Cosmic Tools Relic Guide and Best Missions for FFXIV

Cosmic Tools are the Crafting and Gathering relic tools available for Dawntrail. These tools are upgraded using content called Cosmic Exploration where these tools are upgraded over a range of stages to become some of the best tools in the game.

For players looking for information about the core mechanics of Cosmic Exploration such as how to unlock, rewards, or further information about game mechanics. Please read our guide!

Cosmic Tools are simply given to you as soon as you enter Sinus Ardorum while unlocking the Cosmic Exploration. Your first tool is given to you from the questline however all other tools can be picked up for free by speaking to Researchingway in any of the 4 planets.

Cosmic Tools have special effects on them. These are:

• All: Completing a stellar mission from start to finish with this tool equipped grants a bonus to earned rewards. Region-specific Credit Bonuses: +35%
• Crafting: Increases to quality are 1.75 times higher than normal when material condition is Good.
• Miner/Botanist: Increases the chance to trigger Collector's Intuition by 20% when gathering collectables.
• Fishing: Has a chance to reduce the GP cost of Powerful Hookset and Precision Hookset by 50%. (Chance is around 10-15%)

The Cosmic Tools currently go up to i780. Cosmic Tools have increased stats, no meld slots but do already have a meld worth of CP added onto them.

These tools are the best tools available bosting better stats on top of their unique effects compared to pentamelded crafted tools.

For further information such as meld adjustments from crafted tools check out our melding guides!

3.

Gallery of All Cosmic Tools for Crafting and Gathering

Featured below is a gallery of the first and third stages of the Cosmic Tools which offer unique styles for this relic.

Cosmic Tool Hypertools "Tool" of Stars Final Upgrade

Carpenter Blacksmith Armorer Goldsmith Leatherworker Weaver Alchemist Culinarian Miner Botanist Fisher

Carpenter Blacksmith Armorer Goldsmith Leatherworker Weaver Alchemist Culinarian Miner Botanist Fisher

Carpenter Blacksmith Armorer Goldsmith Leatherworker Weaver Alchemist Culinarian Miner Botanist Fisher

3.1.

Cosmic Saw

3.2.

Cosmic Cross-pein Hammer

3.3.

Cosmic Raising Hammer

3.4.

Cosmic Mallet

3.5.

Cosmic Round Knife

3.6.

Cosmic Needle

3.7.

Cosmic Alembic

3.8.

Cosmic Frypan

3.9.

Cosmic Pickaxe

3.10.

Cosmic Hatchet

3.11.

Cosmic Fishing Rod

3.12.

Cosmic Saw

3.13.

Cosmic Cross-pein Hammer

3.14.

Cosmic Raising Hammer

3.15.

Cosmic Mallet

3.16.

Cosmic Round Knife

3.17.

Cosmic Needle

3.18.

Cosmic Alembic

3.19.

Cosmic Frypan

3.20.

Cosmic Pickaxe

3.21.

Cosmic Hatchet

3.22.

Cosmic Fishing Rod

3.23.

Saw of Stars

3.24.

Cross-pein Hammer of Stars

3.25.

Raising Hammer of Stars

3.26.

Mallet of Stars

3.27.

Round Knife of Stars

3.28.

Needle of Stars

3.29.

Alembic of Stars

3.30.

Frypan of Stars

3.31.

Pickaxe of Stars

3.32.

Hatchet of stars

3.33.

Fishing Rod of Stars

Upgrading your Cosmic Tools is simple, simply obtain Data which comes in multiple (numbered) types. Data comes from Stellar Missions and completing them will grant you progress towards your current tool!

Every Mission inside the Cosmic Exploration has set data that it can grant you. But when you gain either a Gold or a Silver rating on the mission, you will gain a 5x or 4x multiplier to the respective rewards. Critical Missions do not give you any multipliers however.

A few tools exist to help you know what missions are efficient as well as knowing further information about the mission types. I would suggest checking out:

• Crafting Spreadsheet with data, macros and relative efficiency
• Gathering Spreadsheet for Breakpoints and Score efficiency
• Fishing Spreadsheet with Hole Data

Ultimately however, simply picking missions with data you need will allow you to make progress fast. The harder missions/expert crafts often give more data but may not be something you can macro so what’s best can depend on your personal preference.

Generally speaking, the most recent planet Auxesia is the best planet to grind for your relic, granting data at lower classes of missions and often a higher overall total of data. No progress needs to be made on earlier planets and you can skip straight to Auxesia after completing the quest chain.

That being said, if you did not partake in the 3 planets before Auxesia, there are rewards you may want to grind out on those old planets such as glamour, mounts and minions.

Each upgrade of your Cosmic Tool requires you to gain a lot of data of varying types. Starting with rank I data and then progressing into II, III and so on. As you progress multiple data types are also required. You do not need the relic equipped while you farm data!

The great thing is though, your current data (Analysis) does not reset when you upgrade! Furthermore, the more relics you complete, the faster your data acquisition becomes.

As you complete more relics, you begin to gain a buff that makes the next relics much easier to obtain. This starts at +50% and ends at 150%. This is indicated by new text appearing in your Cosmic Research menu.

This means that you want to always finish a Tool Analysis stage for one class before moving onto another so that you can gain the Increased Data Acquisition buff. There are multiple "stages" of Tool Analysis with Novice, Intermediate, Advanced and Expert.

You cannot 'lose' the buff if you upgrade a tool to further stages so feel free to either get each class to Novie > the Intermediate and so on, or do one tool to Expert at a time. Either works and takes the same amount of time.

If you are a player who is either new to the game or simply new to Crafting and Gathering. This relic starts at level 10 alongside you and can be upgraded further as you continue leveling.

If you are leveling you do not need to worry about being optimal with regards to progressing the relic. Faster leveling involves you NQ'ing the crafts to hit bronze tier and spamming missions faster over aiming for gold to get more data.

Listed below is each stage of the Cosmic Tool and the Data requirements for that stage. With the addition of Oizys, the grind has become much simpler. Several data types are now available in lower classes and their overall values have been increased, alongside less missions meaning less annoyance with picking a specific mission.

	Novice Stages								Intermediate Stages
Tool	v0.2	v0.3	v0.4	v0.5	v0.6	v0.7	v0.8	Cosmic	v1.1	v1.2	v1.3	v1.4	Stellar
Type I	200	500	700	1000	1300	1700	2200	2800	3000	3450	3900	4300	4700
Type II			300	800	1200	1700	2300	2900	3000	3400	3800	4300	4700
Type III					500	1100	1700	2300	3000	3250	3650	4150	4700
Type IV							700	1500	2000	2250	2650	3200	4000
Type V										100	400	900	1500
Type VI
Type VII

	Advanced Stages			Expert Stages
Tool	v1.1	v1.2	Hyper	v1.1	v1.2	Star
Type I	5500	6300	7100	7900	8700	9500
Type II	5500	6300	7100	7900	8700	9500
Type III	5500	6300	7100	7900	8700	9500
Type IV	4300	5500	7100	7900	8700	9500
Type V	1800	2550	3150	3950	4750	5600
Type VI		600	1600	1900	2300	2700
Type VII					600	1600

For details on the Stellar Missions available and all their rewards. The consolegameswiki provides a detailed list of Stellar Missions for example Auxesia Miner.

Listed below is some general Mission Recommendations for Class A Cosmic Missions that cover all data types needed. That being said, the best missions for you specifically will change depending on what data you require. You should also not farm the more difficult/slower missions if they take longer giving you less data overall, so no EX+'s unless your confident you can reliably clear them quickly.

Mission farming can be summarised as:

• Novice: Class D/C Missions
• Intermediate: Class C/B Missions
• Advanced: Class B/A Missions
• Expert: Class A Missions

Crafting:

For Crafting, we recommend the first 3 missions present in the mission log on each craft. Each gives data VII but with the first mission giving I/II, the second giving III/IV and the third giving V/VI allowing you to very easily have an even distribution.

Miner/Botanist:

Mining and Botany can work the exact same way with each mission giving data VII and then there being 3 missions that provide the remaining 6 pieces of data. Unlike crafting, these are not the first 3 missions in the log as these missions instead give more points but focus more on collectables/reduction.

That being said, even if you do other missions all of the Class A missions are in the same location making distance not a problem. Opting to do missions at a lower class is another perfectly valid option but will require travel time.

Fishing:

Unlike Miner and Botanist, Fisher will require more travel to reach different missions. They do also get the benefit of having missions in lower classes that give a large amount of points. Because there’s a much wider variety in options, i suggest the Fishing Spreadsheet with Hole Data so that you can view more information about each mission. That being said my recommendations otherwise are:

• (D) Timberpond Specimen Survey - Data I/II/III
• (C) Valuable Southern-central Specimens - Data I/II/IV
• (A) Aquatic Mechanism Distribution Survey - Data III/VI/VII
• (A) Aquatic Mechanism Operational Survey - Data V/VI/VII