Chocobo Dye - The Missing Manual

[Kusari-chan]

Loong story short, got stuck in the Regal Purple death trap. Fed her 4 pears

Those 4 pears turned her from Regal Purple to Chocolate Brown ...!
No clue how to approach getting to Soot Black from Chocolate brown but I HAVE to assume it's not that far off now ... right?!?
Anyone know how to swing from this to soot black?

Dunno if my spreadsheet needs updating or not, but from what I can tell no one has gotten chocolate brown yet, I'd love a pic. I was actually considering what would make chocolate brown, and thought Regal Purple was the right value to get it. BUT I don't know exactly how to move it in the direction you want. I would say that because it has so much red, maybe continue with pears until it become more neutral grey, or add apples and see if you can make it go to Mesa Red as that color seems pretty close in hue to Chocolate Brown. . . This is just my guess though. Sorry if it doesn't help much, good luck.

[reivaxe]

Dunno if my spreadsheet needs updating or not, but from what I can tell no one has gotten chocolate brown yet, I'd love a pic. I was actually considering what would make chocolate brown, and thought Regal Purple was the right value to get it. BUT I don't know exactly how to move it in the direction you want. I would say that because it has so much red, maybe continue with pears until it become more neutral grey, or add apples and see if you can make it go to Mesa Red as that color seems pretty close in hue to Chocolate Brown. . . This is just my guess though. Sorry if it doesn't help much, good luck.

Oh ... didn't know I had hit new land by getting Chocolate brown from Regal Purple. O_o

Sorry, after I didn't see anyone say anything I took her out from some Hunting before deciding to feed her again. Looked at the color values and saw that Blue in Chocolate Brown seems pretty low ... so assuming that feeding her 4 pears did MORE than just one step I decided to feed her 1 berry before going to bed.

Woke up this morning to find she was REGAL PURPLE again! Had I seen your reply I would have given her pears again to get Chocolate Brown and snap a pic :/
I was 3 kinds of annoyed with this color and multi procs on 1 food didn't seem to get her far enough away from it so I gave her 1 ValFruit to lower red and boost the Green/ Blue, a Pear to lower red and boost green to get them more even and 1 berry to boost blue ... She turned Charcoal Gray.


But don't worry, with my luck she will be back to regal Purple in NO TIME and if (well, when >_>) that happens I shall make it a point to feed her a pear to see if I can get Chocolate Brow again.

@reivaxe: Try this, no guarantee but my calculator says this should get you much closer - 5 berries, 5 pears, 2 berries, 1 apple, 1 pear and 1 berry

See if that gets you black or one of the variants that is a shade off of black, since Chocolate Brown is indeed a high red color and you need to bring that red down while keeping your other numbers stable. That's why you need to balance berries and pears.

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If I hit Chocolate Brown again I will remember to try this after Snapping a Pic, thanks!

[reivaxe]

Oh ... didn't know I had hit new land by getting Chocolate brown from Regal Purple. O_o

Sorry, after I didn't see anyone say anything I took her out from some Hunting before deciding to feed her again. Looked at the color values and saw that Blue in Chocolate Brown seems pretty low ... so assuming that feeding her 4 pears did MORE than just one step I decided to feed her 1 berry before going to bed.

Woke up this morning to find she was REGAL PURPLE again! Had I seen your reply I would have given her pears again to get Chocolate Brown and snap a pic :/
I was 3 kinds of annoyed with this color and multi procs on 1 food didn't seem to get her far enough away from it so I gave her 1 ValFruit to lower red and boost the Green/ Blue, a Pear to lower red and boost green to get them more even and 1 berry to boost blue ... She turned Charcoal Gray.


But don't worry, with my luck she will be back to regal Purple in NO TIME and if (well, when >_>) that happens I shall make it a point to feed her a pear to see if I can get Chocolate Brow again.



If I hit Chocolate Brown again I will remember to try this after Snapping a Pic, thanks!

Fed her one of all darkening foods (Apple then pear then berry), got Loam Brown ...

Any suggestions? Gonna try a Val to see if that can even out the colors and get me soot black.

[Giantbane]

Fed her one of all darkening foods (Apple then pear then berry), got Loam Brown ...

Any suggestions? Gonna try a Val to see if that can even out the colors and get me soot black.

Valfruit is going the wrong way. Loam is still lighter than Soot black so you're going to want to darken more. It's also a little too red so you'll need to remove that.

The above calculator http://www.ffxivchocobo.com/ is an automatic version of the spreadsheet and looks like it does a pretty good job of giving general estimates from my limited tests. Its recommendations are 2 apple, 3 pear, 3 berry which seems pretty good as it does remove a bit of red and then darkens it overall.

[reivaxe]

Valfruit is going the wrong way. Loam is still lighter than Soot black so you're going to want to darken more. It's also a little too red so you'll need to remove that.

The above calculator http://www.ffxivchocobo.com/ is an automatic version of the spreadsheet and looks like it does a pretty good job of giving general estimates from my limited tests. Its recommendations are 2 apple, 3 pear, 3 berry which seems pretty good as it does remove a bit of red and then darkens it overall.

Long story short, ended up back at this color so I'm gonna try it your way!

[reivaxe]

Long story short, ended up back at this color so I'm gonna try it your way!

Marsh Green! >:'[

[reivaxe]

Marsh Green! >:'[

kobold Brown! X[