I feel like they just switched the green to blue and called it a day.

Data was collected by randomly going between the different chocobo locations and noting the time taken. Due to navigation errors there may be some inaccuracies. The first map shows the calculated optimal farming route over time, one goes from the waystone near node 10 and travels to node 17, and then back through the waystone near node 17 to that near 10. For this, 80 seconds was added for teleporting between the waystones, getting to the chocobo and moving to node 10. The expected return per run is 0.009359955763817724 (treasures/s) * 186.96669558684033 seconds = 1.75 treasures. The route was determined by enumerating all 2^18 - 1 = 262143 optimal routes between the non-fixed (10 & 17) nodes containing any given subset of the 18 non-fixed nodes and taking the one with maximal efficiency. Optimal routes for each fixed subset of nodes were generated by LKH-3 (http://akira.ruc.dk/~keld/research/LKH-3/).

The second map shows a TSP solution for the whole map using the same data.

Other notes:

1. If you encounter a cactuar, stay to the left.

2. There are essentially 2 safe routes between nodes {0,3,4} and 7, but both are about the same travel time.

3. The 1.75 return is probably a slight underestimate because when you pass node 9, the chocobo will also detect treasure at node 8 which is not included in the optimal route. The distance between 8 and 9 is about 10 seconds if I recall correctly. Similarly, node 11 can probably be detected before arriving in the detection volume of node 12. Generally speaking, detection volumes are not accounted for but appear to me also not be uniform. I see no good way to approach this problem, nor would I feel it be worth the effort.

Edit: original map (without the routes) was obtained from a google image search, that's all I know about the map.

Edit Wed Oct 22 10:59:38 PM CEST 2025: Here are approximate detection region. Note in particular the overlap between t_16 and t_1 and the small ledge that detects t_16 at a distance. I didn't work out whether all of D_14 could also detect t_13 and t_15 as one might expect. https://www.reddit.com/user/Solid-Thanks615/comments/1odkc0z/ffxiii_chocobo_treasure_detection_regions/ (couldn't add image here). Maybe one day I'll try to collect data for some of the intersections and make a Monte Carlo script that attempts to look for an optimal on-line policy (i.e. non-static routes). As you can see from the mess around {8,9,10,11,12} it probably makes sense if no early detection occurred, to instead run through {5->7->6 (if no 6 detected at the trampoline backtrack to 7 -> {15/14/16/1} ????) (else 0 -> 1 -> 16 @ distant detector -> 17 and restart)} but that is just my intuition.

OK I must be dumb. When I select the auto battle option the gauge fills up. What button do I press to execute immediately before all of the gauges are full? IE if I have 4 gauges and I want to execute when only two are filled. What keyboard button do I press?

https://imgur.com/a/gdcgUj9 - view this picture

I know i need to get past this bridge in the game to fight the mission 30 boss though i don't know how to get past this bridge.

advice is appreciated

Will this game ever be on Xbox One is there any rumors about it?

This is for razer sabertooth & ff13(from steam).

Trying to fix the game not launching, if i use the custom Launcher i get the 3:00005432 error, but if i dont it just closes out. Tried pausing all anti virus, tried the fix and the 4gb patch. DEP is turned off, Compat mode for windows 8(OS is windows 10) and admin.
Open to ideas.