The Moogle Treasure Trove returns on Wednesday 9 September 2026 as the First Hunt for Astronomy, by Square Enix's own announcement. The Trove, which is a recurring event that pays a temporary currency for replaying old content, is billed this time as a special edition marking the upcoming release of Evercold. It runs across two installments rather than one, and the headline reward is an uolon horn.

What is different about this one

A tomestone, in case that table is the first you have met one, is a token the game pays you for finishing content, which you spend at a vendor. The announcement calls this event's ones irregular tomestones of astronomy I, and says the two hunts need different tomestones from each other.

Square Enix calls this run "a special edition" and says it takes place across two installments, which is the announcement's own way of marking it as not the usual shape.

Our take: what it means for players

The two-installment shape changes how much of this is urgent, and the answer is less than it looks.

Square Enix states plainly that the uolon horn is available in the Second Hunt too, so the reward is not on a clock that ends with part one. What does not carry is everything else. The announcement says the tomestones required for exchange differ between the installments, and that the item lineups differ too. Our reading is that anything banked in part one buys from part one's list and nothing else. Treat each half as its own shop with its own currency.

The two footnotes are where the earning goes wrong. Running content with an adventurer squadron, or through Duty Support, which is the system that fills a party with computer-controlled allies, awards no irregular tomestones of astronomy at all. That removes the most convenient way to farm old content alone. An unrestricted party has to have Level Sync switched on to receive them, and Level Sync is the rule that drops a strong character down to a lower area's power. Unrestricted parties are exactly how a high-level group blitzes low-level content, so the fastest method is also the one most likely to award nothing.

That exclusion is the one thing here we would argue with. Duty Support is the tool Square Enix built so a player without a regular group could still see old content. Switching it off for the event that rewards old content is a quiet tax on the people with the least flexible schedules. The event is otherwise the good kind: a currency earned by playing, spent from a fixed list, with nothing for sale.

The framing is worth a line of its own. Square Enix pegs this Trove to the release of Evercold rather than to a content lull. Our reading is that this is a catch-up window aimed at people levelling a job, meaning a character class, before the expansion. That is a different audience from the pre-patch drought a Trove usually fills.

What's next

Patch 7.56 arrives the day before, on 8 September, and Square Enix's own notice says it closes PvP Series 11 with it, PvP being short for player versus player.

A PvP Series is a numbered season of that side of the game's reward track. The Trove start date and the patch both sit on the calendar with the day we last checked them. Evercold is on the release tracker with no date at all, because Square Enix has not given one.