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

[FelenaK]

Hey there, I was experimenting on my own a bit just checking at the FFXIV Chocobo Colors spreadsheet that can be found on reddit and I'm a bit stuck right now.

I've done 4 feeding sessions right now and noted down everything and I'm sorta stuck right now :/

1. 1 O'Ghomoro Berry > Desert Yellow
2. 2 Xelphatol Apples + 3 O'Ghomoro Berries > Cork Brown
3. 26 O'Ghomoro Berries + 8 Xelphatol Apples > Royal Blue
4. 3 Xelphatol Apples + 1 O'Ghomoro Berry : > Regal Purple

If anyone would have any idea on what to do from now on to get an Ink Blue Chocobo, would be awesome. It looks like I'd need to deepen Blue & Red hard and a bit Green as well, so looks like around 15 Xelphatol Apples, ~4-5 Mamook Pears and around 10 O'Ghomoro Berries, but I'm not quite sure :x

[Shika]

something weird happened to me

my chocobo is cactuar green and I fed him about 50 darkening fruits with 12 new feather messages

after 6 hours nothing happened, I just thought it was a bug or whatever

I thought this was just me.... My chocobo is currently Ash Grey, so yesterday evening before going to bed I fed him 2 of each fruit to reduce RGB and got the "new feathers" (not just plumage will change) message. I logged in this morning before work- more than 6 hours later- and got no CS and he hadn't changed colour. I thought maybe the fruit I fed was not enough after all. So I fed him a further 5 fruit of each type to reduce Red, Green and Blue. Got the "growing new feathers" message so fingers crossed when I get home in 2hrs something has actually happened.

[GavarKhai]

So from Marsh Green I got drunk and feed my choco 2berries each proced then 1 apple and it also proced to give me Ink Blue. I was then convinced by a friend to try and do Kobold Brown via 1 pineapple then try and get soot... I fed my Bucephalus who was Ink Blue 1 pineapple and it proced on the first feed and he became soot black. Thank you RNG? confused but happy since now my Bucephalus is the same color as Alexander the Greats horse Bucephalus!

congrats on being one of the first few on gilgamesh to get a soot black chocobo.

[LadyKrona]

I finally got Colibri Pink! (Lavender > Iris > Colibri)

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I gave him 15 berries and 4 valfruit and got Lavender Blue.
I then gave him 4 plums, 3 Valfruit and 4 Pineapples to get Iris Purple.
Finally giving him 5 apples, 3 fruit and 3 plums got me Colibri Pink!

[RockGodOne]

Why are peope saying to use feeds that "lighten" to go up in numbers and feeds that "deepen" to go down? I've been doing the opposite and it's worked right on the dot for me.

Started with Desert Yellow.
Fed him 3 berries and got the new feathers message, and stopped.
He turned UI Brown.
Fed him 3 or 4 more berries, got the message and stopped.
He turned Gobbiebag Brown.
Fed him 2 more berries, and once again got the message and stopped.
He turned Shale Brown.
Before I left for work, I fed him 2 Doman Plums to bring down the red and bring up the green and blue. If I'm right, he will be 1 of 3 possible colors: Meadow Green, Corpse Blue or Lavender Blue.

If "deepen" feeds actually brought the main color DOWN, and the 2 secondary colors UP, there's no way I would've got those brown colors according to that chart. I'll post back in 12 hours when I get off work.

[Desidious]

Starting with the Desert Yellow

Fed pears until message: Lime Green
Fed pears until message: Apple Green
Fed 30+ pears with no message so waited the 6hrs
Fed O'berries until message: Cactuar Green
Fed O'berries until message: Turquoise Green

I just fed it apples so we will see what happens now but I'm going for Morbol Green eventually.

Fed 1 apple until message: Back to... Cactuar Green. o.o;

[SaikaT]

Aiming for Soot Black or possibly Ink blue if I land there and feel ready to give up.

Starting from Desert Yellow I fed my chocobo:
8 apples, 8 pears, 17 berries and 1 plum and ended up at Bark Brown.
From Bark Brown:
6 apples, 8 pears, 9 berries and 1 plum which took me to Rolanberry Red.
From Rolanberry Red:
2 apples, 1 pear and 5 berries brought me to Midnight Blue.
From Midnight Blue:
3 pineapples and 1 berry got me Kobold Brown.
From Kobold Brown:
1 plum.

Which has now landed me on Grape Purple. I've fed him 2 pears and 1 berry. Any input if this is the right way to Soot Black?

[Snootles]

Fed 1 apple until message: Back to... Cactuar Green. o.o;

It seems like Apple Green is the max green that you can reach with Mamook Pears.

Did you only feed O'Ghomorro Berries from Apple Green to Cactur Green? Same question from Cactuar Green to Turquoise Green?

I really want to add your data to the spreadsheet.

[Snootles]

I finally got Colibri Pink! (Lavender > Iris > Colibri)

Day and Night Images

I gave him 15 berries and 4 valfruit and got Lavender Blue.
I then gave him 4 plums, 3 Valfruit and 4 Pineapples to get Iris Purple.
Finally giving him 5 apples, 3 fruit and 3 plums got me Colibri Pink!

You fed way too many fruits. Colibri is easily reached through approximately 4 steps with only apples. Should be around 13 to 15 apples.

[skaterger]

My progress so far: Desert yellow (12 berries, 6 apples, 6 pears)--> Aldgoat brown (15 berries, 3 apples. 3 pears) --> Royal blue

Current: Royal blue : 34R 42G 96B
Desired: Soot black: 37R 35G 30B

I'm thinking feeding it 2 apples and 2 pears and getting 4 procs in total, reducing blue and not really changing red and green. Any suggesions?

Bad news. I got Gloom purple: 74 62 89.

The apples and pears should have neutralized each other but both red and green increased by a lot. I'm confused now and don't know what to believe anymore. Can anyone help?