Chocobo Dye - The Missing Manual

[Chione]

Howdy ya'll. I've been trying to get charcoal gray for one of my chocobos for a while now, and after finally breaking out of the rolanberry red-bermuda triangle, I landed on ceruleum blue. From here I tried the single feed method, only to land on turqoise green and then back to ceruleum. This color was close enough to what I wanted so I left it alone for a while till I saw this thread and the new calculator. So! I gave it a shot, with the micro feeding.

Starting Color: Ceruleum Blue
Suggested: 3 berry, 5 pear, 6 apple
Fed: 2 berry > 3 pear > 3 apple > 1 berry > 2 pear > 3 apple.
Result: Shadow Blue :C

Revisiting the calculator now says that I should feed 1 valfruit, 1 plum and 4 pineapple. Thoughts or advice on how to ensure the Charcoal grey I'm looking for? Every snack (even the first berry) had a feather proc, if it helps.

[reivaxe]

Marsh Green! >:'[

kobold Brown! X[

[Arianna88]

I am stuck at Rolanberry Red and want to get to Soot Black. According to the calculator it says i need to feed 1 × Plums, 3 × Berries, 6 × Pears. What is the best way to break this up?

[AttacKat]

Okay, over and done with, the new microfeeding thread is here:

Microfeeding: The Way to Chocobo Color Dyeing

[PuhnTang]

Lotus Pink (255, 207, 247) is the other extreme compared to Soot Black/Midnight Blue... Your issue here is you will be knocking on the R/B wall quite often, so you need to be extremely careful on your feeding order.

I did exactly what you recommended. The first 4 didn't proc, but everything else did. No clue where we'll be in the morning, but we'll see!

Dingbat devours the Doman plum.
Dingbat's plumage will change in 6 hours.
Dingbat devours the Doman plum.
Dingbat devours the Doman plum.
Dingbat devours the valfruit.
Dingbat devours the valfruit.
Dingbat is beginning to grow new feathers!

After this, all fruits gave the growing new feathers message, and I did screenshot the whole thing if you'd like to see it. I wasn't clear if the fruit needed to proc to count, or if it was part of the whole process. Hopefully a Lotus pink bird will greet me in the morning! I suspect I won't like it and we'll be working our way back to Celeste Green.

[reivaxe]

kobold Brown! X[

Deepwood green :/

[DarkLink887]

So my brother gave his chocobo 15 apples and it became pumpkin orange, then he gave it 5 valfruit but it 6 hours didn't pass yet so i don't know if it will change. he is trying to get to blood red. where should he go from here?

[DarkLink887]

now my brother's chocobo is at sunset orange after eating the 5 valfruit? I've been trying to use the chocobo color simulator but this isn't at all where i thought his chocobo would end up. any advice?

[PuhnTang]

Well, I got Snow White this morning. I didn't expect that at all.



The calculator says 1 × Pineapples, 1 × Plums, 6 × Valfruit still to get to Lotus Pink. I'm not sure why so many Valfruit since all but one of the proc'd. Based on what happened last night, I'd have expected 3 plums, 1 Valfruit, however that's simply based on what fruits were supposed to get me to Lotus pink and didn't proc from the list I fed.

[Syrehn]

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.

I've been on vacation but I updated the "Resources" section to list your new calculator. Thanks for sharing!

Just a side note, I went ballistic on the 2500+ post thread because the posters that made recommendations using the original calculator didn't do this, and I am seeing the same possible mistake(?) being made here.

I would just like to point out that many users giving out recommendations early on in the Chocobo Dye thread weren't even using the calculator you got so irritated about. We were doing math manually (napkin math) to try to assist as best we could with the info we had for fruit recommendations; which had many successful turnouts.

I personally have not used any of the calculators so I can't attest to if they work properly or not but I'm trying to keep the resources section updated so that other players can choose a method to try. Chopski's seems to have a decent success rate.

I did see the thread you started regarding micro feeding. I'll keep my eyes on the comments in your thread and might end up adding a link to it in "Resources" section as well. Thanks for contributing. For Science!