First time poster and have read every single post in this thread. Very informative. However, I dont seem to be sharing the success of some people and was wondering if someone could help me out. I have used about 100 stacks of greens almost exclusively in yutunga and very,very rarely can dig up more than one item a minute. Is this what is called "dug up" or is this the norm in all zones? Is it possible to dig up more than one item a minute? Also, I know a lot of this is theory, but does total digs increase skill or total successful digs? No need in digging 6 times a minute if its not doing me any good. . . .


I'm sorry if these have been answered before, but this post has covered a lot of RL time and there are a few conflicting opinions. THx for any and all help.

It's probably a combination of your low skill and Yuhtunga being "dug up". At least on my server, Yuhtunga/Yhoator are VERY popular, and almost always dug up. Try digging on "off" times, like during the middle of a weekday and see how you do.


And no one knows for sure if it's number of successful digs, or number of total digs. Wish we did.


I didn't make much profit at all (usually a loss) 'til I hit level 3, but I also dug in a lot of "newbie" zones like Gustaberg and Sarutabaruta.

Has anyone been eating greens and trying that at all? I don't know if it was the combination of 100% Full Moons and having eaten a green, but the other day in 30 minutes in the 2 jungles I dug up 25 assorted mahogany, rosewood, ebony and petrified logs.


I am quite happy with just under 1/minute, since I lost a little over 2 minutes to 3 zoning delays.

I've tried eating greens sporadically and not noticed a difference. Also, as far as I can tell, having a THF sub job (with TH1) or main job at different levels doesn't make a difference either. Moon phase seems the most consistent driver, but even that doesn't help when the area is dug up.

still lvl 0/40. i have had about the same rate (about 1 every 10 greens) on log digups (in yuhtunga/yhoator) during a full-moon on watersday. i did not eat any greens. i have tried it several times and noticed no real effect. as far as i can tell, the biggest factor to digging is the # of diggers in the zone. i have been writing down all the diggers that i see, and i constantly search zones when i am digging. even if i am having a particularly good dig, i will basically recieve nothing as soon as one of the other (probably higher level) diggers starts.

We updated the way digging/mining/excavating/harvesting/logging works on somepage.


I can't wait for the expansion! I hope there's new chocobo stuff! My work is going to suffer suffer suffer when it comes out.

I've found digging in Jugner that I will dig up water crystals regardless of if there is water weather or not.


Otherwise, I'm having a blast.


How often does a dug up zone reset? Any theories?

pirate girl that website is great and I really love the links section it have every ffxi page I could need just about. I saw you post it the first time I read this thread I didnt bother going to it. I just found it doing a google search wish I would have clicked on it in the past.

ok...i think im at digging lvl 4. i notice that my base price for chocobo increases as i lvl up, as i think was stated on here earlier. i was hoping someone with higher lvl digging, above me anyway, could post their base price as a comparison. i usually find the only place i can check this is norg since few people choco from there. if anyone is feeling generous and would like to check this out, it would be greatly appreciated. i just got digging 4 and my base price is 119 gil, for comparison. thanks in advance.

I recently got to rank 3 and my base price from Kazham was 107 Gil