Gelnika

FINAL FANTASY VII guide · Exploring the crashed plane

The Sunken Gelnika is a crashed Shinra transport plane located on the ocean floor, accessible exclusively via the submarine in Disc 2 and Disc 3. Inside, Cloud and the party navigate the flooded corridors and cargo bays while dealing with powerful mutated creatures and an optional boss encounter with the Turks. The wreck holds several endgame weapons, Limit Break manuals, and powerful Materia, making it a premier late-game exploration and training spot.

Items

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Heaven's Cloud: Inside a treasure chest on the walkway in the cargo roomConformer: Found inside an open chest on the lower floor of the cargo roomHighwind: Located in a treasure chest in the research roomSpirit Lance: Inside a chest found in the research roomMegalixir: Inside a treasure chest in the hallway corridorEscort Guard: Inside a treasure chest in the research roomHades Materia: Found lying on the floor near the destroyed helicopter wreckage in the cargo roomDouble Cut Materia: Found lying on the ground in the upper-right corner of the research room

Secrets

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Reno and Rude are encountered as a boss fight in the corridor the first time you enter during Disc 2, but if you do not fight them before completing the Raid on Midgar, they permanently disappear from the wreck.

Enemies

Unknown

Steal / drop Fire Armlet

High HP mutant that can inflict confusion and poison.

Unknown 2

Steal / drop Aurora Armlet

Deals heavy physical and lightning damage.

Unknown 3

Steal / drop Bolt Armlet

Floating enemy that attacks with powerful status-inflicting and physical attacks.

Bad Rap

Steal / drop Ink

Agile reptile-like foe that can inflict poison and deal rapid physical hits.

Serpent

Weak to WaterSteal / drop Water Ring

Giant sea-serpent enemy encountered inside the wreck with extremely high HP and powerful dragon breath attacks.

Reno

Steal / drop Tough Ring

Boss fought in the hallway alongside Rude during Disc 2.

Rude

Steal / drop Ziedrich

Boss fought in the hallway alongside Reno during Disc 2.

Tips

Equipping Yuffie with her Conformer weapon and the Morph Materia allows her to deal full physical damage while using Morph, turning every regular enemy here into permanent stat-boosting Source items.
Save your game at the save point in the entrance room before exploring deeper, as the standard enemies here hit exceptionally hard compared to most overworld foes.

Not listed for this area: shops and people.

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