Guide to Island Sanctuaries Gathering in FFXIV

Your island hosts a whole range of items both from mining, botany and spearfishing. None of these require the actual Disciple of Land class, but instead use any class and crafted tools to provide upgrades and obtain more materials.

Every time you hit a node you gain 10 experience and one item, with an upgraded tool you can one additional second or even third item but no increased yield or xp.

Using the gathering log in game you can find a handy list of farming locations for each item making it easy to know where to go once you first gather an item.

Each Tool has a rank requirement to unlock inside of the crafting log and allows you to gain more items.

Each item that you can gather is also spread around the map in a range of areas. Most items also has areas more densely filled with a specific item making it possible to farm large amounts of what you want.

Just like open world gathering you can respawn nodes but unlike the open world you need to gather 11 nodes for the first node to spawn making loops much longer.

There is an achievement to gather 30k items inside of the island sanctuary. You need only 10k items to reach rank 10 but with rank 10 you gain flight and access to a few secret areas.

True Summit is the peak of the mountain at 25,16. It houses exactly enough quartz and other minerals to consistently farm in the same spot making it much faster to get the achievement. This is also by far the best xp route netting around 11-12k island xp an hour.