FFIV Missable and Optional Content

Every missable in the game, bundled together with things I considered worth mentioning cause why not.

This guide is structured by location in the order you reach them. Spoilers. Obviously.

Introduction

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Party Members

In previous versions of the game, every time a party member left there was a risk of losing their gear permanently.

As it has been confirmed by several users, the Pixel Remaster places their gear in your inventory, making this no longer an issue.

This section will remain in the guide as to state it for anyone that is not aware.

Save Slots

Use them. That's it... this section's only purpose is the first -and last- friendly reminder that you have like 20 Save Slots to use as backup.

Also, do try to prioritize the missables over anything else, this will save you headaches having to reload any of the aforementioned backups :)

Bestiary

Actually open it... No, really
Turns out the Bestiary in the Pixel Remasters is not only an awesome compendium, but actually it basically works as a Pokedex too. It is actually so good that there is no reason for the wiki link[finalfantasy.fandom.com] to be here anymore lol
Do note I mean the main menu bestiary as opposed to the in-game one. Huge difference.


Display Map
This is the one feature that makes research obsolete, long story short just chase ? marks if you are planning to complete the Bestiary.

• World Monsters: These will show up as a big ? mark, if you go to the location where the mark is you will find a missing entry.
  
• Dungeon Monsters: While a little less precise, it will still show how many entries are in the dungeon and a ? mark for those missing so you know if you have completed it or need to keep running around.

Sidenote: Yes, I figured this out right before completing the Bestiary in FFIV and did not take any screenshots of the ? marks, use your imagination.

Extra: A word of wisdom from TaskTren for those that insist on using the wiki link[finalfantasy.fandom.com].

TaskTren a écrit :

The Great Marlboro and Golden Toad (142 and 143) don't exist in the game, as the Cave of Trials is not present.
So, the Selene Guardian is 142 instead of 144(on the Bestiary on the Fandom page) for the FFIVPR, so every entry around that area moves back by 2.

142.Selene Guardian
143.Dark Sage
144.Silver Dragon
145.Gold Dragon

Rather than 144-147. Figured I would give a little info here if people were confused with those entries.

Kaipo, Oasis of the Desert

• Bestiary: 021 - General will flee if you kill all the Soldiers first.
  You can kill 2 Baron Soldiers and then the General so they don't bother you as much.
  

Fabul Castle

• Bestiary: 036 - Captain will flee if you kill the Baron Warriors first.
  You have 3 chances to get this entry in this area.
  

Tower of Zot

• Location: One time dungeon. Make sure to keep a separate save as backup.
  
• Chests: All chests.
  
• Bestiary: Refer to the list below.
  
  061 - Puppet
  062 - Sorceress
  063 - Black Knight
  064 - Centaur Knight
  065 - Gremlin
  066 - Soldieress
  067 - Puppeteer: Also found in Tower of Babel.
  068 - Ice Lizard
  069 - Cold beast
  070 - Hell Turtle: 2F.

Dwarven Castle

• Bestiary: 173 - Calcobrena will be missed if you do not allow Calco and Brina to use Combine.
  
  
  Note: The only way I got them to consistently use Combine was to kill the 3 front Brina.
  Even if you don't kill any Calco it will be added to the Bestiary with 0 kills, if you do not like this kill at least 1 Calco and then 3 Brina.

Tower of Babel

Underworld

• Location: One time dungeon. Make sure to keep a separate save as backup.
  
• Chests: All chests.
  
• Bestiary: Refer to the list below.
  
• Item: Illusion can only be stolen from 088 - Evil Doll.
  
• Item: Siren can be stolen from 101 - Security Eye.
  
• Bestiary: 176 - Barnabas-Z can be missed by killing Dr. Lugae before Barnabas.
  Make sure to let Dr. Lugae finish his speech and summon Barnabas-Z instead of melting him.
  
  067 - Puppeteer: Also found in Tower of Zot.
  084 - Mystery Egg: Kill it before it hatches.
  087 - Naga
  088 - Evil Doll
  090 - Fiery Knight
  093 - Chimera
  101 - Security Eye
  102 - Mad Ogre

Overworld

• Location: One time dungeon. Make sure to keep a separate save as backup.
  
• Chests: All chests.
  
• Bestiary: Refer to the list below.
  
  095 - Sorcerer
  096 - Ghost Knight
  097 - Lamia Matriarch: 6F, 7F and 8F.
  099 - Grudger
  103 - Green Dragon: Can be summoned by Sorcerer.
  105 - Mythril Golem: 6F and 7F. Can Also be summoned by Sorcerer.
  
  Credit to loudmog for helping me confirm some of these before I reached it on my run.
  
  WARNING: This area will end after entering the last door of 6F afterfighting Rubicante, make sure you get all the stuff you want before that.
  
  Extra: Turns out there is a second chance to visit this area right after you finish the Overworld visit but before doing anything else. I mention it because it is fun, don't take it as a chance to neglect the Bestiary on your first visit.

World: Drill Falcon

Availability: Once you get the drill attachment but beforegoing to the moon for the first time.

Sylvan Cave

You can find this location on the Northwest side of the Underworld, cast Float and make your way through the cave until you reach Sylvan Cottage, inside it make sure to interact withYang.

Fabul Castle

Make it to the top of the left tower and talk to the lady in front of a kitchen to receive the Frying Pan.

Sylvan Cottage

Use the Frying Pan onYang.
Summon: You will receive the Sylph summon.

Fabul Castle

Item: Return the Frying Pan to receive the Knife.

Giant of Babel

• Location: One time area. Make sure to keep a separate save as backup.
  
• Chests: All chests.
  
• Bestiary: Refer to the list below.
  
• Item: Siren can be stolen from 138 - Searcher.
  
  135 - Beamer
  136 - Centaurion
  137 - Mech Soldier
  138 - Searcher
  139 - Last Arm
  140 - Giant Soldier
  141 - Mech Dragon

Optional Content

Chocobo Forests

Availability: You can get all of them once you get an Airship.

• Use this link [finalfantasy.fandom.com]to locate and visit all 6 forests spread accross the world.
  

Cave of Summons

Availability: As soon as you can fly through lava.

• Make your way through the cave to reach Land of Summons.
  

Land of Summons

Availability: Make your way through Cave of Summons.

• Item: Grab the Rat Tail from one of the chests.
  
• Hidden Room: On the corner of the South-most platform of the first floor. Refer to screenshot.
  
• Summon: Defeat Asura in combat.
  
• Summon: Defeat Leviathan in combat.
  

Excalibur

Availability: Once you have the Rat Tail and have reachedthe Moon at least once.

• Item: Trade the Rat Tail for Adamant in the Adamant Grotto.
  This is the cave on the East-most location of the Overworld, you will need the Hovercraft to reach it.
  
• Item: Trade the Adamant for Excalibur in Kokkol's Smithy.
  This blacksmith is located in the Southeast corner of the Underworld.
  

Odin

Availability: Once you defeat Asura and Leviathan in Land of Summons.

• Summon: Defeat Odin in combat.
  Odin is located at the bottom of the right tower of Castle Baron.
  

Bahamut

Availability: Once you defeat Leviathan in Land of Summons.

• Summon: Defeat Bahamut in combat.
  Bahamut is inside the cave surrounded by a circular plateau at the East side of the Moon.
  

Items

Availability: Once you defeat Bahamut.

• Item: On a bookshelf in Sylvan Cottage.
  
• Item: On a bookshelf on the Weapon Shop in Land of Summons.
  
• Item: On a bookshelf on the Armor Shop in Land of Summons.
  

Sealed Equipment

Availability: Once you get access to Lunar Subterrane.

• Item: All relics are can be found in this area, simply interact with the altar and kill the monster to earn each one.
  

Adamant Armor

Availability: Once you get access to Lunar Subterrane.

• Item: Enter bottom right cave of B5 and use Siren there to fight Flan Princess.
  Keep spamming this fight until they drop Pink Tail.
  
• Item: Take the Pink Tail to Adamant Grotto and trade it for Adamant Armor.
  

Rydia's Secret Summons

Availabilty: Whenever you can find the respective monster.

• Item: Get "Goblin" as a rare drop from 001 - Goblin.
  
• Item: Get "Cockatrice" as a rare drop from 031 - Cockatrice.
  
• Item: Get "Mind Flayer" as a rare drop from 057 - Mind Flayer.
  
• Item: Get "Bomb" as a rare drop from 092 - Balloon.
  

Thank You

Hope this guide helped, now go play FFV.

[Axirith]

I'm grateful for the guide, it saved my hide a couple of times, but as @MrZetha and @Aethelia mentioned, the first visit to the Tower of Babel isn't very reliable:

- Mad Ogre isn't there (and isn't missable)
- it mentions stolen items under "underworld" Babel, but by the time Edge joins "underworld" Babel is already inaccessible, which made me believe you have more time to clean up the missables than you actually do
- mystery egg isn't missable and can be found south of Sylph Cave (thanks to the user Black Mage Luis in another thread)

[MrZetha]

One correction for Tower of Babel: the Mad Ogre (102) is not found there in the first visit; instead on the second. Also, he can be found in Monster chests on Eblan Castle.

[J1ggs]

Calcobrena is bestiary 171, not 173. Thank you for the guide.

[Abyss]

@Aethelia the guide makes a clear distinction between the portion thats in the Overworld and the portion thats in the Underworld, the screenshots provided also clearly show the in game distinction you are making of 16 and 8... I can baby-proof if you want.

@erpmario thanks for clarifying, I have updated the wording to be clearer regarding this.

[erpmario]

@Refurbished Hamster I got stuck on this for a while too. Turns out there's a difference between the Bestiary in-game and the Bestiary accessed from the main menu. You need to use the latter to see all the useful ? marks and location breakdowns. No idea why the devs decided not to include that in the in-game Bestiary.

[Refurbished Hamster]

"Sidenote: Yes, I figured this out right before completing the Bestiary in FFIV and did not take any screenshots of the ? marks, use your imagination."

This explains why you think it's like a pokedex. Before you find the monster, it gives you 0 information except monster number. So, yes, something like that wiki page is still very much needed to actually find the things you don't have.

[Aethelia]

Tower of Babel has two separate treasure counts, first is 16, second is 8.

Just lost a lot of time because this guide was phrased vaguely. It says ToB is a "One time dungeon", but then it says some nonsense about what you can steal even though you cannot steal yet the first time you get there because you get Edge before the second visit, not the first. So when I had 15/16, and had seen a treasure chest that could not be reached yet, I thought I would get that one on the second visit. Nope. Have to get 16 the first time.

If the guide had just said "All 16 chests" and then "All 8 chests", instead of just "All chests." then this could have been avoided. Why is that misleading part about stealing items before you can steal items even there? Made it sound like that location and its chests cannot be lost until after getting Edge.

[Abyss]

@FenecK happy to hear!
@Protoblob fixed

I am a pro at replying in a timely manner.

[RonjaLin]

I don't see 13 Chocobo Forests again in this game? Just an error when copy-pasting it from FF3?

[FenecK]

Big thankyou for the guide! Helped so much, stopped me having to play it twice!!
Guide could be made a little smoother, like the tower part, had me searching for a mob you couldn't get until later in the tower. But still great. Cheers.