Chocobo Dye Experimentation

[Felis]

I started with this testing after some random tries. And because I didn't have a reset fruit i started with Millioncorn Yellow.
1 feather message = 1 field down

[YinRei]

I dunno if this helps x_x but ill post it anyway

[Sadana]

I started with this testing after some random tries. And because I didn't have a reset fruit i started with Millioncorn Yellow.
1 feather message = 1 field down

Um?

On my bird, I used plums to get from Desert Yellow > Sylph Green > Snow White (as did others). And here is the list from Lavaeh:

Plums (every step stops with first "feathers" msg. Starts w/ Desert Yellow) Thanks to Lavaeh!
Sylph Green
Snow White
Ice Blue
Celeste Green

(copied from my page 1 post)

I'm getting a little weirded out at the drastic differences in paths with the same fruit taken to only one 'step'. I will add that I did not take a field trip into any other color. I'm beginning to wonder if that makes the difference... and why and how?

[Hihiyo]

Ok I have found several posts of people getting Calibri pink with plums and valfruit - so I am trying my luck out as well - here is the log copy, time stamps are included - 7 Doman Plums with 4 procs & 8 Valfruit with 8 procs. Will post results in the morning.

well the 4 procs of Doman Plum Followed by 8 procs of Valfruit gave me - Salmon Pink

gave him one berry to dark up blue a bit and now be back in 6 hours.

[Itesh_Sennin]

You need to feed it Doman Plums until you get the "growing new feathers" message. Wait 6 hours and check.

Just want to say that this worked.

[Snootles]

Starting colour: Default desert yellow

First feeding: 1 O'Ghomoro berry
Result: Nada!
Second feeding: 2 O'Ghomoro berry - received message that the chocobo is growing new feathers
Result: Cork Brown


Third feeding: 2 O'Ghomoro berry - received message that the chocobo is growing new feathers.
Result: Pending


Edit: My advice to everyone, do not mix so many fruits because it doesn't matter. I see posts from people giving about 12 fruits in total and got Cork Brown from default. It just took me 3 berries for that. So that's a waste of your fruit.
Stick with 1 type of fruit and then work your way from there. Feed them until you get the message 'starts growing new feathers'. That's when the colour will change.

[dragonflie]

Btw, I stop feeding after I get the 'growing new feather' msg.

Color aim: Apple Green
Feed 1: 7 pear - result: Lime green - proc: 1
Feed 2: 6 berries - prediction: sylph green (I hould have done doma plum instead I think)

Color Aim: Lotus Pink
Feed 1: 3 apples - result: Millicorn Yellow - proc: 1
Feed 2: 5 valfruit - prediction: Pumpkin Orange

Color Aim: Soot Black < another friend
Feed 1: 3 berries, 1 apple, 1 pear - prediction: bone white (my bet is it's the lighten fruit that will make black) - proc: 3

After I achieve my target color, I will retry the recipe in 1 sitting based on proc. If I can reproduce the result, then it will show that how many proc is needed to reproduce the recipe, rather then based on how many fruit is fed.

Color Aim: Soot Black
Feed 1: 3 berries, 1 apple, 1 pear - result: Cork Brown - proc: 3
Feed 2: 1 berry, 4 apples, 1 pear

[shoki]

With my last try every value decreased
see http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2387664

So i don't think anymore that it's a RGB Value ~.~

[Angelusdemonus]

Since I got the color I wanted, I wanted to try some experimental stuff, for the sake of my FC and science.

I tried to go apples exclusively, but that ended with only 3 color changes (as I run out of apples). However, with the disparity of results even with a control feeding, I wanted to just share my results for data:

(Desert Yellow) --> Used apples till 1st New Feathers (3 Total). Result = Millicorn Yellow.
(Millicorn Yellow) --> Used apples till 1st New Feathers (9 Total). Result = Pumpkin Orange.
(Pumpkin Orange) --> Used applies till 1st New Feathers (13 Total). Result = Sunset Orange.

I think that's relatively consistent with what I've seen posted so far, so that shouldnt be surprising.

However, may I throw out a suggestion? Since there seems to be a large disparity using Plums, would someone be willing to use apples if you were to get, say, Slyph Green, to see if it would produce Cream Yellow?

Just from eyeballing posts, it looks like the first +1/+2 steps, starting from Desert Yellow, have a chance at being skipped by some (Cream Yellow and Honey Yellow for this instance), and I wonder if added the colored removed would in fact bring you to the color that got skipped.

Which would mean there is some (small) randomness in the amount of color it gives per feed.

I've also been seeing this occurring with Berries, where the first new feathers message is producing UI Brown or Cork Brown, Cork Brown being a step behind UI Brown.

I would try it myself but I'm currently out of position to do a direct experiment right now.

Thanks again for everyone's contributions!

[SyrupnBeavers]

I've been running my own experiments trying to get to Turquoise Green from Raptor Blue one step at a time. I'm not having a lot of success and I'm not too sure how all these colour values work but I can provide some raw information for the rest of you because it seems like a lot of people working on one-step changes are in the yellows and pinks and not the blues.

Raptor Blue (START)
--> Fed 7 Pineapples (1 new feathers)
Seafog Blue
-->2 pineapple (1 msg)
Corpse Blue
-->4 pineapple (1 msg)
Celeste Green
-->7 Pear (1 msg)
Apple Green
-->1 Berry (1 msg)
Celeste Green

As you can tell I'm not really sticking with one fruit because recently my problem has been that my chocobo is simply too lightly coloured and I thought I needed to deepen the greens and blues but at the same time Celeste Green is very close to my ideal colour so I was hoping I could just darken everything at the same time. I'm not sure how to go about doing this.

Was trying for Celeste Green, but I ended up with Apple Green, and I have to say... I really REALLY like it. It's very me~! So I am sticking with it. My Tsugaru is a very pretty boy now~!

You might be interested to know that I was able to get to Celeste Green from apple green with O'Ghomoro Berries.