Secret emotes?

So this was mentioned during the Live Letter yesterday...

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Q: Easter eggs with emotes like nutkin /beckon
A: Even I, Yoshida, don’t know! The people who work on these animations like to sneak that stuff in there and I’m completely ignorant of many of them. I don’t do any checks. I don’t know if all of them have been discovered yet by players either.

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Uh.... what? Anyone know any of these secret emotes? Also, what is meant by "nutkin /beckon"?

They're talking about ways you can interact with minions. Some of them, like the nutkin (a squirrel with a nut) respond to certain emotes.

If you /beckon certain minions they'll come and sit on your shoulder

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Originally Posted by Woggers

If you /beckon certain minions they'll come and sit on your shoulder

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Succubus will do this, which I didn't know about.

There was some guy running around with a /fart emote. Though I may have missed that one in the list.

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Originally Posted by Eye_Gore

There was some guy running around with a /fart emote. Though I may have missed that one in the list.

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Lmao! That was probably a custom emote, you can type "/em farts all over the place." or something then to everyone else in the chat log it comes up as an emote:

Saskia Sinwolf farts all over the place.

But it does make you wonder if there are more things minion will do to different emotes O.o

Wind-up Kobold doesn't explode when you /hug it. The team working on this stuff has failed massively.

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Originally Posted by Gemma

Lmao! That was probably a custom emote, you can type "/em farts all over the place." or something then to everyone else in the chat log it comes up as an emote:

Saskia Sinwolf farts all over the place.

But it does make you wonder if there are more things minion will do to different emotes O.o

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Pretty sure it came up as (insert name here) farts on Yolanda Freebush

It even had sound

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Originally Posted by Eye_Gore

Pretty sure it came up as (insert name here) farts on Yolanda Freebush

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/em farts on <t>

had you targeted. :D

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Originally Posted by Nalien

Wind-up Kobold doesn't explode when you /hug it. The team working on this stuff has failed massively.

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Have you tried it with a bomb?

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Originally Posted by Felis

Have you tried it with a bomb?

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Check the Minion Log;

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Wind-up Kobold
Another of 789th Order Acolyte Bo Go's masterpieces, this cuddly kobold miniature in fact houses several onzes of highly flammable firesand, designed to ignite when outward pressure is applied... such as with a tender hug.

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I guess they might have issue with people causing random explosions everywhere, but hey; They gave us actions when riding the Magitek Mount for seemingly no other reason than to annoy other players with.

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A: Even I, Yoshida, don’t know! ... I don’t do any checks.

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Explains a lot. lol #takenoutofcontext

I'm not sure if /pet just triggers the minion animation (definitely not on all; doesn't seem to work on the minute mindflayer), or if it's hidden things with certain ones, but just confirmed:

/pet:
cherry bomb does a backflip
naughty nanka does an angry charge
baby behemoth rears up
chocobo chicks hop and wiggle, flapping their wings
smallshell raises up slightly

Will add to this as we find more! Testing it out with a friend.

update: watching the cherry bomb, it does the backflip on its own as well, so it seems for some minions it triggers existing animations? But does nothing on others.

I've found something. The /hand over emote. If you do it on a minion, it changes it to "x feeds the y". Any independent minion will come straight to you when you do it, even if it isn't yours.

The /pet will make a minion do its idle animation if it has one.
/handover or /clap makes it come to you if it's not a wind-up
/beckon makes it sit on you if it can (bluebird, succubus, nutkin for example)

Dunno what other emotes they react too.

Derpy Dodo minion comes to you on /handover and runs away when you /slap it.

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Originally Posted by Madoka

The /pet will make a minion do its idle animation if it has one.
/handover or /clap makes it come to you if it's not a wind-up
/beckon makes it sit on you if it can (bluebird, succubus, nutkin for example)

Dunno what other emotes they react too.

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/beckon don't seem to work on Blue Bird

:(

For Slime Puddle and Bite size pudding, you can /poke it and it melts a bit.

For Morbol Seedling you /pet it will do a lazy yawn, /slap it will run away.

For Chigoe larva you /pet or /poke, it will do back-flips.

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Originally Posted by HumsterMKX

/beckon don't seem to work on Blue Bird

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It worked with mine when I tried it before but it may have already been going to land on me. I'll test again later

I've tried out a few myself, using /pet on the fledgling apkallu will make it bob it's head up and down lol cute as, and I gave a serpent salute to wind-up Kan-E-Senna which caused her to raise her staff, very nice :)

/pet the Wolf Pup.

You'll thank me later

When I /clap to my minion goat it comes back and stands infront of me.

Haven't tested it on other minions though.

If you /slap the Wind-up Minfilia, the real Minfilia will contact you on Linkpearl to complain at you doing so.

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OK, maybe not, but it should. Would be something like the Mog in Final Fantasy IX, who you could drive insane by constantly calling for him and then saying you need nothing from him.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

If you /slap the Wind-up Minfilia, the real Minfilia will contact you on Linkpearl to complain at you doing so.

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OK, maybe not, but it should. Would be something like the Mog in Final Fantasy IX, who you could drive insane by constantly calling for him and then saying you need nothing from him.

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"I'm sharpening my knife, kupo!"

Still makes me laugh. I was kinda sad it didn't' eventually just fight you.

I haven't found any more "secret" emotes, but I do hope more will come, they're actually kind of fun. I learnt how to feed my kitty by being genuinely surprised by some guy in mor dhona feeding it, took me a while to figure it out.

/poke the windup sun

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Originally Posted by kidvideo

/poke the windup sun

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The wind-up sun is somewhat unique as it's not really meant to be used as a minion. It's actually a lighting tool for use in screenshots.

Poking it allows you to change the height and the sun itself is invisible in screenshots. :)

This thread is awesome and enlightening. Thanks all

necrobump for the epic post T12 Cutscene!

http://i.imgur.com/5Gg26OK.gif

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Originally Posted by Alberel

The wind-up sun is somewhat unique as it's not really meant to be used as a minion. It's actually a lighting tool for use in screenshots.

Poking it allows you to change the height and the sun itself is invisible in screenshots. :)

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Too bad people ignore this and post dark night screenshots most of the time...

I think the succubus needs to use /blowkiss on anyone that uses /blowkiss on it.

Some I've learned with wolf pup (only minion I use):

/clap makes the puppy run to you
/slap makes the puppy run away
/poke makes the puppy roll on its side
/handout feeds the puppy, it eats from you hand