FFXIV 7.55 New Minions Guide: North Horn And Raid Drops

The short version, since you clearly want the short version: Final Fantasy XIV Patch 7.55 launches on July 28, 2026, and no official minion list exists yet. Square Enix has not published a datamine friendly loot table, so anyone selling you a "confirmed" FFXIV 7.55 new minions roundup today is guessing with confidence, which is a skill, just not an honest one. What we do know is which four systems will spit the minions out once the servers come back up, and that is enough to plan around.

Occult Crescent North Horn is the obvious candidate, because it always is. This is the second field operation zone of the Occult Crescent series, and it drags Shades' Triangle into playable territory. Up to 72 players can occupy the instance at once, though party size is capped at eight, so do not expect a cozy solo stroll. The zone continues directly from South Horn, meaning your Knowledge progress and habits carry over instead of resetting, which is the one mercy this patch grants you.

Everything past this line involving specific minion names is inference, screenshot reading, and Final Fantasy V nostalgia. Treat leaked names as rumor until the patch notes or a proper datamine confirm them. Do not build your farming route around a name you saw on a forum three days before launch.

The table below sorts the likely sources by how much effort they demand and how confident anyone should feel about them right now.

Inside North Horn, the mechanic worth knowing is the same one South Horn trained you on. Rare drops called Fortune Carrots turn up from coffers and Persistent Pot rewards, and using one on a chewed carrot found in the field spawns a Happy Bunny. That Happy Bunny drops a golden coffer worth 200,000 gil, plus a chance at mounts, minions, and emotes. There are always two active chewed carrot spots per instance, and shout chat will tell you where, assuming your server's shout chat is not busy arguing about something unrelated.

The new large scale raid replacing last tier's model comes in two flavors. Normal mode requires no premade group, just standing on the aetherial node to register interest, and losing the entry lottery bumps you to priority next time, which is the closest this game gets to an apology. Extreme mode demands a premade alliance of at least 12 players across at least 3 parties, formed outside the zone, because Square Enix does enjoy watching you organize twelve strangers on Discord.

Phantom Weapons Reach Their Final Form

The relic weapon grind that started back in patch 7.2 finally closes here. Gerolt gets his final scene, your weapon gets its final glow stage, and Phantom Armor gets its matching upgrade. Whether this stage hands out a minion alongside the aesthetics is not confirmed, but relic finales historically throw in a bonus trinket, so keep your expectations at cautiously optimistic rather than delusional.

Hildibrand Says Goodbye, Loudly

The Dawntrail chapter of Hildibrand's saga wraps up with Detective Hardiboiled's case against Carnelian finally closing, and Nashu's research paying off in whatever chaotic way Hildibrand content always pays off. Quest finales in this series have a strong track record of ending in a minion or a mount, so this is one of the safer bets in the whole patch, right alongside death and Square Enix delaying a beta.

Allied Society Capstone Quests

Each Dawntrail faction gets its closing questline here, and capstone rewards in prior patches have consistently included a themed minion tied to that faction's story. Nobody has posted the specific names yet, and nobody should trust anyone who claims otherwise before July 28.

A Farming Guide Cheat Sheet

None of this works if you sit in a city waiting for a wiki page to update itself, so here is the actual plan.

• Finish your current Occult Crescent South Horn business before North Horn opens because the zone continues that story directly and skipping ahead just confuses you later.
• Farm Fortune Carrots opportunistically from coffers rather than grinding for them specifically since the drop is tied to luck, not effort.
• Register for The Forked Tower: Magic Normal every time you are near the node because the lottery system rewards persistence more than skill.
• Save your Extreme attempt for a coordinated alliance instead of a pickup group, since twelve strangers rarely agree on mechanics on the first pull.
• Read the actual FFXIV 7.55 patch notes the moment they drop instead of relying on pre launch guides, including this one, for exact minion names.

Bottom line: patch 7.55 guarantees new minions the way it guarantees Hildibrand nonsense and a raid nobody fully understands on day one. The exact names are still locked behind a maintenance window, so bookmark the patch notes, not a rumor thread, and check back the moment servers return.

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