Digging Bro RNG (CFW)

A guide for manipulating the Digging Bro (Skill) to obtain desired items.

The Digging Bro NPCs is located at Bridge Field in the Wild Area within close proximity of the Wild Area nursery. Both brothers will be standing next to each other, the NPC we will be performing the manipulation on can be found on the left. In exchange for Watts this NPC will dig up valuable items for you such as (Gold) Bottle Caps, Fossils, and sellable items.

Important - From here, we assume that you are familiar with key concepts described on the main page. If you are unsure about seed monitoring, advancement methods, or NPC calibration, please review the relevant sections before continuing.
In-game Requirements

Figure 1 - RNG Tool Setup

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Getting Started (Tool Setup)
  1. Enter the IP address of your console in the main window and click Connect. This will automatically read your current seed and save file details.
  2. Set the weather in the Encounter Settings section of the main owoow window to the current weather condition in the Bridge Field.
    • Avoid using Rain/Thunderstorm. These weather conditions are not supported as they are unnecessarily more difficult for no advantage.
  3. At the top of the main owoow window, click Digging Bro (Skill) to open the Digging Bro generator in a subwindow.
  4. Enter your search filters, this will involve individually setting your desired items and item quantity:
    • Min Total Rewards should be set to the bare minimum amount of items you would accept. By default this is set to 5.
    • Any other filter is the quantity of each item you would accept, the more strict the filters are the less likely you are to find a result.
    • It is recommended to target high quantities (e.g, 5) of a specific item instead of searching for a seed that produces medium quantites of multiple items.
    • For example, finding a seed that will produce 5 Fossilized Drake is more common than finding a seed that produces 3 of each individual Fossil.
  5. Enter the number of advances you want to search in the + field, this number can be set higher or lower depending on the rarity of the seed you are looking for.
  6. Set the correct weather condition if you have not already done so. This should have imported into the Digging Bro subwindow automatically if you followed step 2.
  7. Tick the Consider Menu Close? checkbox, but do not calibrate your NPC count yet as we require a specific in-game setup, which will be explained below.

Figure 2 - Game Setup

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Getting Started (Game Setup)
  1. Head to the location in Bridge Field pictured above. If this is your first time, interact with Skill Brother (left NPC) at least once to complete the introduction.
  2. Verify the weather condition by opening the map. If the current weather is Rain/Thunderstorm, change the date so the weather is anything calm.
  3. Move far enough away so that the NPC deactivates. You can tell if you are positioned correctly if he turns away and resumes his idle animation.
  4. Now you will need to position yourself optimally. This is done with a movement technique that disrupts the NPCs "activation":
  5. Once the NPC is in the correct state, calibrate your menu NPC count as usual. The NPC count when standing next Digging Bro may change by the day. Enter your calibrated NPC count in the Digging Bro subwindow on owoow.
  6. Save the game. This will preserve the current deactivated NPC state through resets. The menu NPC count will also remain long as you reopen the game on the same date or an earlier date.
  7. You can now begin searching for target frames, if you do not find a desirable result consider increasing your search range, applying less strict search filters, or restarting the game and disconnecting/reconnecting to owoow to get a new seed.
    • New seeds can be automatically applied to the sub window by clicking the Update Seeds button on the main window.


Advancing Towards a Target

Step-by-step instructions for hitting a target frame can be found here.

Figure 3 - Target Found!

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Advancing Towards a Target

In this example, a frame that produces 1x Gold Bottle Cap, 2x Fossilized Dino, 1x Fossilized Bird and 4x Rare Bone can be seen in a cluster from advances 49,819-49,820. We will aim to close the X Menu on these advances, then quickly interact with the NPC to lock in our desired result.

Step-by-Step
  1. As we need to maintain our current positioning, advance towards the target using any method that does not cause the player to move.
  2. Stop advancing once you are ~200-500 advances before your target.
  3. Open the X Menu to pause the game.
  4. Click Update Seeds on the main window of owoow to send your current seed into the active subwindow.
  5. Ensure that the Consider Menu Close? checkbox is checked in the Digging Bro subwindow, and confirm that your NPC count has been calibrated and entered correctly. Search for your target again.
    • Do not use the Holding Direction? checkbox on owoow. Attempting to use direction hold will cause the NPC to activate and you will miss your target frame.
  6. From this point, use attack animations to reach the exact target frame.
  7. Close the Pokémon window so you are on the main X Menu.
  8. Unpause the game by pressing B. Do not touch the joystick when unpausing or you can lose the deactivated NPC state.
  9. Quickly interact with Digging Bro to lock in your items. Agree to trade him Watts and click A until the minigame has concluded.

Figure 4 - Target Frame Hit!

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In Figure 4, we closed the X Menu on the desired target frame and quickly interacted with Digging Bro. Now we need to select Dig for me! to start the minigame, which should produce the expected reward once you are done clicking.

Figure 5 - Result Found!

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That's all there is to RNG manipulating Skill Bro NPC (CFW)!

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