Final Fantasy I Items

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Antidotes are important in the beginning of the game. Your party will be poisoned frequently around Elfheim 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 Esuna, however, the Antidote loses its importance.

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The Cottage 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 Cottage (this may be a programming mistake, but that's life. Always use a Tent right after you use a Cottage). Although the Cottage 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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Buy From: Elfheim, Onlak

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

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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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The Sleeping Bag 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 Sleeping Bag is still a great way to save your game quickly.

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Buy From: Elfheim, Crescent Lake, Pravoca, Onlak, Gaia

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

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

Flying Fortress

The Fairy was kidnapped by a Pirate and sold to the Caravan Master, Underhill. To rescue her, you must buy her back. Although she is quite expensive, you must rescue her, so get ready to spend some cash. Once she has been rescued, she'll go back to Gaia, and give you some Oxyale.

Caravan Master for 50000

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

Deep in the Terra Cavern, 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 Earth 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 Sage's Cave

The Levistone is used to lift large objects into the air. Such a stone is needed to make the Airships in the world fly. Deep in the Ice Cavern, guarded by the Evil Eye, a Levistone sits unused. If you can get to it, it can be used to raise the Airship from the Lykion Desert.

Ice Cavern

Throughout the land, there are a lot of doors that are locked and barred. The only way to open them is with the Mystic Key. The Elf Prince will give you this key, but only after waking him with Matoya's Jolt Tonic.

Elf Prince, in the Castle of Elf.

The Oxyale is used to breathe underwater, and is necessary if you wish to travel to the Sunken Shrine (which, by the way, you do). It flows freely from the spring in Gaia, but only the Fairy can get it for you. Unfortunately, the Fairy has been kidnapped by a pirate and sold to the Caravan; buy her back if you want the Oxyale (and, if we must say it again, you do).

Fairy at Gaia

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

Sunken Shrine

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

Waterfall Cavern