The big Chocobo researchFollow

I'm new to the forum, and I'd like to add my information on my lil EmperorObsidian! So far, everything is going normal, even at Day 14.

Day 1: Still an egg, wants to get out. Watched over it twice. Basic Care.

Day 2: Still an egg, wants to get out. Watched over it twice. Basic Care.

Day 3: Still an egg, wants to get out. Watched over it twice. Basic Care.

Day 4: Hatching Day! It's a little yellow chick. Named it EmperorObsidian. Watched over it twice. Took it for a walk, got my first CS. It was happy to see me, wiggled it's tail. It wasn't hungry. Basic Care.

Day 5: It's a little yellow chick. Watched over it twice. Took it for a walk twice. It was happy to see me, wiggled it's tail. It wasn't hungry, nor full. Switched plan to a Take a Walk in Town.

Day 6: Watched over it twice. Finally fed it Gyshal Greens. Today, it was only happy to see me, but made no movement. After feeding, it was satisfied. Plan remained Take a Walk in Town.

Day 7: My chocobo has been crying at night, and I've recieved the white hankerchief (Theory: It's a CS that's supposed to happen on the 7th day.) I walked around, did my daily business, came back later (much later) and he took the Hankerchief. Today, it was happy to see me. Hungry nor full. Watched over it twice. Took it for a walk twice. Plan remained Take a Walk in Town.

Day 8: It was happy to see me. Watched over it twice. Today, I fed it Azouph Greens, and it seemed to like those a lot. Took it for a walk twice. Switched the plan to Listen to Music for only 1 day. It sleeps soundly now.

Day 9: It was happy to see me, made movement. Watched over it once today. Took it for a walk twice. Switched the plan to Rest (Risked). Neither Hungry nor Full.

Day 10: It was sleeping peacefully today. Watched over it twice since I couldn't walk it. Next plan was Take a Walk in Town. Nothing new has happened.

Day 11: Missed today. My Chocobo had fallen ill. Said Tokopekko Wildgrass would help fix it. Plan remains Take a Walk in Town.

Day 12: Checked it today. My Chocobo has recovered from the illness, though weakly chews on the Gyshal Greens. Watched over it once. Took it for a walk once. It was happy to see me, no movement. Plan remains Take a Walk in Town.

Day 13: It was happy to see me, made movement. Trainer said it had been waking up early, however. (This was new, but I have no idea what it means yet.) Watched over it twice. Took it for a walk twice. Fed it Gyshal Greens. Plan remains Take a Walk in Town.

Day 14: Still have yet to recieve a 2nd CS. Breakthrough! My Chocobo has been recieving plenty of affection, and seems extremely happy. It is in excellent condition now! It still remains with no definite personality. Instead of being happy to see me today, it says, "Your chocobo is in high spirits!" (Supposedly, this is the best mood a chocobo can be in.) Watched over it twice. Took it for a walk three times today. Neither hungry nor full. (Just noticed! My chocobo's eye color has changed from a brownish to a blackish. Perhaps preparing for teen years? Perhaps signifies a colored chocobo?) Plan remains Take a Walk in Town.

Day 15: (Hopefully, the start of the Teen Years.)

I'm now at Day 15, and I hope to update regularly, up until atleast the 30th day. If you have any questions or comments, ask me on here, or send me a /tell on the Titan server, under the name Molimo!

Edited, Sep 5th 2006 at 3:57am EDT by Molimoo

Thanks Altana i'm not the only one who had that. I'm looking forward to more infos about how to get to that status perky + high spirits. Great Guid so far. Keep up the good work! :D

Edited, Sep 5th 2006 at 6:22am EDT by Watershine

Ok I can add something to this I mentioned in the other (unmaintained) thread:

Worm Paste:
This food adds a little energy to your chocobo.

The test:
Walk 3 times, will not let you walk a 4th but almost enough energy for one more walk
Feed a worm paste (energy bar goes up arround 5-10% (I can't tell exactly how much as I don't have a windower)
Can now walk one more time.

So this effect is CONFIRMED

One thing I noticed: When feeding only pastes the previous day I got in 3 walks with almost enough energy to get a 4th walk in. When I fed the chocobo nothing but greens and some vomp carrots, he got the same 3 walks but barely had enough energy left for 2 watch overs. Can someone else help me confirm this effect? and wether it's due to specific food combinations or the development stage of your chocobo?

Added this to the food effects.


unfortunatly not ><



I strongly believe you get the option read a story in next life phase.

Because of this



The bold things we have now. the others we will get later.

Perky isnt an upgrade in affection really... or it is but it doesnt take the place of "Reguards you as a parent." Its just a temporary period of time when you choco is in high spirits.

I have received the Perky and in high spirits message twice so far and both times i fed it 3 Vegetable Pastes the day before, which is supposed to raise affection.



As far as getting new care plans when your choco is in high spirits... i have to think that this incident was just a bug, it really doesnt make any sense to have them all available as a chick as Watershine said... On the POL website the plans seem to come in three stages. The ones where you can alter your chocobos statistics a little, a good amount and a lot (depending on the size of the arrows). IT stands to reason that you would just get more care plans when your chick becomes an adolescent and then an adult. Its also odd that noone else has encountered this, and i dont see the combination of food or anything else being responsible for allowing the choco to have more care plan options...

i already posted this in a different thread, but since this one is more popular ill post it here too. I have a problem with the current theories of how you obtain a chocobo whose color isnt yellow. it seems odd that SE would design the chocobo raising system so that the way you raise a chocobo would influence its color. also, concerning the matter that the black chocobos are breed for military applications, could this not mean that black chocobos have a greater chance of its personalitly and attributes reflecting the description of destrier? (more Strength/indurance, less receptiviy/discernment, and more of a rowdy personality) most people used the egg they obtained from the qeust, or one they bought in jeuno, however, i doubt too many people have hatched an egg from an ISNM, and since the other colors of chocobo (not yellow) are more rare, and these eggs are hard to obtain, it seems to me that the eggs from these ISNMs are the only ones that even have a chance of containing a chocobo that isnt yellow. there may be a % chance of getting a non-yellow chocobo from these eggs or it may be that all chocobo from these eggs are not-yellow, or it may even be that these eggs arent special at all, but it would seem a little odd to me that SE would make players spend 12k IS (in total), for the lv 60 cap(18k IS for the uncapped), for a battle that has 100% chance of dropping an egg that cannot be obtained any other way (except maybe chocobo mating), and have the egg be no different from an egg one could mearly buy from an NPC. so i was wondering, has anyone done one of these ISNMs, obtained the egg, and hatched it yet?

Edited, Sep 5th 2006 at 1:01pm EDT by siadon

I also agree, for the most part, with what Siadon said here. I think unless you started with on e of the ISNM eggs (which i didnt, cause i dont have expansion yet...) than there isnt a good chance you'll get a colored choco on you first try. I think when breeding your chocobos, if there attributes are high enough, you can get a rare egg like the two ISNM eggs or even rarer eggs.

However, if this is not the case, then i still dont think its very likely that your going to be able to take a NPC bought egg and raise its attributes sooo much from the time its a chick to the time its and adolescent/adult that you will get a colored chocobo the first time... i think through good raising AND good breeding that you will be able to produce such colored birds and people getting there hopes up for colored birds will probably be disapointed there first time...

My egg is an ISNM egg (got it from Happy Caster ISNM); can't wait to see what it turns out to be!!

I also agree though; I really don't think that color/breed is going to be determined by where you raise it or even how you raise it. They have stated that when you breed chocobos, further bloodlines might display traits that the parents had but did not display. That doesn't sound random to me.

They've also stated that the rarer eggs will be harder to obtain. Whether they are talking about colors, races, or traits I can't say.

Day 15... still a lil chick...

She's perky and in high spirits already again. But... no new care plan options! ;(

So i called a GM and asked him if that could be a bug or not. Well, he couldn't tell me... GM said we should check for chocobo raising news on playonline.com. Also, if we think that this is a bug, we should write a bug-repot-mail to SE.

One more sleepless night... day 16. tomorrow... i want to see her grow up finally. >_>

Depressing. Had high hopes today was the day. Oh well sometime before Sept 21st I bet.

Yeah i know... i feel like they made this chick stage a little too long... the chocobo still has to go through adolescent and adult stage before it is retired from the raising process.

3 Days of being an egg and
12 Days (at least) of being a chick with limited care options...

That leaves 15 Days to split between adolescent and adult (assuming 1 month = 30 days = total raising time)

Be better if they made more days during the time in the chocobos life where you could do more stuff with it... if they split the rest of the days it would be

8 Days adolescent
7 Days adult... much less than the chick stage.

Today my chocobo's Endurance briefly changed from poor to substandard.

In the Daily Report, after getting the results of yesterday (walk in town and that he "seems to have calmed down") his 4 stats were poor, substandard, poor, poor. Now I've been feeding him carrot pastes since day 2 (first day fed him 2 veggie pastes, then got some vomp carrots harvested). All but 2 of the days I've had him do "Walk in Town", and he's been reported to be, for almost a week, "a very patient chocobo, making him ideal for carrying packages".

But, after todays update, he was quite hungry (instead of starving), so fed him another carrot paste. That took him to completely full (seems about every other day I feed him 2 to fill him, needing only 1 on the opposite days), but also his endurance changed back to poor in the subsequent "check on your chocobo's abilities" results.

I was initially very excited by this, as I am aiming for Endurance (I would like my chocobo to be able to stay out longer once I call him). That's why I had been feeding him carrot paste (made from Vomp carrots, which supposedly help develop physical traits), and having him go on walks in town most days.

It's really disappointing to see such a brief change, though. And to be honest, I don't know if substandard is higher or lower than poor (though my feeding habits and daily plan choices lead me to believe it is, indeed, a step up).

But no matter, it's gone now, and back to poor endurance.

And this phase is going on a little too long, really. If 30 days is the time we can start calling them (and it would appear to stop "raising" them), half of it has been rather dull, to be honest.

Edited, Sep 5th 2006 at 5:33pm EDT by indyracing

This is what I'm thinking too, but more like ...

4 days as an egg, 16 as a chick, and 10 as an adolescent...

then you have a full grown chocobo and the stats probably won't change much, because at that point you'll know what type of breed you have.

(kinda thinking like 1-12/13 you're a kid, then to about 20 = adult in human terms~ approx. 60% kid time ><)

Edited, Sep 5th 2006 at 6:11pm EDT by punknever