Chocobo Dye Experimentation

[Loony_BoB]

Question:
Can you explain your "theory" behind this spreadsheet? Or it is just a calculator?

Literally just a calculator. Saves people trying to look up colour codes and does it for you, and figures the difference. Just there to save time, really! It's based on the general theory of RGB standard being used and leaves the figuring out of exactly how much of each fruit to the individual, given that there seems to be a fair amount of RNG involved.

[Zomb]

I've followed along with the apple testing done in this thread and experienced the same results. Fed nothing but apples until I got to blood red (stopped feeding apples each time I got the new feather message). I then fed berries until I received the new feather message and now I have dalamud red. My end goal is wine red, but it doesn't seem like anyone has achieved this color with accurate testing.

I think if anyone is able to translate this page
http://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...995.1375390680
more accurately than google translate we might be able to figure it out. It looks like the guy went from rolanberry red to wine red. Has anyone tried feeding pears to a rolanberry red choco?

[Hihiyo]

I have also found out that the fruit seeds when planted with different adjacent plants will also occasionally cross bread into Gysahl Green seeds - 3 times now I have gotten a cross breed of 12 seeds each with my shroud soil.

and while you get 36 fruit with grade 3 shroud topsoil on the dye fruits, the han lemons only give 2

[Schaeffa]

and while you get 36 fruit with grade 3 shroud topsoil on the dye fruits, the han lemons only give 2

Blast! The lemons are selling for 150k+ on my server right now—I was hoping to make 5mil when my crops were done. xD

[LyricalMelody]

Current Color: Royal blue (34/42/96)

I'm trying to get soot black. So far I've been feeding a lot of berries and some pears/apples and got royal blue.

I fed 25 berries, 7 pears and 7 apples now but still didn't get a message that the feathers will change. Is this because the R/G values can't decrease any further? Or am I missing something?

I'm thinking about feeding pineapples to decrease blue and increasing red/green to get them around the same level and then decrease all three values equally.

No more berries can be added to the Royal Blue. We have found that if you have used 15-20 of a snack and no "new feathers" message appears, then that color won't accept that snack any more. My recent feeding took 13 snacks and my husband's took 14.

[dark494]

No more berries can be added to the Royal Blue. We have found that if you have used 15-20 of a snack and no "new feathers" message appears, then that color won't accept that snack any more. My recent feeding took 13 snacks and my husband's took 14.

Except, you know, when this happens.

Saw a post yesterday and forgot to copy it, someone went from blood red into deeper red using 70+ apples.

This does agree with the trend I am seeing from apples, as you go deeper into the color scale, the more apple it requires. Currently I have stopped at blood red (30+ apples) and I do not have the supply to keep doing this route if the next jump is 70+ apples.

[Ravenloft]

I think if anyone is able to translate this page
http://jp.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...995.1375390680
more accurately than google translate we might be able to figure it out. It looks like the guy went from rolanberry red to wine red. Has anyone tried feeding pears to a rolanberry red choco?

Good Job. I glad we got some work confirmed. I personally continued on with Berries from Rolanberry. If I had to take an educated guess, following the same route I did, Wine Red would probably be pears started from Dalamud Red. Or, Wine Red would be branched off of this high lvl Red that hasn't been confirmed yet. From the map/planner, if you start pears from Rolanberry it seems you can get Grape Purple. I'm not saying it's not possible from Rolanberry, but I feel like it's too much of a Violet color. As far as I know, no one in this thread has done pears off of a red from the same route yet. So you are welcome to try.

edit: More theorizing.. pears for a step or two off of Dalamud/Rolanberry. Then maybe try apples again to hit Wine.
With the unknown RNG at work, it's really just guesswork till someone finds it.

[Zomb]

More theorizing.. pears for a step or two off of Dalamud/Rolanberry. Then maybe try apples again to hit Wine.
With the unknown RNG at work, it's really just guesswork till someone finds it.

Decided to take your advice and go with pears from dalamud red. Shockingly, it only took one pear to get the new feathers message O_O
I'll post later tonight/tomorrow morning with the results.

[Ravenloft]

Decided to take your advice and go with pears from dalamud red. Shockingly, it only took one pear to get the new feathers message O_O
I'll post later tonight/tomorrow morning with the results.

lol Crazy mess. Good Luck. I hope you can find it. I thought my heart was set on Dalamud Red, but I find Wine Red to be quite nice also.

[Vengeful_Fiend]

Does anyone know how to get to Iris Purple from Colibri Pink?