I bought a ChipChip Fountain a while back (I think about a week ago) and gave it to my highest level water knuffle (Asherah).

In this time, that knuffle hasn't found a single crumb, but the rest of my knuffle seem to be finding food at a slightly increased rate. Am I misunderstanding the function of the fountain or is there something wonky going on?

From what I remember, if you want to obtain more FPs from your knuffels, you have to dig in an element you HAVENT leveled up in. It’s sorta like “here’s compensation for digging in an element you haven’t maxed out”. I’m not sure about the fountain itself (since I’ve never equipped it before) but maybe you can try putting the fountain on another knuffel that DOESNT have the water element maxed out and try digging in water and see if that works.

Apart from that, I don’t know lol. I could be totally wrong lol.

Yep, you only have a chance to find food when you AREN'T finding anything else.
So the higher your water ability, the more likely you are to find something -and that means less chances to find food.

Put that fountain on someone who isn't a water expert, and then dig in the water area, and see if you don't see improvement. :)

Thank you both!

Btw I just attempted to do this right now. I threw a fountain on a maxed out knuffel that has air element leveled and just dug in water. Almost every other dig gave me FPs lol. XD mainly just 10s and 50s. Lol