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

After some fears and some decidedly less than educated R&D testing amongst others and myself in FC to get our choice results based on a google doc, I got the color I was aiming for and can confirm the one of two ways the doc states to get Othard Blue (x21 O'ghomoro Berries). Here is the result:

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Originally Posted by skaterger

My progress so far: Desert yellow (12 berries, 6 apples, 6 pears)--> Aldgoat brown (15 berries, 3 apples. 3 pears) --> Royal blue

Current: Royal blue : 34R 42G 96B
Desired: Soot black: 37R 35G 30B

I'm thinking feeding it 2 apples and 2 pears and getting 4 procs in total, reducing blue and not really changing red and green. Any suggesions?

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If i were you i might try 6 Apples 5 Pears.this method will arrange R>G>B and the number will not much far from each other after.

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Originally Posted by AkumaDoll

Does anyone know how to get Snow White from Ice Blue? Also, how to get Soot Black from Wine Red?

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Well, I haven't gotten Soot Black yet, but I'm getting there. I can however post you part of my log to give you some ideas of what colors are around you. I have yet to hear of someone getting to Soot Black from Wine Red directly, but here are some paths you can take.

Starting Color : Wine Red
Chocobo Level: 10
Stable Condition: Poor
Feed Used: x3 Doman Plums
New Feathers: 2/3 Plums
Result: Midnight Blue

[9:34 p.m.]Juju devours the Doman plum.
[9:34 p.m.]Juju's plumage will change in 6 hours.
[9:34 p.m.]Juju devours the Doman plum.
[9:34 p.m.]Juju is beginning to grow new feathers!
[9:34 p.m.]Juju's plumage will change in 5 hours and 59 minutes.
[9:34 p.m.]Juju devours the Doman plum.
[9:34 p.m.]Juju is beginning to grow new feathers!
[9:34 p.m.]Juju's plumage will change in 5 hours and 59 minutes.
Result: Midnight Blue

From Midnight Blue I "read" that if you then do: x3 Pineapples // x2 Apples // x2 Pears you get to Loam Brown.

From Loam Brown I "read" from Kahnom who got Soot Black today that they finished by giving their Loam Brown chocobo: x2 Berries // x1 Pear.

Here's another path that leads to several ways of either getting to Soot Black on your first try, or getting stuck in a loop that is the equivalent of getting stuck in an NSYNC concert for 48 hours straight.

Starting Color : Wine Red
Chocobo Level: 10
Stable Condition: Poor
Feed Used: x1 Doman Plum
New Feathers: 1/1 Plum
Result: Kobold Brown

[9:26 a.m.]Juju devours the Doman plum.
[9:26 a.m.]Juju's plumage will change in 6 hours.
[9:26 a.m.]Juju is beginning to grow new feathers!
Result: Kobold Brown

Kobold Brown can then lead to either Deepwood Green / Ink Blue / or back to Wine Red. If you go even a step further, you can go a step behind any one of those color paths.

Any of those final colors paths will lead to Soot Black one way or another, it's only a matter if your RGB numbers aren't out to make you want to commit suicide at 3 in the morning.

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Originally Posted by Jeykama

Had Kobold Brown, fed it a Plum and got Deepwood Green. Fed it a Valfruit and got Kobold Brown again \~_~)/ I don't understand, sigh.

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I was in the same boat for several feedings. I was able to break it and reach Soot Black.

From Deepwood Green > 2x Valfruit, 1x Pineapple > Kobold Brown > 1x Doman Plum > Soot Black

The 2 extra fruits slightly altered my RGB values, so that the single Plum would give me the change I wanted.

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Okay, so if I can't get to Soot Black from Wine Red, or get Snow White from Ice Blue, if I was to start over from default what would be the steps needed? I don't understand all the color numbers stuff going on so if anyone can help me, please keep it simple in terms of how many of what fruit and how many feedings. Would be much appreciated.

So ended up getting Dalamud Red if anyone have a very clear idea how to get to Soot Black that be awesome.

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Originally Posted by AkumaDoll

Okay, so if I can't get to Soot Black from Wine Red, or get Snow White from Ice Blue, if I was to start over from default what would be the steps needed? I don't understand all the color numbers stuff going on so if anyone can help me, please keep it simple in terms of how many of what fruit and how many feedings. Would be much appreciated.

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If you want my opinion, just stay on track where you are now and get the Soot Black.

Starting over is going to take more than twice as long to get back to where you already are now. Not everyone can get Soot Black the same way on the first several tries, least not from my experiences and several others. Follow my guide and feed only the amount of fruit for as many "beginning to grow new feathers" messages you get. Unfortunately, there's really no simple way to get there. It just takes a lot of time, effort, planning and commitment. I'll be here though, as well as many others, if you ever need help getting there. From the start though, I can't really help with that since I have yet to claim Soot Black myself yet, and I don't think doing a full guide yet is deserved from me until I have something to show for it, but I'm working on it.

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Originally Posted by Edgedy

Here's my progress so far.

Starting Color: Coeurl Yellow Feed:[16 (14 feathers) berries, 6 apples, 9 pears]
182 129 3
First Color: Shale Brown Feed:[2 apple, 2 berries, 4 pears (1 feather)]
140 122 101
Second Color:Cactuar Green Feed:[2 apples (1 feather), 2 berries]
94 123 58
Third Color: Qiqirn Brown Feed:[2 berry, 2 pear, 2 apple]
147 103 56
Fourth Color: Moss Green Feed:[6 berry, 3 pear, 3 apple]
105 108 33
Fifth Color: Mud Green Feed:[4 berry, 2 pear, 2 apple]
81 75 42
Sixth Color: Charcoal Grey[2 Berry, 2 pear, 2 apple]
65 64 59
Seventh Color: Shadow Blue[3 Pineapple(2 feathers) , 3 apple, 3 pear, 3 berry]
49 49 64

Desired Color: Soot Black
37 35 30

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Applying the 2/2/2 ratio was successful to decrease red and green evenly, but blue was still increased. I will be attempting to add pineapple to the mix to offset this amount and see what happens.

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Originally Posted by blueruckus

Try feeding two plums now at Kobold Brown, make sure you get two feather messages. I think there's RNG involved here but you're close.

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I'll give it a shot, but I'm more mystified that I managed to loop to the original color using two different lightening fruits.

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Originally Posted by mayonnegg

I was aiming towards rolanberry red but I ended up with lime green. Whoops. Have I gone the wrong way?

I fed it 8 mamook pears without getting a feathers message, then 2 more with the message, then 10 o'ghomoro berries (10 messages), 10 xelphatol apples (10 messages), then 10 more mamook pears (10 messages). Any tips?

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With mamook pears you increased the amount of green.
I would say to get first the green away with valfruit.