Final Fantasy I Items

Buy From: Crescent Lake, Gaia, Onrac, Pravoka, Elfland

The Cabin restores more HP than a Tent, but less than a House. If you can't afford a House, the Cabin is a nice alternative.

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Heal Potions are incredibly important throughout the game. Keep 99 of them in stock at all times, especially when attempting to complete a dungeon.

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Buy From: Elfland, Gaia, Onrac, Crescent Lake

The House is like an Inn that can be used anywhere (at least, anywhere on the world map). It restores quite a bit of HP and it also restores MP, in addition to saving your game. BEWARE: it restores your MP AFTER it saves your game, so your party will NOT have restored MP in your save game unless you use a Tent right after you use a House (this may be a programming mistake, but that's life. Always use a Tent right after you use a House). Although the House is a very useful item, at 3000G apiece, you'll not be using them much until later in the game, when G is more abundant.

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Pure Potions are important in the beginning of the game. Your party will be poisoned frequently around Elfland and Melmond. Keep a lot of these handy, just in case; there's nothing worse than being stranded far from town, poisoned, with no way to cure yourself. Once you get PURE, however, the Pure Potion loses its importance.

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Buy From: Elfland, Onrac

Soft Potions are essential when fighting monsters who use petrification attacks, like COCTRICE and MEDUSA. If all four of your party members are petrified, the game is over, so Soft Potions are even more important than Pure Potions when you are far from town. The spell SOFT is a level 6 spell, so you won't be getting it for quite awhile; you'll be relying upon Soft Potions for quite some time.

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Buy From: Pravoka, Coneria

The Tent is an inexpensive and effective way of saving your game when you are far from town. The HP it restores will be helpful in the beginning of the game, but even towards the end of the game, the Tent is still a great way to save your game quickly.

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Adamant is an incredibly hard metal that can be used to make powerful swords. If you can take some Adamant to Smith in Dwarf Cave, he will forge for you the mighty Xcalber, the second most powerful weapon in the game. However, you will journey long and hard before finding any of this rare mineral.

Sky Castle

The canoe is available from the sages of Crescent Lake; you'll need it to travel the many rivers and lakes of the game, especially to get your ultimate transport device.

Crescent Lake

The lonely King in the Northwest Castle tells a sad tale of Wizards who stole his Crown. He bids you to venture to the Marsh Cave and return the Crown to him. Doing so reveals his true identity; he is Astos, the Dark Elf.

Marsh Cave

A robot from the Sky Castle escaped and floated far to the west, carrying a Cube. This Cube is required to teleport from the Mirage Tower to the Sky Castle. Only a few weak monsters guard the Cube; one need only canoe upriver from Onrac to retrieve it.

Waterfall

Astos, the Dark Elf, put the Elf Prince to sleep with a magical spell. The Herb is used to wake the Prince from his magical slumber. Matoya the Witch is the only person who has some of the Herb, however, and she won't give it to you until you return her Crystal to her.

Matoya the Witch, in Matoya's Cave

After defeating Garland and rescuing Princess Sara, you are rewarded with the Lute. Your party receives the Lute very early in the game, and carries it with them through all of their travels. Only at the very end of the game is its function revealed; it is used to remove the Plate covering the stairs leading into the depths of the Temple of Fiends.

Princess Sara, in Castle Coneria

Deep in the Earth Cave, behind the Vampire's lair, is a mysterious Plate. Sarda the Sage reveals that the source of the Earth's rot lies beyond this Plate. The Rod that he gives you will grant you the strength to shatter the plate and go into the deepest parts of the Earth Cave.

Sarda the Sage, in Sarda's Cave

The ancient Slab was lost when the Sea Shrine sank into the ocean. The legendary Dr. Unne in Melmond can teach you the language of the Lefein with the aid of this Slab. Once you have the Oxyale, you can journey to the bottom of the sea and retrieve the Slab.

Sea Shrine

Nerrick the Dwarf is building a canal to connect the Aldi Sea to the rest of the world. However, if he is to succeed, he will need the TNT. The TNT is in Castle Coneria, but behind a locked door; only the Key will grant you access.

Castle Coneria