Square Enix released a hotfix for Final Fantasy 14, Patch 7.31 Hotfix 1, on Sep. 5, 2025 to address issues that surfaced after Tuesday’s 7.31 release. The update corrects several cosmic exploration bugs and wrong gatherer tool descriptions that could prevent participation or misstate effects.
The hotfix targets problems that could cause pilot applications to fail or display incorrect help text for the Cosmic Tools gatherer. The developer’s official Lodestone announcement lists the fixes.
Some players reported being unable to change class or join mech ops after switching their primary tool via the Character window or Armoury Chest, which could forfeit a submitted pilot application and block progress. This is a text-only issue in one case. The gatherer descriptions added in Patch 7.31 were adjusted where they misstated effects, and miners, botanists, and fishers have corrected help text to match actual behavior.
Patch Notes – Patch 7.31 Hotfix 1
■The following issues have been addressed:
・In the Occult Crescent: South Horn, using the Occult Falcon support action at certain coordinates on the island field would activate the Forked Tower: Blood passageway mechanism.
・An issue with cosmic exploration mech ops when changing class after submitting a pilot application, wherein players who switch their primary tool directly via the methods listed below were unable to subsequently change class or participate in the mech op, leading to the forfeit of their submitted application.
・Selecting and switching their primary tool via the Character window
・Selecting and switching their primary tool via the Armoury Chest
・An issue when speaking with Scanningway during cosmic exploration wherein, under certain conditions, dialogue indicating the player had not made any contributions during the current ranking period was erroneously displayed, despite the player having contributed.
* This is a text-only issue.
・Some of the descriptions for the gatherer’s Cosmic Tools, added in Patch 7.31, were incorrect in the English version.
*This issue affected only the help text, and the effects were working as intended.
Miner’s Cosmic Tools
Incorrect) Increases to quality are 1.75 times higher than normal when material condition is Good.
Correct) Increases the chance to trigger Collector’s Intuition by 20% when gathering collectables.
Botanist’s Cosmic Tools
Incorrect) Increases to quality are 1.75 times higher than normal when material condition is Good.
Correct) Increases the chance to trigger Collector’s Intuition by 20% when gathering collectables.
Fisher’s Cosmic Tools
Incorrect) Increases to quality are 1.75 times higher than normal when material condition is Good.
Correct) Has a chance to reduce the GP cost of Powerful Hookset and Precision Hookset by 50%.
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