Millioncorn  

Shadowx's Mini-Guide: Corn

Alrighty, lots of conflicting, confusing posts going on, so here's my (hopefully) end all "mini-guide" on the elusive beast known as the "Millioncorn".

Buy it from NPCs

Asides from one exception (see below), the only way you can buy corn from an NPC is if the Aragoneu region is NOT under Beastman control. You can check this by going to Map > Region Info and scrolling around until you find Aragoneu.

If a city DOES control Aragoneu, this is where you can find an NPC that will sell you corn... (NOTE: ONLY the city that controls Aragoneu will have an NPC that sells the corn... i.e., if Aragoneu is under beastman control, you will be unable to purchase corn from an NPC*.)

*It's been brought to my attention that if Sandy is in first, Raimbroy's Grocery has an NPC that sells corn. I'm assuming the same is true for similar NPC's in Bastok and Windy that sell food items. If anyone can find the names and <pos>'s of these, reply to this post and I will edit them in. (Basically, if a city is in first, there's likely an NPC somewhere that also sells millioncorn).

EDIT: The info I had in here earlier about Norvallen being a region that let's city's regional vendors sell corn was incorrect. Sorry ^^;;;.

Aragoneu Regional Vendors
Windurst Waters, Maqu Molpih (H-8)
Bastok Markets, Oggodett (I-9)
San d'Oria North, Antonian (J-8)

The price of corn will vary, depending on your fame and possibly who is in first as far as overall conquest goes. The higher your fame, the cheaper the corn. Simple as that.

***** that, I'm growin' it

Good for you (^_~)b. Alright, so this is what you'll need...

1.Ceramic Pot.
-This pot is the best for growing corn,
possibly due to the "element" of the pot matching the "element" of the crystal (wind). The info for the NPC that sells it can be found on the item's page... should cost ~1k depending on fame.
Once you get the pot, put it in your mog safe.
Next, select 'layout' and pick a spot to place your purdy lil' pot. (NOTE: Yes, you can grow corn in other pots, but this will net you the best yields.)

2.Grain Seeds.
-An explanation on methods to get grain seeds is at the very bottom of this guide, to save space here. Anyhoo, once you've got them, you can put ONE 'grain seeds' item in EACH pot. So if you've got 10 pots, you'll want to get 10 grain seeds, and put one in each by selecting 'gardening' from your Mog House menu.
"Examine" your plant at least once every 24 (real time) hours, or it will wither and die. Eventually your moogle will give you the opportunity to feed it a crystal...

3. Wind Crystal.
-Get signet cast on you and go fight things that give you XP and drop crystals... or you can take the lazy way out and just buy a stack from the AH. If wind crystals are ridiculously expensive on your server, consider "farming" them. Eventually your moogle will tell you something along the lines of "Uh oh, this plant doesn't look so well kupo..." Don't worry, this is normal. Just feed it a wind crystal and keep examining it once a (real time) day.

Shucks, when ahm I gunna get muh durn corn

After a few (real life) days, your plants will start to glow a neon color. If you'd like, you can select "dry flowers" and have trippy glowing plants hanging around in your mog house. If you'd like, you could also throw 3-5 days, a wind crystal, and a bag of grain seeds in the trash. But if they're just SOOOO PURDY YOU CAN'T STAND IT go ahead. If you want your corn, select "Harvest" once your plants are glowing, and voila! CORN! Woohoo!

Wait, you forgot something...

Well sort of, but I *did* say I'd put it at the bottom of the guide. Grain seeds. About ~5k for a stack on Valefor server (as of 1/4/04). I thought we wanted to SAVE money, right? So here's what you do.

1st off, I would recommend having THF lvl'd to 15. I know that's a big thing to ask, but this will help you in general for farming *ANYTHING*, as you will have the Treasure Hunter ability that makes mobs drop cool stuff more often.

2nd, if you have WHM at 36 and have teleports ready, it'll make life a lot easier. If not, bum a ride off a WHM friend or bite the bullet and pay 400 gil for a tele.

3rd, If you're at least lvl 30 and still haven't done the ranger flag quest, do it. If you sub RNG, even at level 1, you get the Wide Scan ability which makes it much easier to hunt down specific mobs (i.e. saplings).

If you don't have any of the 3 above jobs/abilities, consider getting them, not only for gardening corn, but for making gil and/or farming in general.

You'll want to kill "sapling" type mobs (click on the grain seeds link above to see specific names), as they will drop the seeds you'll need.
Anyhoo, I would recommend swinging by the Dem Crag in Konschtat Highlands... you can also try Tahrongi Canyon and La Theine Plateau, but I've had the best luck in Konschtat. There's a "line" of saplings that spawn from the crag, outwards... so if you kill the ones near the crag, and work your way away from it, you can come back to the crag and kill the "first" saplings that have re-spawned. If no one else is hunting saplings, you can do this continuously. You'll probably end up with some vegetable seeds and lots of treant bulbs, but you can sell this at the AH for a decent sum (on Valefor server, a stack of treant bulbs has recently sold for ~1.2k).

Any other questions or comments, tear me apart, rate me up for a good guide or rate me down for rambling, your choice =p. Hope this helps ^^

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EDITED: 1/4/04, right after i posted it...
added: info about regional control vendor
fixed: Norvallen Regional Vendors, need more info

Edited, Mon May 16 02:20:35 2005