Chocobo dyeing R&D Thread - Post your results here!

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Originally Posted by Rjain

So I'm not sure if I'm missing something or if there's a glitch. Earlier today my chocobo was colibri pink, then I put him back in stable and fed around 30 other fruit. The 6 hours finished and I didn't get a cutscene with him. Took him out and he's the exact same colour. He wasn't disturbed any time during that time. Is this a glitch or can he only change colour so much before reset? =/

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Edit: But on topic though, did you receive the messege about growing new feathers during any of those 30 feedings?

I fed my bird 10 deepening green fruit, but it took til about the 6th or 7th before I got a message about feathers regrowing.

Yeah Rjain I'm curious about this too.. I put mine back in and fed him a little more but I did get the feathers msg every time so I have like 2hrs left and we'll see if he changes from royal blue. I probably had him out like a rl hour.

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Originally Posted by Ecks007

did you receive the messege about growing new feathers during any of those 30 feedings?

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Yes. It took a few tries to get it going but after the 8th or so fruit the remaining 30ish said they were growing new feathers.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Yes. It took a few tries to get it going but after the 8th or so fruit the remaining 30ish said they were growing new feathers.

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o.o Very strange then. Maybe you hit the cap for whatever fruit you were feeding him? At this point I'm just guessing.

Maybe I'm just incredibly unfortunate and found another combination for colibri pink and landed on that too. Tried feeding it about 12 berries and 20 pears now.

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Originally Posted by Edeline

I'm testing something and will find out in 30 mins or so. I fed my choco 3 pineapples and got the feather message, after 6 hours it was honey yellow so I kept feeding more pineapples (up to 23 atm) and didn't get a single feather message. I guess you would only get message in the transition of changing from one color to another, like from yellow to whatever (because we all start as desert yellow), but you might not get messages changing the different tones of the same color. I'll figure out soon if my choco changes color or not after a 2nd time feeding 20 more pineapples xD

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Interesting. So after the 2nd round of feeding 20 more pineapples (without feather message) it didn't change tone/color at all and didn't even get cutscene :D

Okay so I want to know where you guys are getting the food?!? I have no access to the gardens at our FC and from the looks of it they have zero interest in doing any of it since we didn't ever even have the training foods. one berry on the market is 25K how is someone relatively new to the game even supposed to enjoy this. Only reason I even started the game was my love for chocobos.

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Originally Posted by eternistarr

Okay so I want to know where you guys are getting the food?!? I have no access to the gardens at our FC and from the looks of it they have zero interest in doing any of it since we didn't ever even have the training foods. one berry on the market is 25K how is someone relatively new to the game even supposed to enjoy this. Only reason I even started the game was my love for chocobos.

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I imagine the prices on the market board will drop FAST. I mean, you can get 36 fruits per seed.
If you don't want to wait (and I don't blame you!) the only real way is to ask your FC leader/officers to give permission. Or change FCs, but a lot of FCs don't give gardening rights to new members. =/

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Originally Posted by eternistarr

Okay so I want to know where you guys are getting the food?!? I have no access to the gardens at our FC and from the looks of it they have zero interest in doing any of it since we didn't ever even have the training foods. one berry on the market is 25K how is someone relatively new to the game even supposed to enjoy this. Only reason I even started the game was my love for chocobos.

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Our FC harvested 432 combined chocobo fruits in about 2 days. We're almost out now but have an additional batch coming in a day. Fruits are also about 8k-30k on server so others just buy from market board.

Good FCs should always be gardening stuff for their members, whether it be dyes or something else. Pretty important part to having an FC imo.

Personal gardening will be coming soon too.

I hope someone finds out the combo for Wine Red! I'm still debating on that or Dalamud Red. :) But I can't really do anything atm since I'm waiting for the prices of fruit to drop on MB as well. Still, it's very exciting to see all the different colors being discovered!

Yay! I added x4 Valfruit and x3 O'Ghomoro Berries and got Regal Purple to my Blood Red ^.^ Definitely keeping it this, Love it so much! That other one is my friends, he got his Raptor blue.

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So 1st session was x14 Valfruit, x14 O'Ghomoro Berries, and x14 Xelphatol Apples = Blood Red
2nd session was x4 Valfruit and x3 O'Ghomoro Berries = Regal Purple

GL to everyone trying to achieve a certain color!

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Mine turned out Corpse Blue. The snacks were 10x O'Ghomoro Berries and 3x Doman Plums if I remember right.

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Originally Posted by Yamimarik

Yay! I added x4 Valfruit and x3 O'Ghomoro Berries and got Regal Purple to my Blood Red ^.^ Definitely keeping it this, Love it so much! That other one is my friends, he got his Raptor blue.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...74077726_n.jpg

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hmm.. I think I'll end up around either super dark blue or get into the purple area as I did the same thing but I was royal blue.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Our FC harvested 432 combined chocobo fruits in about 2 days. We're almost out now but have an additional batch coming in a day. Fruits are also about 8k-30k on server so others just buy from market board.

Good FCs should always be gardening stuff for their members, whether it be dyes or something else. Pretty important part to having an FC imo.

Personal gardening will be coming soon too.

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Guess I need to look into joining a different FC because honestly since I started playing ive seen no reason for even being part of one. Guess im just in the wrong one

yes, i made it!
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Total Feed sessions: 3
first session: 36x Cieldalaes Pineapple, 36x Doman Plum, 36 Valfruit
second session: 27x Doman Plum
third session: 3x O'ghomoro Berry (didnt have effect on plumage), 2x Valfruit (didnt have effect on plumage), 5x Cieldalaes Pineapple

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Originally Posted by Schaeffa

I imagine the prices on the market board will drop FAST. I mean, you can get 36 fruits per seed.
If you don't want to wait (and I don't blame you!) the only real way is to ask your FC leader/officers to give permission. Or change FCs, but a lot of FCs don't give gardening rights to new members. =/

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You are right! I've been waiting for this and Ninja since I started playing 90 days ago. I don't want to wait I would love to play with my chocobo some.

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Originally Posted by Kenseto

Here you guys go.
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It is interesting to me how neither you nor your chocobo are casting shadows in this picture. Should I be worried? :x

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Originally Posted by Schaeffa

I imagine the prices on the market board will drop FAST. I mean, you can get 36 fruits per seed.
If you don't want to wait (and I don't blame you!) the only real way is to ask your FC leader/officers to give permission. Or change FCs, but a lot of FCs don't give gardening rights to new members. =/

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Fruits are also about 8k-30k on server so others just buy from market board.

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Depends on servers. My server, earlier in the same day prices for most fruit was about 10k, except Valfruit for some reason, that was 50-60k.

Now, now they've got up in price, roughly 10k more for everything.

Definitely better to have someone in your FC grow them.

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Originally Posted by Ecks007

Depends on servers. My server, earlier in the same day prices for most fruit was about 10k, except Valfruit for some reason, that was 50-60k.

Now, now they've got up in price, roughly 10k more for everything.

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We're both on Diabolos, and I did notice that, too. =P
But my guess is that once more batches hit the market, the prices will plummet. The reason they went up is just because a lot of people got home from work/school, saw the cool colors, and bought up the ones on the cheaper end. Seriously, if in two weeks the prices are still floating around 20k per fruit, I would be REALLY surprised.

I even noticed that barding went up. People are actually paying attention to their Chocobos now, it seems. =)

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Originally Posted by WellFooled

It is interesting to me how neither you nor your chocobo are casting shadows in this picture. Should I be worried? :x

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Ok I was trying a control and did 10 of the berries and 10 of the pinapples. On 5 of the berries and 2 of the pineapples I got the feather change message. The result was the expected that it stayed Desert Yellow. So I do not think that the messages about feather changes are critical but it may still take more testing to be 100% sure.

A FC friends Ethan Morduehttp://s517.photobucket.com/user/dru...]=1&sort=1&o=0 30 DarkBlue and 1 Dark Green

I know the color has been posted, but I got a plum purple chocobo by feeding 18 U'Ghomoro berries in one sitting. Was hoping for lavender blue but fed one berry too many it seems :X
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Fed mine the listed amount for iris purple. I suspect I'll get a different shade, here are my noted feeds vs "new feather" messages.
4 berries
1 valfruit
"rubens begins to grow new feathers"
2 berries
new feathers
1 valfruit
new feathers
1 berry
new feathers
1 valfruit
new feathers
1 berry
new feathers
1 berry
new feathers
1 berry
new feathers
1 berry
new feathers
1 valfruit
new feathers
1 berry
new feathers
1 berry
new feathers
1 berry
new feathers
1 berry
new feathers

apparently someone got white chocobo with loads of Doman Pums, and needed a second session of pums to get the blue color. I don't have SS though

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i gave 18 apple ... seen the text of feather 16 time ...... now its pumkin orange

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Originally Posted by Yahtzee

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Coral Pink: 7 Darken Red and 13 Darken Blue
Royal Blue: 30 Darken Blue, 10 Darken Red

Not sure if I fed it too much blue (or if there's a cap to it)... kind of stuffed it like a thanksgiving turkey.

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i used the same food -> 30 Darken Blue, 10 Darken Red
but i get violet ????

any an idea why?

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17-berries, 14 apples, 1 pear

Blood Red Chocobo ^-^

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Originally Posted by affenmensch

i used the same food -> 30 Darken Blue, 10 Darken Red
but i get violet ????

any an idea why?

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definitely people feeding same thing and getting different results. My royal blue was nothing like yours.

Shale Brown: 12 Berries 2 Appleshttp://i62.tinypic.com/sq5bg6.jpg

Friend and I have been discussing the color change may not be directly linked to how many of X fruit you fed the chocobo.

Our theory is that:
1. There's a finite amount of times you can darken/lighten a specific scale before it reaches either end of the spectrum. Which would explain why when Rjain fed an additional 30 of the fruits, the color did not change despite she got the msg stating that her chocobo is growing new feather, unless her fruits happened to cancel out each other but I have my doubts since she's been playing with the system for a while. This theory still needs confirmation and would take additional time and information to figure out whether it's true or not.
2. The color change is associated to the "Your chocobo is beginning to grow new feathers" message not the amount of fruits eaten. This sounds pretty likely, since we already have people reporting chocobo not changing color when the message didn't pop up and people getting different result after feeding the same combination and amount of fruits.

So my FC mate got Grape purple. He said 65 red 20 blue and 30 green. Not the best pic but yeah..

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as promised... grape purple

don't take my feeding seriously as I lost count of the reds I gave.

65 red / 20 blue / 30 green -- all dark

Did mine twice, first was 3 pineapple> 5 valfruit> 1 apple turned into millioncorn yellow.

Tried again 6 Valfruit> 3 apples turned into Coral Pink.

It seems like its based mostly on what fruit you use first.

http://i.imgur.com/H9DMUiL.jpg

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Originally Posted by SinisterIsBack

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as promised... grape purple

don't take my feeding seriously as I lost count of the reds I gave.

65 red / 20 blue / 30 green -- all dark

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Speak of the devil...

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Got Regal Purple, was hoping for grape.
I used O'Ghomoro Berry x20, Xelphatol Apple x17, and Valfruit x21.
I tweaked the first Regal purple recipe a bit, hoping for a darker shade. (Original was O'Ghomoro Berry x17, Xelphatol Apple x15, Valfruit x18.)

Read the post above me, seems they did similar as far as the berries and fruit went. I think I just need to add more apples. I'll feed mine ten more apples, and see what happens.

Not sure where I should go next. I'm still wanting to aim for Grape purple, should I darken red more to get that effect? Any help is appreciated. At least we know different combinations can lead to similar results.

Fed my Chocobo 10 O'Ghomoro Berries and got Shale Brown.

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My Friend and I's chocobo's

For Lime Green I used :

7 mamook pears, 2 O'Ghomoro berries and 1 Doman plum.

For Othard Blue he used:

30 O'Ghomoro berries, and 10 mamook pears

The feather msg finally stopped for me feeding my royal blue more berries.. not sure what I'll get in an hour. I assume I can only go lighter now or a different color. I'm guessing he'll be the darkest blue possible?

I went to the university of texas so I might go for a burnt orange!