Final Fantasy XIV has a new promotional event where buying items in real life benefits players in-game. If you want to collect some of the sweet new Mountain Dew crossover items in FFXIV, including a brand new exclusive mount, you’ll want to pick up a few bottles of the sugary drink. Here’s what to do to earn all of the items while this event is still running.
All Mountain Dew drinks and points, explained
For starters, the FFXIV crossover event with Mountain Dew is only running for a limited time, so don’t wait or you might miss out on these goodies. How the event works is players buy specially marked Mountain Dew Gaming 20oz bottles, and only them. 2-liters, cans, and so on don’t count at this time. They have a banner around them that reference rewards you can unlock right now. These bottles have a 10-digit code underneath the cap, which grants you some points to your Mountain Dew Gaming account.
You can then turn around and exchange those points for various prizes, of which there are a few themed around FFXIV, specifically. Unfortunately, some of the 20oz bottles of Mountain Dew go for different points than others, which might be a bit confusing. Below, you’ll find all the different flavors and how many points they’re worth online:
- Mountain Dew Frostbite: 200 points
- Purple Thunder: 200 points
- Maui Burst: 200 points
- Over Drive: 200 points
- All other flavors (original, Zero Sugar, Code Red, etc): 100 points each
How to redeem Mountain Dew Gaming points
Once you’ve bought yourself a Mountain Dew bottle (or a dozen), it is now time to finally start redeeming some points. What you want to do is look underneath the cap for a 10-digit code. Head to this website right here and create a Mountain Dew Gaming account or login to an existing one. You’ll see the option to enter each code and you’ll receive the appropriate number of points, as mentioned above.
You can seemingly redeem as many codes as you want while the event is live. However, this event is only available in the United States for now. Unfortunately, this event excludes Canadian players. Worse still, don’t waste your time trying to redeem one of the rewards on your FFXIV account if its region is different from the US, because it won’t work.
All FFXIV x Mountain Dew rewards and costs, explained
There are quite a few FFXIV in-game and merchandise rewards you can get through the Mountain Dew event. Note that you can’t redeem some of the reward codes on your account, such as the Sparkling Citrus Refreshment and Mountain Zu mount, until Dawntrail early access begins. Here are all of the items you can unlock and how many points you’ll need to unlock each one:
- Sparkling Citrus Refreshment: 100 points
- 5 pots of Metallic Green Dye: 200 points
- 5 pots of Metallic Blue Dye: 200 points
- 5 pots of Metallic Orange Dye: 200 points
- Mountain Zu mount: 600 points
- FFXIV Starter Edition game: 2,000 points
- FFXIV x Mountain Dew magnet: 2,000 points
- Various Taito Prize Cups: 4,000 points
- Various Plush: 4,000 points
- Figurines: 4,000 points
- I Drank Dew T-Shirt: 4,000 points
- Desk Mats: 6,000 points
- Puma T-Shirts: 9,000 points
- Pictomancer or Viper Keycap Set: 18,000 points
- Hoodies: 20,000 points
- Sweatpants: 20,000 points
- Elgato + Stream Deck Studio Controller: 25,000 points
