Final Fantasy VII/Items

The lists on this page are largely incomplete.

There is a plethora of items to be collected in Final Fantasy VII. This page contains lists of regular items and key items.

Regular items

These are the items that you see in your inventory. They can be used in battle, from the menu, and some can even be used in the field. A few of the easier ways get these items are listed, however, other methods may also exist. Weapons, Armor, and Accessories are not included in this section, although they are kept in the same inventory.

The selling price of any item is exactly half of its purchasing price.

Healing items

These items can generally be used both in and out of battles.

Item	Price	Target	Effect	Location
Potion	50	One ally	Restores 100 health points; deals 100 damage to undead enemy
Hi-potion	300	One ally	Restores 500 health points; deals 500 damage to undead enemy
X-potion		One ally	Restores all health points; instantly defeats undead enemy
Phoenix down	300	One ally	Revives dead ally with minimal HP; instantly defeats undead enemy
Magic restoration
Ether	1500	One ally	Restores 100 magic points
Turbo ether		One ally	Restores all magic points
Elixir		One ally	Restores all HP and MP	Rare item: cannot be purchased in shops
Megalixir		All allies	Restores all HP and MP	Rare item: cannot be purchased in shops
Status ailment remedies
Remedy	1000	One ally	Cures all status ailments
Impaler	500	One ally or enemy	Cures or inflicts "frog" status
Shrivel	500	One ally or enemy	Cures or inflicts "mini" status
Soft	150	One ally	Cures petrify status
Maiden's kiss	150	One ally	Cures toad status
Cornucopia	150	One ally	Cures mini status
Echo screen	100	One ally	Cures silence status
Hyper	100	One ally	Cures sadness status or causes fury status
Tranquilizer	100	One ally	Cures fury status or causes sadness status
Antidote	80	One ally	Cures poison status
Eyedrop	50	One ally	Cures blindness status

Field items

These items can generally be used only out of battles.

Item	Price	Target	Effect	Location
Tent	500	All allies	Restores all HP and MP of all party. Use at Save Point.
Save crystal		All allies	Can be used to generate a save point	Found in the Northern Crater.

Chocobo greens and nuts

Greens have three uses: (1) learning an enemy skill; (2) capturing a chocobo; (3) upgrading a chocobo for a race. The three greens best suited for each of such tasks are highlighted in the table below.

The Chocobo Sage can be reached only after the heroes obtained the Highwind.

Item	Price	Battle effect	Attributes upgrade	Location
Gysahl greens	100	Eaten in 2 turns	Increases speed and stamina	Chocobo ranch
Krakka greens	250	Reduces Chocobo's chance to run to 1/3rd	Increases intelligence	Chocobo ranch
Tantal greens	400	Eaten in 3 turns	Increases intelligence, speed and stamina	Chocobo ranch
Pasana greens	800	Reduces Chocobo's chance to run to 1/5th	Increases intelligence and tameness	Chocobo ranch
Curiel greens	1000	Eaten in 5 turns	Increases speed and stamina	Chocobo ranch
Mimett greens	1500	Allows to use "Chocobuckle"; eaten in 1 turn	Increases speed and stamina	Chocobo ranch
Reagan greens	3000	Eaten in 8 turns; reduces Chocobo's chance to run to 1/8th	Increases speed and stamina	Chocobo Sage
Sylkis greens	5000	Allows to use "Chocobuckle"; eaten in 1 turn	Increases all attributes	Chocobo Sage

Nuts are used to breed chocobos. Chocobo breeding can be done only after the heroes obtained the Highwind. Actually, carob nuts and zeio nuts are the only ones that are needed.

Item	Price	Effect	Location
Porov nut	2000	Breeds regular chocobos	Buy: Chocobo ranch
Pram nut	1500	Breeds regular chocobos	Buy: Chocobo ranch
Lasan nut	600	Breeds regular chocobos	Drop/Steal: Mandragora (Disc 1, part 2, ch. 1) Buy: Chocobo ranch
Saraha nut	400	Breeds regular chocobos	Drop/Steal: Spencer (Disc 1, part 2, ch. 4) Buy: Chocobo ranch
Luchile nut	200	Breeds regular chocobos	Drop/Steal: Nibel wolf (Disc 1, part 2, ch. 6) Buy: Chocobo ranch
Pepio nut	100	Breeds regular chocobos	Drop/Steal: Dual Horn (Disc 1, part 3, ch. 1) Buy: Chocobo ranch
Carob nut		Required to breed Blue, Green and Black Chocobos	Drop/Steal: Vlakorados (Disc 1, part 3, ch. 3) Buy: Gold Saucer (300 GP)
Zeio nut		Required to breed Gold Chocobos	Drop/Steal: Goblin (Disc 2, part 1, ch. 2)

Attribute sources

These items, also known as "Enix seeds", are featured in every role-playing video game by Enix and, later, Square-Enix.

Item	Price	Effect	Location	Morph
Power source		Raises strength by 1 unit	Find (8): ... Win: Heretic Hojo	Unknown, Heavy Tank, Screamer
Guard source		Raises vitality by 1 unit	Find (5): ... Win: Dark Nation	Unknown 2, Bagnadrana, Spiral, Armored Golem, Maximum Kimaira
Magic source		Raises Magic by 1 unit	Find (6): ...	Unknown 3, 8 eye
Mind source		Raises Spirit by 1 unit	Find (5): ...	Serpent, Dragon Rider
Speed source		Raises Dexterity by 1 unit	Find (4): ...	Poodler
Luck source		Raises Luck by 1 unit	Find (3): ...	Bad Rap

Side-quest items

• Limit break manuals

These items are sorted according to game progression. Each manual can be used on the corresponding character only, and only after the character learned all the previous six limit breaks. There is no manual for Cait Sith.

Manual	Chapter and location
Red XIII's Cosmo Memory	1.2.6. in Nibel Mansion
Aeris' Great Gospel	1.3.1. as soon as the Tiny Bronco is obtained
Yuffie's All Creation	1.3.2. Wutai Pagoda
Barret's Catastrophe	2.3. Right after the huge materia train quest
Tifa's Final Heaven	2.4. Tifa's piano in Nibelheim
Vincent's Chaos	2.4. Lucrecia's cave (use green Chocobo or submarine)
Cid's Highwind	2.4. Sunken Gelnika (use submarine)
Cloud's Omnislash	2.4. Gold Saucer Battle Arena (Win for 32000 BP on disc 3 or 64000 BP on other discs)

• Side-quest items
• Unusable items

Battle items

These items can be used during battle only.

Support items

Battle items that target your allies.

Item	Cost	Target	Effect	Location
Smoke bomb	1000	All allies	Allows party to escape battle
Light curtain		All allies	Causes "barrier" status (halves physical damage)
Lunar curtain		All allies	Causes "magic barrier" status (halves magical damage)
Mirror		All allies	Causes "reflect" status (spells bounce back to caster)
Speed drink		One ally	Doubles speed of character's battle gauge
Hero drink		One ally	Raises all attributes
Vaccine		One ally	Causes "resist" status (prevents status ailments)
Holy torch		All allies or enemies	Removes all status effects
War gong		All allies or enemies	Causes "berserk" status (allies will fight with no need to input commands; enemies will use physical attacks only)

Disabling items

Battle items that target the enemies and alter their status.

Item	Cost	Target	Effect	Location
Ink		One enemy	Inflicts "blindness" status	Steal: Bad Rap
Dazers		One enemy	Inflicts "paralyze" status	Win: Bad Rap, Battery Cap, Boundfat Steal: Battery Cap Boundfat Morph: Boundfat
Cauldron		One enemy	Inflicts 6 status ailments	Win: Dragon Zombie Steal: Dragon Zombie
Ghost hand		One enemy	Drains MP (reversed effect on undead)	Win: Ghost Steal: Ghost in Train Graveyard Morph: Gi Spector, Sneaky Step
Hourglass		All enemies	Inflicts "stop" status (80% chance)	Win: Edgehead Morph: Kimara Bug in Gongaga area
Spider web		All enemies	Inflicts "slow" status (100% accurate)	Win: Grashshtrike Steal: Kimara Bug in Gongaga area Morph: Grashshtrike
Dream powder		All enemies	Inflicts "sleep" status (80% chance)	Morph: Crown Lance, Crysales
Mute mask		All enemies	Inflicts "mute" status (80% chance)	Win: Bahba Velamyu, Garuda Steal: Crazy Saw Morph: Dorky Face in Shinra Mansion
Loco weed		All enemies	Inflicts "confusion" status (80% chance)	Win: Corvette, Hammer Blaster, Razor Weed, SOLDIER:3rd, Sword Dance

Attack items

Battle items that deal damage to the enemies.

Item	Cost	Target	Effect	Location
Elemental attacks
Bolt plume			Lightning 2
Swift bolt			Lightning 3
Dragon fang			Lightning 4	Win: Steal: Morph:
Molotov			Fire 1
Fire fang			Fire 2
Fire veil			Fire 3
Antarctic wind			Ice 2
Ice crystal			Ice 3
Earth drum			Quake 2
Earth mallet			Quake 3
Graviball			Gravity 1
Time-space bomb			Gravity 2
Deadly waste			Poison 2
Malboro tentacles			Poison 3
Bird wing			Wind
Dragon scales			Water
Instant-defeat attacks
Basilisk claw (vagyrisk claw)		One enemy	Petrify
Kiss of death		All enemies	Instant-death (fully heals undead)
Non-elemental attacks
Grenade		One enemy
S-mine		One enemy
8-inch cannon		One enemy
Vampire fang		One enemy	Drains HP (reversed effect on undead)
Shrapnel		All enemies
Right arm		All enemies
Stardust		All enemies	Comet 2

Key items

Key items are ones that can't be used by the player directly, although they often allow Cloud to interact with his environment in important ways. They generally progress the storyline, or point the player in the right direction. Some events depend on a choice of which key items you have (i.e. Corneo's mansion).

Item Name	Description	Location	Use
PHS	Able to call your party members from long distance.	Kalm; received after Cloud's flashback.	This enables the menu option to switch out your party members on the world map or at save points.
Battery	Looks like it can start some sort of machine.	Purchase for 100 Gil from weapons shop owner in Wall Market.	Need at least two to reach Shinra Headquarters for the first time.

Don Corneo mission

Item Name	Description	Location	Use
Cotton Dress	Cotton-woven dress.	Wall Market, Dress Shop. Choose a dress that feels "clean" to get this.	The lowest-quality dress you can pick for Cloud. Cloud will not be picked if he is wearing this. A dress is necessary to get him into Don Corneo's mansion.
Satin Dress	Dress made of satin.	Wall Market, Dress Shop.	The middle quality of three dresses Cloud can wear for Don Corneo. Cloud will not be picked if he is wearing this. A dress is necessary to get him into the mansion.
Silk Dress	Dress made of silk.	Wall Market, Dress Shop. Choose something "soft" that "shimmers" when you ask for a dress.	This is the nicest dress you can choose for Cloud. A dress is necessary to get him into the mansion.
Wig	Wig made from messed up hair.	Wall Market, Big Bro's Gym. Consolation prize for losing the squat contest.	The lowest quality wig Cloud can wear for Don Corneo. Cloud will not be picked if he is wearing this. A wig is necessary for him to get into the mansion.
Dyed Wig	A dyed wig.	Wall Market, Big Bro's Gym. Receive for a tie in the squat contest.	The middle quality of three wigs that Cloud can wear. Cloud will not be picked if he is wearing this. A wig is necessary to get him into Don Corneo's mansion.
Blonde Wig	A blonde wig.	Wall Market, Big Bro's Gym. Reward for winning the squat contest.	This is the nicest of the three wigs Cloud can wear for Don Corneo. A wig is necessary to get him into the mansion.
Glass Tiara	A glass tiara.	Wall Market, Materia Shop (from shopkeeper). Reward for buying the 50 gil item from the hotel vending machine.	The lowest quality tiara Cloud can wear for Don Corneo. Cloud will not be picked if he is wearing this.
Ruby Tiara	A ruby tiara	Wall Market, Materia Shop (from shopkeeper). Reward for buying the 100 gil item from the hotel vending machine.	The middle quality of three tiaras Cloud can wear to make himself more attractive to Don Corneo.
Diamond Tiara	A diamond tiara.	Wall Market, Materia Shop (from shopkeeper). Reward for buying the 200 gil item from the hotel vending machine.	The nicest accessory that Cloud can wear to make himself more attractive to Don Corneo.
Pharmacy Coupon	A coupon for a free item from the pharmacy.	Wall Market, Diner. Order some food and say it was all right.	Use this coupon to get medicine at the pharmacy for the woman hogging the bathroom at the bar.
Cologne	Cheap perfume.	Wall Market, Bar. Reward for giving disinfectant to the woman in the bathroom.	The lowest quality perfume you can get for Cloud. Cloud will not be picked if he is wearing this.
Flower Cologne	Flower scented perfume.	Wall Market, Bar. Reward for giving deodorant to the woman in the bathroom.	The middle quality of three perfumes that Cloud can wear for Don Corneo. Cloud will not be picked if he is wearing this.
Sexy Cologne	A perfume that amorously arouses.	Wall Market, Bar (woman in bathroom). Reward for getting her a digestive with a pharmacy coupon.	The nicest perfume Cloud can wear for Don Corneo. Perfume makes him more attractive to the Don.
Member's Card	Membership card to the Honeybee Inn.	Wall Market, southern section. Talk to the guy walking in circles in the bottom right corner after you've picked out a dress.	Gets you into the Honeybee Inn.
Bikini Briefs	Tight-fitting briefs.	Wall Market, Honeybee Inn, Group Room.	Underwear that makes Cloud more attractive to Don Corneo.
Lingerie	Perfumed underwear.	Wall Market, Honeybee Inn, &$#% Room. Make sure you talk to the hostess before she runs off!	Underwear Cloud can wear that makes him more attractive to Don Corneo.

Shinra headquarters mission

Item Name	Description	Location	Use
Keycard 60	Allows you to go as far as the 60th floor in the Shinra Bldg.	Shinra Bldg, 59th floor (Cloud automatically picks it up after beating the guards at the elevator).	Lets you get to the 60th floor of the Shinra Bldg.
Keycard 62	Allows you to go as far as the 62nd floor of the Shinra Bldg.	Shinra Bldg, 61st floor. Guy walking around near the stairwell will give it to you if you don't talk about Aeris.	You can get to the 62nd floor on the glass elevators.
Keycard 65	Allows you to go as far as the 65th floor of the Shinra Bldg.	Shinra Bldg, 62nd floor. Mayor Domino will give it to you if you can guess his password from the clues in the library.	You can get up to the 65th floor on the glass elevators.
Keycard 66	Allows you to go as far as the 66th floor of the Shinra Bldg.	Shinra Bldg, 65th floor. Completing the Midgar parts puzzle on the 65th floor unlocks the chest containing this keycard.	You can get up the to 66th floor on the glass elevators.
Keycard 68	Allows you to go as far as the 68th floor of the Shinra Bldg.	Shinra Bldg, 67th floor. Talk to Hojo's lab assistant after defeating Sample: HO512.	You can get up to the 68th floor on the glass elevators.
Midgar Parts	Part of the Midgar city model	Shinra Bldg, 65th floor; found in chests. You can only hold one set of them at a time, and the chests containing them will unlock in a specific order.	Put the parts into their corresponding places in the city model on the 65th floor to finally unlock a chest containing Keycard 66.