Before you continue using walkthrough guide, I would like to take a few notes on some symbols and specific annotations. As you already know that Final Fantasy III (3D Remake) doesn't have dungeon maps, so that I re-created them using 8-bit 2D style to visualize directions, chest locations, and other important spots/people like MogNet or bosses etc. On top of that, I will also list chest list and monster list in specific area (missable monsters). Below is a few notes you will find it useful:

• A number in parentheses: represents the order of destination you have to go.
  
• Stairs icon: represents an entrance from one floor/dungeon to another.
  
• Door icon: represents a door or the first entrance.
  
• Person icon: represents an important character, it can be a boss, an NPC that you need to talk to.
  
• Gold coin icon: represents an item that is not a chest, usually it's a hidden item.
  
• (trap): means that there is a monster inside the chest.
  
• (Optional): means that the section is not required for the story to progress. But you must do it for perfect game.

Here is a list of areas/dungeons that will not be accessible after certain points in the game listed in order of progression, so make sure that you collect all chests and bestiary list in that specific areas/dungeons:

1. Castle Hein: Once you get inside, you cannot come out until you defeat Hein. After defeated Hein, you will lose access to the castle.
   
2. Wracked Ship: Can only enter once the first you sail to the Surface World. There is no monsters, however, there are 2 chests you need to collect here.
   
3. Sea Surfaces: There are 3 sea surfaces, Floating Continent's inner sea, outer sea, and Surface World's sea. You won't be able to sail after losing the. Enterprise. You will lose your Enterprise when you fly over Saronia.
   
4. Lake Dohr: As long as you don't kill Leviathan, you can get in/out any time.
   
5. Doga's Grotto: You cannot enter this dungeon after killing Doga and Unei, so be sure to collect everything.

Decide whether you want to complete the game with 100% max stats and collect all items or not is crucial from the beginning because it requires you to level up all 22 jobs and maintain your character levels below 40. Unlike other Final Fantasy games, the only stats you care about is HP, other stats is pre-determined based on character level. Please read Perfect Game section for more detail before you continue.

Simply put, whenever you obtain new jobs from a Crystal, go back to an area where monsters are the weakest, preferably Altar Cave, and level up your job to 99 before continue. There are a few benefits to this approach:

1. You'll have enough job abilities in your disposal to use when you face tough enemies.
   
2. Your damage will increase dramatically because your damage is based on your character level + your job level.
   
3. It'll make your life so much easier, grinding job level from 1 to 99 for 22 times is so much boring.

You'll put reminders along the way when you obtain jobs and need to go back to grind job levels.

You can also access this guide on my blog: https://www.soloplayguide.com/games/final-fantasy-iii-3d-remake/walkthrough. It easier to read than and has highly images quality due to Steam limitation.

You start the game in Altar Cave - F4, start walking north pick up 2 chests then continue north. There is a suspicious rock, now examine it to open another compartment of the cave. Pick up a Longsword then enter (1).

This floor has 4 chests, collect all of them. There is spring water at the northeast, use it if needed; examine it will restore full HP/MP. Now go to (2) to fight a boss Land Turtle. Watch a show after you killed the Land Turtle. At this point you've got you first set of jobs.


After the show finished, you will appear outside. You are not done with the cave yet so re-enter to collect more chests. This time you will be on the first floor so just follow the maps below.

Note: do not step on F4 because you will fall into the same place where you started the game.

From Altar Cave go straight south then enter Ur town.

1. Go inside Topapa House (1) and talk to him, he'll tell you that you have been chosen as the warrior of the Light. Inside the house has 2 two fountains, examine the left one to restore HP/MP and the right to revive dead party members.
   
2. Go to the northwest (Arc) and watch a show.
   
3. Go to (2), inside, talk to the old man. He will tell you how to find hidden items and passageways.
   
4. Go to (3), inside the well has 3 potions.
   
5. Go to (4), talk to the old man, then give him a potion, he will you back Phoenix Down

Don't freak out when you see everyone in town are all stick figures. They will tell about the curse, so your goal here is help them to get their body back by killing Djinn in Sealed Cave.

1. Enter Kazus and Arc will the join the party.
   
2. Enter INN, talk to the figure man in the middle to trigger a scene. He'll tell you about his airship.
   
3. Exit the town.
   
4. Walk a few steps west into the desert, you will enter Cid's airship. Then, talk to Refia to trigger another scene. Refia will join the party.
   
5. Now examine the steering wheel, then fly to Castle Sasune.

1. Talk to Ingus to trigger a scene.
   
2. Enter the castle, got straight to the court and talk to Sasune King. Watch a little show then Ingus will join the party; he is your last party member.
   
3. Now collect all chests in the castle.
   
4. Go to West Tower for more items.
   
5. Go to East Tower for more items.
   
6. Exit the castle. Your next destination is Sealed Cave.

1. After defeated Djinn, you'll be transported to a crystal room, watch a scene, then you'll get a bunch of new jobs.
   
2. Now you are in front of Alter Cave again, bring Princess Sara back to the Castle Sasune and watch another scene. Congratulations, you've lifted the curse for everyone.
   
3. Exit the castle, go back to your airship (at Sealed Cave), then fly to Kazus town.

1. Go inside INN and talk to Cid. He will ask you to bring him back to Canaan, which is your next destination.
   
2. Go inside Takka House and talk to him to trigger another show. He will help you upgrade your airship so that you can break a rock blocking your way to Canaan.
   
3. Go inside Mythril Mines for more loots.

Your next destination is Canaan town. From Kazus, go west until you see a boulder. Examine it to open the way then head south until you see another town.

1. Go to (1), talk to Salina and pick up some hidden items.
   
2. Go pick up (2) Elixir, you'll need it soon.
   
3. Now go to Cid's house and talk to him. After that, talk to his wife and give the Elixir. To thank you for your kindness, he will open his basement for you which contains a lot of items.
   
4. Exit the town.

Dragon's Peak is just located next to Canaan. Now enter the mountain and follow the path, it's quite short.

1. It's pretty straight forward, go pick up the 3 chests, then walk north to the summit which will triggering a scene.
   
2. After a scene, you will be inside Bahamut's nest. Talk to Desch will trigger a battle with Bahamut. Don't bother fighting him because you cannot win. Watch another scene and you will reappear near Healing Copse.

Healing Copse is just a small grassland with 2 spring water (revitalize and restore HP/MP), so use it if needed. The area is invisible and looks like normal forest, but it's there. You have to cast Mini spell on all your party members to enter the Healing Copse and Tozus town.



Go to (1). Inside, you will find Doctor Shelco who is laying in bed. Talk to him then give him an Antidote. After you saved him, he will open a path to Tozus Tunnel for you which is your next destination.

Tozus tunnel has 2 floors and very straight forward.

Head a little west after exiting the tunnel, you will see a cave where all the vikings reside.

1. Make sure to collect all chests with a few hidden paths leading to some chests, then talk to the guy on the map to a trigger a small scene.
   
2. Now head to another end of the cave (World).

I know it a long way in and out from Tozus tunnel to Viking Cove. Now your next stop is Nepto Temple. head northwest is where Nepto temple is located.

1. Go talk to the dragon head, then cast Mini spell on your party members to be able to enter in his mouth.
   
2. At the end of the dungeon is a boss Giant Rat, defeated him to retrieve the dragon eye.
   
3. head back and talk to the dragon again, watch a show.
   
4. Now go back to Viking and talk to the same guy who told you about the Nepto Dragon, he will give you back the Enterprise. Your next destination is Tokkul.

Try to talk to anyone in town will scare them, and they will run away.

First go to (1), inside, enter (2) it is a hidden entrance to another room. In there, talk to the lady to trigger a show.

Next, go to Elder's house and talk to him; don't forget to collect two chests in there.

This village is optional, mainly you are here to shop. But there is a fun side quest here if you'd like to do.

Side quest: now go talk to a boy around side left of the entrance (Gnomish Bread). He will tell about riding a Chocobo around the continent. To complete the quest, exit the village and a catch a Chocobo inside Chocobo Wood nearby then ride around the continent as told. After that, talk to the boy again, he will give you a Gnomish Bread.

You can either enter Castle Argus now or you will eventually have to come here later. But it's good to come here now for the loots inside the castle.

*** NOTE: Thief can open locked door without the need of Magic Key. There are a few door in the castle, change to Thief job then examine the doors to unlock.

Your first stop is Gulgan Gulch, so follow the map there.

Inside after the set of stairs, talk to the middle man to activate a scene. Then, collect all chests following a hidden passageway.



Now get out of Gulgan Gulch, follow the map to Tower of Owen.

To proceed to the next you have to cast Toad spell on all your party members at (1). After you appeared on the next floor, cast the Toad spell to reverse the effect.

This is an optional area. However, there is a few things in particular about this town is that there is old man in the INN who can tell you about your game progress and bestiary list.

Talk to a girl to trigger a small scene. Talk to another girl in INN to watch her dance. "And there is a Magic Key shop available here. There is an old man inside INN who can show you your bestiary and achievements.

Go to (1) the Magic Key shop, inside to the right wall is a hidden passageway and behind the counter is a chest containing Shuriken; the chest is hardly visible.

Your next stop is Dwarven Hollows, it's situated at the very northwest of the Floating Continent.

1. Go to (1) and talk to him to trigger a show.
   
2. Go to (2) Suterranean Lake. Again, you will have to cast Toad spell to enter Subterranean Lake then cast again to reverse the effect after reappeared.

1. After defeated Gutsco, you can use teleport then re-enter or backtrack to Dwarven Hollows.
   
2. Go to (1) and talk to this guy again to trigger another scene (Ignore the the shadow following you, its Gutsco).

Molten Cave is just above the Dwarven Hollows.

Exit the cave after defeated Salamander through portal (World).


Okay, you are done with the Dwarven Hollows yet. There are ton of treasures waiting for you there.

1. Go back to the Dwarven Hollows, take a few steps and watch a show (1).
   
2. Talk to the dwarf guarding the Fangs (2) again, he will give you a Magic Key as a thank you token.
   
3. Now talk to another dwarf guarding the basement (3), he will open the basement for you, there are 13 chests in there.

At this point, you should be able to obtain Onion Knight job via a side quest. There is certain condition in order unlock this quest.

Now first go to speak to any MogNet as Luneth (whoever at the top of the menu screen will appear as an avatar), you should have 4 mails from Topapa as follow:

• How are you?
  
• Ur
  
• The Children of Ur
  
• The Children are in Trouble!

If you don't see "The Children are in Trouble!", make sure you have collected 25% of bestiary.

• Yeah you heard Topapa, some kids are missing! Now your objective is to help find them. But before that, go talk to Topapa first in Ur, he will tell you that the kids have gone to Alter Cave.
  
• After giving Topapa a visit, go to Altar Cave, walk a few steps, and watch a show then kill 3 Bombs.
  
• After saving the kids, they will give you a piece of Crystal which happens to be Onion Knight's job.

*** This dungeon is a one-time visit, make sure that you collect all monsters here for bestiary.


Now head back to Tokkul, once you enter the town, you won't able to come out before you complete the event of Castle Hein. I recommend that you save your game before entering.

1. Go to the next cell, talk to the Argus King for a quick storytelling.
   
2. A soldier in the third cell in the corner is actually a Demon in disguise, just kill him.
   
3. Now walk to the last cell, talk to a wounded soldier, he will give you a Mini spell.
   
4. Cast the mini spell on your party to enter (2). Re-cast to reverse the effect after entered.
   
5. Follow the maps, collect all chests, and kill Hein.

At this point, you have completed about 50% of game. It's time for you to leave the Floating Continent; don't worry, you can always come back any time. So, what you need right now is to upgrade your Enterprise so that it can fly outside of the continent.


Let's head head straight to Castle Argus.

Since you've already collected all chests, just go straight inside and talk to the king. He will give you Wheel of Time and instruct you to visit Cid.



Exit the castle, head straight to Canaan.

Go to Cid's house (1), enjoy a short backstory telling from Cid. After that, He will help you upgrade your ship.

Now that your ship is upgraded, you can fly to any direction to exit the continent.

Wracked Ship


Before you can enjoy exploring a new world, you will have to do a couple of quests first.

1. Your first destination is to go to the smallest island northest. There, you will find a wracked ship.
   
2. Enter the ship, open the 2 chests you see. Now talk to the old man then the lady in bed, you will be prompted to select an item, select an Antidote and watch another show.

1. What you really need to do here is to just pick up a Crystal shard at the very end of the temple.
   
2. There is Spring water in the temple, use it if needed (revitalize and restore HP/MP).
   
3. Exit the temple then go to Cave of Tides.

You cannot enter Cave of Tides if you haven't picked up a Crystal shard from the Temple of Water. The cave is located just north of the Temple of Water.

1. Follow the map to the end of the cave. And don't forget to pick up Blizzaga.
   
2. Inside the Crystal room is a boss Kraken, watch a scene and finish him.

You woke up in Amur town. If you go outside, you will see your ship is locked with a gold chain which mean that you cannot go any where which mean that your business in the town is not finished yet.

Just follow the map to end of the sewers, watch a few scenes, then you are done here. Don't worry, there is no boss in this dungeon.

Your goal is to obtain Levigrass Shoes which allows you to cross any rivers.

1. Talk to a girl at (1) to a trigger a show, then go to (2) talk to an old man inside to trigger another. He will open a gate to waterway.
   
2. Go to collect all hidden items.
   
3. Go to inside Sewers (3).

1. Just follow the map, it's pretty straight forward.
   
2. At the end of the dungeon, there is a boss Goldor.
   
3. Defeat Golder, pick up a key, go back to your ship and unchain it with the key.

Now that you have access to your ship, try to kill Sea Dragon (#112) on the Surface World's sea. After that, go back to Gysahl (Floating Continent) to check your bestiary list below:

Floating Continent - inner sea:

• 031. Killer Fish
  
• 032. Hermit
  
• 033. Sea Elemental
  
• 034. Tangie
  
• 035. Sahagin

Floating Continent - outer sea:

• 071. Anet
  
• 072. Mermaid
  
• 073. Seahorse
  
• 074. Sea Serpent

Surface World's sea

• 112. Sea Dragon

Once you have collected all of them, it's time to move forward with the story.

Nothing here, just shopping.


Go to (1), the door is behind the house, enter. There is a hidden passageway that leads to an Elixir chest.

When you are ready, fly to Saronia and watch a scene. Now that your ship is destroyed, you are basically stuck in the castle area. There are 4 towns, each at the eadge of the castle:

• Northwestern Saronia
  
• Northeastern Saronia
  
• Southestern Saronia
  
• Southwestern Saronia

Now exit the castle, and go to Southwestern Saronia.

1. Go to (1) to collect 11 chests, you can talk to a guy inside to summon Fat Chocobo.
   
2. Go to (2) to a trigger a show, you will fight 3 Gold Knights.
   
3. Go to (3) and talk to an old man for a Dragon Mail.
   
4. Go to (4) and talk to another old man for a Wind Spear.

There is nothing to do in town except the Dragon Spire, so go straight (1) Dragon Spire. It a dungeon with monsters inside, so be careful.

All treasure chests are at top. Go up until you find the chests.



Northeastern Saronia: Skip this town because there is nothing here, unless you want to use INN and buy Thunder Spear. Magic Stores are locked right.

Northwestern Saronia: Skip this town as well unless you want to use INN or buy items.


Remember I recommend you to level up Dragoon job? well, you haven't do so, you can still leveling up outside the castle. Save you game before entering the castle because once you do, you will have to watch a long show, then fight a boss Garuda. Trust me he is really tough and most effective strategy is to kill him as soon as possible. See the strategy below:

• Everyone change their job to Dragoon, equip all dragon equipment, Wind Spear, and Thunder Spears.
  
• When the battle started, everyone uses "Jump" and keep Jumping until he is dead.
  
• The big problem here is he can that Garuda can attack twice per turn, his Thunder attack can wipe out your party in one or two shots. If you are lucky enough, you can defeat him in the first try.

Now that you have defeated Garuda, it's time get some rewards.

• Go to (1), there is a hidden passageway, to collect 12 chests. Go down further to collect another 6 chests.
  
• Now backtrack, get outside to (2) and then (3). Inside, you will another hidden passageway that leads to underground (follow the map). Pick up the 2 Phoenix Down, then backtrack to (7).
  
• Go inside (7) and talk to any one of the four engineer, they will give you a new airship, Nautilus. It sits outside the castle.
  
• Exit the castle to board your brand new airship. At this point you've lost the ability to sail the sea, instead, you can now dive under water.

Saronia is at peace once again, all Weapon and Magic shops in Saronia are all open to business again, so feel to shop whatever you like.

Saronia Catacombs is located underwater at the Saronia south border wall. Luckily, with your new airship Nautilus you can dive into water.

Follow the paths, collect all chests, until you open the hidden passageway. In there contains 8 trap chests; trap chests have monster(s) inside.

There is no boss in this dungeon, so enjoy looting all the good stuffs in here.

Doga's Village cannot be accessed from land, so you will have to dive near the village (see the map below), then ascend from the pond next to the village.

What special about this village is that there are 6 magic shops. You probably do not have enough gil yet, but do not worry because you can always come back later.

The cave is pretty much straight forward. Watch a show when you reach the end, Doga will tell you to acquire Noah's lute in Temple of Time which is your next destination. He then will teleport you outside.

1. Walk a few steps and watch a show. Proceed to the next room.
   
2. There is an Item and Magic shop inside. Fat Chocobo is the far right corner. In the next room, there is a pot where you can restore your HP/MP and a magic book on the table to revive your dead party members.
   
3. When you are ready, go to (3) through a hidden passageway but you will need to examine a switch first (candle). Now cast Mini spell to enter the Cave of the Circle, again, re-cast to reverse the effect after entered.

Another dungeon underwater, see the map below where it is located.

Follow the map, collect all chests. You will be to change job to Thief in order to unlock the doors through out the dungeon. After you obtained Noah's Lute, you can either you Teleport or backtrack to get out.

Behind the waterfalls at number (7) is a hidden passageway leading to more chests.


Now go to Unei's Shrine, talk to her, and watch a scene. She will tell you that you need a new airship, Invincible.

Just follow the maps, collect all treasures. At the end, you will be able to board The Invincible.

It is a larger airship that has a ability to fly over small mountains (you still cannot fly over any mountains though). Now that you obtained The Invincible, you can check your progress any time without going back to Gysahl.

Falgabard is an optional area, however, it contains many useful weapons against monsters for your next destination.

1. Go to (1), behind the waterfall which is a hidden room with a mini-boss Shinobi, he will give you Kiku-Ichimonji when you defeated him.
   
2. Get in water through a stair, continue south to pick up some hidden items.
   
3. backtrack, go to (4) to pick up 4 chests.

The cave has so many hidden passagways, some of them are just loop and lead to no where.

1. You just simply follow the maps, at (1) is an injured soldier and he is about to die. Talk to him for a Kotetsu.
   
2. Use teleport or walk back to exit the cave.

Doga's Manor is only accessible with Nautilus, this is why you have to go back to Ancient Ruins to pick it up. Then come back to Doga's Manor.

• 155. Peryton
  
• 156. Ogre (missable)
  
• 157. Cyclops (missable)
  
• 158. Nemesis (missable)
  
• 159. Humbaba (missable)

There are 2 bosses here (Doga and Unei) which you have to fight one at a time.

Now that Ancients' Maze is only accessible with The Invincible. Again, go back to Ancient Ruins to pick it up.

1. 
   
2. First go to (1), kill Titan for the final set of new jobs.
   
3. Follow the maps, collect all chests.
   
4. At the end is the entrance to the Crystal Tower.

if you plan for a perfect game with max HP, I highly suggest you that you go back and grind a few more level job/character levels before entering Eureka.

Eureka is an optional dungeon, but it has all of the most powerful equipment in the game. It's entrance is in the Crystal Tower.

From the entrance of Crystal Tower, go straight into the center room.

The way stats work in FFII is very different than others. You have two factors that help grow your characters, they are Character Level and Job Level. Character level grows your overall stats while job level grows your HP. Because of this, you cannot control how you grow your stats, the only thing you can manipulate is your HP. In order to achievement the maximum stats is have your HP max at 9,999.

HP grows when your character levels up, but the amount of HP depends on the current job your character is using. For example, If Warrior raise 70 HP, White Magic only gives 50 HP. Now the question is what job provide the highest amount of HP when a character levels up? It's Black Belt, follows by Viking.

To guarantee that you max out HP, you must level up as Black Belt from character level 40. This means that if you characters are already level 60 and start leveling up as Black Belt, you cannot have 9,999 HP.

Unfortunately, You can only obtain Black Belt from the last Crystal (Earth Crystal) at the very late game (Ancients' Maze). It kinda put a restriction on you that you must play through the game below level 40 until you get the Black Belt to start leveling up. Fortunately, it's not too hard.

Here are a few spots where you can leveling up based on your level, here they are:

Level 40-70:

• Bahamut's Lair
  
• Ancients' Maze
  
• Crystal Tower

Level above 70:

Job doesn't grow with EXP, but rather Action Point (AP). You get 1 AP when you perform 1 action. So, what counts as actions? Well, any command you use during a battle are all counts as actions. For instance, you select on "Attack", you select "Guard", you use "Magic", these are all actions.

In a battle, you can level up your job only one time which mean that in order to max out one job, you have to fight at least 99 battles.

For table reference of many actions you need for each job, you can visit Grinding Job Level section.

The best location to farm job level is the grassland between Altar Cave and Ur. You don't need a powerful monster but a Goblin is enough.

Start by changing everyone to the same job so that they can level up at the same time, put everyone in the back row to reduce the damage, then start running around the grassland. Once the the battle, everyone use "Guard" for the first round, this will count as 1 action for everyone, then press the auto battle button for number of actions needed. For example, if you 7 actions to level up, you can guard until round 6 and kill the Goblin at round 7.

Crystal Tower is probably the longest dungeon in Final Fantasy III.

The World of Darkness has 5 portals in total, 4 at the edges and 1 in the middle. You objective is to kill all bosses in the portals at the edges first.


Congratulations on defeating Cloud of Darkness. It's not over yet if you plan to confront Iron Giant, so watch the ending credit and save your game. After it is finished, load your game from the slot that you just saved in, you will be loaded right in front of the Crystal Tower.

To unlock the ??? Cave, you first have to kill Cloud of Darkness which you already did if you follow this walkthrough. Now reload the game with the save after end credit (save slot with the 3 stars), this will bring you back to the Crystal Tower.

Talk to MogNet on The Invincible as Luneth, you should receive a new mail from the 4 Old Man, read it. Next, change the top character to Arc and talk to the MogNet again, this should prompt you a new mail "Saronian Legend" from king Alus which tell you about a legend of a falling star into the sea.

That's it, now the ??? cave is located at the south sea between Floating Continent and Doga's continent, see map below:

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