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

[Resolute]

The spreadsheet is useless. It's not the amount of fruit given but the times it gives you the message it's changing feathers/plumage which is still the unknown factor. Some people got it giving some fruits, others got it with other combinations, some gave dozens of fruits and some just a couple.

Yep, I think you are right. It is the message, not amount. I wish I didn't waste so many berries when I gave my chocobo 21, after getting a yield of 23. Now I have to wait for new ones to grow.

[Shyluv]

How much did you feed him and did you leave him in the stables for six hours like you're supposed to?

Yeah. I kept him in the entire time. At first I fed him 6 apples and got the feather message, but no change. Then I fed him 9 berries with no feather message, so I gave him 6 more berries and no message. Then I tried 10 pears, no feather message. Then I just kept throwing the darkening fruit at him (probably something like 22 apples, 25 berries and 18 pears) with no message so I decided to wait and see what would happen. No change. Then I fed him 6 plums and got feather message and again, no change.

I absolutely didn't accidentally take him out either. The only thing I can think of is I just really don't understand it, or people came up and stabled their chocobo so it bumped him out of immediate view each time I got the feather changing message. Not sure if that makes sense. So, my chocobo was one of the two visible ones, but then FC members ran up and stabled theirs. Wouldn't think that would ruin it though.

[Konala]

I fed 20 Mamook Pears and 11 O'Ghomoro Berries and ended up with Cactuar Green.

[Resolute]

UPDATE: Here is the story so far. I want black, so I tried the Slate Gray combination on the spreadsheet, which gave me Plum Purple. So, I fed my chocobo 1 Xelphatol Apple, 1 O'Ghomoro Berry, and 4 Mamook Pear and now I have Mole Brown. I guess that is closer to black? So, this morning I fed my chocobo 3 Mamook Pears, 2 Xelphatol Apples, and 2 O'Ghomoro Berries. I got the color change msg on the second apple and the second berry, no message on the pears. We will see... With my luck, the message appearing on red and blue probably means it will go back to purple or something.

[Kaelah]

Well, 2 new feathers are growing pineapples from Sylph green made Cream Yellow. :/
What should I do for green? I'd love Apple/Turquoise or Hunter. Suggestions?

[lvicious]

Very helpful image here. This one too- someone else had posted it before, so I take no credit for it, just reposting.



If you have yellow, and you're wanting a green bird you might want to try some plums or pears.

Nice. Hopefully get more feedback in this thread http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...entation/page2

[Kaelah]

Very helpful image here. This one too- someone else had posted it before, so I take no credit for it, just reposting.



If you have yellow, and you're wanting a green bird you might want to try some plums or pears.

Thankoo so much for that. Pears are doing nothing after 9 and after waiting a minute between feeds like someone thought might make the difference. So maybe green is maxed? I fed 3 Plums and it said the feather message all 3 times so I'll see what that does.

[Surian]

First fed (1x plum), nothing happened.

Second fed (5x plums) i got Honey Yellow

Third fed (10x doman plums, 10x Pineapples, 10x val fruit) i got Bone Yellow

Fourth fed (10x Doman plums, 10x pineapples, 10x val fruit): Waiting...

Not super happy thus far. I think my first Light Blues steered me off course towards my desired Snow White. Hoping that once one of them "caps out" if that's possible, adding more will have me hit white. That's considdering a "255, 255, 255" system, and not one where it simply shifts the more you give it of one color.