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

[ZReport]

So, after wanting to end my life after my berries not taking any effect, I decided to try out the 6 hour window and see what I could do.

I fed an initial 3 berries and waited 3 hours (I took a nap) and now I fed him 27 more berries and 10 pears to get Orthard Blue (fingers crossed).

If the color is correct after this, that means that you can effectively add more fruit any time in the 6 hours window and still get the intended result, however, I failed to try and alter the ordering of the final fruit to see if it had any effect.

Seeing this person's results will tell us a great deal more, I believe.

[AmalahRose]

This thread is awesome! Can anybody tell me if I can feed my chocobo as many fruits as I want at once or do I need to space things out a bit?

[Yamimarik]

This thread is awesome! Can anybody tell me if I can feed my chocobo as many fruits as I want at once or do I need to space things out a bit?

I fed mine all at once.

[Anurabis]

Okay I think I figured out how exactly this works based on information from this thread and playing around with RGB and testing with my Guild it can be really confusing but once you figured out how it works it's pretty simple.

[JakzChurchill]

I think we also need to consider whether people are taking those color samples from the "examine" window, or standing out in the sun, or in the dark. It's near impossible to determine actual RGB value results when there's not a common lighting arrangement.


One thing is obvious, the examine window looks nothing like the color when the bird is out in the sun, or at night either for that matter. Also, measuring it in the shade of a stables will produce a wholly different picture.

We really need to agree on a common lighting scenario, and preferably one not involving the examine window.

I think the colour values were taken from the dye window as opposed to the chocobos themselves, this gives you a fairer idea of the RGB values of that colour as it is unaffected by light or shadow.

[Rikkustrife]

I am trying to try for ceruleam blue
72 red, 80 green, 95 blue is ceruleam blue
-216 red, 175 green, 80 blue is original color
which equals
-144 red, -95 green, 15 blue

I will be using 24 deepen blue, 8 lighten green, and 3 lighten blue
that should give me -144 red, -96 green, and + 18 blue, if they do have a value of 6 each
so i'll see how it goes
though I currently have seeds in my garden so cannot these until they are picked

[Yamimarik]

What did you feed him?!?

Well this is not what I had in mind lol, hopefully when I get more blue fruits to grow, I can get it purple! (Shared the rest of my blues with FC mate). So here is Blood Red, took 14x Valfruit, 14x O'Ghomoro Berries, and 14x Xelphatol Apples in this order. I did 1 of each in a row till 14 had been used.

Here is how I got it.

[Meier]

Anyone got Rose Pink yet?

[Damifino]

I think we also need to consider whether people are taking those color samples from the "examine" window, or standing out in the sun, or in the dark. It's near impossible to determine actual RGB value results when there's not a common lighting arrangement.


One thing is obvious, the examine window looks nothing like the color when the bird is out in the sun, or at night either for that matter. Also, measuring it in the shade of a stables will produce a wholly different picture.

We really need to agree on a common lighting scenario, and preferably one not involving the examine window.

Science is king, yes, but we need controls to determine results.

Replying to my own goop here .... but OK ... following along with this, I suggest the South Thanalan desert in the sun.

[Endemerrin]

Did some maths for the two colours created using only O'Ghomaro Berries (Deepen Blue) as it was a good constant from the spreadsheet. And all it does it makes working out the movement a lot harder.

First we have Gobbiebag Brown, created using 11 berries to get a total change of [-36,-17,+50] This means each feed was worth [-3.2, -1.5, 4.5]

Now we know there isn't a cap because the Raptor Blue has been created using 21 Berries for a total of [-132, -55, +108] Making each feed worth [-12, -5, 9.8]

So all of a sudden the food has become worth more as you add more in one go. Does this mean the more you put into one go the higher return you get from it?

8 Berries resulted in the gobbiebag brown color. I originally posted it, and has miscounted what I had left in my inventory. I updated my post not a minute later, but apparently it never got corrected.