Grind Finder

This tool will help you find a grind fight. At this time, it is primarily intended for use with Final Fantasy IV: Free Enterprise. If the D.Machin fight is added at some point, that will also be applicable to vanilla.

Encounters

No steps selected on this map.

Possibilities

  • Encounter 1 on many possible steps (12.50%)
  • Encounter 2 on many possible steps (12.50%)
  • Encounter 3 on many possible steps (8.59%)
  • Encounter 4 on many possible steps (9.38%)
  • Encounter 5 on many possible steps (12.50%)
  • Encounter 6 on step 123 or 204 (2.34%)
  • Encounter 7 on many possible steps (8.59%)
  • Encounter 8 on many possible steps (4.69%)
  • Encounter 9 on step 263 or 281 or 308 (2.73%)
  • Encounter 12 on step 428 (0.39%)
  • Reset (25.78%)

Grind Fight Selection

Ensure encounters are off and save and reset immediately before boarding the Big Whale. Upon entering the Giant of Bab-il, ensure you walk directly across the stairs to avoid taking one fewer steps. (Skipping that step does not help in this case.) Once you reach the third map (labeled Chest), turn on encounters and begin tracking your encounters.

This version of the grind assumes that you intend to continue deeper into the Giant to check out the bosses, and is optimized as such. If you simply want to grind and get out, you can count your steps in place instead. However, do note that any encounter that occurs on step 104 or later may have a different formation than listed. (The encounter set does change between the Chest and Stomach, but the MacGiant grind is in the same location on both maps.

Not including any time you spend in the grind fight, on average, you will find the grind and make it to the end of the Stomach in about 111 seconds. The fastest possible is 65 seconds, and there is a 2.5% chance of taking longer than 233 seconds.

Possible Seeds

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Documentation

In order to use this tool, simply follow these steps:

  1. Determine which grind you're interested in, and read the description to determine where to save and reset (and other important notes about the grind).
  2. Every time you get an encounter, select the tile on which you got the encounter. Select the exact formation you got by clicking on it. (Technically, you can skip selecting the formation, but it's highly recommended and may be required to differentiate seeds in certain instances.)
  3. When you're done with a given map, simply click Next Image to move to the next map.
  4. If your only available option listed in the Possibilities section is Reset, you should reset and reload your save to try again. The reset points are optimized to minimize the average time spent searching.