Those who know anything about my gaming history know that I have a minor obsession with the series Kingdom Hearts. While it is known for being as cute as it is confusing, it is also a grinders paradise! Each separate game has it’s own synthesis needed to get all of the items, weapons, or abilities and it’s done in a fairly straight forward way!
Today, specifically, we’re going to be focusing on Kingdom Hearts 1 and Kingdom Hearts Final Mix. While these two in theory are the same game, Final Mix has some extra goodies thrown in like different color palates for the Heartless, entirely new Heartless with need for more strategic approaches, a bit more gear and more items for collecting.
Step 1 – Unlocking
Like many different games, you do not start out the game having synthesis unlocked. Getting the ability unlocked is extremely easy and straightforward and the game will even remind you about it! In the first entry to this series, there were team based moves called Trinities. Each Trinity would have our trio work together to unlock either orbs, treasure, or unlock new areas previously unavailable. There’s five different colors that are unlocked by doing various different things.
- Blue – Automatically obtained once you have Donald and Goofy
- Red – Continue through Story
- Green – Continue through Story
- Yellow – Olympus Coliseum reward
- White – Continue through story
Once you get the Green Trinity, you can return to Traverse Town to unlock the Moogle Shop from within the Accessory Shop. Once you unlock this, you’ll be able to access the Moogle Shop from behind the Accessory Shop, closer to the entrance to the Second District.
And now! The fun begins!
Step 2 – Gathering
The key to any bit of crafting is having the materials to do so! Now it can be beyond frustrating to unlock this area and get the ability to do the things but quickly realize you don’t have what you need to do the things!
Luckily for all of you lovely people, I have a list of not only literally everything needed for the synthesis, but what creature drops it too! Due to the fact that chance of item drops can be affected by abilities and weapons, I personally never look at accuracy of drops. Reason being is higher difficulty is typically higher drops and focusing in on just the slaying is fun. Plus experience is also a bonus! Also! I will be notating anything that is Final Mix only.
Quick note on White Mushrooms, because you’re going to see them a lot on this list as they drop about a third of the entire list. The way you fight a White Mushroom is by casting spells that match it’s actions. How many of the same spells and/or the final spell that’s cast. For example, if the mushroom asks for fire 3 times and you cast fire all three times you may receive a Blaze Shard, a Blaze Gem, and a Mystery Goo. The more you see them, the more you do the same spells in a row, and the more you make them all the happy, the more likely you’re going to get the items you need.
- Blaze Shard – 12 // Red Nocturne / White Mushroom
- Blaze Stone (Blazing Stone) – 7 // Chimera (Final Mix Only)
- Blaze Gem – 10 // Bandit / Fat Bandit / White Mushroom
- Frost Shard – 10 // Blue Rhapsody / White Mushroom
- Frost Stone – 7 // Grand Ghost (Final Mix)
- Frost Gem – 10 // Sea Neon / Sheltering Zone / White Mushroom
- Thunder Shard – 12 // Yellow Opera / White Mushroom
- Thunder Stone (Lightning Stone) – 5 // Black Ballade (Final Mix)
- Thunder Gem – 15 // Aquatank / Screwdiver / White Mushroom
- Lucid Shard – 19 // Shadow / White Mushroom / Gigant Shadow (Final Mix(
- Lucid Gem – 13 // Gargoyle / Wight Knight / White Mushroom
- Lucid Crystal – 9 // Darkball
- Power Shard – 13 // Bouncywild / Powerwild / White Mushroom
- Power Stone – 5 // Sniperwild (Final Mix)
- Power Gem – 7 // Air Pirate / Battleship / Pirate / White Mushroom
- Energy Stone (Force Goo) – 6 // Stealth Soldier (Final Mix)
- Power Crystal – 3 // Wyvern
- Spirit Shard – 12 // Large Body / Soldier / White Mushroom
- Spirit Stone (Fury Stone) – 5 // Gigant Shadow (Final Mix)
- Spirit Gem – 7 // Air Soldier / White Mushroom
- Bright Shard – 14 // Green Requiem / White Mushroom
- Bright Gem – 8 // Search Ghost / White Mushroom
- Bright Crystal – 4 // Defender
- Shiny Stone (Dazzling Stone) – 6 // Jet Balloon (Final Mix)
- Shiny Crystal – 3 // Wizard
- Mythril Shard – 9 // Barrel Spider / Behemoth / Pot Spider
- Mythril – 13 // Angel Star / Behemoth
- Mythril Stone – 8 // Pot Scorpion (Final Mix)
- Mystery Goo – 10 // Rare Truffle (higher juggles higher rewards) / White Mushroom / Black Fungus
- Mystery Power (Serenity Power) – 7 // Pink Agaricus (depends on amount of hits) (Final Mix)
- Gale – 4 // Angel Star / Invisble
- Gale Stone (Stormy Stone) – 4 // Neoshadow (Final Mix)
- Orichalcum – 19 // Behemoth (Original game) / Invisible (Original game) / Chests / Item shop (Final Mix)
- Dark Matter – 14 // Treasures / Mini Games / Synthesis (Final Mix)
Now that you have all the things in the world and have the Moogle Shop unlocked, let’s go and do step 3!
Step 3 – Synthesize
Now time for the fun part, making things! When you talk to the Moogle closest to the forge, you’ll notice that at first they only have a couple of things for you to start making. This is normal and it’s so you level your Moogle! If the lil magic bean was skilled enough to make the some of the best weapons in the game (arguably, but that’s a post for another day) right away, it would be way too easy.
In order to level your Moogle, you’ll have to craft! Don’t worry though, especially if you’re in Final Mix, you do not need to make everything to level. As long as you make 80% of it, leave the window and talk to the Moogle again. You should notice the next tier is there! If not, double check which ones do not show that you’ve made them once before and make those first.
Tier 1
- Mega Potion
- Cottage
- Energy Bangle
- Power Chain
- Magic Armlet
- EXP Earring
Tier 2
- Mega Ether
- Guard Earring
- Angel Bangle
- Golem Chain
- Rune Armlet
- Moogle Badge
Tier 3
- AP Up
- Dark Ring
- Master Earring
- Gaia Bangle
- Titan Chain
- Mythril
Tier 4
- Elixir
- Defense Up
- Heart guard
- Three Stars
- Atlas Armlet
- Crystal Crown
Tier 5
- Dark Matter
- Megalixir
- Power Up
- Cosmic Arts
- EXP Bracelet
- Ribbon
Tier 6
- Fantasia
- Seven Elements
- Ultima Weapon
And like that, you have everything you need to make all the things! Happy Moogling!
