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

[Philio]

I'm back at Hunter Green and I need to get to soot black... Anyone have any suggestions on what to feed next?

[Nyalia]

I want to get to Hunter Green. Should I just feed it more Mamook pears? Or do I need to add any other fruits?

You are at 166/171/77 and want to get to 34/68/38. That's a big shift. If I'm right about how things work, you want to focus on Pears to drop the red and the blue, and Berries to slow the blue down and drop the green. You want probably relatively equal quantities of both, but more Pears in the end. But, if I'm right, the amount that the values are dropped is random, so you'll have to re-evaluate when you get to the darker colors. You will likely want some Apples too to speed the drop of all three colors, but less Apples than the rest.

You'll probably go through a bunch of other colors on the way. Meadow Green might be one of the first you hit on your way down. If you hit Adamantoise, Ochu, or Norphica, you want to lessen the Berries and increase the Pears. If you reach Norphica, you have the green exactly where you want it, but too much red and blue. So, just a few Pears and no more Berries should get you there. If you hit Olive Green, it would mean you still have too much Red (feed Pears and Berries equally). If you get Marsh Green, it means you have equal green and red and too little blue (again, Pears+Berries is good, but you might also want to throw in a couple Plums to get the Blue up). If you reach Deepwood Green, you had the right proportions of things, but overshot Hunter Green by lowering the green too much. A few Plums and Pineapples should get the green back up without affecting the other two too much.

So, start with Pears + Berries, and then re-evaluate after some color changes. Don't worry too much about getting random colors on the way, as long as all three values are trending downward, you're on the right track.

[Nyalia]

I can confirm this to be false.

Then you went back to your current color from a new color. Did you stop when you did not have a message as the last thing, and did the color still change? If I'm right, the color would not have changed in that case. If I'm wrong, it still would have.

[Nyalia]

I'm back at Hunter Green and I need to get to soot black... Anyone have any suggestions on what to feed next?

Apples and Berries, but more Apples than Berries.

[lvicious]

edited: I'm just going to revert back to default color since lemons are really cheap now on our server and then it will be much easier to hit sunset orange.

[Fuma]

Stable condition: good
Training during transformation: 1 time, Krakka root
Feed: Mamook Pearsx7, fed until I got message that he was growing new feathers
result: lime green

[Torchic373]

Desert Yellow (start) - 6 red, 9 green, 3 blue
Millicorn Yellow -1 red
Coeurl Yellow - 6 red, 6 blue
Pumpkin Orange

So my Coeurl Yellow turned Pumpkin Orange. At least I'm getting closer to Dalamud!

[Philio]

Just Fed him 3 Apples and 2 Berries. Should I feed more or see what happens?

Current Color: Hunter Green R34 G68 B38

Desired Color: Soot Black R37 G35 B30

[Gilgameshkun]

Abysal RGB 43 39 80
Midnight RGB 20 21 49

Try 3 apple, 3 pears, 5 berries.

You need to deepen all of them, blue slightly more so.

not sure if you are reading other peoples data but i posted on my experimenting.
Abyssal + 1pear = Royal Blue
Royal Blue + 1pineapple= Storm Blue

I went back and forth between those colors twice.

[mercenarri]

Here's my progress so far:

Desert Yellow (216, 175, 80)
Apple x8, Pear x8, Berry x8
Halatali Yellow (159, 125, 42)
Apple x12, Pear x12, Berry x12
Opo-Opo Brown (116, 85, 39)
Apple x5, Pear x5, Berry x3
Orchard Brown (93, 59, 18)
Apple x3
Mesa Red (118, 51, 4)
Berry x1
Orchard Brown (93, 59, 18)
Berry x2
Rust Red (91, 29, 5)
Berry x3
Wine Red (62, 17, 14)
Plum x2
Loam Brown (56, 45, 35)
Apple x1, Pear x1, Berry x1
Kobold Brown (42, 28, 23)
Plum x1

That plum should get me to Soot Black. Will confirm in 6 hours.