Tried Dyeing a Chocobo.

Many thousands of gil and a large amount of time wasted on trying to get a choco to soot black from midnight blue. Apparently the results are random now, or could have been all along. So I stabled the choco and won't bother looking in that direction again.

quote on the random results?

i don't think they ever changed the algorithm for it. the chocobo color calculator website helps a lot but isn't 100% accurate. its kind of trial and error.

The chocobo companion system is more half-baked than adventurer squadrons. Just give us instant dye fruits instead of an antiquated, obtuse, and needlessly complicated process if you're not going to do anything else with chocobos, CBU3

Don't fully trust the 'order/number of things to feed' listings the calculator pages provide, you have to keep feeding your horsebird the same thing until "Your chocobo is growing new feathers." pops up to tell you that you actually are progressing the color change, and then switch to the next color fruitveg.

I've before dyed my chocobo not being aware of that pop up being a thing so I ruined quite few attempts at going for specific color, but after I learned of that detail it upped the chance of getting the targeted color by a lot if not 100%.

Oh and also don't be afraid to use the Han Lemon for a clean slate to begin from.

My experience with the online calculators is that they are close but not 100% accurate. But you can fix it on the next try anyway.

Each of the 3 fruits is meant to represent Red, Blue, Green. 3 for plus, 3 for minus. You may be familiar with this concept from using paint programs or if you've coded with the likes of CSS and HTML. Each color can go up to 255.

From my experience, swapping between the fruits you need to feed it is the only way I can get reliable results. Need 7 pears and 9 fruits? Feed fruit then pear, then fruit, then pear, etc. And yes, you can do it in one sitting.

Black has always been the hardest color to get, however.

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Originally Posted by sintea

Don't fully trust the 'order/number of things to feed' listings the calculator pages provide, you have to keep feeding your horsebird the same thing until "Your chocobo is growing new feathers." pops up to tell you that you actually are progressing the color change, and then switch to the next color fruitveg.

I've before dyed my chocobo not being aware of that pop up being a thing so I ruined quite few attempts at going for specific color, but after I learned of that detail it upped the chance of getting the targeted color by a lot if not 100%.

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Yeah, sometimes you have to feed it a couple fruit in a row for the feeding to "take". But if the chocobo didn't get to the right color the first try, the second try should take much fewer fruit since it should be much closer to the color you want.

How does 5 attempts sound. I tried 2 times from midnight blue, then reset to base with the han lemon. After another three attempts I just gave it up as stupid. I have read all the comments regarding the message and such, nothing seems to line up. It is just an annoying money sink.

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Originally Posted by syldon

How does 5 attempts sound. I tried 2 times from midnight blue, then reset to base with the han lemon. After another three attempts I just gave it up as stupid. I have read all the comments regarding the message and such, nothing seems to line up. It is just an annoying money sink.

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So you want to try to make a Midnight Blue chocobo right? And what color are they now?

The system is rather based on RNG due to how the fruits effect the RGB values thus causing it to end where it has to pick between ones very close to each other.

They really should just make feed items that guarantee the color that can be crafted with the rough amount of fruits (from the start point of desert yellow) it would take to win that RNG toss. So in this case a "Soot Black Chocobo Feed" would take 19 Xelphatol Apples, 23 Mamook Pears, and 32 O'ghomoro Berries to craft and guarantee you end up with a Soot Black Chocobo. If they do not have the man power to do this then simply lowering the wait time down from 6 hours would be welcome as well.

It was midnight blue, I was trying for soot black. It has been many weird non sensical colours. It is some sort of brown atm. This is after it was reset back to desert yellow.

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Originally Posted by syldon

It was midnight blue, I was trying for soot black. It has been many weird non sensical colours. It is some sort of brown atm. This is after it was reset back to desert yellow.

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Again, Soot Black, the darkest possible color, has always been the hardest color to achieve. Since that's everything perfectly maxed out, and there is a lot of subtle RNG with how much each fruit increases or decreases in a category, you will land on all sorts of super dark colors INSTEAD of the black.

I don't actually think you're doing anything wrong. Follow the calculator's recommended feeding order, and if you're off, try again as your chances will be much better.

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Originally Posted by syldon

It was midnight blue, I was trying for soot black. It has been many weird non sensical colours. It is some sort of brown atm. This is after it was reset back to desert yellow.

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Don't reset to yellow after you've got to brown or midnight blue--light yellow is much farther away from black than brown or dark blue is. You'll need less fruit to get to black from a dark brown or dark blue if it didn't work.

I parked it at the apartment with no intention of going back to it.
It started as midnight blue and after 2 failed attempts, I looked at the wiki to see if I could work it out myself. At which point I decided to revert it back to the base colour desert yellow and start over. I fastidiously followed the guide of adding in extras if I got no message only to get a dark blue. I then checked what it needed with the calculator again and got a green. And finally it ended up at a poop brown colour. It is just an inane money pit.

I could handle the luck side of things if it gave you a result after each application. But no, it requires multiple steps of possible inaccuracies, and then you don't get an answer until 6 hours later.

No my friend, I am not trying anymore.
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Many thousands of gil and a large amount of time wasted on trying to get a choco to soot black from midnight blue.

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It is too open ended with no guarantee of a return. You make this gamble everyday for eternity and still not get what you want.

there is a black chocobo mount if you're just looking to ride/fly but outside of that the companion is not as useful outside of hunts, maps, or fates. an if you're looking to level it up in multiple professions that too is going to be a massive gil sink sadly. but really only the dps and healer stance are good the tank one is really not that great.

It was many years ago when I did mine and I never bothered changing his colour. It was difficult back then with not a lot of information on how to do it and how to get certain colours as this was probably when it first was released. I think they really need to look and fix it. I do use my companion a lot in the world it should not be stuck in the past just make it easier for players.

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Originally Posted by ShadowyZero

there is a black chocobo mount if you're just looking to ride/fly but outside of that the companion is not as useful outside of hunts, maps, or fates. an if you're looking to level it up in multiple professions that too is going to be a massive gil sink sadly. but really only the dps and healer stance are good the tank one is really not that great.

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Mine has been set to tank since HW where I lvled him to 20, where you have all skill points. I never spawn him for combat anymore. He has only ever been used as a mount since then.

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Originally Posted by Luluna

It was many years ago when I did mine and I never bothered changing his colour. It was difficult back then with not a lot of information on how to do it and how to get certain colours as this was probably when it first was released. I think they really need to look and fix it. I do use my companion a lot in the world it should not be stuck in the past just make it easier for players.

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I got mine to midnight blue in HW without any issues. Something has changed since then. This is the first time since HW release that I have tried changing his colour. If I get a house on the next lottery run, then I may go back to it. I won't be spending anymore gil on this. I reckon I blew out 250k on fruits this time.