The big Chocobo researchFollow

sounds good :P

im on day 27 , got 2 stories, been fedding it vomp carrots, and taking it on walks / races / excersising / carrying packages.. but NO stat change yet :( all poor, and no personality Grr so annoying... sigh..

I'm going to make a prediction that our chocobos won't reach adulthood on day 30 but on day 34.

Why 34?

I only got one story: Impatient chocobo. What are the other stories?

I'm most curious about WHEN the fourth and fifth are going to be available.

Day 29...

Status: Finally an adult!

Today my Chocobo grew to an adult! Now i have the option for long walks and the rest of the care plan options.

The long walk for Windurstian Chocobos takes you to the Meriphataud Mountains. I met Dietmund there with his Chocobo. I'm not sure but isn't that the guy from the BST Quest? He told me some things that i should take good care of my chocobo and shouldn't make the same mistakes as he did.

The VCS Trainer told me that i can get a chocobo whistle at the San d'Orian Stables. So i went there and talked to the VCS Trainer.

He told me that we have to test the bond of trust between me and my chocobo first before i can get a whistle. Every chocobo would hide something valuable. If i can find that valuable thing of my chocobo i can get a whistle.

So far i couldn't find out how i should find that thing. I already darined all the energy of my chocy so i hope i don't have to find that mysterious thing on a walk or something like that. Have to wait for more information i think.

Excellent! ^^ Sounds like an interesting task to get the whistle... so much for the 34 days till adulthood theory ^^ oh btw, did your choco have colored tips as an adolescent and turn out yellow?

Now that people have gotten their adulthood on their chocobos I want to present on how to get the "Oh-so-wanted" chocobo whistle, I just got it myself and it works.

Firstly, when your chocobo reaches adulthood your manager will ask you to do test which will test the relationship between your chocobo and yourself.

This quest was as following for me : Find an item your chocobo has been hiding for you to prove your good relationship to each other.

So how do I do that? You take the chocobo for walks, and since the quest is now triggered you may choose to search for the item when your chocobo is looking away, or just watch over it.

Choose Search for the item, if you are lucky the chocobo won't notice you, if it does it will go "KWEHH!" and you will be unable to find anything at all. I believe it's a 50/50 chance.

Even if the chocobo doesn't detect you, you might not be able to find it, I don't know if it matters what walks you take and such, but here is how I did it.

1: Long walk - Failure
2: Long walk - Success but no find.
3: Medium Walk - Failure
4: Short walk - Failure
5: Medium Walk - Succes but no find.
6: Short walk - Success and found the item.

So I guess if you did not find the item for example on the long walk, don't search there again. Note: I used up 2 chocolixers to be able to manage this much. And once you're done, you are rewarded with the chocobo whistle.

Before you can call on your chocobo you need to register your chocobo to your whistle (easily done from the root chocobo menu) at the cost of 500 gil.

I won't spoil what you will find, but I hope this helped you.

Good luck everyone.

Mine was yellow with withe tips and turned out to be a big, yellow chocobo. I didn't expect something else. *g*

At the moment the leg of my chocobo is injured and i didn't had enough energy for tow long walks. Also i'm training my chocobo to be a digger someday so that might be a reason too why she hasn't so much energy.

First i thought my chocobo looks different from the rentables, but now i'm not sure anymore. Have to look at my screenshots to be sure.

I don't have a colored chocobo. I agree that we may not see any colored ones this first time. However, I will say that I will sympathize with all groaning, moaning and complaining based purely on the fact that Best turns out black.

If all the BlackTips and BlueTips grow up yellow, but Best is all black, then Bashraf and co. are obviously gilsellers. >_>

So for all those of you who have BlackTips now, cross your fingers and hope we don't end up calling out "OMG~WTFHAX!" on that trio of...

My bird is black.

Ill provide a SS in a bit.

But i suppose it is up to you to believe whether or not people have it, considering the silly-ness people have done with .dat files.

But i do have no doubt you'll be seeing a few colored birds out there during the 1st generation.


EDIT: SS > http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3074...0007yo8.png

Edited, Sep 19th 2006 at 6:21pm EDT by Angelusdemonus

Edited, Sep 19th 2006 at 7:00pm EDT by Angelusdemonus

I talked to the chocobo dating NPC in Upper Jeuno(finbarr, he's right next to Brutus) and he said the following thing :
"...So dam A's chick would inherit the sire's blue color and fancy plumage, but B's chick would not...But B's chick's chick... would you call it grandchick? Anyway, the grandchick might just inherit the blue color? Man... all this pedigree stuff is all complicated"

Gotta say thats a bit weird lol

More to add to the chocobo research: bf and I both traded our eggs in Bastok within a few minutes of each other right after the update, and both just reached the stage of being big enough to ride.

1. Egg: 'bit warm' from the Jeuno mithra girl. The bf fed mostly carrot paste to the chick. The adolescent was yellow with black-tipped feathers, and he fed vomp carrots with some azouph greens. Care regime was a lot of walking around town (care schedule) and going for walks as a chick. Adolescent was walks around town, exercising alone and exercising with other chocobos (care schedule), and about equal amounts of telling stories and going for regular walks, plus a little competing. The adult is black with all stats poor except strength which is substandard.

2. Egg: 'slightly warm' from the Jeuno mithra girl. I fed mostly veg paste to the chick, and zegham carrots with some sharug greens. The adolescent was yellow with grey-blue feather tips. Care regime was about half and half listening to music and walking around town (care schedule) with walks and watching over as a chick. Adolescent was playing with children, listening to music, and playing with other chocobos (about the same of each) for the care schedule, plus some short walks, a few regular walks, and a lot of storytelling, plus a little competition. The adult is black with all stats poor exept for discernment which is substandard.

Edited, Sep 20th 2006 at 6:27pm EDT by HaiGan

Edited, Sep 20th 2006 at 6:31pm EDT by HaiGan

I have just got an adult chocobo.

Mine went from Junior with White/Grey Tailfeathers to yellow adult.

I got a friend to breed with mine who was:

Purple Tail Feathers to Blue adult female.

To breed you have to get your friends Chocobocard and trade. Then get a copy of your own! In your inventory you shoud have an M&F Card. Next go to the NPC Finbarr in UpperJeuno outside the stables. You must select a dating plan. I chose Jeuno Street Tour as this "increses the chance to inherit the female chocobo trates".

Your are given a VCS Honeymoon Ticket. You trade this along with your two chococards. There is a breif cutscene with your choco and your friends choco and FInbarr informs your there should be an egg by tomorrow.

As i write this im not sure if its Game Day or IRL day so I will let you know in about 40mins by editing this post.

Hope this helps some breeders out there!

**Edited: The breeding completion time is NOT one game day, it must be on JST 0:00

Edited, Sep 19th 2006 at 9:15pm EDT by Urumnaf