Chocobo Dye Experimentation

[Anonymoose]

Going to join the fray here and post each step of my progress from Desert Yellow to Grape Purple (one new feathers message from one fruit type at a time). Hopefully I can help corroborate the findings so far, and if something goes horribly awry, hopefully you'll at least be able to help meh fix it!

BASIC SUMMARY
Desert Yellow (216 175 80) to Grape Purple (52 36 54)

THE PLAN
Steps one to six went as planned, but Russet Brown came out of nowhere and broke my little lalafell heart at step seven. Applying the theories we've developed so far, I was able to course correct it in two additional, nerve-racking steps.

• [Step 1] Desert Yellow to Millioncorn Yellow in 2 Apples ✓
• [Step 2] Millioncorn Yellow to Pumpkin Orange in 13 Apples ✓
• [Step 3] Pumpkin Orange to Sunset Orange in 12 Apples ✓
• [Step 4] Sunset Orange to Blood Red in 11 Apples ✓
• [Step 5] Blood Red to Dalamud Red in 4 Berries ✓
• [Step 6] Dalamud Red to Rolanberry Red in 15 Berries ✓
• [Step 7] Rolanberry Red to Russet Brown in 11 Pears ✘
• [Step A] Russet Brown to Loam Brown in 3 Plums ✘
• [Step B] Loam Broan to Grape Purple in 2 Berries. ✓

Total Expenditure: 38 Xelphatol Apples, 21 O'Ghomoro Berries, 11 Mamook Pears, 3 Plums

FULL FEEDING JOURNAL

FEED #1 (Stable: Good)

Starting Color: Desert Yellow (216 175 80)
Feed: Xelphatol Apple
Log:

• Fed Apple
  
• Timer Begins ("New Plumage")
• Fed Apple
• Color Shifts ("New Feathers")

Expectation: Millioncorn Yellow (226 152 46)
Resulting Color: Millioncorn Yellow (226 152 46)
Notes: Corroborates chart so far.

FEED #2 (Stable: Good)

Starting Color: Millioncorn Yellow (226 152 46)
Feed: Xelphatol Apple
Log:

• Fed Apple
  
• Timer Begins ("New Plumage")
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Color Shifts ("New Feathers")

Expectation: Pumpkin Orange (293 109 31)
Resulting Color: Pumpkin Orange (293 109 31)
Notes: 13 feeds to move one color, oof. Gonna need to grow another set of apples...

FEED #3 (Stable: Good)

Starting Color: Pumpkin Orange (293 109 31)
Feed: Xelphatol Apple
Log:

• Fed Apple
  
• Timer Begins ("New Plumage")
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Color Shifts ("New Feathers")

Expectation: Sunset Orange (178 85 39)
Resulting Color: Sunset Orange (178 85 39)
Notes: This stage is a little strange if one assumes that the raw RGB values are of worth, here. From Pumpkin to Sunset, the green decreases as expected, but the red decreases and the blue increases? From an apple? SE's values must be a little different if this is true. Also, another 12 apples down. Doubt I'll make it from sunset (assuming I get sunset) to blood in just 9 from my first planting. <sad meh>

FEED #4 (Stable: Good)

Starting Color: Sunset Orange (178 85 39)
Feed: Xelphatol Apple
Log:

• Fed Apple
  
• Timer Begins ("New Plumage")
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Fed Apple
• Color Shifts ("New Feathers")

Expectation: Blood Red (139 52 34)
Resulting Color: Blood Red (139 52 34)
Notes: So far so good! Could I truly be done with apples!?

FEED #5 (Stable: Good)

Starting Color: Blood Red (139 52 34)
Feed:O'Ghomoro Berries
Log:

• Fed Berries
• Timer Begins ("New Plumage")
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Color Shifts ("New Feathers")

Expectation: Dalamud Red (113 22 22)
Resulting Color: TIMER IN PROGRESS; UPDATE AT 9:31PM EST
Notes: Come onnnn, RNGesus, smooth transitions, no loops! Lessdothis!

FEED #6 (Stable: Good)

Starting Color: Dalamud Red (113 22 22)
Feed:O'Ghomoro Berries
Log:

• Fed Berries
• Timer Begins ("New Plumage")
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Fed Berries
• Color Shifts ("New Feathers")

Expectation: Rolanberry Red (84 19 35)
Resulting Color: TIMER IN PROGRESS; UPDATE AT 4:20AM EST
Notes: That is a lot of berries... fahk. Thinking I might overshoot it.

FEED #7 (Stable: Fair at first, noticed and cleaned them after 6 of 11 feedings)

Starting Color: Rolanberry Red (84 19 35)
Feed: Mamook Pears
Log:

• Fed Pears
• Timer Begins ("New Plumage")
• Fed Pears
• Fed Pears
• Fed Pears
• Fed Pears
• Fed Pears
• Fed Pears
• Fed Pears
• Fed Pears
• Fed Pears
• Fed Pears
• Color Shifts ("New Feathers")

Expectation: Grape Purple (52 36 54)
Resulting Color: Russet Brown (72 39 26)
Notes: Could we really be on the home stretch!? Let's not jinx it. Lots of hope and TLC and prayers to RNGesus that a fair stable for half the feeds doesn't send it to Swampass Breen or something. AAAAAND IT'S BROWN. Heartbreaking.

FEED #8 (Stable: Good)

Starting Color: Russet Brown (72 39 26)
Feed: Doman Plum
Log:

• Fed Plum
• Timer Begins ("New Plumage")
• Fed Plum
• Fed Plum
• Color Shifts ("New Feathers")

Expectation: None
Resulting Color: Loam Brown (56 45 35)
Notes: Eugh.

FEED #9 (Stable: Good)

Starting Color: Loam Brown (56 45 35)
Feed: O'Ghomoro Berries
Log:

• Fed Berries
• Timer Begins ("New Plumage")
• Fed Berries
• Color Shifts ("New Feathers")

Expectation: None
Resulting Color:Grape Purple (52 36 54)
Notes: FINGERS IN THE AIR, RNGESUS - STICK THAT IN YOUR STRAW AND SUC-I mean, I uh, w...woooo... Yes. Woo.

NAILED IT. Not only did we nail it, but, in my humble opinion, the final steps to get there lend a lot of support to the main ideas we've had in this thread: Every fruit counts to some degree, RNG is involved, the "New Feathers" message gives you the option of (limited) control, a fruit's effect on one color has an equal(?) and opposite effect on the other two colors, and course correction is a bitch. I'd like to give a very big thank you to everyone here taking the longer, more obnoxious path through the scientific method thread, both for the theory progress and the advice. I hope what input I could provide helps you in return.