FFXIV timed gathering nodes
Unspoiled, ephemeral, and legendary nodes: when they open, how long they last, and how to find them.
What makes a node “timed”
Most nodes are always there. Timed nodes only show up at fixed Eorzea hours, for a set number of Eorzea hours. Miss the window and you wait for the next one. They hold the scrips, endgame crafting mats, and folklore rewards, so they sit at the center of a gatherer's routine.
The three kinds
- Unspoiled: about a 2 Eorzea-hour window (older A Realm Reborn ones run 3), usually twice an Eorzea day. This is your daily bread and butter for scrips and endgame mats.
- Ephemeral: about a 4 Eorzea-hour window, in clusters of three. These feed Aetherial Reduction, and they make for relaxed, passive income.
- Legendary: about a 2 Eorzea-hour window, twice a day, usually folklore-locked. The rarest mats and the steepest stat requirements. Set an alarm for these.
Seeing them, and folklore
Timed nodes stay invisible unless Truth of Mountains (Miner) or Truth of Forests (Botanist) is active, and that turns on by itself when you're on the class. Ephemeral nodes don't show a minimap arrow, so use Lay of the Land or Arbor Call to pin them down.
Many legendary nodes also need a Tome of Regional Folklore, bought from the scrip vendor for around 1,600 Purple Scrips. Fieldcraft marks folklore-locked nodes so you know to grab the tome first.
Tracking them with Fieldcraft
This is what the tool is for. The Now page shows what's open this minute and what's opening soon, with live countdowns. Star the items and fish you care about to build a watch list, and turn on an alarm to get a nudge a minute before a window opens. Browse everything in the gathering directory.