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Chocobo Egg (A Bit Warm)
Chocobo Egg (Faintly Warm)
Chocobo Egg (Slightly Warm)
Chocobo Egg (A Little Warm)
Chocobo Egg (Somewhat Warm)
Ok you got an egg. Now what? You have to turn it in, in one of the 3 towns.
Chocobo raising NPCs -
The Chocobo Menu
Inside the Menu there are a few options.
Types of care
Watch over the Chocobo Available from egg phase
Go on a walk Available from chick phase
Tell a Story Available from adolesense phase
Scold the Chocobo Available from chick phase
Compete against others Available from adolesense phase (after CS)
Plan Type | Str | End | Dis | Rec | Aff | Eng | Payment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic Care | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -1 | -1 | 0 |
Resting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Taking a Walk | 1 | 1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | 0 |
Listening to Music | -1 | -1 | 1 | 1 | -1 | -1 | 0 |
Exercising Alone | 1 | 0 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | 0 |
Exercising in a Group | 0 | 1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | 0 |
Playing With Children | -1 | -1 | 1 | 0 | -1 | -1 | 0 |
Playing With Chocobos | -1 | -1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | -1 | 100-200 |
Carrying Packages | 2 | 2 | -2 | -2 | -3 | -2 | 100-200 |
Exhibiting to the Public | -2 | -2 | 2 | 2 | -3 | -3 | 100-200 |
Delivering Messages | 3 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -3 | 200-400 |
Digging for Treasure | 0 | -2 | 3 | 0 | -3 | -3 | 200-400 |
Acting in a Play | -2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | -3 | -3 | 200-400 |
As the chocobo matures you will be able to select a care plan for your chocobo. Here you can boost his stats according to your plan. If we look at the attributes and you want your choco mainly for travel you want to boost his STR and Endurance. Perhaps in the future we will find out what will be the attributes used for digging, racing etc.
The numbers don't represent its value the numbers are:
We have to find out the real value of them
Chocobo attributes
Physical
Mental
Other attributes
When you start all your chocobo attributes level will be poor. Raising your chocobo will change these levels. This info is datamined by Gsarivan(KI).
Your chocobo can learn special Abilities (speculation: By reading to it, or inherited from parents in breeding)
These abilities are:
Physical
| Emotional
| Mental
| Other
| Complete stop
|
Vegetables Raise affection, and satisfy hunger.
Wildgrasses Don't taste very good, but cure status abnormalities.
Carrots High in nutrition and effect strength and discernment.
Worms Multiple effects Warning: Worms have side effects.
Medicine
Pastes Food ground into paste is for chicks to eat.
Save some gil by crafting those pastes!
Craft
Vegetable Paste
| Carrot Paste
| Herb Paste
| Worm Paste
|
The "special" items to craft these paste are bought from NPC's
Gardening
It will take 4 real life days to hatch an egg despite what kind of egg it is. All Chocobos hatch Yellow. I'm doing research about the skills of the chocobos per egg. While it is an egg the only thing you can do is care for your chocobo. This will raise your affection.
After your egg hatches your allowed to name your Chocobo. The names has a max. of 15 characters. You can pick your name out of a list with words. You can find the list Here. Or if you cant decide use Valadhurs Name generator.
Now that it is hatched its time to care for the little baby. You need to care for it, take it for walks and feed it. You can also set up a care plan.
Going for a walk will raise your affection level and make your "chick" stronger. But it will drain its energy/stamina. So you can only take him for so many walks a day.
When you take your chocobo for a walk you will meet the chocobo NPC with his chick (every town has their own chocobo NPC with their chick). We are still investigating how to get the Cut Scene with the NPC until now it seems pretty random.
On the 3th meet you will get a key item: Chocobo story wich you can use later on.
Asking the chocoboy about "Tell a Story" gives you: "You can tell a chocobo a story you know. This will foster the animals sensibilities. I've heard that by listening to a story, the chocobo might even realize it has powers it never noticed before." This makes me think it will raise its attributes or learns it an ability.
Checking on your Chocobo will tell you what the hunger level is for your chocobo.
The hunger levels are:
To feed your chocobo you trade food to the chocobo NPC.
It takes 19 days to grow your egg into a young chocobo.
What Feielle found out by datamining is:
Once your choco gets to the adolescent phase, there are 4 colour combinations it can have:
Strengthens bonds of affection and trains mental faculties. Telling various stories may have a beneficial effect for the chocobo. You can tell general chitchat or tell one of the Key item: Stories. I believe telling the key item stories will unlock abilities as described in paragraph 2.3.
We have three confirmations of getting an abillity while rieading the story its:
Regular walks go to the teleport zones. La theine/Konshot/Tahrongi. After getting a CS with 3 other chocobo raisers you will get the option Compete against others.
Also its possible to meet up with chocobo trainers for the 2 others towns and get their story (Impatient, young, worrisome)
All we know so far is: "Your chocobo hangs it head with shame"
When you select this you get a race in town. The facts say that this entertains a bored chocobo. So when you get a message that your chocobo is bored I suggest this option.
After winning 3 races you will get a new story to tell your chocobo.
Winning the race seems random at the time.
After 29 days you will have an adult Chocobo. It is possible to get a coloured chocobo out the 1st generation eggs. Its still under investigation how to.
Full grown, you have 2 sizes: Large and Medium (the largest difference being the head sizes)
Large:
Medium:
To obtain your chocobo whistle follow this small guide. (link was broken, need a new Chocobo Whistle guide.)
Long walks go one zone further than the teleport zone. You have a chance to meet up with Dietmund and Brutus (Both speculated to give you the last 2 stories).
Confirmed: Brutus will give you the Curious story, you can meet the NPC breeder from the final town here too.
In the root of the Chocobo menu you can register your chocobo to the whistle.
I want to know a lot more about breeding before putting up the info. Its kind of complicated with the generic code. All though I will put up the how to soon.