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

[Esutiben]

So earlier I had Gloom Purple and fed it 10x Pear, 9x Apple, and 6x Berries.
It turned out to be Grape Purple instead of Soot Black.
Anyone have suggestions on what to do next to get Soot Black?

Try:

apple 2
pear 4
valfruit 1
berry 1

[Chek]

Should be two pineapples from deepwood to soot black.

You told me 2x valfruit and 2x pineapples, and 2x pineapples to this guy. I'm confused. We're both at deepwood green and going to soot black, how are they different?

[Esutiben]

It was Raptor Blue then i gave it 6 pineapples.... got this Lavender Purple. Before it was Raptor Blue it was Lavender Blue.

What color are you going for?

[Esutiben]

You told me 2x valfruit and 2x pineapples, and 2x pineapples to this guy. I'm confused. We're both at deepwood green and going to soot black, how are they different?

You are correct, my mistake, copied it wrong for the other guy. Editing his post now. Though 2 pineapples land you on the range, 2 pineapples and 2 valfruits make it the closest possible.

Thank you for the heads up, hope the other guy sees the correction and response.

[Esutiben]

ill give it a try ill post update with result

Correction: Add two valfruits as well. It should be two pineapples and two valfruits for the closest match.

[Fuclarina]

alright added the two pineapples both with msg

[Hyperia]

You are at Colibri Pink (223, 159, 207)
You want to get to Lotus Pink (255, 207, 247)
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Pineapple x 8 (-> 255, 199, 167)
Plum x 8 (-> 215, 239, 207)
Valfruit x 8 (-> 255, 199, 247)
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Difference from Lotus Pink: 0, 8, 0 (that's pretty much spot on!)

Thank you, thank you, thank you! It worked! ^_^

[JackZyre]

So i finally achieved soot black

I had been going back and forth from Ink Blue, and Deepwood green for almost a week.

After getting fed up giving him the single fruit corrections i tried somthing a little different.
I landed on deepwood green 2 feeds ago, I have him one valruit and one Apple

I figured the Valfruit bounced him back to the obvious Ink Blue, and the Apple pushed the red values enough for Kobold brown, Much to my delight I was correct and he became Kobold Brown.

From here i fed a single Doman Plum and there he was, my beautiful black beauty :3







About 18 feeds later I'm finally finished with this part of my FFXIV Career... /whew... now my girlfriend can stop making fun of my chocoholic obsession (ironically now she's interested in getting her desired color.)


Good luck to anyone else still on the journey or stuck in the loop! i'll browse here for a few more days to help figure out colors for people etc!

[Lilyanna]

Coral Pink to Lotus Pink is very difficult in one sitting, as they are VERY far apart on the RGB, even though they are both "pink".

After 6 hours, I got to Lotus Pink! Thank you very much! <333333

[Rythea]

Wow, I just posted the simulator link on a whim, as I wasn't sure how accurate it was in the long run. Was trying to help an FCmate this morning and saw like 70 people viewing it. I did a few edits, added an in-spreadsheet note about needing to make a copy, and how to do so. I also found an actual formula for determining the "closeness" of colours, so it might guess the colour name more accurately now (assuming the +/- 5 rule holds, at least).

Anyways, with the free week coming to and end, I wish you guys all the best of luck in your chocobo colourings, probably won't be around to update the sheet anymore, so anyone is welcome to do so.