Editing World Map Manipulation (section)

== Manipulating Formations ==
Oftentimes, the world map is manipulated in order to control which battle formation is encountered in order to get a fight with specific enemies or to get a specific formation. This is used in the 100% speedrun to obtain several items from specific enemies or in the Any% Warps run to obtain specific formations used for wrong warping.

=== Yuffie ===
Yuffie only spawns in the world after the Yuffie flag has been enabled, which happens at three locations: after the Turks cutscene in Mythril Mines, after [[Jenova∙BIRTH]], and after Cosmo Canyon.

=== Chocobos ===
If the player is standing on a triangle flagged to spawn Chocobos when an encounter happens and their Chocobo Lure value is greater than 0, then the game attempts to generate an encounter from the Chocobo encounter table. The chances for these encounters are dependent on the current Chocobo Lure value. Note that a certain IGT may not generate the expected Chcocobo encounter if your Chocobo Lure value is too low OR if it is too high.

=== Bumping ===
When determining what encounter formation to generate, if the formation is generated from the Standard encounter table (as opposed to the Special table) and the formation is equal to the previously generated Standard encounter formation, the formation is re-rolled exactly once, and that formation is then always used. This is important to consider when repeatedly manipulating the same formation or set of formations, or if it is possible to have just encountered that formation.

This will not happen with encounters from the Special table, Chocobo encounters, or Yuffie: they do not compare against the last encounter formation, and they do not set the last encounter formation.

The previous encounter value used for the World Map is distinct from the one used for Field encounters. This value persists between world map loads and is saved to and loaded from file.