Hello and welcome to the highly anticipated Mog House Meeting from the HorizonXI team before Treasures of Aht Urhgan launch. Players suspected they would learn the Treasures of Aht Urhgan release date. See the screenshots below which reflect August 8th, 2026 for Horizon’s Treasures of Aht Urhgan release date.

This was the bulk of anticipation for many players, but did not capture the entirety of the stream. I’ll walk through the content and related Q&A for those who want a transcript or to double-check some data.

As always, I make mistakes so please reach out to “Rahne” on Discord for corrections. Additionally, I’ve summarized a long of longer answers for ease of reading. If you want the full experience, please reference the YouTube VOD below:

Transcript and Screenshots

The stream opens up with Annona on the microphone along with Kanryu and Tangent. On screen are Aerec, Beasty, and Damarus.

They spent their opening thanking the players and community, as well as fellow staff and developers for the work on HorizonXI. Additionally, there will be another stream in two weeks (around July 17, 2026) with a focus on a drinking with the devs.

Beirabear created the new logo.

Utsu created the new wallpaper.

Note how neither has AI.

Staff noted the players routinely ask questions about what Treasures of Aht Urhgan entails as an expansion. Apparently, many players aren’t from era and rather new to FFXI and how the expansions work. The staff spent some time discussing the lore. I will hope through these slides as I don’t think my notes will add much of value.

Beasty commented much of the Imperial Relief Effort had Treasures of Aht Urhgan lore. It was mentioned later by Aerec that the collective results are used to impact guild NPCs in Treasures of Aht Urhgan zones. He also mentioned there are events planned around the results and impact.

Beasty also noted that the Cloth and Fishing guilds are a little behind compared to the other guilds but would require a double-check. Additionally, as many players noted, the open world ISP NMs are a bit of a stress test on the server. I typed this and see that the zone crashed in Discord.

Imperial Relief Efforts

For individual Imperial Relief Efforts, the impact for the Treasures of Aht Urhgan release are below. Please note that Sanction Duration is a BONUS, not in total. Players who have 10k ISP can instantly warp to Whitegate and avoid the boat. Later Wildcat quest costs are free. These are NOT PERMANENT. Just for a short duration during release.

To obtain the boat pass, the old quest is NOT used and instead 8 new items are to be gathered. If you have any standing, it scales for what is needed for the boat pass. For example, at 4k ISP you only have to collect 1 of the 8 new items. Aerec noted these are BRAND NEW items and cannot be obtained currently. Additionally, they are shared by the boat pass NPC and must be collected for the pass. The item names hint at the mobs which drop them. The mobs that drop them scale from level 30-75 with farming the 75 mobs to be easier for drops.

If you hate new quests and the PAFO experience, make sure to collect your ISP beforehand. If you’re like me and super lazy, then don’t stress. The staff emphasized that you can still get Day 1 access to Treasures of Aht Urhgan zones.

Additionally, the Olduum Ring Quest is not available at Treasures of Aht Urhgan launch.

The staff team mentioned Treasures of Aht Urhgan has a hard cap on players in a zone. This quest is attempting to mitigate the impact. If you played on initial release, you’ll remember when Lower Jeuno was unstable and constantly crashed. We can expect the same with Treasures of Aht Urhgan launch and respective zones. If you want my unsolicited advice, I’d say to wait before engaging with the new content purely for piece of mind. Plenty of players can’t get time off or grind so there is no rush. Unless you’re trying for a server first.

Note the staff only shared the Wildcat teleportation was only applicable for Upper Jeuno. Link to the quest for reference.

Treasures of Aht Urhgan

Staff then shared some more info related to Treasures of Aht Urhgan launch and the related jobs: Blue Mage (BLU), Corsair (COR), and Puppetmaster (PUP).

Please note that BLU/COR/PUP Dynamis/relic gear AND Limbus gear will not drop for the first 4 weeks after Treasures of Aht Urhgan launch. They shared this would be changed during the 2.1 update (next image). They wanted to avoid folks having best-in-slot gear before even leveling the job.

Staff did NOT touch on what account lockouts entailed. Some folks are pessimistic and meaning it’s only 2 runs per person (not character) per week. Others are more optimistic and think it’s 3-4. We are not sure and we may not find out.

Roadmap above, I think compared to the other streams it hasn’t changed.

Staff ended the slideshow with Treasures of Aht Urhgan sneak peaks. We did not get more details besides these images.

As always, they end the stream with the Question and Answer (Q&A) section. I will note that folks need to stop asking repeated questions. Aerec even went so far to have rapid Q&A of repeated questions at the start. Even then, some terrible questions made it through. I spent some time attempting to summarize these the best I could.

Question and Answers

Question: Comments on thanking the staff, etc. 
Answer: Y-you too.

Question: Merch and donations?
Answer: No.

Question: Race changes?
Answer: No.

Question: Treasures of Aht Urhgan jobs on relics?
Answer: No.

Question: More inventory?
Answer: Comes with Treasures of Aht Urhgan.

Question: Seasonal events?
Answer: Starting back up with Sunbreeze Festival at the end of August (TBD for exact dates) but will start their cycle again.

Question: Why no homepoint warps?
Answer: Not era and not what is wanted for the server.

Question: Any plans to migrate to newest version of Ashita?
Answer: Yes, it’s a WIP and being tested. 

Question: With rebase being completed, will more updates come faster?
Answer: Yes. Hopefully more frequent updates instead of one big update. 

Question: Expansions beyond Treasures of Aht Urhgan and Wings of the Goddess? 
Answer: Yes, will keep 75 cap and scale content.

Question: Future alternative ways to get drops such as N.Legs, N.Head, and Cursed gear?
Answer: Yes, Einherjar. 

Question: What is the dev team’s desired content patch release schedule? Patches every 6/9/12 months? What’s the desired cadence? 
Answer: Hope to be more quarterly, every 3 months, smaller but more frequent. Ideally hitting 4x a year. Is the goal but based on IRL scheduling obviously.

Question: I love integration of PSXI, thoughts on more of this?
Answer: HorizonXI Discord > Open the Contact the Community Team ticket > Open Staff ticket (if no answer) > and propose what you wanted. All depends on the integration and tool. Something like Highwind bot is up to the community to do. 

Question: What balancing will be put into the existing jobs once Treasures of Aht Urhgan releases?
Answer: With release: small amount of changes made to jobs. Group 2 merits has lots of adjustments. 2.1 patch will have a balance pass for all existing and new systems to address concerns around balancing. 

Question: More community events?
Answer: Yes, timing depends on schedules.

Question: Chocobo breeding and differences from era/retail?
Answer: It’s still a WIP and HorizonXI needs a baseline functionality before looking to era+. It’s not the focus with Treasures of Aht Urhgan release.

Question: RetroAchievements – will there be more in the future?
Answer: Yes.

Question: Additional functionality to the website? Such as tells and whatnot?
Answer: No. Yells only. 

Question: Cooking/food rework, could we have more details?
Answer: It’s on the roadmap. Will have a big preview and detailed talk. Don’t want to spoil it now due to it having a later release date after Treasures of Aht Urhgan launch. 

Question: Any assurances that HorizonXI coders aren’t vibecoding?
Answer: Yes, Beasty hates AI. Fuck AI. Stop using AI. 

Question: Treasures of Aht Urhgan and HNM changes?
Answer: Yes. Play and Find Out. 

Question: How do you review the health of the overall game economy?
Answer: Beasty says things are relatively healthy across the board. Some weak spots like folks crafting for HQs and NQs hitting the floor. The staff are watching these and will make adjustments if needed. Overall, at large, the economy is moving. Quite a bit of gil in the economy which can be a double edged sword. Hence the Imperial Relief Effort. Servers live and die by their economy so it’s constantly being monitored. Some weak points will be addressed with the release of Treasures. Also waiting to see how things shake out with Treasures to avoid overcorrection. 

Question: When is the Friends List function coming?
Answer: SoonTM

Question: Any new hairstyles coming?
Answer: Art and design team are working on things. Hairstyles will be coming after. 
Note: This question was literally already asked. Stop repeating the questions I’m begging y’all.

Question: More details about Group 2 Merits?
Answer: Not more detail but lots of work and thought have been put in. Want folks to find out via in-game. Might have some future teasers. 

Question: How much has Treasures of Aht Urhgan changed? 
Answer: 3/10, some changes. Wanted the spirit of Treasures while also having some things new for folks to find. 

Question: Patch notes for added recipes and synthable items be included for Treasures of Aht Urhgan release?
Answer: No, but direct ways to discover and find synthesis recipes.

Question: When working on new and exclusive content that are HorizonXI specific (such as anniversary events and the ISNMs events), are these done as a team or individually? 
Answer: Depends, for anniversary events it’s usually with individual devs to design for the event. Some things are more team effort like the ISNMs. 

Question: Ironman mode?
Answer: Still WIP. Focus is Treasures of Aht Urhgan. 

Question: New things on Treasures of Aht Urhgan Launch or during the patches?
Answer: Yes to both. 

Question: Drinking with the devs and sharing the drink menu in advance?
Answer: They will create a drink menu. 

Question: Are pet jobs inherently hard to balance or is it due to the interactions? 
Answer: Bit of both. 

Question: New jobs (BLU/COR/PUP) available Day 1 of Treasures of Aht Urhgan release?
Answer: Yes

Question: Plans to implement more custom content like HENMs?
Answer: Yes. 

Question: After rebase, does the team feel the results related to productivity? Or does it feel like wack-a-mole?
Answer: Wack-a-mole at first after rebase released. More stable now once things were resolved. Expecting Treasures of Aht Urhgan to be all-hands-on-deck. Hoping it’s smoother and stable.

Question: New fishing spots? Gardening things?
Answer: Said there is new fishing with Treasures of Aht Urhgan release, unsure if it’s the normal ones or if it includes new Era+ content. Needs rework of gardening. 

Question: Repeat of Event items for folks who started playing more recently?
Answer: May make some rewards obtainable again. Want to make some rewards exclusive, depends on reward/cosmetic. 

Question: Hardcore characters and new things in Treasures of Aht Urhgan?
Answer: Yes.

Question: Favorite feature from retail that could come to HorizonXI with era+ tweaks?
Answer: Aerec – Ambuscade and some Seekers’ content. Damarus – Moblin Maze Mongers. Beasty – Sortie. 

Question: Anyway to join staff and help out?
Answer: Yes. Open applications. Join the Team on Discord and apply. Beasty shared they have a solid development team but are always welcoming new folks. Will start seeing new folks around on Discord and in-game.