Chocobo Dye - The Missing Manual

[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.