Chocobo Raising Now Available! (08/21/2006)

[Norelco]

Today doing the Hot and Cold game I got two items. A square of Raxa (5k, rah rah), and a random green. This was in La Theine Plateau. I've never gotten 2 items from the same chest while digging, and never raxa. To date the two biggest items I've gotten from chests were Aluminum Ore and Celerity Salad.

Most of the time I get a parasite worm or some other random garbage.

-Draxy

I think this may be the change then. Never got 2 items before, and then last night I did it in Merphitaud Mountains and got a Parasite Worm and Blue Peas. NPC'd the peas for 7 gil.

[Draxy]

wow. jackpot for you. blue peas AND a parasite worm. thats like .. almost 400 gil worth of NPC stuff.

EDIT: about to do another round i'll see if I have the same luck.

EDIT2: Helmet Mole and Blue Peas... lol

[Norelco]

wow. jackpot for you. blue peas AND a parasite worm. thats like .. almost 400 gil worth of NPC stuff.

EDIT: about to do another round i'll see if I have the same luck.

The worms actually sell for 3-4k...There's half a stack of oils.

[doofy]

Posted this in the maintenance thread instead of here, but yeah its the 2 items per crate now (with random junk thrown in like the peas). The amount of digs required on top of the chest spot also hasnt changed, I thought it had due to only needing 4 digs in La Thiene but its still 6 in Jugner. Jugner has also produced the better crates, last one was D Talon (3rd from Jugner so far) + Celerity Salad.

-Vyzrael (Asura)

[Draxy]

Definitely need to switch from la theine to one of the 6-dig zones then. I get random trash a lot and then an occasional neat-o item.

[Suiram]

Browsing through the dialog files I found a series of entries, seemingly related to bug testing, that sheds some light on how the various status ailments affect chocobo raising.

Starting: Injury (Physical)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Minor illness (Physical)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Stomachache (Physical)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Loneliness (Emotional)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Happiness (Emotional)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Laziness (Complete Stop)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Serious illness (Physical)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Confusion (Mental)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Spoiled chocobo (Mental)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Runaway (Complete Stop)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: In love (Mental)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Crying at night (Other)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Bursting with vitality (Physical)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻
Starting: Sparkling with intelligence (Mental)≺Possible Special Code: 00≻

So it appears to break down like this:

Increases Rate of Physical Attribute Growth
Bursting with vitality (added last patch)

Increases Rate of Mental Attribute Growth
Sparkling with intelligence (added last patch)

Inhibits Growth of Physical Attributes
Injury
Minor Illness
Stomachache
Serious Illness

Inhibits Growth of Mental Attributes
Confused
Spoiled
In Love

Increases/Decreases Affection (?)
Loneliness
Happiness

Inhibits Growth of All Attributes
Laziness
Runaway


So, presumably for someone who wants to raise a physical chocobo, they can just ignore Lovesickness?

[Norelco]

Definitely need to switch from la theine to one of the 6-dig zones then. I get random trash a lot and then an occasional neat-o item.

Gonna try that out. BTW, if you have the Bore ability it will take less digs once you're directly on top of it because you can dig deeper down. I messed up though last night and got Burrow instead. So now I have Treasure Finder (supposedly helps with Hot/Cold game) and Burrow.

Anyway, now that I'm maxed out on abilities gonna drop discernment and go for endurance. Hoping to at least find someone to breed with on my Green Choco on Asura.

[Draxy]

Got a bunch of garbage in Jugner last night.

I'm in the middle of raising a black physical attribute bird right now, but my next step is to mate that one and make a black mental attribute bird. Trying to decide whether to learn digging abilities and register it when i go digging etc, or gallop/cantor to breed them into a new physical bird.

Too bad you can't learn abilities, mate it, unlearn abilities and then go a different way

-Draxy

[miokomioko]

Was right on top of it first dig... talk about luck. I don't think my shitty Chocobo would have dug enough to get it otherwise.

Dragon Heart & Blue Peas from Meriphetaud Mountains.

[Norelco]

I haven't gotten anything worth over 10k yet.

Parasite worms x 5
Blue Peas
Armored Picses x 1
Mugwort x 1
Mushroom Locust x 1
Silver Shark x 1
Other junk

That's about it...I've failed twice, once time being on top of it and running out of digs. Doh!

[miokomioko]

Hmm~ out of my 3 runs I've done:

-Tahrongi Canyon-

Zebra Eel
Gysahl Greens


-Meriphetaud Mountains-

Dragon Heart
Blue Peas

Dragon Talon
Gysahl Greens

[Minions]

Hmm~ out of my 3 runs I've done:

-Tahrongi Canyon-

Zebra Eel
Gysahl Greens


-Meriphetaud Mountains-

Dragon Heart
Blue Peas

Dragon Talon
Gysahl Greens

hmmm think i'm doing the moutains.... then hq the heart into some cursed-1 hmmm :D

[Norelco]

Hmm~ out of my 3 runs I've done:

-Tahrongi Canyon-

Zebra Eel
Gysahl Greens


-Meriphetaud Mountains-

Dragon Heart
Blue Peas

Dragon Talon
Gysahl Greens

What abilities do you have for your Chocobo?

[doofy]

Had a dragon heart in jugner yesterday as well (1 heart, 3 talons) but its probably a complete crapshoot. Is meriphataud a 4 or 6 dig zone? (I'd assume 6 since its a "Bush" zone and not "Prairie")

-Vyzrael (Asura)

[miokomioko]

Hmm~ out of my 3 runs I've done:

-Tahrongi Canyon-

Zebra Eel
Gysahl Greens


-Meriphetaud Mountains-

Dragon Heart
Blue Peas

Dragon Talon
Gysahl Greens

What abilities do you have for your Chocobo?

Absolutely none. It's a piece of shit yellow chocobo, the first one I raised, although it does have above average in both mental stats. It blows bird ass at strength/endurance.

[Rasengan]

I don't know if this has been asked before, but after checking the compatibility between my chocobo and a friend's chocobo at Kamp Kweh, I wondered:

Is it possible to determine the color of a chocobo in the chick stage if you check its compatibility with a chocobo of another gender?

If it were, then you wouldn't have to wait until day 19 to find out what color your chocobo turns out to be. I know the compatibility check is just a prediction and that not all offspring of the same parents will end up to be the color that it predicted, but would the color it projects the chocobo [that you're raising atm] to end up be correct?

[miokomioko]

Hot & Cold rewards from Meriphataud Mountains with no traits/abilities.

4 successful digs

1 Dragon Talon
1 Dragon Heart
3 Gysahl Greens
1 Blue Peas
1 Rhinochimera
1 Parasite Worm

P.S. Yeah, it's a 6-dig zone.

[Norelco]

Last 3 digs I've been spamming Jugner and got only Dragon Scales each time + blue peas.

[Thistle]

Hot & Cold rewards from Meriphataud Mountains with no traits/abilities.

4 successful digs

1 Dragon Talon
1 Dragon Heart
3 Gysahl Greens
1 Blue Peas
1 Rhinochimera
1 Parasite Worm

P.S. Yeah, it's a 6-dig zone.

I wish I understood this game. I have a mental bird (first class in both) with Bore. Out of the last 20 successful digs, I've gotten parasite worms (and a junk green) 19 times. About even split between the Canyon and Meriphataud. In my entire time doing hot and cold, I've gotten one "good" thing once (dragon scale, which never ever ever sell).

Is it just sucky random bad luck? I'm so sick of parasite worms!

Edit: I'm a high level digger as well.

[Norelco]

Has anyone determined if people on foot can steal your VCS crates during the Hot/Cold game? It's happened a few times now that some random-ass person is just standing around my ??? and I start to get paranoid.