I went Clamming last night!!Follow

Heh, how much did you make and how much time did you spend?

I wanted to try it out but have no idea where or how you can do it. Think you could fill me in Eleus?

Edited, Tue Oct 5 11:44:23 2004 by Yekan

Whenever my bucket broke I talk to the mithra again and she ******* at me and then I talked to her agian and she will give me the clamming kit again for 500. I don't think it take 3hrs cause I broke 3 buckets in a row in a very short time.

i have been clamming.. i did it the first day i got CoP..
i actually made a profit on it.. i sold my stack of jacknifes for 10k at the AH. i got like 3 tropical clams.. i have even gotten HQ crab shells..

it just takes some time and patience to get used to it.. each bucket can hold 50 ponzes. you just have to figure out how much each item weighs is all, and get lucky and not pick up a ingenous rock.. those weigh 40 ponzes, and will usually break your bucket..

its all about time, patience, and a little bit of luck.

I have THF subbed and I used Flee from one point to another. It didn't really make that big of a difference.

Note: Yoshi got all the Tropical Clams! I didn't get a single one!

I had seen a weight list somewhere, whether it was the main forum or not, I cannot remember. Anyways, it gave the listing of all the possibly catches while clamming, as well as the pounzes (or however the hell you spell it). Wish I could remember the link, because I was going to print out the info before I even attempted to clam.

For those of you who want to try this but don't know where:

I went to Bibiki Bay (In Buburimu), took the island tour boat (Manaclipper) to the other side (Polagaleos Islands or something like that, but it's still part of Bibiki Bay zone). When you get off the Manaclipper, there is an NPC to your left, she gives you your Clamming Kit for 500 gil.

From there on, you run around the shores looking for Clamming Points (like harvesting/mining/logging etc.. points). Click on them and it will ask you if you want to dig. You'll either come up with an item, it'll tell you someone has already dug there, or your bucket might break >< (If it breaks the NPC will fix it but she tells you it will take 3 in-game hours).

When you're done you hand the bucket back into the NPC and you keep all the items you dug up.

(I went back and tried it again, some of the items do sell for reasonable gil in stacks.....Oh! and special thanks to the guy at SE that thought it would be hilarious to hide a Kraken behind a rock RIGHT beside a clamming point /slap).

This was posted as possible catches on another thread somewheres in the midst of all threads. As stated before, you can carry only a max of 50 pounze. Buddy who had posted this info used a good analogy; It's like playing blackjack, go over your limit, you lose (or your bucket breaks in this instance.) You want to get as close to 50 pounzes to get the best return cause once you turn in your bucket, you got to pay another 500 gil to play again (so don't go turn in your bucket after you catch 2 slugs cause you'll be losing money). The price beside item is what they would sell for back to the NPC after you turn them in. I haven't tried this yet but will as soon as i finish the 10000000 other things i have to get done. Hope the info i found helps you all.

edit: pebbles were only sold back for 1 gil (should have kept reading damn low attention span)

Edited, Wed Oct 6 09:16:19 2004 by Vimien

Vimien, you are an Elvaan and a scholar. That is the exact list that I had seen before. Thank you for posting that here. Now I'll be able to head out to the Bay and try my hand at clamming.

I'll drop you a line when I get back into Vana'diel next Thursday. I have to do some leveling at some point, as the fiasco that happened to me last Sunday night effective killed my cushion. But a trip out to the Bay sounds like a good idea. I've not been there yet and exploring/farming sure is a better use of the little bit of time I get to play the game anymore than sitting around Jeuno for hours at a time with my flag up and my thumb up my ***.

If you still need anymore of those Genkai 1 pieces come next Thursday, maybe we can take care of that as well.

Watch out for those Clots too...those things hurt!!!
I was 48 when I was on that island, for reference. It aggroed my 42 Whm friend.

Oh, and a personal curiosity:
What's the deal with that broken down Orcish War Machine in the middle of the island?

Edited, Fri Oct 8 01:45:21 2004 by TheWanderingShadow

Your fame in certain cities affect your buying and selling price.

I don't know about selling the stuff that you clam, do you sell to any npc for that price listed or to the mithra npc that gave you the bucket? If to any NPC, then fame might be the reason for price fluctuation.