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.

[Kusari-chan]

Two apples were enough to bump it back to Regal Purple, I'm glad om'nom is showing support for the rainbow brigade, but c'mon now, was supposed to be abyssal blue. XD

Well, is seem to be stuck in the loop I've been reading, trying to get to rolanberry. I checked the spreadsheet and it said that rollanberry needs pears, so I figured since it's like the one thing I haven't fed it, and after 1 pear, I got the feather message, so I'll check back in a few hours.

So the pear put me back at Gloom Purple /facepalm.

Figured it would loop again, so I fed it more berries. 1 berry gave a feather message but I didn't trust it and so I fed it another berry and got another feather message. . . and loe and behold, I'm back at Royal Blue. . . so this time I fed it 2 pineapples . . . to see if I could get back to the color I skipped. . . please not Regal purple again, I'm considering using a han lemon and starting from scratch.

[Morningstar1337]

Okay Im trying to go directly to Abyssal Blue. according to the chart I can feed my chocobo enough berries to max it's blue value and from there feed some apples. How many berries I need to get to Orthard/Royal Blue and from there how many apples do I need for Abyssal Blue?

[Ezariel]

@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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@Morningstar1337: Abyssal Blue is not one I have tried to get someone to before, but if you are willing to experiment I calculated the following to get there from Desert Yellow (DISCLAIMER, not an exact science): 15 berries, 10 pears, 10 apples, 5 berries, 5 pears, 10 berries, 4 apples, 4 pears, 2 berries

Let me know if that works.

[Morningstar1337]

@Morningstar1337: Abyssal Blue is not one I have tried to get someone to before, but if you are willing to experiment I calculated the following to get there from Desert Yellow (DISCLAIMER, not an exact science): 15 berries, 10 pears, 10 apples, 5 berries, 5 pears, 10 berries, 4 apples, 4 pears, 2 berries

Let me know if that works.

Okay thought I need to get the fruit first. I'm assuming that this is in two/three feeds right?

[Ezariel]

Okay thought I need to get the fruit first. I'm assuming that this is in two/three feeds right?

Actually, you can do it all at once. The way it works is each fruit changes the color values by a certain value which varies slightly. That's why there is no exact science for it yet. If your fruits all get low values, you will end up with a different color than someone who gets fruit with high values. Since there is no way to control that part, I recommend a full feeding to see what color you get and going from there. Breaking it up just makes you take more steps. Just make sure to go in the exact order I specified because that WILL make a difference.

Let me know your result and we can fine tune from there.

[Enma]

I got Bark Brown (Missing on Color Map) from Regal Purple feeding:

• x10 Mamook Pear
• x1 Xelphatol Apple

[Chopski]

I went to loads of effort over the last week or so trying to map out all of the relationships, thinking there was a direct connection between each colour. Then I read this thread...

Anyway I built a calculator, which uses the advice here and was much easier and less complicated than what I was trying to do...

http://www.ffxivchocobo.com

Feedback greatly appreciated.

[Kusari-chan]

I went to loads of effort over the last week or so trying to map out all of the relationships, thinking there was a direct connection between each colour. Then I read this thread...

Anyway I built a calculator, which uses the advice here and was much easier and less complicated than what I was trying to do...

http://www.ffxivchocobo.com

Feedback greatly appreciated.

This looks promising, I especially like the updated color map. Since my last attempt put me back at the Regal Purple I was trying to avoid, I'm going to use your calculator to see if I can get back toward Rolanberry Red, even though my ultimate goal is soot black, I still want to see other colors too. So using your calculator it recommended 1 pear and 1 berry, and I got a feather change message from it, so we'll see.

[Raxion]

I want a Cactaur Green, or a Hunter Green chocobo. Does that mean I can just keep feeding him mamook pears until he turns one of those colors?