I am of the belief that day DOES matter but i dont think its really worth trying to figure out besides a few basic thing... I never dig on darks day, reguardless of zone, and firesday is USUALLY good. Other than that i think there are too many variables (RNG being the biggest) which can produce misleading results. Its pretty easy to make a true RNG on a PC 67769*(time since epoch) is a pretty secure one, and the presence of a RNG makes it dang near impossible to get digging stats when your success rate is low in the first place


PS: RNG = Random Number Generator

Hello all this is funny but,I didn't even know that there was a skill to chocobos lol

Anyways I did alittle digging along time ago ... before digging had a skill?What I got was junk exept for in highlands I got a lightning crystal.

I would first say I have no ideah how this works BUT I have put in over 1000 hours into fishing,and I think it would be similar.Because programers are lazy,and they use the same idea of fishing in digging.Well makes sence to me.

So if you belive like that?Then the area you dig in will determain what item you will get.Makes total sence.As for the day of the week.... it may matter .. some but not that much.I mean greens are cheap.VERY cheap,just dig,and dig,and dig,and dig some more,and dont worry about weather-day of the week-moon.If you do wait for those you will be left behind.

If I waited for a full/new moon in fishing I would not have NEAR the fishing level I am at now.Furthermore

some of the WORST fishing I have seen has been on a full/new moon.Then again the BEST fishing has also been at theese times.I should also think that depending on how many people are in a certain zone digging will make your succes rate go down.I.E. when I fish in south gustaberg ocean for bream/zafmlug bass ect I have a very noticable better bite record then when fishing in east sarabuta.... I guess theres a punishment for to many people in one zone fishing,and I dont care what anyone says.There IS a BIG defferance.

Then again maybe the nerfed fishing in the latest update..... I think they did I cant catch a cold.I see people taling about digging up ore and am wondering if I got fishing skill to 54 for nothing

Maybe I should start digging ... I mean hey I really dig (pun intended) the chocobo music lallall lalalalal lalalal lalalalal

Nice to see this thread is still thriving .. lots of info coming out and theories being discussed!

Greens aren't expensive, but if you're like me, I take 30 stacks out a trip. That's 21960 per trip, I want to seem some sort of return on that!


Oh and, if anyone is serious about chocobo digging, and hasn't done this already, you're going to want to invest in Gobbie Bags 1-4. I did them for mining in December, because I mined a lot. Now I chocobo dig more than I mine. Not only that, but when you raise your fame the prices of greens will go down. I need to work on my Sandy fame, my greens there are expensive!

How do you tell your level? are you just counting the time?

On http://www.hzascension.com/ff11/chocobos.html there is a digging title, has this guy just made the titles up?

You tell your level by counting the time.


You can use a macro like:

/dig

/wait 16

/dig


And then to test to see if you've leveled to the next level, try:

/dig

/wait 11

/dig


The titles were probably made up based on the titles of other crafting.

My macro is slightly cooler than that.


I used this when I was level 1 (I refuse to count from 0):


/echo Gone digging -- no error means level up!

/wait 14

/dig

/wait 2

/dig

/echo Done digging


Hit this just as your choco is standing up and it'll give you an error on the first dig command. When you no longer see this error, you leveled. Note that it's kinda weird sometimes and it seems like opening certain menus effects the macro success, but it works nice most of the time.


btw, I just hit level 3 this past weekend!!! ^^ Items that I dug around that time were danceshroom, puffball, bone chip, rattan lumber.


I don't really know or care what I believe about level-up items anymore, I just dig. It's profitable enough at this point to do it simply for fun. I'm anxious to go dig in Sanctuary of Zi'Tah just because it's so pretty

Just wondering how much i would need cash to get highest lvl of chobo digging? And do Gysahl greens price drop when your fame is higher?

Thank you for answers ^^

How much to get to the highest level? Several million gil.


Price goes down as fame goes up. Lowest it can get is ~61 gil. Thats what i have in sandy with max fame. Lowest it'll get in Jeuno is 68 gil, also i have max fame there.

Well, I've been wanting to go digging in Sanctuary of Zi'Tah just because it's pretty. So finally I find a good time to go. I'm 3rd level digging (/wait 6). I pick up 11 stacks of greens from Jeuno and head there with my choco clothes on. It was Watersday the whole time and the moon was around 60% waxing.


Here are my results:

4 Arrowwood logs

11 pebbles

6 bone chips

2 moko grass

1 elm log


Needless to say, I wasn't very impressed. Has anyone else done much digging there? Anything cool that I missed? (obviously this musn't have been the best conditions to dig in).


Edit: spelling.