Chocabos

 

Yes the Chocobos are back, Final Fantasy would not be Final Fantasy without Chocobos. Chocobos are used for mainly two things, traveling and finding items. The world of Vana'diel is very large, and it can take a very long time walking from one place to another, so when you don't want to travel by ship or airship, your best bet is renting a Chocobo. You can ride Chocobos only in the field area. Chocobos are not permitted to be riding in a town or dungeon. Why? I don't know... maybe the clean up job is to big after they have eaten some greens... Abilities, magic, healing, logging out, temporally going to the POL, items, and trading are forbidden when riding one. If your HP hits bottom zero, then you can't use the Chocobo anymore and are taken off.

Item finding is a very useful ability the Chocobos possess. When you are riding a Chocobo, you are granted access to an option called "Hole Digging." Use this command to dig for items. Everytime you attempt to dig for an item, it uses 1 Githal Green, so be very sure of where you want to dig. It will dig for some time, and if you are lucky, you will receive an item, if not, then you will have wasted 1 Githal Green. The area you dig near effects your item. For example, if you dig near water, your item will be water based.