

You can repeat the process until you run out of greens, or your chocobo riding time expires. Every time you dig, one of your Gysahl Greens will automatically be fed to your chocobo. (The actual time will fluctuate a bit, in my experience, and is often off by 5 or even 10 seconds.) Target yourself and press Enter to bring up the menu, from there you will see the "Dig" option use that to have your chocobo try to dig something up! You can also type /dig as well, to make your chocobo dig. It will take approximately 60 seconds from the time you zone in until you can dig. Try changing zones every so often during your 30-minute chocobo ride. Step 2: Ride around the zone and dig, dig, dig! You cannot stay in one place and dig, as you won't get anything (or very little). Buy some Gysahl Greens from the merchant if this is your first time, try taking 2-5 stacks, just to see how you like it. When you're just starting out with chocobo digging, I recommend going to one of the starter cities or one of the cities from the first expansion, such as Rabao or Kazham (but keep in mind the expansion zones are usually dug up).

You can dig in any of the zones listed above. Step 1: In order to start chocobo digging, you first need to be able to rent a chocobo! This requires a level 20+ character with a Chocobo License, which is obtained from the Chocobo's Wounds quest. This guide provides the details about chocobo digging, so read on to learn more! There is even a Red Jar furniture item that can only be obtained through chocobo digging! The zones listed above all have items that can be dug up with chocobo digging. Chocobo digging provides many items that are used in crafting at high chocobo digging skill levels, some valuable and rare items can be found.

It involves riding around on a rented chocobo, and stopping periodically to have the chocobo "dig" in the ground, to try to find an item. Chocobo Digging 101 (aka: Lots of Pebbles)Ĭhocobo digging is a fun mini-game in FFXI, and one that can eventually produce great profits for the digger.
