Final Fantasy 14's Beastmaster job has been fully released with patch 7.56, and Polygon has published a guide detailing how to unlock the job and where to find creatures for its "Master's Bestiary." Like the earlier Blue Mage limited job, Beastmaster is designed mainly for solo content and cannot be used in standard duties, dungeons or quests, so players must first roam the game world catching monsters before they can properly fight with the class.

To unlock Beastmaster, players need to have cleared a set list of earlier bosses, then speak to the Excited Adventurer NPC in New Gridania to begin the quest "Strangers in the Wood." Creatures are captured by using the Catch ability before defeating them, logging them in the bestiary so they can be assigned to summon horns for battle. Beastmaster also gains its own solo challenge mode, the Crucible of the Unbroken, mirroring Blue Mage's Masked Carnival, and Polygon notes its location list remains a work in progress as more monsters are verified.