Cosmic Exploration Guide and Rewards in FFXIV

Cosmic Exploration is new Lifestyle content releasing in Patch 7.2 of Dawntrail. Expected to function more similarly overall to Ishgard Restoration compared to Island Sanctuary Overview, you can work with other players to make progress on the current planet with the Loporrits.

Crafting and Gathering is the main focus of Cosmic Exploration and will be how players progress. Players are able to gather resources around the planet to then be used for crafting. If this content is anything like the Ishgardian Restoration, players will be able to exchange these crafted items for rewards and currencies.

Cosmic Exploration can be done solo but it is intended that you work with other players to make progress on the current planet. Future updates are planned to bring players to different planets.

While the Ishgardian Restoration was focused around real-time changes, Cosmic Exploration will allow players to experience all stages of growth even if they only join in the future.

Each Major patch, players will be able to explore a new star while completing missions and events as a community to upgrade the area. The base will start with nothing, from gathering and crafting items will be the base grow and flourish.

The first location in patch 7.2, looks to simply be the moon. Because "each major patch will be a new star". There should be 4 planets total in Cosmic Exploration by the end of the Dawntrail expansion.

Above are some examples of how the area will grow over time as missions and events are completed on your server. It is not currently know if access to the area will be tied specifically to your server like it is with the Ishgardian Restoration.

It is not currently know exactly what rewards will be available, but players can expect to see a range of mounts, minions and other cosmetic rewards.

It is likely that the mount shown below will be one of the available rewards.

The Crafting and Gathering relics for Dawntrail are the Cosmic Tools. These special tools will also be released in the patch 7.2 series alongside Cosmic Exploration. These tools can then be upgraded over time with future patches and content updates to potentially be some of the best tools for your Crafting and Gathering classes.

Little is know about the specifics of these tools at this moment in time but they will presumably have multiple upgrades that increase the stats of the Cosmic Tools while also changing their design. We also do not yet know if these tools will have unique effects again much like the Splendorous Tools series.