DriftwoodXI
One client. Sixteen characters. Your whole account plays together.
DriftwoodXI is a modern take on a classic game. A suite of addons have been customized to extend the game and respect your time. You're able to control six of your characters with one client.
75 adventurers playing DriftwoodXI right now.
Open Beta since August 9th 2026 — you are early.
Why DriftwoodXI
Your characters are your party
The thing DriftwoodXI is built around: register your own characters into a squad and summon up to five of them as party members. They wear their own gear, fight on their own jobs, follow combat rules you write for them, and bank real experience to their own rows. When you unlock a spell on one character, all of the characters on that account unlock it and if you log into your alts you'll see the experience they gain working as an Alt-Trust is applied to them. When one of them levels up mid-fight it is put back to full HP and MP on the spot, exactly the way you are.
Sixteen character slots, one account, one game window. Your squad plays from the same client you do, nothing to alt-tab, nothing to run twice.
Built for this server
33 add-ons, in the box
This server comes with many custom add-ons built specifically around changes made in the engine that allows for one client to access all sixteen characters on a single account quickly and easily. Nearly all of the add-ons have custom graphical user interface (GUI) menus so there's no syntax or complicated commands to remember. You can control these add-ons by clicking buttons with a mouse.
DWSquad
Summon up to five of your own characters as party members.
DWBags
Reach every bag on every character on your account without logging out.
DWWarehouse
A thousand slots of account storage — two thousand once earned, a thousand more for gil — opened with /warehouse from anywhere.
DWGambits
Write the combat rules your squad fights by, the way FFXII did it.
DWPort
Every teleport you have unlocked, in one window, at the fare the realm's office holders have set.
DWCraft
The crafting ledger the game hides: skill, recipes, costs and a levelling ladder.
The rates
What the numbers actually are
| Multiplier | Applies to |
|---|---|
| 3x | Gil (first clear of each quest), experience, capacity points, bayld and tabs |
| 3x | Fame, quest chains open at a friendly pace |
| 1.5x | Fields and Grounds of Valor, enabled everywhere |
| 10x | Weaponskill and skillchain points, Magian trials included |
| 1.5x | Movement speed on foot and mounted |
Generous, not trivial, the fights still have to be fought. Quest gil pays its triple on the first clear; repeatable turn-ins pay the retail amount after that, so the generosity cannot be farmed in a loop. Death costs half of what retail charged, and only from level 31. The full table is here.
Start ready to play
- Jobs start at level 1 but the limit break quests have been removed, so you can level to 99 without interruption.
- Sub-jobs are the same level as your main job here.
- Six starter jobs, WAR, MNK, WHM, BLM, RDM, THF. Nine more from the base game and Rise of the Zilart unlock through their own quests, every one of them takeable at level 1; Blue Mage, Corsair and Puppetmaster arrived with Treasures of Aht Urhgan, and the last four arrive with the expansions they belong to.
- All maps, all outpost warps and the hub home point crystals already unlocked, 80-slot inventories, and 5,000 gil in your pocket.
Get started
Play in three steps
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1
Create a game account
It takes a username, an email and a password.
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2
Download the launcher
Install it. Windows 10 or 11, no admin needed.
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3
Add your account and press Play
The launcher handles the rest — it installs Ashita for you, plus addons, settings and updates.
The deal
House rules
- No cash shop, and there never will be one. Nothing is sold, so nothing can be pay-to-win.
- One account per player. Sixteen characters is a squad, a mercenary roster and all the storage you will need, a second account is never necessary. Why.
- Open through Treasures of Aht Urhgan — the base game, Rise of the Zilart, Chains of Promathia and Aht Urhgan. Further expansions open as they are play-verified here, not before they work. The reasoning.
- A posted add-on list. Everything the launcher installs is allowed and there is a lot of it. Anything not on the allowed list is not, until you ask and it gets added.
You bring the game
DriftwoodXI does not distribute Final Fantasy XI. You need your own FFXI client installation; the launcher will find it, verify it, and configure it, no manual file editing.
Where the server is
Content unlocked so far
Expansions open one at a time, once they have been play-verified here. The lit tiles are live on the server right now.
- Final Fantasy XI Base game Open
- Rise of the Zilart RoZ Open
- Chains of Promathia CoP Open
- Treasures of Aht Urhgan ToAU Open
- Wings of the Goddess WotG Not yet
- Seekers of Adoulin SoA Not yet
The add-on scenarios and the Abyssea content arrive with the expansions they belong to.