Chocobo Whistle  

ok to get another chocobo whistle with a new chocobo all you have to do is register that one to ride and then trade your old whistle to the npc and you can ride your new chocobo :D

Okay. So I just transferred from Fenrir to Bahamut last week. My whistle was in my inventory before I transferred, but wasn't there after the transfer. I've consulted with a GM, they sent me to the Playonline.com communities to try and find another way to get a new one, saying there were other ways. Does anyone know of a way to get a new whistle, without having one?

well i just put mine on basic care for about 15 days then it hatched and then i fed it once a week still on care plan and then watched over it and walked it once a week. i think some of you people who cant get the hanky while it looks away or what ever you prolly didnt give it a hanky to begin with so it can know you better. the trainer will look at it and say you need to keep this hanky close to you so it can have it later for future use. i picked up a dirty hanky when mine was not looking so im sure that was the key item you guys arenet getting lol. mine turned out black with all the neglect i never fed it any carrots or anything

Edited, Feb 5th 2008 7:09pm by brotzvang

OMG! I left the game for the school year and then came back for the summer. For some reason, before I left, I had dropped the whistle. I thought it would be no problem to just buy another one...I WAS WRONG! 50,000g for the stupid thing and 1k per charge once you use it! What a worthless investment. SE did a bad job with this aspect. If you put all that time into it, you shouldn't have pay massive amounts of gil to use it!

Dont waste the 25 charges on the whistle. When you trade the whistle to the NPC when it runs out of charges, it costs 1,000 gil PER CHARGE to recharge it. To get the whistle is a long annoying quest, I personally went on a short walk, and just grabbed the "item" when the chocobo was "Completely absorbed in its activities"

Hope you found it somewhat helpful. Good luck everyone. Dont waste your whistle!

Raising a chocobo isn't as difficult as it seems at first.

Here is a really great guide to get you started on the right path, with info about chocobo care, feeding, abilities and more.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Category:Chocobo_Raising

Good luck!

I am raising my 3rd choco atm i have a black F Blue F and raising a Green right now day 20... in order to ride your choco, he has to be 30 days old and you must select the register to ride the choco and buy the whistle for 25k.... if you still need some help ask one of the twenty people standing in front of the choco guy about what to do. btw
feeding your choco certain foods will not affect his color. That is one of the most ridiculous things ive ever heard.... breed your choco buy getting cards like the rest of the world, pick your honeymoon yadayadayada

hope this helps out deh nooBs

<3DCG :D

How does one obtain a chocobo whistle? does it just happen when you register your chocobo or what?

i raised my chocobo in bastok, feeding 4 San'D carrots daily, unless it was ill, etc.. then i gave it 1 item stated by NPC plus 3 San'D carrots, If your doing this right, when chocobo reaches adolescents it will grayish-black feathers around it's neck, keep feeding 4 San'D carrots daily @ day 29 you'll have a black chocobo! woot! hope this helps :D

Not even 1 charge per day of raising it to adult.... I really hope there is a way to recharge this.

You do not need to retire your chocobo to ride it. I am on day 56 and all you need to do is register it. If it's stats change then you will need to re-register it to reflect the changes while you ride it. Once npc says he is big enough to ride and you have whistle it will eventually get depressed if you do not ride it and it took me awhile to figure out why. But once you go out it will perk up.

Do NOT retire your chocobo before you get your whistle!! If you do not have your choco, you can not possibly get the whistle. You will have wasted a lot of time and gil for nothing.

i retired it.... can i increase its parameters now? how? the npc told me that if they change i have to notice to him..... i'm a little confused ^^

i finally found the key item to have the whistle, but i can't call it! the casting bar stops at 10% w/o any message....... maybe i have to retire it?

I haven't looked into it yet. I just got my whistle. Just figured someone knows already :)

Day 29: Chocobo is finally an adult! I run from Windy to Sandy to get the Choco Whistle quest active, then back to Windy to walk my chocobo. Attempt 1: Long Walk. "Your chocobo looks happy". I select "watch"... it turns around angry. WTF, I thought it only turned around if you "look for item" before it's ready! Lame. Attempt 2: Medium walk. "Your chocobo looks happy". I select "watch" again, and it turns around angry.. again. Now it doesn't have enough energy to go on even a short walk, so I have to wait 24 more hours XD

Day 30: I get to windy to attempt to find my whistle again after 24 hours of anger. Attempt 1: Long walk. "Your chocobo is completely absorbed in its current activities". FINALLY! Now I can get that whistle. I choose "Look for item"..... NOTHING. Attempt 2: Long walk, "yadda yadda completely absorbed", I choose "look for item" again.... NOTHING AGAIN.

Now I need to wait yet ANOTHER 24 hours to ride my standard yellow, poor in every category, no-personality, no-ability-having chocobo. What a waste of a month.

any ideas how to wake him? I have retired him without getting the whistle any ideas on how i can call him or still do the quest?

Edited, Sep 26th 2006 at 7:39am EDT by MysteriousLady

From what I can see you get 2 chances to do this minimum. Try LONG walk first, if the message is you chocobo is happy, look over it. Your chocobo should have enough energy to go again, this time it should be absorbed, you should now be able to look for the item without concern. If you don't find the item rince and repeat this on Normal and Short walks the following days. Oh and /slap SE for this crap, can't make anything simple -_-

Do i hav 2 retire my chocobo to get a chocobo whistle??

to get this, take your chocobo on a walk

you need to go back to your chcobo stables where you chocobo is and regester it to be mounted.

This is a little over 500gil to do and you need to do it once every so offten if your chocobo stats chanages.