Quick answer: Final Fantasy 14’s next all-worlds maintenance window starts Monday, October 19, 2026 at 9:00 p.m. PT and is scheduled to end Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 3:00 a.m. PT, per the official Lodestone maintenance notice. The window deploys Patch 7.57 hotfixes and takes about six hours. Data Center Travel is suspended starting 8:30 p.m. PT on October 19, and three Mog Station services (Home World Transfer, Character Renaming, Item code/Gift code entry) are unavailable across the same window. The Companion App’s character management features are down until maintenance wraps.
This page is the standing reference for FFXIV server status. Future maintenance windows replace today’s window with “Updated October
When does FFXIV maintenance start and end?
Key times for the October 19-20 window, all converted from the Lodestone’s PDT base:
| Time zone | Maintenance start | Maintenance end |
|---|---|---|
| US Pacific (PDT) | Oct 19, 9:00 p.m. | Oct 20, 3:00 a.m. |
| US Eastern (EDT, still summer time) | Oct 20, 12:00 a.m. (midnight) | Oct 20, 6:00 a.m. |
| UK / Ireland (BST) | Oct 20, 5:00 a.m. | Oct 20, 11:00 a.m. |
| Central Europe (CEST) | Oct 20, 6:00 a.m. | Oct 20, 12:00 p.m. |
| Japan (JST) | Oct 20, 1:00 p.m. | Oct 20, 7:00 p.m. |
| Australia East (AEDT, summer time started Oct 4) | Oct 20, 3:00 p.m. | Oct 20, 9:00 p.m. |
| UTC | Oct 20, 04:00 | Oct 20, 10:00 |
The window is six hours, which is on the short end for a hotfix. SQEX routinely does a one-hour hotfix notice when something breaks between patches (rare) and a multi-hour patch window when a new patch rolls out. The October 19-20 window is the in-between case: a Patch 7.57 hotfix that’s heavier than a one-touch reboot but lighter than a major patch deploy, where downtime lists out every service affected before it goes live.
What is FFXIV maintenance for?
Hotfixes, by Square Enix’s own framing, are the small fixes that don’t need the full content of a numbered patch. They tend to be:
- Stability fixes for instanced content (the search-and-rescue notices you see on the Recovery section of the Lodestone news page show instanced-area issues that just got patched).
- Balance adjustments to the Limited Job released with the previous patch (Beastmaster launched with Patch 7.55, and the Sept 16 Patch 7.57 made the Stay-command “Tempered Release” / “Parting Blow” actions turn the beast to face the target before executing it (a fix that closes the “beast not facing target” exploit)).
- Server-side limits on duty recorder playback. The Lodestone also notes that any duty recorder data recorded before this maintenance can no longer be replayed after maintenance, which is a standard “we wiped the recorder pool” line tied to infrastructure changes.
The October 19-20 window doesn’t ship with a separate patch notes document; hotfixes that touch combat math get a patch notes page later in the week on the Topics tab of the Lodestone. The maintenance window itself is described only by a one-paragraph Lodestone notice plus a list of affected services.
What’s affected during downtime?
The Lodestone notice for October 19-20 lists four downstream effects worth knowing:
- FINAL FANTASY XIV service. All Worlds (NA/EU/JP/Oceania) are offline for the full window. You can’t log in, you can’t use retainers, and you can’t trade or open the Market Board across any region’s Home World.
- Data Center Travel is suspended starting 30 minutes before the window (i.e., 8:30 p.m. PT on October 19) so the system can roll over cleanly. Cross-world travel resumes after maintenance ends.
- Mog Station web services: Home World Transfer, Character Renaming, and Item code / Gift code entry are suspended 30 minutes before the window and resume after. Note that the Mog Station itself stays online for purchase, just not for those three actions.
- Companion App features (the official FFXIV mobile app, which handles party chat, retainer items, and lodestone links) are partially offline until maintenance wraps.
Free Companies, Linkshells and Housing stay locked to their Home World. Market Board purchases and listings stay locked to Home World; that’s a permanent floor, not a maintenance-week change, but it’s the practical reason the Oct 12-13 outage (which added same-region player matching to the Japan data center) cut off JP players who travel to Elemental or Gaia for shopping.
How often does FFXIV do all-worlds maintenance?
The “all-worlds” cadence for full game downtime is roughly every 8-12 weeks for a numbered Patch (7.5, 7.55, 7.56, 7.57 is the recent run), with smaller hotfixes every 4-6 weeks between numbered patches, and short emergency windows when a specific world has an issue. In the last 60 days alone, the Lodestone has posted:
- Oct 12, 2026: 24-hour all-worlds maintenance to roll out same-region player matching to the Japan data center.
- Oct 15, 2026: FFXIV Online Store’s optional items sale went live immediately after maintenance (a separate, lighter store-front maintenance).
- Oct 19, 2026: Six-hour all-worlds maintenance for Patch 7.57 hotfixes.
- Recovery notices (no full window): Oct 19 Halicarnassus, Excalibur, Cactuar, “Instanced Areas” Dynamis, “Instanced Areas” Crystal — five separate world-level incidents patched under live service without a full maintenance window.
The Recovery-and-recovery-without-a-notice pattern is the most important thing to set expectations on: not every disruption is an all-worlds window. The Lodestone’s Recovery tag is where world-level fixes first appear, often within minutes of the underlying issue being fixed.
When is the next big FFXIV maintenance?
The next big scheduled event on the FFXIV calendar is the Tokyo Fan Festival 2026 (the third and final Fan Festival before the Evercold expansion), which livestreams the same week as the next numbered patch drop window. The Fan Festival runs October 30 to November 1, 2026 in Tokyo, with the keynote livestreamed on the FFXIV official Twitch and YouTube channels. The expansion itself, Evercold, is scheduled for January 2027 with an exact date still to be announced; the keynote is expected to name it.
For the period between now and then:
- Crucible of the Unbroken Ranking Season 1 starts October 25, 2026 at 10:00 p.m. PDT (a feature added in Patch 7.57 on Sept 16), so it’s live before maintenance on Oct 19-20. World rankings, top 300 rewards and the patch’s score changes (Beastmaster “Stay” command behavior + “Sleepless Survival” bonus raised to 1,000) all run on the new system from the 25th onward.
- All Saints’ Wake seasonal event runs October 15 to November 1 (per the Lodestone topic) and is unaffected by the Oct 19-20 maintenance window.
- Fall Guys collaboration event runs to October 27 at 7:59 a.m. PT.
Where to find FFXIV maintenance notices
Three official sources, in order of how often they post:
- The Lodestone’s “News” page, “Special Notices” section. This is where every all-worlds maintenance post lands, with the date, the start/end in PDT, and the list of affected services. The Maintenance-tagged posts are the most reliable per-window reference.
- The Lodestone’s “Topics” page. Numbered-patch patch notes, event announcements, and Sideネタバレ” by Yoshi-P + the Live Letter Q&A posts all land here.
- The official @FFXIV_NEWS_EN Twitter/X account and the FFXIV Companion App notifications push the same notice. The Companion App is also where you get the duty recorder-wipe warning in advance.
If you want the next-window notice the moment it lands, subscribe to the Lodestone news RSS at /lodestone/news/news.xml and the topics RSS at /lodestone/topics/topics.xml, both linked at the top of the Lodestone news page.
Frequently asked questions
When does the next FFXIV maintenance start?
The next all-worlds maintenance starts Monday, October 19, 2026 at 9:00 p.m. PDT (midnight ET, 5:00 a.m. BST Oct 20) and is scheduled to end Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 3:00 a.m. PDT (6:00 a.m. ET, 11:00 a.m. BST, 12:00 p.m. CEST). The window is a six-hour Patch 7.57 hotfix deploy, per the official Lodestone notice.
How long does FFXIV maintenance usually last?
All-worlds maintenance runs roughly 4-24 hours depending on what the patch ships. Hotfix windows (Oct 19-20) land around 6 hours; numbered Patch deploys (the Oct 12-13 same-region matching rollout) can run 24 hours. SQEX gives the official end time on the Lodestone notice for each window.
Can you play FFXIV during maintenance?
No. All Worlds across NA, EU, JP and Oceania data centers go offline the moment the window starts. Data Center Travel is suspended 30 minutes before the window to keep the roll-over clean. You cannot log in, you cannot use retainers, and you cannot open the Market Board on any Home World while maintenance is live.
Where do I find FFXIV server status when the game is down?
The official Lodestone News page lists each maintenance window in advance and recovery notices as they happen. The official X account, @FFXIV_NEWS_EN, pushes the same notices. The Mog Station stays online for purchases throughout maintenance, but Home World Transfer, Character Renaming and Item/Gift code entry are paused 30 minutes before the window.
When is FFXIV Evercold coming out?
Evercold is the next FFXIV expansion, planned for January 2027. The exact date will be announced at the Tokyo Fan Festival keynote on October 30, 2026, livestreamed on the official FFXIV Twitch and YouTube channels, per the Fan Festival 2026 in Tokyo Stage & Stream Schedule Lodestone topic. The expansion follows Dawntrail and brings the next numbered-patch numbered-content update.
Is FF14 maintenance the same time every patch?
No. Each Lodestone notice publishes the start and end time in Pacific Time (PDT or PST depending on DST) and you have to convert. October 19-20 lands at midnight ET / 5:00 a.m. BST / 1:00 p.m. JST because the US is still on Pacific Daylight Time until Sunday, November 1, 2026. Each window’s start and end is different; this page lists the current one and updates it on every patch.
Will I lose any items if FF14 goes into maintenance while I’m logged in?
No. The game kicks logged-in players back to the title screen when maintenance starts. Inventory, gil, retainers, FC progress, and Housing placement are all server-side and are safe; the game won’t roll any of that back. If you’re mid-duty when the window starts, your duty is force-closed and you don’t get the loot (that’s the cost of being on at 8:59 p.m. PT). Material containers and Triple Triad matches are saved as soon as they finish, before the network drops.
The reason a standing maintenance page earns a place in our long-running coverage is the same reason FFXIV’s largest MMO patches are usually the ones with the most multi-hour windows: in the gap between “Patch X.X notes published” and “Patch X.X is in your Mog Mail,” the thing every returning player actually searches for is “when do I get to log back in.” The Lodestone notice is the official source but it lives one page deep behind the Lodestone’s rotating topic list, and the search query “ff14 maintenance” lands here more often than it lands there. The Oct 19-20 window is short (six hours) because hotfixes are small; the next big window (a future Evercold-branded patch) will be longer, and this page gets the “Updated October
We compiled the October 19-20 window’s times and affected services from the official Lodestone “All Worlds Maintenance (Oct. 19)” notice, the Patch 7.57 hotfix context from the Sept 16 Lodestone Patch 7.57 Notes topic, same-region player matching context from the Sept 16 “Rolling Out Same-region Player Matching for the Japan Data Center!” topic, the Tokyo Fan Festival 2026 Stage & Stream Schedule topic, and the All Saints’ Wake 2026 Lodestone topic. No time was extrapolated from a third-party source; all six time-zone columns above come from a single PDT value from the Lodestone notice.
Edited by Kerwin Stewart, Editor-in-Chief · How we report
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