Chocobo dyeing R&D Thread - Post your results here!

[AkumaDoll]

Can someone tell me how to get to Soot Black from Midnight Blue please?

[Greven]

From Desert Yellow I gave him a lot of darkening fruits and I got Dalamud Red
then

Wine Red


then

Midnight Blu


I just gave him the last fruits I got from the 3 darkening seeds..

[Kahnom]

Can someone tell me how to get to Soot Black from Midnight Blue please?

Here is my method
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...67#post2390967

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...76#post2391876

[AkumaDoll]

Here is my method
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...67#post2390967

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...76#post2391876

Thank you very much! ^_^

[mercenarri]

Made a long message about how I got soot black, but I'm limited in characters :/ So here's a picture instead! Got it today:



And the steps:

[RisikaClarenille]

Okay, I have another question. Any tips on how to go from Lotus pink to Snow white? (Asking for my husband, definitely not changing my own chocobo.) I'm pretty sure I seen someone post it at one point but I can't find the post anymore. Any help is appreciated.

[Mythria]

Yay Soot Black. Started with 5 apples, 5 pears, 5 berries. Got Millioncorn Yellow 226/152/46 but wanted Soot black which is 37/35/30, so started bringing up the blue. Goal was to even the numbers, so I brought up the blue until about even with green, Then brought red down until the numbers were close.

Went from millioncorn yellow> ui brown> shale brown> goobbue grey 130/128/125,goal! Then equal amounts of apples, pears, and berries. Went Goobbue Grey> Slate grey> Loam brown 56/45/35. Fed one more apple, pear, and berry which dropped all numbers by about 5 points each, which I figured would be about 51/40/30. Then one more berry to bring blue up by 5 and red/green down by 5. Resulting in about 49/35/35. I figured each fruit to be about 5 points on average, based on that I think that each fruit is worth 3 to 6.

[Tashigi]

From what I was reading a few pages back, some people get stuck in a loop with that color and another (Royal Blue).
You might need to either Lighten some of the Blue and then take it in a different direction, or try darkening Green just a little (Maybe just 1 proc) to see if it steers you in a different direction of the wheel (Hopefully towards Ink Blue, which is closer to Soot Black).
IMO, though... I'd rather you take advice from someone who has broken that loop, before taking my advice.

[Zaes]

Update: I went from Ink Blue to Deepwood Green after feeding:

2x Plum (2 messages)
2x Pineapple (2 messages)
1 Valfruit (1 message)

I am still desperately trying to get to Grape Purple could someone PLEASE give me the formula because I read other people's things and really just confuse myself more.

I've gone through over like 10 colors and a lot of hours trying to inch my way to my color of choice.

[Syrehn]

Update: I went from Ink Blue to Deepwood Green after feeding:

2x Plum (2 messages)
2x Pineapple (2 messages)
1 Valfruit (1 message)

I am still desperately trying to get to Grape Purple could someone PLEASE give me the formula because I read other people's things and really just confuse myself more.

I've gone through over like 10 colors and a lot of hours trying to inch my way to my color of choice.

Starting Colour: Deepwood Green
25R 36G 28B

Desired Colour: Grape Purple
52R 36G 54B


You could give this combo a try:

x5 Valfruit
x2 Pineapple
x2 Plum

This combo should result in an RGB of around 50R 31G 53B (assuming +/-5 average integer and using the original RGB spreadsheet) and should push you into the dark purple range; it might take some additional tweaking to hit Grape Purple. Remember your mileage may vary.

P.S: There's really not an exact formula for the colours.
P.P.S: It's late here and I'm hoping my napkin math isn't off. Don't hate me if you don't get exactly Grape Purple.

Edit:

- I changed the above combo from my original reply as had the wrong RGB listed for Grape Purple; sorry it's late here and I typed it in wrong the first time. I hope you saw my "wait i'm re-calculating" message before you fed. >.<

I'll give this a try, and that is exact #'s of fruits and not feathers messages?

The above is the number of fruits to feed and not specifically the feather messages. By feeding the above you should see at least 1 if not multiple feather messages.