Chocobo Dye Experimentation

[LyricalMelody]

Current Color: Royal blue (34/42/96)

I'm trying to get soot black. So far I've been feeding a lot of berries and some pears/apples and got royal blue.

I fed 25 berries, 7 pears and 7 apples now but still didn't get a message that the feathers will change. Is this because the R/G values can't decrease any further? Or am I missing something?

I'm thinking about feeding pineapples to decrease blue and increasing red/green to get them around the same level and then decrease all three values equally.

No more berries can be added to the Royal Blue. We have found that if you have used 15-20 of a snack and no "new feathers" message appears, then that color won't accept that snack any more. My recent feeding took 13 snacks and my husband's took 14.

[dragonflie]

Hm interesting.
I got too friends that got cork brown and then fed their birds berries. The first person fed it only once for 1 feather msg, while the other person fed it for 3 feather msg. Yet both got the same result, which is coral pink. It seems the number of feather msg doesn't matter, and only the first proc counts...

[Stitchpunk]

Hey guys, been monitoring these threads for awhile, but I think I've reached the point where I need some advice, especially when regarding the value system. Like many others I'm trying to achieve Soot Black, here's all of my data since the start.
I'm gonna post it in three parts due to post limits.

Original- No Fruit

Desert Yellow

7 apple

Millioncorn Yellow

20 berry
10 pear
15 apple

Dalamud Red

(I start to take notice of feather alert here)

10 berry
7 pear
10 apple
Feathers grow alert (from here on out, the order/number of fruit is matched to what was fed, all previously listed above was not fed in the order listed but randomly)
6 berry
4 pear
1 apple

Wine Red

(I start to take note of stable)

Stable: Fair

5 apple
1 berry
5 pears
6 berry
Feather grow alert
5 pear
5 berry
1 pear
10 berry
1 pear
8 berry

Midnight Blue

cont.

[Stitchpunk]

Stable: Fair

2 pear
Feather grow alert
8 pear
3 apple

<no color> No change? Possible glitch? Possibly arrived a tad bit early but no movie occurred and there was no timer. Chocobo wasn't on display either as another fc member stored it's own so it switched out of the preview. My last fruit also may have given no feather change notice and I had just forgotten, but I don't believe that to be the case.

Stable: Fair

5 apple
2 pears
Feather alert
11 pears
2 apple
1 pear
1 apple

Deepwood Green

[Stitchpunk]

Soon after the next part, I discovered someone had achieved Soot Black by giving their Deepwood Green Chocobo a Valfruit, so a good chunk of fruit were thus wasted

Despite removing the chocobo and stopping the change in color, are the values of each fruit removed as well?

REMOVED
vvvvvvv

2 pears
Feather alert
1 apple (feather alert disappears!?)
1 apple (still no alert)
3 apple (no alert)
4 pears
2 apple
4 berry (alert comes back after the fourth!)
Feather Alert
2 berry
1 pear
3 apples
1 berry

^^^^^^^
REMOVED


Stable: Fair
1 valfruit
NO FEATHER ALERT

<no color> NO CHANGE

Stable: Fair
1 valfruit
1 valfruit
1 valfruit
Feather Alert

Kobold Brown


Any advice for my next move for Soot Black?

[Loony_BoB]

Hey, guys, is this useful? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing Spent some time doing it today while I was a bit bored...

[AttacKat]

Hey, guys, is this useful? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing Spent some time doing it today while I was a bit bored...

Been trying to figure out a pattern myself, so far, not much.

Downloaded a copy, but I noticed you are using "old" color codes, so I am going to change my copy to the codes I have updated posted in my research post.

Once I am done with that I will play with yours and see if the numbers make any sense.

Question:
Can you explain your "theory" behind this spreadsheet? Or it is just a calculator?

[Loony_BoB]

Been trying to figure out a pattern myself, so far, not much.

Downloaded a copy, but I noticed you are using "old" color codes, so I am going to change my copy to the codes I have updated posted in my research post.

Once I am done with that I will play with yours and see if the numbers make any sense.

Ah, sorry, wasn't aware the colour codes had changed. I just copy/pasted the numbers from someone else's sheet.

EDIT: If anyone knows how I can allow people to use the drop down menus WITHOUT allowing them to change the colour of them, or remove the drop down menus altogether, I'd appreciate it. xD

[Loony_BoB]

Question:
Can you explain your "theory" behind this spreadsheet? Or it is just a calculator?

Literally just a calculator. Saves people trying to look up colour codes and does it for you, and figures the difference. Just there to save time, really! It's based on the general theory of RGB standard being used and leaves the figuring out of exactly how much of each fruit to the individual, given that there seems to be a fair amount of RNG involved.

[Ravenloft]

8th Stage Started.

Took 9 Berries to get a new feathers message. Hopefully I avoided the loop. I'm think I'll get Grape or Currant Purple.

Think I saw another person going up the Apple route. If anyone else goes nothing but Apples, please go to Pears after you cap Apples at Blood Red. I went Berries after and it seems Angelusdemonus might be a couple stages behind me on the same route. Which is fine, it needs confirming; but we don't need 3 people doing it unless you're going for a color along the way. Apples to max then Pears still need to be mapped out.

I know someone in the other "Thread" where people still go by fruit counts (><.. /sigh) landed on Wine Red and it looks nice. I want someone to find a legit way to it. I think Rust Red and maybe Wine Red will be pears after apples.

Old post with my Apple>Berries route.