantasy world with a gun and many bullets" There are at least two series that are exactly that.

[@saltiestsiren]

> Jellyfish can be caught with the "gig" aka spear underwater off one of the beaches, can't remember which one. > My island sanctuary is rank 7 right now, no, I don't keep up with it lol. I go very long without touching it and then binge it for a week or something, lather, rinse, repeat. > I know about "monkey munch" though that name is adorable lol, it's always been called "puppy chow" around here, funny how similar the names are in concept.

[@lightning432]

Finally saw the mad because small series, as someone who started playing during EW it was before my time, so it was a welcome surprise, and very funny

[@nerra5408]

My go to stuff to watch while grinding is your videos... Despite seeing pretty much all of them like at least 6 times

[@NormFC]

The true value of the island is in dyes and hi cordials. The glams are amazing and its a pretty nice place to escape to with friends or to decorate for gpose. So in the last video where you though gathering was miserable, having good cheap hi-cordials can help make the experience less so.

[@ytty7170]

Binging your achievement vids got me through the brutal ARR mass gathering achievements 👍

[@angimauri8092]

Love watching the chill achievements ❤

[@Meowlo]

i check my island once a week to set it to what the discord tells me to set it to. top tier gameplay. someday, i will go spend a few hours on top of the mountain harvesting in circles to finish the 30k grind.

[@MasterShanicus]

I get the desire to dig a hole. Miner was my first level 90 for a reason - there is just nothing more satisfying than breaking rocks.