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Square Enix shared the dates and details for the Final Fantasy XI Christmas event this year, with Starlight Celebration returning to FFXI on December 16, 2025. It will run until December 31, 2025. This year also marks the first time the Gobbie Mystery Box Festival Dial and its #FES Dial Keys will appear.
First, we can get one #FES Dial Key each day. This only happens if we already went through the Starlight Celebration event once before. While exact rewards weren’t mentioned yet, Square Enix noted the items come from “high-tier mission battlefields and high-tier avatar battlefields.” Divine Interference and The Orb’s Radiance were specifically mentioned. The things could reward the new key are “Games for the Willing and Able,” “The Gift of a Child’s Laughter,” “Master the Art of Turning Frowns Upside Down,” “Nab Presents Held Hostage by Nefarious Goblins,” and “Presents in Exchange for Gift Tokens.”
Those applicable minigames and missions are only part of the ones available. In addition to all of those returning, there will also be “Lend the Moogles a Capable Adventurer’s Hand” back again. That involves talking to Moogles at Bastok Mines, San d’Oria, and Windurst Waters and Woods, then delivering cards and letters to NPCs for them. Seasonal Stalls will be open again too, with some of the items on sale being Dream Hats, Sheet of Starlight Celebration, and Snowman Caps.
Final Fantasy XI is available for PCs, and the Starlight Celebration will return to FFXI over the Christmas season between December 16-31, 2025.
