I Remembered that Island Sanctuary Exists - Getting Every Achievement in FFXIV #22

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2 ай бұрын

In my ongoing effort to procrastinate fishing, ultimates, diadem, and all the other things that people keep trying to convince me to do, I've finally ended up stranded on Endwalker's perhaps most forgettable content - Island Sanctuary! So let's set up our workshop for the next two weeks and maybe get some achievements, I don't know.
Links:
twitch: / ciderspider
twitter: / ciderspiderr
lalachievements: lalachievements.com/char/3518...

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@oleub23 2 ай бұрын

gegeruju's story is that he was a 1.0 retainer (retainers in 1.0 were presets with specific names and appearances, though you still got to give them a nickname, and Gegeruju was one) who's employer never came back after the calamity and he made enough money selling the assets to become a very wealthy land owner.

@oleub23 2 ай бұрын

(keep in mind that this isn't *100%* canon. They reused names and models of the 1.0 retainers, some of which have enough dialog to conclusively say that they were definitely not the retainer in question, for example Eijika Tsunjika of the eureka questline. But I want to believe that's why Gegeruju is a rich idiot, he didn't really earn that money)

@jaeusa160 2 ай бұрын

@@oleub23 That's some neat lore. It's funny that most people don't respect between MSQ and some events, we did more quests for Gegeruju in ARR than pretty much anyone else but Minfilia. His wife spends plenty of her time on eyecandy too, it's all fair for that little pair of weridos.

@nicholaschisholm7018 2 ай бұрын

Holy crap, just took him for just a rich guy... even minor side characters have lore

@one_eyeddd473 2 ай бұрын

Hmm thatd be so much cooler. Findin rare unlockable retainers that habe the chance to bring u rare loot drips you can only get from those specific retainers....sorta like the npcs from your garrisons in wow

@rustyjones7908 9 күн бұрын

Kind of based actually

@AnchorJG 2 ай бұрын

"Custom delivery Teledji Adeledji" is just week after week of stronger adhesives to tape him back together.

@NanoElite666 2 ай бұрын

And maybe a bit of super glue.

@SynodicScribe 2 ай бұрын

Of course I check my Island. I had to converted it into a library and research center since Old Sharlayan won't make me an Archon.

@jemm113 2 ай бұрын

"We are impressed by your devotion to saving the world and are sufficiently pleased by your double theses 'Investigations on Subspace Aetherology' and 'A Treaties on Aetherlogical Time-Space', as well as your archeological and anthropological work on Ancient culture, customs, and sciences. And a many further more and profoundly inspired on your most impressive field work on both botany and fauna, including your wondrous donations of both kinds to the council's various research institutes. I personally was amazed at the sheer variety and number of Behemoth samples you've managed to collect, let alone the sheer yet subtle differences between them. HOWEVER, we feel that your typical Modus Operandi is a rather ill fit for one at the status of Archon, and further we feel as if your paper on 'The uncanny presence of Shoebills' left a lot to be desired. One can only raise an eyebrow at the claim "a shoebill followed me to the bottom of The First's very ocean," and believe that without sufficient evidence or explanation the whole paper is a rather dysfunctional work of coincidental observations. As such, until you clear up a number of your more questionable published and unpublished works, we do not see fit to grant you the rank of 'Archon'. Council dismissed!"

@SynodicScribe 2 ай бұрын

@@jemm113 Damn it! I was this close!

@jemm113 2 ай бұрын

@@SynodicScribe You’ll get ‘em next time! I think ‘An Analysis of Herb Mixtures and their Effect on Goblin Disposition’ will knock their socks off!

@shard4155 2 ай бұрын

Maybe it's because of those damn clouds on ilsabard's map again...

@gateauxq4604 2 ай бұрын

Meoni’s-full of Namazu. Only logical that you’d have ALL THE BOOKS. Would double as an excellent Y’shtola and Urianger trap.

@red5robb1 2 ай бұрын

"how long have I been able to fly?" about 20 seconds ago

@Amooseable 2 ай бұрын

Cider Spider: I love ignoring good advice! Also Cider Spider: Why do they always ignore the jumping baby? Truly, a final fantasy 14 moment

@kevingriffith6011 2 ай бұрын

20:14 I have never looked at a lala in that mount closely enough to realize that they're *standing up in the driver's seat so they can reach the wheel*. They must be pushing the pedals down with their freakishly long lalafell toes.

@KianaWolf 2 ай бұрын

"Cruise control, my good man."

@Sniperbear13 2 ай бұрын

they also could have a specially modified Steering wheel so they can accelerate with their hands.

@kevingriffith6011 2 ай бұрын

@@Sniperbear13 You think if they had the foresight to do that they'd have installed a booster seat.

@jaeusa160 2 ай бұрын

When the FF15 car came out, I got 3 more Lalas to come with me, and took a few screencaps of a buncha Lalas driving the car around Costa Del Sol.

@Walliard 2 ай бұрын

It's like the episode of Mr Bean where he drives his car from on top of the roof

@peachespeacher Ай бұрын

My anxiety gets pretty bad and these videos are now my go to "calm down you're alright you goober" videos so... yeah thanks for making them, your voice is super calming.

@FinalDragoon 2 ай бұрын

Yes I have checked my island, every day since it dropped. I'm on track to hit 2 million cowries before Dawntrail so when you buy all those rare dyes for your newly granted dye channels, you can thank me for supplying you with your Dragoon Blues, Pearl Whites, Gunmetal Blacks and so on. You're welcome.

@KianaWolf 2 ай бұрын

I have _four of them_ because I'm addicted to pearl white dye. (Also because health problems keep me out of savage / extreme these days, so had to find something to fill the time.) Edit: I made a lot of gil off the mount tokens before the market inevitably crashed... Which was probably partially my fault. Sorry.

@Gamemaster-64 2 ай бұрын

@@KianaWolf I got two of the token mounts...no one is buying and the price just keep going down, ; ;

@harryh6807 2 ай бұрын

I too have kept up on the island. You’ll have some dye competition.

@RyuSaarva 2 ай бұрын

Actually people who did ishgard restoration already supplied those dyes to the market last expansion.

@idontlikeURLs 2 ай бұрын

@@RyuSaarva and can do ... again. Prepare yourself for the big money

@Malicebane 2 ай бұрын

My advice as a max level/rank island sanctuary player with everything except the manual gathering achievement- Focus on leveling/rank, then at max join the discord server that has the bot that tells you what to make the end (I still run my island cause it's a great source of Gunmetal Black Dye, which sells pretty consistently on the MB )

@one_eyeddd473 2 ай бұрын

Lmao a max ranked IS player 😂 i cant.

@Malicebane 2 ай бұрын

@@one_eyeddd473 I mean, that's what it is? Or I guess Level is the better term even though it's called rank? Shoulda said that instead >.

@wolfair Ай бұрын

keep your dyes till dual dye channel in DT.

@bananagher7555 2 ай бұрын

21:02 Wood opal is a real thing "Wood opal, also known as xylopal, is a form of opal, as well as a type of petrified wood which has developed an opalescent sheen or, more rarely, where the wood has been completely replaced by opal."

@eFeXuy 2 ай бұрын

"Reincarnated in another world with my overpowered gun", the first NA anime.

@bendragneel5337 2 ай бұрын

It's called gate. Not directly the same but similar

@fnerXVI 2 ай бұрын

There is a manga called something like "Ultra Rank Sniper in Another World" Japanese title is "Magan to Dangan o Tsukatte Isekai o Buchinuku!" It's okay, 6/10

@primalmeridian 2 ай бұрын

i kept up with my island every major update so i could get it to max rank each time, and while i haven't been fully filling up the market schedule every week now that i'm done, i do juuuust enough to get the weekly amount of Felicitous Tokens so i can add on to my ever-growing stack of gacha boxes in my inventory (right next to my Grand Company Materiel Containers)

@Kirbyourgaming 2 ай бұрын

Island sanctuary discord, that's all there is to it.

@RyuSaarva 2 ай бұрын

What is even faster is just reading the ingame text and not skipping it and not going to some random website to read the ingame text.

@ruily276 2 ай бұрын

@@RyuSaarva He was probably talking about min maxing the pen and having an easier time getting all the crafts into your workshop for the Felicitous tokens.

@rune_prism 2 ай бұрын

i check my island twice a week, and recently had like 500k cowries (after having already gotten all the glams/mounts/misc dyes), and spent the rest on materia to penta my gear lol once it gets into the 'idle' stage, there's really no need to check it daily imo when needing smth to watch in the bg, i'll usually put on a long vod ranging from nature documentary to 'how do invisible walls work in mario 64' lmao

@fenikkusu4893 2 ай бұрын

I'm still sitting on nearly 1mil cowries and 2 spare mounts from the random boxes. Thought about liquidating all those into gil with buying dyes (On my Server 1 sold dye could pay for 5-7 materia, thats why I'm not buying those), but after my gf constantly reminds me, that we get two color glamouring, I'm still holding onto my cowries. Dye prices probably go up, or down because a lot of people have the same idea. Now my island is just a hoarder place like my retainer.. Still havent figured out if cowries cap on 999.999 like those stupid vouchers, which cap at 150 for no reason..

@DameonStarflame 2 ай бұрын

It may not be the optimal way to level up my island, but holy crap do I spend a lot of time just mindlessly running in circles picking flowers, breaking rocks, and felling trees and just having something off to the side (like this video!). It's just so relaxing. The only "chore" is taking care of the animals and the farm, and then I just go picking. Unless it starts to rain, then I go hit up my cabin and plop on some tunes and just chill and watch the rain fall. It's freakin' perfect for me.

@honkedoffjohn 2 ай бұрын

Patiently waiting for blue mage content.

@NatiiixLP 2 ай бұрын

Oh you know it's gonna be lit when it hits! Just gotta believe!

@henryhunter9643 2 ай бұрын

Then he can spam Drill Cannon and it'll just be a stream of Get Drilled Idiot!

@karasutsuki1733 2 ай бұрын

the longer itll take, the sweeter itll be xD

@flaywind2307 Ай бұрын

What if we tell Cider, that there's 450 total achievement points behind BLU?

@thelastpillar 2 ай бұрын

There is already a collectable vendor with the backstory of a vicious capitalist: Rowena. Not only is she portrayed as such in most of her cutscenes, her capitalistic tendencies reflect in gameplay. The custom deliveries pay out big in scripts. Meanwhile, all the regular crafting and gathering collectables are traded in to Rowena for about half of what you'd get from a custom delivery, and only one type of script at once. Not to mention her outrageous prices on Earthbreak Aethersand; 300 purples for 1!? She's cut throat. Only thing is she does have a soft spot for orphans, so I guess she doesn't meet all the criteria.

@Anergyne 2 ай бұрын

IT'S ALWAYS THE ORPHANS

@moonelfe 2 ай бұрын

gerolt is an orphan? 😮

@thelastpillar 2 ай бұрын

@@moonelfe No, but all the Custom Deliveries are subsidized by Rowena. That's how they can pay you scripts when Rowena is practically the inventor and sole banker of scripts.

@maxjpz Ай бұрын

@@thelastpillar Well, not ALL of them. Some of them are subsidized by Mowen.

@CiderSpider 2 ай бұрын

Have you checked your island?

@b99b12 2 ай бұрын

I never check it, i have so much to do ;-;

@silvertayuun 2 ай бұрын

A few weeks ago I sold every island resource, spent all the currency, and said buh-bye to (imo) one of the most boring additions to the game!

@WeatherWitch1026 2 ай бұрын

Yes always do. Mine is leveled all the way. 😂

@Dianbler 2 ай бұрын

Free trial, baby

@LizzieQueen18 2 ай бұрын

Yes!

@QueenMuzzmuzz 2 ай бұрын

Honestly, the people who say 'FFXIV has content drought' feels hilarious when a dedicated achievement hunter like Cider has whooooole swathes of content that he's only dipped his toes into. It also makes me feel better that I keep discovering new stuff to do, even after playing for five years.

@kiiturii Ай бұрын

been playing for years and he's showing me shit I never knew was even in the game almost every episode

@Strider_Shinryu 2 ай бұрын

I didn't mind the Island at all as I didn't have any real expectations or desires for it. YoshiP said repeatedly it wasn't going to be Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing so I believed him. *shrug* I visited my island regularly until I finished it and got all of the rewards I wanted from it, and now it just exists as an outdoor photoset and an easy source for Pearl White and Gunmetal Black dyes (as those are the two colorus I use most).

@ilitsa 2 ай бұрын

I didn't know what I wanted and kept my expectations minimal, but still just didn't enjoy what it is. The content just doesn't vibe with me unfortunately

@ValkyrieTiara 2 ай бұрын

The number of people who convinced themselves it was going to be this super deep Harvest Moon-like side game that would also double as instanced housing and then threw a fit when the content they invented in their minds didn't match with reality continues to astound me.

@SurrealLeaf 2 ай бұрын

It was just so much missed potential and baffling design choices, specially in UI bloat. It was stardew with only the boring parts of running in circle and clicking items. Like when they said you can grow crops: "but not housing crops!!", they could've literally fixed years of complaints about needing estate to cross*reed plants. Ability to add housing items? Crops? Striking dummy? House itself!? "No not those!!" They could've literally added small housing plot to be put down and bam, housing fixed. Or add submarines so people wouldn't hoard literal wards for FC houses for gil

@anteprs7908 2 ай бұрын

@@ilitsa that fine it was made for casual players

@ValkyrieTiara 2 ай бұрын

@@SurrealLeaf But that's just, like, your opinion, man. YOU call it boring, but I know a lot of people who think that's the best part of Stardew Valley. I also know a lot of people who really like Island Sanctuary. A lot of people hate crafting, but there are just as many people where that's the only part of XIV they care about. Same with the housing stuff. Not everybody WANTS instanced housing. Especially in JP, a lot of people like the limited nature of the housing and also like having real neighbourhoods with real people instead of isolated houses in a robot void. And giving everyone unfettered access to submersibles would completely break the feature and instantly make it worthless, which is arguably worse than the current situation. Same with housing crops. Striking dummies can be found outside of literally every major city in the game, there's no need to have your own private dummy. Hell, since you have to go to Aleport before you can teleport to your island, having dummies there would be LESS convenient than going to most of the overworld dummies. It's fine that you don't like a feature, or a feature's implementation. But you not liking something is not the same as that thing being bad. All your other complaints are still just being mad at Thing A not being Thing B, where Thing B is something you yourself completely invented and the devs never even implied would ever exist, and in many cases have outright said they will not do. Just saying "Island Sanctuary is boring, give me more housing" is no more helpful or constructive than those people who say "Delete crafting and housing and make more raids".

@mightyzekken 2 ай бұрын

Well, I don't have an essay on Island Sanctuary, but I did overhear this conversation at a show the other night: "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?" "No." "I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis... was a Dark Lord of the Sith so powerful and so wise, he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians... to create... life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side, he could even keep the ones he cared about... from dying." "He could actually... save people from death?" "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities... some consider to be unnatural." "Wh- What happened to him?" "He became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was... losing his power. Which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew. Then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. It's ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself." "Is it possible to learn this power?" "Not from a Jedi." Anyway, pretty weird stuff and not at all ominous. Good luck with your achievement hunting

@CassiusKent 2 ай бұрын

"Save your effort, and don't." Best advice anyone has given me in a while.

@Mizra1985 2 ай бұрын

If you enjoy documentaries and infotainment, I found a few channels to watch in the background about old Disney parks/ properties, etc. Defunctland is what the channel is. Even goes over old TV shows and their histories. It helped me on long nights when my son was a baby and I would be up at all hours of the night with him.

@D3v1ance 2 ай бұрын

My island's animals are all named after my old friends who I don't see in game anymore.

@MarekKowal-uu1pm 2 ай бұрын

Dayum. That one felt hard

@saltiestsiren 2 ай бұрын

I named mine after Sanrio characters but I keep changing them to fit my fancy LOL. Before this they had mostly random names

@arcanaobscura3519 Ай бұрын

Mine are called opo 1 and opo 2 and sheep 1 and sheep 2😂

@SoraShadowdancer Ай бұрын

That's really sad. And, not sad as in pathetic, sad as in heart-breaking.

@east3rcat 2 ай бұрын

The great thing about island is that you enjoy it how you want. I gathered during my long dps queues so it kept me occupied

@bluezhift Ай бұрын

I loved this! It reminded me of how much I loved grinding in certain spots on my island and the solace it would bring!❤

@Kurinth 2 ай бұрын

nothing was better at killing time than when i was leveling crafters and had to gather mats from the diadem for 3 hours straight, just hitting rocks and trees, I understand your desire to hit rocks for extended periods of time, it fulfills that primal desire to do something, but not something especially hard, but still feel like you're doing something productive. Also, favourite show to rewatch annually is Code Geass

@Jaciekakes 2 ай бұрын

I watch/ listen to your videos if I'm grinding 😅 you inspired me to start my own insane achievement hunting journey

@richs.500 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for quoting one of my favorite songs ("Luka", Suzanne Vega) in this vid. Loving the content.

@elara6969 Ай бұрын

Runescape! I remember fighting people for ore spawns while I listened to Yahoo Radio in 2003 or 2004. I always had MSN Messenger open, too. Now it's 2024. I play FFXIV, I listen to Spotify and I have Discord open all the time. It really feels like nothing's changed.

@Aybrix 2 ай бұрын

Eureka with Collin Ferguson is free on Amazon Prime (or was) and I never get tired of watching it. Used to watch it air on TV and it's fuuuuuun.

@clintonwilcox4690 2 ай бұрын

The only achievement I have remaining unfinished for my island sanctuary is the one where you have to gather 33,000 items from the wilds. Would you like to come grind that out for me? lol Those mindless grinds are the ones I hate. With a passion.

@arcanadawn Ай бұрын

I love the mount you use in this video! It's one of my faves. 😃

@Tenchinu Ай бұрын

i stopped playing FF14 a while ago, but i rly like watching ur content. The passion and love just oooooooooze out of every vid, and it keeps bringing me back. Ill try nd comment more to help with the all mighty algorithm, but still thnk u for the content :)

@meara628 2 ай бұрын

Opal is technically a glass like obsidian and often is found in petrified wood so mining it out of a tree make sense :D

@angimauri8092 Ай бұрын

Love watching the chill achievements ❤

@ph0nez 2 ай бұрын

thank you in advance for what i reckon will be another great video :D

@junkyard_dog18 2 ай бұрын

15:50 currently binging your videos as i level my botanist and miner ! you are a funny guy :)

@ytty7170 2 ай бұрын

Binging your achievement vids got me through the brutal ARR mass gathering achievements 👍

@nikkicoyotie8431 2 ай бұрын

it warms my heart seeing someone else doing battlecraft leves

@bulshock1221 Ай бұрын

Yours is the best Island Sanctuary content I've ever seen. Yours is also the only Island Sanctuary content I've ever seen.

@MrLightlike78 Ай бұрын

I rewatched the entirety of the venture bros and video essays on the venture bros while doing island sanctuary- Great content Cider ♥

@Dawnkipcat 2 ай бұрын

My go-to content while grinding in an MMO is your videos, betcha didn't see that coming

@stridera 2 ай бұрын

Favorite old school show to watch. Macgyver

@Lrbearclaw 2 ай бұрын

16:00 - Usually "Berserk (1997)", "Burn Notice", "Psych", or "Sliders" are my go-to shows. Sometimes "RWBY" or "Red vs Blue".

@Sifeus 2 ай бұрын

Sliders is a forgotten classic. Hell yeah

@Bongaboi151 2 ай бұрын

Great video, Cider!

@emeraldpichu1 2 ай бұрын

Good to see the infestation of green exploding cubic voidsent were delt with.

@SharaArnen 2 ай бұрын

You Cider Spider are the BEST at Island Sanctuary! Keep up your insanity!!

@artfulduality2891 2 ай бұрын

I played FFXIV since the ARR beta on PS4, on and off, currently stopped at the end of Endwalker. I love your videos, as they give me the Eorzea fix I need to not relapse into the addiction, lol.

@Feraligatrfjhgujvgh Ай бұрын

Usually when I'm doing my grinds, I watch the massive backlog of KZfaq videos I have in a playlist I assembled of all the people I'm subbed to. Which is what I may or may not be doing right now :P

@Xaelroth 2 ай бұрын

You've increased the gap between us even more this week, but I've been busy with final exams for the winter semester. I'm at 16390 lalachievement score, so 135 behind you. I did do a few things this week though: I got a custom deliveries achievement, and I participated in a triple triad tournament and got my 30th win, which is an achievement with a TT card for a reward. I also got 3 minions for my minion collection!

@mychellevt Ай бұрын

Love that you started talking about watching shows during grind. Me watching this series as I grind Yo-Kai event medals 😂

@ValkyrieTiara 2 ай бұрын

My go-to series for long grinds is Drawfee, a hilarious youtube show where four pro artists draw based on ridiculous prompts. It's especially good because, since drawing is a whole process, you don't need to pay specific attention to the video itself. You just listen and glance over every once in a while to see how the drawing is shaping up, so if there's game content that's brain off but requires you to look at what you're doing (eg roulettes) even someone with severe ADHD like me can enjoy it without getting so distracted I bork up mechanics or have to pause the video constantly. Highly recommend!

@woowar87 2 ай бұрын

Seconded! Drawfee are super fun and as another person with ADHD I find them easy to listen to/watch while doing my ffxiv chores!

@azurechan Ай бұрын

Love Drawfee!!! I constantly pull up their old videos to watch while playing all sorts of video games, especially the episodes with Julia surprises.

@musicalmarauder8352 2 ай бұрын

Last week i watched the entire first season of doctor who while leveling eureka. Ive seen it so many times, its great background content for grinding.

@woadwarrior9857 Ай бұрын

You are perfect content to watch while gathering and crafting.

@spinerflame7922 2 ай бұрын

15:40 Lately I've been watching some KZfaq series' about the Yugioh card game, on the Cimooo channel. Quick and easy explanation about what was going on during that time, then 2 bros emulate a matchup from the time. Fun series, good background content

@kristiwinkle5686 2 ай бұрын

I rewatch House every couple of years too, and The Magicians!!!! I really should go play in my Sanctuary! I called it puppy chow as well. Time for me to go and log in and dump my weekly levequests, thanks for the reminder!

@GamingFoodie 2 ай бұрын

Nice My Name is Luca song reference! Thank you for catering to us older people haha!

@jerricaalice6743 2 ай бұрын

Amusingly enough while doing my grinds lately I have actually been watching House for the first time! I'm about seven episodes into season 4 at this point, towards the end of the Tournament Arc, enjoying it quite a bit. Also, how long have you been working on this series? I randomly got into a Eureka Pyros NM party with you once back in late Shadowbringers, wondered if that might be a part of it. I rezzed you and you bit my fingers off, it was a good time.

@Vash_tha_Stampede 2 ай бұрын

The tools tab of lalachievements shows where all animals appear and under what conditions. There are 21 super rare animals to collect.....with 20 pasture space

@itssovalentine 2 ай бұрын

My favorite long video to watch when grinding is "The Complete History of the A Button Challenge", a nearly six hour long video about the effort to beat Mario 64 with as few A presses as possible. It goes deep into all of the computer science stuff used to make it happen, wonderful video, highly recommend.

@jaeusa160 2 ай бұрын

@1:55 Dude I've never used Sanctions, don't personally know anyone who ever has either, but I did see some of them during ARR. Players levelling up alts and such who spent GC seals on the green quality like ilvl 40 GC gear, and they had the little like red buff icon I think from using a Sanction. That's what it buffs. Like this is one of those features that has got to be some ancient archaic 1.0 holdover that remains in the game solely because they've simply forgotten to even bother deleting it.

@Seandreams_ 2 ай бұрын

samesies with the house md. binging the heck out of it in youtube clips from time to time lmao

@TuftyTaltan Ай бұрын

My go-to for grinds varies, usually it's outside xbox list videos or catching up on drawfee episodes. If it's something I need to keep my eyes on then it's podcasts, SYSK and Behind the Bastards especially.

@NormFC 2 ай бұрын

The true value of the island is in dyes and hi cordials. The glams are amazing and its a pretty nice place to escape to with friends or to decorate for gpose. So in the last video where you though gathering was miserable, having good cheap hi-cordials can help make the experience less so.

@jessicawilson1751 2 ай бұрын

Hellsing Ultimate Abridged on KZfaq by Team Fourstar is amazing and something I love going back to watch. Sadly, its only a few hours long in total, but a blast. Lots of dark humor.

@billy65bob 2 ай бұрын

If you want some advice for island sanctuary. Your robot slaves can only gather resources you've previous gathered, so try to gather at least 1 of each unique resource on the island.

@Foxpawed 2 ай бұрын

My go-to background entertainment of choice to re-binge is DBZ Abridged, either directly or going through it with the commentaries.

@lightning432 Ай бұрын

Finally saw the mad because small series, as someone who started playing during EW it was before my time, so it was a welcome surprise, and very funny

@nerra5408 2 ай бұрын

My go to stuff to watch while grinding is your videos... Despite seeing pretty much all of them like at least 6 times

@Ugouka12 2 ай бұрын

Schitt's Creek, The Office, and Corner Gas are my grinding shows. Runescape grinds were my Jam for ages lol

@relogos 2 ай бұрын

You're the best around. Nothing's gonna ever keep you down.

@Chibisama666 2 ай бұрын

A few people have mentioned it, but there's a discord that'll give you workshop recs, which will help to get the cowrie achievements a bit faster than trying to figure it out on your own

@insanusregina Ай бұрын

Highly recommend Biographics and Into the Shadows for small-form docuseries videos with a dark subject matter that's really good to play in the background. They're both on YT and the guy that narrates them has a very soothing voice.

@MasterShanicus 2 ай бұрын

I get the desire to dig a hole. Miner was my first level 90 for a reason - there is just nothing more satisfying than breaking rocks.

@Felunya Ай бұрын

You are the first person I heard saying that they are excited about the 30k Island Sanctuary Achievement. And I'm weirdly excited to see the result.

@pyrotius 2 ай бұрын

Some of the Grand Company armor has like a small buff that you need a sanction to activate. You can get the same buff by talking to one of the Grand Company people that is infront of that keosk, I think its a lalafell that is near the entrance for the Maelsturm.

@Sniperbear13 2 ай бұрын

i generally will put speed runs on my second screen when im doing grinds. sometimes i pull up a music playlist and just vibe while grinding.

@SoraShadowdancer Ай бұрын

Favorite thing to watch while grinding: I actually don't like watching videos while grinding because I find that I get distracted by the video and forget to grind. I'm very much a "one thing at a time" person.

@verthandijal 2 ай бұрын

you'd love bones (the series) i also love edu-tainment!! i learned sooo many names for bones, and it requires a perfect amount of medium attention for doing side tasks :D

@Lisa-fj1jc 2 ай бұрын

I think the official name for that chocolate/powdered sugar Chex mix is Muddy Buddies (TM). It is, indeed, delicious.

@meriwidget3474 2 ай бұрын

"Taledji and/or Aledji".. yes I'd do commissions for both of them. I weirdly was very dedicated to my island.. it's fully maxed out and I tend to it weekly... help! Crafting/Gathering have some amazing glams.. sad no one ever sees them since they're class locked and there aren't enough glam plates lol.

@MaryAlice08 2 ай бұрын

Cider: what's your go to content to watch during boring grinds Me: watching this and digging out my house in Minecraft 👀

@sonicroze 2 ай бұрын

Quick and dirty Island Sanctuary - 1. Diversify your animals. (There are special animals that only spawn under certain conditions; get them for vanity or variety Typically their rewards are flipped from the normal version, so even if you neglect and abuse them they drop something you want) 2. I don't follow spread sheets. I make things based on one of 2 criteria - Do I have the materials? Is it something that is actually "Insufficient/Non-existent"? - End Island Sanctuary, I make things I need or just have excess materials to go toward. Oh yeah, similar items get "bonuses" so I guess you get more cowries if you string them together. 3. I use the easily gatherable seeds (Pumpkin/Parsnip/Cabbage/Potato) to make feed for my animals - Apples when I'm lazy. 4. Just check in once a day after reset to make sure the Mammets are doing their job and the crops and animals are good. If you feed/water manually? Water last (Damn rain happens too often while I'm doing things or after) 5. Profit. Make Mistress Tataru proud!

@glitchsymphony 2 ай бұрын

i enjoy watching your videos, cdawg va , chris abroad channel, and one piece

@slashley6106 2 ай бұрын

Cider, you are clearly the best Island Sanctuary player the world of Eorzea has ever seen.

@jakheemmohammed1347 Ай бұрын

My favorite background noise to watch while grinding is mad because small. I don't do that much grinding. Also once ate a bowl of chex muddy buddies with milk thinking it was cereal. Fun times.

@ntolman Ай бұрын

Was it good?

@Randomguy547 2 ай бұрын

I usually listen to audiobooks. My favorites to randomly re-listen to are the ones by Yahtzee Croshaw, the guy who until recently did Zero Punctuation. They're funny and really easy to just throw on for a grind.

@kaufmann921 2 ай бұрын

My favorite go-to binge while working on crafting and gathering lately has been court trials. I got pulled in by the JD and AH drama and now sadly I'm kinda hooked.....but if I need a break from that I just watch your videos Cider. Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm a sucker for a deep voice......😐😐 Cough* Yeah anyways those are my go-to. House was great back in the day though.

@droppedcombofiend2707 2 ай бұрын

I mostly kept up with my island sanctuary. Tbh by "kept up" I really just mean setup and then check once a week to reset expeditions, collect farm and leavings stuff, and then set whatever I need to make for the felicitous favors. I got all the achievements except the ones for collecting the 30k materials, because you have to actually do that by hand, and the one for getting 33k cowries in a cycle. Because I didn't get it naturally when doing everything else and now I'm more worried about doing the favors so I can get the Island Adenium Whistle, since it's literally the only thing from island sanctuary I haven't gotten yet. I've even gotten everything from the Sanctuary Containers. I'm taking a break now, but I was at about 60 of the 200 i needed. I kept getting blocked because I kept getting favors that need leavings from the rare versions of monsters, and I am way too lazy to wait around for a specific time of day to get one of everything, just to get more of these vouchers. I'm mostly annoyed that we got this instead of an actual relic area like Bozja, I did really like the glam you get for maxing out your sanctuary. It's the one I use the most.

@nahliphen 2 ай бұрын

15:34 same here, Cider, same here... Such a trivial grind when you have KZfaq or something else playing on the other monitor

@tokimimen Ай бұрын

hey, may I know how can I use the same eyebrows as you do? I looked through all the option and can't find that thick variant.

@ChaosDX1 2 ай бұрын

Hey, someone else that likes digging holes in Minecraft! After a long day at work when I'm too tired for anything else, I have a solo world that I log into where there's just a giant 50x50 hole. I put on something to listen to and just DIG. It's relaxing. Favorite things to watch while I'm doing this are videos of someone playing classic RPGs I'll never get around to playing myself and DnD streams. Currently watching JoCat's "Heart of Elynthi".

@gamergirl24 Ай бұрын

I only remember Island Sanctuary when they add stuff to it and when I glance over and see my brother working on his island sanctuary.

@MirinkaiserVODs 2 ай бұрын

"Don't write essays!" Okay, time to write 40 messages consisting of one sentence each, each sentence of the full essay being sent in a random order. Then you can play a game to try to put them in order! Edit: The cheffeur/chauffeur pun was top tier. Chef's kiss. (Get it?)

@BOBBYJOE96 2 ай бұрын

Cider spider craves the mines. A big mood

@stangjr5236 2 ай бұрын

Wendigoon videos are GREAT for background documentary like goodness.

@KianaWolf 2 ай бұрын

I've only got one monitor, so my grind media is typically tabletop RPG podcasts or educational / trivia ones (particularly biology and history).

@stachehenry8901 Ай бұрын

that minecraft mining fixation. doesnt always last long, but it always come back

@Tenlade 2 ай бұрын

GC sanction: a few grand company gear items have substat bonuses active only when the buff Sanction is active. It's mostly on level 50 gear and there are much better gear to wear. The only possible use case is some level 44 gear if you really wanna go all out for uh......Dzemale Darkhold and Aurum Vale? (edit: theres also some ilevel 130 weapons if you want to save yourself like 600 poetics on ironworks weapons.) There is also a mage npc at the GC headquarters who will cast the buff for free and it lasts a full 3 hours, the scroll is literally only if you're too lazy to go back to get another free buff. You don't even need sanction gear on, so if you ever want a funny little icon on your hud for a few hours just go visit your local GC mage.