Tail Collector

Tail Collector (シッポオヤジ, Shippo Oyaji?) is a character in Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, and Final Fantasy Dimensions. The main purpose for this character is to exchange the collected tails for valuable pieces of equipment.

Appearances

Final Fantasy IV

The Tail Collector can be found inside the Adamant Isle Grotto. The player will need the Hovercraft to reach the cave.

Tail locations

These two tails can be found in all versions:

Tail	Exchange for	Location
Rat Tail	Adamantite	Treasure chest in Feymarch.
Pink Tail	Adamant Armor	Drop from Flan Princess. Use a Siren in the B5 Lunar Subterrane southeast room (which has a Red Fang in the chest).

3D Tail locations

Tails that are exclusive to the 3D versions:

Tail	Exchange for	Location
Black Tail	Onion Armor	Drop from Armored Fiend. Use a Siren on B2-B3 of the Lair of the Father.
Blue Tail	Onion Shield	Drop from Thunder Dragon. Use a Siren on B2-B3 of the Passage of the Eidolons.
Green Tail	Onion Helm	Drop from Green Dragon. Use a Siren by the Sealed Cave entrance.
Red Tail	Onion Sword	Drop from Red Dragon. Use a Siren on B8-B10 of the Lunar Subterrane.
Yellow Tail	Onion Gloves	Drop from Yellow Dragon. Use a Siren by the Passage of the Eidolons entrance.
Takkei Tail	—	Dummied Out. Description reads: Looks as though it could be traded for something.
Omega Tail	—	Dummied Out. Description reads: The tail of Omega.
Zemus Tail	—	Dummied Out. Description reads: The tail of Zemus.

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years

The Tail Collector can be found in ??? on the True Moon. The Tail Collector is found inside the Tail Collector's house, a new location which also contains a hidden access to the Developers' Office.

There are two other Tail Collectors; one is in the Underground Waterway in Edward's Tale, and will trade a Gold Tail with him if he has the right number of Bronze and Silver Tails. During the first part of the Final Tale, the player can go to the Path to Babil to give a number of Small Tails to the Tail Collector's apprentice, in exchange for the Rainbow Tail or any other tail.

Tail locations

In the final tale "The Crystals", all colored Tails except the Rainbow Tail are dropped by specific enemies in specific locations during a specific Moon Phase. Some of these enemies can also be encountered in individual Tales.

Tail	Enemy	Tale Location	Crystals Location	Moon Phase	Exchange for
Gray Tail	Gray Coeurl	Kain's Tale - Devil's Road	True Moon surface	Waning Moon	Rear Ring
Ebony Tail	Ebony Dragon	Lunarian's Tale - Lunar Tunnel	Subterrane B4 - Large Central Cave	New Moon	Taunt Ring
Pink Tail	Flan Princess	—	Subterrane B5 - Southwest Cave	Full Moon	Pink Armor
Black Tail	Shadow Dragon	—	Subterrane B5 - Southeast Room	Waxing Moon	Twin Stars
Purple Tail	Behemoth	Edge's Tale - Cave of Eblan third area	Subterrane B7 - Center Cave	New Moon	Treasure Hunter V2
White Tail	White Dragon	Porom's Tale - world map northeast of Mount Ordeals	Subterrane B8 - Last Cave	Waxing Moon	Rapid Ring V2
Green Tail	Green Dragon	Rydia's Tale - Agart Mine B4	Subterrane B9 - Second Cave	Waning Moon	Rare Band V2
Red Tail	Red Dragon	Yang's Tale - Impact Crater floor	Subterrane B10 - East Cave	New Moon	Level band V2
Blue Tail	Thunder Dragon	Ceodore's Tale - Mist Cave	Subterrane B11 - Large Central Room	Full Moon	Blue Armor
Gold Tail	Gold Dragon	—	Subterrane B12 - North Passage	Full Moon	Gil Band V2

Tails can also be acquired in other ways. In Palom's Tale, a Black Tail can be found in the pub in Troia, but access into the areas where the tail is found costs a total of 159,999 gil for three membership passes.

Bronze and Silver Tails

In Edward's Tale, he can find Bronze and Silver Tails throughout the Tale, and enemies randomly drop them. A trader in the Underground Waterway will trade five Bronze Tails for a Silver Tail, and five Silver Tails for a Gold Tail. As enemies can potentially drop Bronze and Silver Tails, this can be done more than once if the player can obtain the tails needed. The locations of Bronze and Silver Tails are as follows:

• Damcyan, in a flowerbed.
• Damcyan east tower, in a hidden passage.
• Impact Crater, steam vent near Harley.
• Underground Waterway, in a secret passage behind the falls.
• Underground Waterway, in a boulder atop the large waterfall.
• Underground Waterway, near Kaipo exit under a bridge, invisible but locatable by a tile the party cannot walk on.
• Underground Waterway, near Kaipo exit in a boulder in the water.
• Kaipo, on a shelf in the pub.
• Antlion's Den, in a boulder through a hidden passage under the bridge, in the first room.
• Antlion's Den, in a boulder at the bottom of the den during a New Moon (Silver Tail).
• Baron, in the waterway beneath the waterfalls.
• Baron, weapon and armor shop, behind the counter through a hidden passage (Silver Tail).

This gives the player ten Bronze Tails and two Silver Tails, which is five Bronze Tails short of the requirements for a Gold Tail. In Edward's Tale, Bronze and Silver Tails can be dropped by Adamantoise, Alligator, Basilisk, Ettin Snake, Gigas Gator, Hundlegs, Hydra, Sand Worm, and Splasher.

All of these enemies can drop Bronze Tails, and all but the Adamantoise, Basilisk and Splasher can drop Silver Tails. However, Silver Tails are much rarer drops.

Small Tails

In the final tale, the player can find Small Tails around the world, 21 in total. A trader in the Cave of Eblan will trade seven Small Tails for any colored tail of their choice (with the exceptions of Bronze, Silver, and Pink Tails), or fourteen Small Tails for a Rainbow Tail. This is the only way to get a Rainbow Tail.

The locations of the Small Tails are as follows—note that many of the locations referred to are unmarked locations on the overworld map:

• North of Baron Castle in a forest.
• Town of Baron in tall grass.
• East of Baron on the overworld as a single tree.
• Troia Castle, in the moat through a hidden passage.
• Troia, behind the armor shop.
• North of Troia, in a bush in a forest clearing.
• East of Troia, in a bush in a forest clearing.
• Damcyan, in a bookcase in Harley's room.
• West of Damcyan, meteor impact site.
• South of Kaipo between three meteor impact sites.
• Southeast of Kaipo, in a patch of desert by the sea.
• Fabul, in a plant on the third floor of the east tower.
• West of Fabul, in a bush in a forest.
• Southeast of Fabul, in a bush in a forest.
• Eblan, in a vase on the second floor of the west tower.
• North of Tower of Babil in a tree.
• East of Tower of Babil in a tree.
• Agart, in a globe in the observatory (Titan must be defeated first).
• Lodestone Cavern, in a bone formation.
• Cave of Eblan, third area in a boulder near stairs to fourth area.
• Southeast of Mt. Ordeals, in a crate in a cave, through a secret passage.

Small Tails are not to be confused with Small Tales, which are a Potion-like HP restoring consumable. They can be found throughout the tale alongside Small Tails but serve no other purpose.

Final Fantasy Dimensions

The Tail Collector of this game is a gnome that can be found inside the Moogle Cave, which is present an island situated northwest of the continent Castle Avalon is on.

Tail locations

Tails can be dropped by rare and powerful monsters that appear in separate sub-chapters that can be revisited at any time before the end of Chapter 3. After that, the respective enemies that drop each tail are found in different locations.

Tail	Enemy	Chapter 1-3 location	Chapter 4 location
Red Tail	Chimera	Cave to Deist B1F	Area around Deist
Blue Tail	Aqua Rex	Underwater Temple 4F	Area around Rusalka
Yellow Tail	Great Avian	Anima Grove	Area around Fabrica
Green Tail	Torosaurus	Mazewood	Area around Alfheim
Grey Tail	Gorging Bunny	Land West of Umberwood	Area around Castle Falgabard
Silver Tail	Silver Dragon	Akame Valley	Area around Hagakure
Gold Tail	Gold Dragon	Castle Burtgang	Area around Burtgang
Pink Tail	Flan Princess	Prize at the Casino	Island west of the Coliseum

Every Tail may also be infrequently acquired as a reward for defeating three enemies in a row at the Coliseum.