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

[skaterger]

You feed them all at once, and continue to feed the amount even if you trigger the "growing new feathers" message.

What is happening behind the scenes is you are shifting your Chocobo's hidden RGB values around (even if you don't see the indication of new feathers). Each dye appears to have a range for each color (I.e. 25-35Red, 100-120Green, 150-160Blue for color "X") and if all three numbers are inside these values you will active that plumage color on your next change. When you see "growing new feathers" message, you have effectively pushed yourself from your current color range into the new one.

Sorry if I sound stupid, but from what you are saying, only when the message appears, you are triggered into a new range. So this means that EVERY feed is definite to change the numbers in the RGB spectrum, the only rng is the amount it changes by. ANd the reason why people take different amount of fruits to get the feather message is because of the rng in the amount of change in each feed. Am I interpreting this correctly?

Yes. You're interpreting this correctly.

Thanks! I'll update my results here periodically.

[Syrehn]

Sorry if I sound stupid, but from what you are saying, only when the message appears, you are triggered into a new range. So this means that EVERY feed is definite to change the numbers in the RGB spectrum, the only rng is the amount it changes by. ANd the reason why people take different amount of fruits to get the feather message is because of the rng in the amount of change in each feed. Am I interpreting this correctly?

Yes. You're interpreting this correctly.

[blueruckus]

What is happening behind the scenes is you are shifting your Chocobo's hidden RGB values around (even if you don't see the indication of new feathers). Each dye appears to have a range for each color (I.e. 25-35Red, 100-120Green, 150-160Blue for color "X") and if all three numbers are inside these values you will active that plumage color on your next change. When you see "growing new feathers" message, you have effectively pushed yourself from your current color range into a new one.
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I'm hoping this is how it works. I'm trying for black and I'm in this Ink Blue > Kobold Brown > Deepwood Green loop. I'm hoping that if I just continue on this loop, eventually the RNG will skew the numbers just enough to get me in to Soot Black. My fear was that my numbers were stuck at a point where it was impossible to get Black without fully restarting but I'm gonna continue on this loop for a while before restarting.

[Syrehn]

I'm hoping this is how it works. I'm trying for black and I'm in this Ink Blue > Kobold Brown > Deepwood Green loop. I'm hoping that if I just continue on this loop, eventually the RNG will skew the numbers just enough to get me in to Soot Black. My fear was that my numbers were stuck at a point where it was impossible to get Black without fully restarting but I'm gonna continue on this loop for a while before restarting.

If you end up hitting Ink Blue again try x2 Pineapples and x1 Valfruit.

[blueruckus]

If you end up hitting Ink Blue again try x2 Pineapples and x1 Valfruit.

Cool, will give that a shot and keep the thread updated. Current session ends at 3am PST, if that goes Ink again, I'll go 2x pineapples 1x Valfruit and update you at 9am PST.

If the 1x valfruit at the end does not proc... go with a second one until proc? Would that be too much change?

Also, if I end up back at Kobold Brown again... would you then recommend.... 2x Plums and 1x Pineapple?

[LuxBellator]

If you end up hitting Ink Blue again try x2 Pineapples and x1 Valfruit.

will this result in soot black?

[Tosheden]

This probably caused me to make my first post ever; But if someone could answer a question that may or may not have been answered already that would be great... How are you calculating x amount of fruits you need for desired color changes? Currently my chocobo is Halatali yellow after feeding 10 apples, berries, pears. I took a shot in the dark still trying to figure out where I'll end up and gave it 10 more berries so to you knowledgeable ones, where should I end up on the color chart after my last session? I too, am trying to obtain a soot black chocobo as well.

[Jyntix]

Finally got to Dalamud Red! After not getting any procs for 18+ berries, I waited a day and went back and got the 1 proc needed to change from Blood Red > Dalamud w/ 3 berries. I'm so happy!

[Sho86]

Just wanna give my findings. I went for snow white and did it in small stages to see how many it actually took.
Going from the x15 Plum, x6 Pine, x12 Val method I broke it up and see how it went.

1st Attempt - Cream Yellow

x4 Doman Plum, x3 Valfruit, x5 Ciel Pine

2nd Attempt - Bone White

x4 Doman Plum, x3 Valfruit, x1 Ciel Pine (Pine did not offer "Growing new feather" notice at this stage but added it for sake of original method)

3rd Attempt - Snow White

x5 Doman Plum, x3 Valfruit

Total = x13 Doman Plum, x9 Valfruit, x6 Pine

[BobbinT]

is there any FAQ about choco's dyeing? Kinda hard to browse 150+ pages here.

1 thing for sure: Based on google spreadsheet, do I just feed amount of food described there? or there's feeding rule like can only feed 1 hour each or maybe RNG involved?