Updated October 11, 2026
Quick answer: Ishgardian Restoration pays in Skybuilders' Scrips. Craft or gather collectables to earn scrips, then spend them on items, like furnishings and materials, that resell on the market board for gil. Gil per scrip varies, so target the exchange items with the best current market value. It doubles as a relaxed way to level crafters and gatherers.
The Ishgardian Restoration pays out in Skybuilders' Scrips, earned by crafters and gatherers in the Firmament and the Diadem.
Like Grand Company seals, scrips can't be traded. The gil comes from spending them at Enie's exchange on goods worth reselling. If you're already leveling a crafting or gathering job, it's close to free money on top of experience you were earning anyway.
Higher collectability ratings and current-grade materials pay more per turn-in than older, downgraded ones.
Crafting turn-ins: usually fasterEspecially with Trained Eye on levels where it's available. Once your crafter is overleveled for the recipe, a high-collectability delivery becomes a near-instant action.
Gathering: check the grade firstIt pays well too, but earlier grades of Skybuilders' materials have had their rewards cut as newer grades arrived. Confirm which grade is current before committing a session.
Enie's stock covers several categories, and they're not equally worth reselling:
Materia
Dyes
Minions
Mounts
Furnishings
Check the boardbefore buying any of them
The general rule from players who track this closely: don't put every scrip into one category.
A run of dye or hairstyle items can spike in price, then sit unsold for weeks once everyone who wanted one has bought it.
Kupo of FortuneA minigame layered on top that hands out extra items on top of a normal scrip haul. A nice bonus on deliveries you were already making, not something to go out of your way for.
These are starting points, not site filters. An item that sells once a week can still be worth it if the price is high, but buy one, not ten.
The same profit-vs-units/day thinking is laid out in the main gil guide's filter presets.
Nobody should treat the Ishgardian Restoration as a dedicated gil farm, the way they might treat crafting for profit or flipping.
As a layer on top of jobs you're already leveling or maintaining, though, the scrips are close to a byproduct. You were doing the turn-ins for experience anyway, and the gil from reselling what you buy comes almost free on top.
Skybuilders' Scrips. You earn them by gathering materials (often in the Diadem) and crafting or delivering collectable items to Potkin in the Firmament. Higher-grade collectables and better collectability ratings pay more scrips per turn-in.
At Enie in the Firmament, who trades scrips for materia, dyes, minions, mounts and furnishings. Only some of that stock is worth reselling, so check what's actually in demand on your world before spending.
Crafting turn-ins are generally the quickest source, especially with Trained Eye on levels where it's available. Gathering the current top-grade materials also pays well. Lower grades have had their rewards cut in the past, so check which grade is current before farming.
It's a solid second income for crafters and gatherers already leveling those jobs, since the scrips are close to a byproduct of turn-ins you'd do for experience anyway. It's not a standalone gil farm worth rearranging your whole session around.
Put this into practice with live market-board prices for your world:
Crafting profit calculatorFor when your crafter's done with turn-ins and ready to sell.Open → Gathering profitsWhat your Miner or Botanist could be selling instead.Open → Crafting levesAnother cheap route to crafter levels.Open →Grand Company seals → gil → Passive & AFK gil →
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