The big Chocobo researchFollow

Mine grew up yellow too. Sturdy legs also. It also it's beak doesn't look normal. It looks sharper but it doesn't say. I was shocked. Receptivity gone up. It doesn't reguard me as a parent but it seems to want to be with me all the time, IDK which is better.

Go on a walk long has now become aviable.

Ask about choco card and Retire chocobo have become aviable.

Met the beast master on the long walk.

Edited, Sep 19th 2006 at 9:29pm EDT by Laxedrane

Edited, Sep 19th 2006 at 9:26pm EDT by Laxedrane

My adult is indeed Blue.
I posted back when I hit day 19 but in case you don't want to dig I'll go over the basics again. ^^

Day 29: Adult

Name: SilentPur
Sex: Female
Nation: Bastok
Color: Blue
Egg type: NPC; Faintly Warm.
Stat's: All poor.


Here she is as a blue tipped Teenie. ^^

Adult1 - SilentPur

Adult2 - SilentPur

Adult3 - SilentPur

She's restless, as she was yesterday. So I raced her a few times, I've raced her a good 10 or 12 times and she's yet to lose. I have started the whistle quest but she tired out before I could get any head way on that.

Good Luck with your Chicks. ^^

Edited, Sep 19th 2006 at 10:32pm EDT by GryphonStalker

Since I wasted all my energy today before checking in sandy I plan on doing a thorough search through my choices and see if I can find this mystery item. I suspect it's something you radomly find during walks, or maybe even special command when I get back.

Day 29 and my BlazingChariot grew up big and black. I wish I can provide screenshots but the PS2 isn't cooperating on that. On the downside, it is sick for the second day in a row, even after feeding a Tokopekko Wildgrass. If anyone was wondering my egg was bought a bit warm from the mithra in Jueno. My stable is in Windy.

Feed from chick to adolescent was mostly Vegetable Pastes and San d'orian Carrots. Feed from adolescent to adult was only San d'orian Carrots and a few Azoulph Greens.

Care while a chick was the usually short walk and checks. Care while adolescent each day has been a regular walk, a compete with others, tell story x2 (Youthful Chocobo and Happy Chocobo) and as many checks as I can squeeze in.

Adolescent had black-tiped feathers. Current stats are Strength = Substandard, everything else is poor.

From what I can tell personalities has nothing to do with the color, since old BlazingChariot never had a personality. He still has no weather preferences either.



Your theory may still be correct regarding the recessive traits desplayed by the color tips in adolescents and will probably play a big role in breeding for specific colors, but I guess in my case there is still the random SE chance of getting a colored chocobo. You just won't know whether the trait is dominate until the choco is full grown.

Ok regarding the choco whistle

Go to this link on how to get the whistle

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Obtaining_your_Chocobo_Whistle

Also it doesnt matter if you walk with short, regular, or long. Your still gonna get the cut scene and your still gonna have a chance where he is completely absorbed into his activities. Thats when you search him.

I test all walks and all walks have the option, so best to do short walk. I failed about a few times. I used two choco elixers to get it out of him the last couple times.

Also after you get the whistle you need to register him to VCS, there will be an option for that.

Ive already ridin on my choco, and MAN is it slow. So dont expect to see your choco ride like the regular choco's. Unless you got some good endurance (not sure which attribute gives speed).

Good luck everyone with your choco's hope that helps

Edited, Sep 20th 2006 at 12:06am EDT by uberslayer

Edited, Sep 20th 2006 at 12:07am EDT by uberslayer

wanted to pose a question to the community, my MercilessCoq has both discernment and receptivity at 'a bit deficient' (both phys stats poor, but i'm a choco digger, so i dont particularily care if it moves at walking pace, or lasts 10 mins as long as it gets me the shinyz) has anyone gotten ANY abilities for their chocobos, I of course am looking for burrow and bore.

BTW for those wondering, average day in my choco's life:
feed: 1X sharug; 1X azouph; 1X Z. carrot.
care plan: eating children(exhibit to public, but my coq has scared them like 3 times)
daily care: watch X3 story X 2-3 (alternating between the walk story and the race story), with the occasional race or short/medium walk thrown in for good measure. He is a beautiful yellow coq, and I wouldn't have him any other way! lol @ ppl getting emo over their bird being yellow ^^

as of moment, do not have whistle to test his digging capabilites, but really interested if anyone got abilities yet that i haven't seen on forums.

BTW, anyone on sylph that wants to breed with the smartest bird on server, my wonderful mercilesscoq, contact khaine for stud fees =D

>< couldn't resist! congrats on the stats :D

I went out on my birdie tonight digging.. nothing really interesting... Did dig up a few earth clusters in altepa during double weather earth (don't remember digging those there) but other than that uneventful.. dug up 100 items.

All stats poor with an egnamatic yellow bird.

Feeding Parasite worms and Zep. Carrots - slightly warm egg from jueno vender.

Color questions continue;

Frigging sweet on the first gen color birds!!!! now question form me is genetics (computer code in egg) or invironment/care? maybe both?

I'm back on day 14 due to the rest bug/not bug problem (didn't want to raise a gimpy bird lol)

so to those of you who got black birds- where did you get your egg from? If you all got it from the same place and got black we have an answer! If you got from the same place but some of you got black and others got yellow... we still have a possible answer.

If the black birds came from diffrent types of eggs but similar care/feeding seems like color is based on care.

if we can't find a common factor looks like it might be /random I'm very much praying this is not the case... because I'd really like to have a red bird lol

My egg was obtained from jueno (whatever the middle one was).

On day 14 my bird is enigmatic, no notes on tip color, personality has been stable for 4 days, my feed and passive care is centered on mental ablitys (i take him for manual walks 2-3x's a day).

So lucky owners of colored birds what's the word?

Let me note i'm mostly interested in the color riddle atm, the other stuff seems to clearly tie into care... Just rying to figure out if color also ties to care.

To date we know blue can come from the jueno vendor;

Name: SilentPur
Sex: Female
Nation: Bastok
Color: Blue
Egg type: NPC; Faintly Warm.
Stat's: All poor.

Thanks gryphonstalker

^^

Other egg/color combos as of today;

Via Gryphons

"As for Black, an LSmate got a Black one he recived it from the Brutus Quest. ^^ I hope that can help you as well."

Rotd;
"Name: GloryIdol
Sex: Female
Nation: Windurst
Color: yellow
Egg type: slightly warm from NPC
Stat's: str/end: a bit deficient rec/dis: poor "

Three diffrent eggs three difrent colors... maybe

Missed these before form Haigan;

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.

And This from pdragonfly;

Grown up - dirty yellow color (I wanted WHITE!!)
Egg - got from NPC - slightly warm

So we have;

Blacks from; Jueno NPC (bw, sw), and Brutus

Yellows from; Jueno NPC (sw)

Blue/purple from; Jueno NPC (fw)

It's a small sample but it is really looking like color is either care or random. I'm inclined to hope it's care... My bird is on a mostly mental care plan, my wife's is on mostly physical should hit adolecent in a few days, we had 2 eggs of of varring warmth, and 2 diffrent care plans. It will be ineresting to see what happens^^ They should hit teen time anyday now I'm going to keep colecting egg/adult color info so please keep posting it.

*edit to add info- more to come*

Edited, Sep 20th 2006 at 6:37pm EDT by MrTicktock

Edited, Sep 21st 2006 at 3:15am EDT by MrTicktock

Well looks like a busy day for me. Need to update alot.

I also like to know from people what kind of egg they used and what gender it is. Im going to make a post here to find out as most as possible.

I will update the main post with the adult info ASAP.

Looks more like the purple one than the blue one to me...

If those 2 colors get mixed up this easily, this is gonna really mess up any FAQ's/guides out there so be careful...

Is anyone else noticing that thier bird becomes bored and restless just about every other day? Ever since it become a young chocobo, it's always bored, even with my racing it practically every day. It'll be bored, i'll race it, and the next day it's fine. I'll race it again anyways, and the next day it's bored again. And even then, even if it was only bored following days i didn't race it, i'd hate to be forced to waste half of its energy racing it every day just so i wouldnt' have to see that stupid animation of it being all pissed off. Is this happeneing to anyone else, or is my chocobo just lame?

Can someone pls posts pics of their adult chocobos? So far I've seen only black and blue. Thanks :)