Chocobo Digging Problems

So i took up chocobo digging. Got my egg head, belt and neck. Rented a chocobo and on the first day digging up items went ok.
Thinking yay another useless skill to raise. Next day i try it again....dig up 1 item and then i dig up nothing. Every dig is finding nothing. I zone, i dig up 1 item and then again nothing after multiple digs. Anyone else have this problem or is it cos im only wing level 5? Im digging around windy on a rental chocobo.

Just did a 30 minute run and all i got was 3 items

What zone? Also are you moving a few yalms every time you dig?

east and west saruta and i move from my spot yeh. A few yalms

If there were other diggers in done (doing Vanabutt probably) the easy zones were probably just all dug up! Faint memories of digging against RMT in Altepa, good times. I forget how long it takes to refresh items, good luck buddy

If you have a chocobo mount, go to an [S] zone. If you don't, try something like Altepa or Yhoator with a rental chocobo. If you're still having bad luck, zone into an adjacent zone like West Altepa or Yuhtunga.

thanks for the advice ill do that :)

IIRC they changed this a while back, but I could be completely insane. More specifically, we're not actually sure. The June 2016 version update made it so you didn't have per-zone personal fatigue anymore:
And BG Wiki THINKS this is a removal of the overall items-per-zone-dug-out thing:
but afaik nobody has ever proven this, it's just incredibly likely... but it never would have come up before this Vana'bout if it is in fact still a thing.

So yes, zone, but also, who knows? Not me!