That test thing is bogus the 1st find i had was cinnamon then rosewood 4 digs after that in khazam.

Yall have really peaked my interest in choco digging and I will try it when i return home. Hopefully by that time more info will be out on it.


damn pryyn wtf you do for all that gil...is that mainly from fishing or from g smithing?

At this point I really wish I'd been keeping better track of what I dug up & how many greens I've used ... I dug up a Gold Beastcoin for the 1st time the other day, & then a Scream Fungus for the first time, & I wondered, gee, did I go up a lvl? Sure enough, I dug early & found I'm at the 3rd tier (6 seconds between digs) & I have no idea how long I've been there, lol. I usually take 3-6 stacks of greens every time I travel, but I keep no records... but I've almost always broke even (per trip, again too lazy to keep better records than that) & the choco webpage has been pretty helpful too, so I thought I should come & say Thank You =)

I started with fishing from november last year til Jan 2004. by then, i'm already lvl64 fishing, and i was the highest fishing lvl NA version player in my server. I also saved quite a lot of gil (not a lot compare with now) from fishing. so I started to try something new, which is digging.


Somehow, by luck maybe, I met one of the top digging jp players in my server in Jan. He teaches me how to dig better. then i started to really take it seriously. til now i'm still A25.


Goldsmithing is just another hobby thing. I'm not getting much from goldsmithing yet. However, it does help a lot when you get too many silver ores and mythril ores. Making ores into ingots really saves a lot space.

at high level, goldsmithing is by far the most profitable of any craft

Ok, did you guys see this article on chocobo digging?


http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/vt/25/index.html


"One digger told me of a superstition surrounding gysahl greens. He said that eating gysahl greens yourself before mounting your chocobo is believed to improve your connection with the bird and increase your chances of finding good items. Diggers who believe this carry some extra gysahl greens for themselves."


I have NEVER heard this. But I am off to try right now.

Thankx for the input prynn. Alot of people do not like to tell their specifics. When I do start playng again I will start digging before I start crafting. Since from what I've seen it is pretty profitable.


also-the areaxx is the ammount of time you can stay on the choco right>?

Area refers to the time it takes AFTER you zone before you can dig. At level 1 it's 60 seconds, and at the highest level it's 10 seconds.


If anyone tries that - eating a green before they go chocobo digging, let us know. I tried it, didn't seem to make a difference to me. Though I did dig up 2 mahogany, 2 ebony, 2 petrified and 4 rosewood in less than 10 minutes in the jungles. But it was also Firesday.

Thanks for all the advice prynn. Can anyone else confirm the chocobo green eating before you dig effect... it seems like prynn either got really lucky, firesday affected it alot (did the other firesday work like that as well prynn), or the greens actually work when you eat them.


If the greens work wouldn't leveling up be alot faster since you can up your success % ?

*does the chocobo leveling dance*


Within minutes of leveling, I dug up stuff in Passhow and Valkurm I hadn't before. Nothing interesting, but it was cool.