Mapping out Chocobo Dye

[Snootles]

Hello all,
My spreadsheet ss built to map per fruit type and the colours that follow after feeding it until you receive the 'begining to grow new feathers!' message. Once that is mapped, everything else should become clear as well. Here's the link: http://goo.gl/WifWVc

Massive edit!

- Added tab 'Back to default' - lists starting colour + fruit type that will go back to Desert Yellow
- Added tab 'Information' - All known info and theories are listed
- Tabs per fruit type and step by step listing of which colour is achieved
- Tab for a complete colour overview

Currently I'm combing through the various forums to fish out the info that is relevant to the way I'm mapping the colours.

Another massive edit!

Known information
Amount of fruit is irrelevant. You need feed enough of 1 type of fruit to get the 'beginning to grow new feathers!' message. That message indicates that your chocobo will receive a new colour.

The amount of fruit varies, RNG. You can also skip 1 (maybe 2?) step in the line, RNG.

The most accurate way is to stop after each feather proc to check on which colour you landed. Then adjust the type of fruit (stick with 1) accordingly.

You can just feed a bunch of 1 type of fruit and count the feather procs. But like again, RNG. So you may overshoot (or maybe undershoot?) your goal.

[Aldora]

Hey Snootles (^_^ )/

I just read the comments you’ve added to the Google Spreadsheet and you said that you needed more verification regarding the Doman Plums turning Chocobo’s from Desert Yellow to Cream Yellow, from Honey Yellow to Cream Yellow and from Cream Yellow to Sylph Green.

I just wanted to let you know that i’m the one who wrote that, based on the experiment i held in this post:

Chocobo Dye Experimentation - Post #6

This is the path my chocobo took with the past 3 feedings to get from Desert Yellow to Snow White:


(Click for larger view)

[Snootles]

Hey thanks for responding! It's great that people can find each other like this XD

That's a bit confusing to me. I'm trying to map it step by step by step. So in your case from what I gather from your post, it would be:

Desert Yellow -> Pineapple -> Honey Yellow
Honey Yellow -> Plums -> Cream Yellow
Cream Yellow -> Berries -> Lime Green

That seems to be your steps, right?

EDIT: I saw that you reset, there was more to your post. So you reset, started at default, fed plums and got to Cream Yellow.
Hmm, not sure what to do with that information. I wonder if the reset was of influence since it seems inconsistent compared to other findings. Perhaps RNG?

[Snootles]

Shameless bump. Mapping out colours per fruit type is coming along nicely! I've appointed some volunteers among my FC mates but more help is needed!
http://goo.gl/WifWVc

[Aldora]

Hey thanks for responding! It's great that people can find each other like this XD

That's a bit confusing to me. I'm trying to map it step by step by step. So in your case from what I gather from your post, it would be:

Desert Yellow -> Pineapple -> Honey Yellow
Honey Yellow -> Plums -> Cream Yellow
Cream Yellow -> Berries -> Lime Green

That seems to be your steps, right?

EDIT: I saw that you reset, there was more to your post. So you reset, started at default, fed plums and got to Cream Yellow.
Hmm, not sure what to do with that information. I wonder if the reset was of influence since it seems inconsistent compared to other findings. Perhaps RNG?

Yeah, the most important ones to look at are the following attempts:

Starting color: Desert Yellow
Chocobo Rank: 8
Stables: Good
Feed: 5x Doman Plum
Messages:

• 1st Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum. Chocobo's plumage will change in 6 hours.”
• 2nd Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum.”
• 3rd Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum.”
• 4th Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum.”
• 5th Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum. Chocobo is beginning to grow new feathers!”

Result: Cream Yellow

5th Attempt

Starting color: Cream Yellow.
Chocobo Rank: 8
Stables: Good
Feed: 3x Doman Plum
Messages:

• 1st Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum. Chocobo's plumage will change in 6 hours. Chocobo is beginning to grow new feathers!”
• 2nd Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum.”
• 3rd Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum. Chocobo is beginning to grow new feathers!”

Result: Sylph Green.

6th Attempt

Starting color: Sylph Green.
Chocobo Rank: 8
Stables: Good
Feed: 6x Doman Plum
Messages:

• 1st Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum. Chocobo's plumage will change in 6 hours. Chocobo is beginning to grow new feathers!”
• 2nd Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum.”
• 3rd Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum.”
• 4th Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum.”
• 5th Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum.”
• 6th Feed - “Chocobo devours the Doman Plum. Chocobo is beginning to grow new feathers!”

Result: Snow White!

7th Attempt

I saw the Snow White Chocobo and it's a lovely color, but i was a little bit sad about the grey feather tips, so i wanted to see what Bone White would look like. So, i decided to test of i could get to Bone White from Snow White, by adding a few Cieldalaes Pineapples.

So, here we go. (^_^ )/

Starting color: Snow White.
Chocobo Rank: 8
Stables: Good
Feed: Feed: 4x Cieldalaes Pineapple
Messages:

• 1st Feed - “Chocobo devours the Cieldalaes Pineapple. Chocobo's plumage will change in 6 hours.”
• 2nd Feed - “Chocobo devours the Cieldalaes Pineapple.”
• 3rd Feed - “Chocobo devours the Cieldalaes Pineapple.”
• 4th Feed - “Chocobo devours the Cieldalaes Pineapple. Chocobo is beginning to grow new feathers!”

Result: Bone White! \(^_^ )/

Those are the steps i took to get from Desert Yellow to Snow White and then back to Bone White.

What we can say for sure is that you will get Honey Yellow if you feed the Pineapples to a Desert Yellow Chobobo. From that, the first few attempts were going a sideways because i thought that feeding more Pineapples didn't do anything for the Chocobo, so i switched to the Doman Plums.

The experiment would have been better if i just continued with the Pineapples until i got a new message saying that the Chocobo Colors would change, or take the Chocobo out of the Stables and feed it Doman Plums then.

The attempt that i got my Chocobo from Cream Yellow to Lime Green would have been better if i didn't use that Mamook Pear at the beginning. I think that just feeding the berries would have been enough to get the Lime Green color.

[Snootles]

Thank you so much! If you are experimenting more, can you please share it through the sheet? Or here, I'll put it in the sheet then =D

[Niqote]

It is my belief, that every fruit you give your Chocobo effects the colour level. Only when you pass the threshold from one colour to another do you receive the message 'new feathers'
I believe the numbers effected by the fruit are RNG within a small range.

Here are a few of my tests

Chocobo #1
Desert to Cream yellow (1 message from 4 Plum)
Cream to Bone yellow (1 message from 4 Plum)
Bone to Sylph green (1 message from 4 Plum)
Sylph to Snow White (1 message from 3 Plum)

I thought, if I simply drop the amount of green in the colour Desert yellow then I should definitely need less plums to obtain snow white right? So~!

Chocobo #2
Desert yellow to Sylph green (1 message from 3 Plum, 1 message from 1 Valfruit)

I think if we find the range that each fruit effects the colours we will be able to more efficiently obtain colours.

I did start making this a few days ago... but I have stopped because of my above theory.

[Snootles]

It is my belief, that every fruit you give your Chocobo effects the colour level. Only when you pass the threshold from one colour to another do you receive the message 'new feathers'
I believe the numbers effected by the fruit are RNG within a small range.

According to my findings that is incorrect. People have gotten to the next colour level from Desert Yellow to Cork Brown with different amounts of fruit. This amount varying from 1 to 5 O'Ghomorro Berries. If you check the response log in my sheet, you can filter it out.
My suspicion is that the amount of fruit needed is entirely RNG or stable conditions may affect it. Lord knows with SE XD

[LionFranco]

I dont know if this will help, but here are my results, which seem to correspond to the dye mapping spreadsheet.

My First attempt:
Chocobee devours the Xelphatol apple.
Chocobee's plumage will change in 6 hours.
Chocobee devours the Xelphatol apple.
Chocobee is beginning to grow new feathers!
Chocobee's plumage will change in 5 hours and 59 minutes.
Chocobee has grown a new coat of feathers!
Result - Millioncorn Yellow

Chocobee devours the Xelphatol apple.
Chocobee's plumage will change in 6 hours.
Chocobee devours the Xelphatol apple. (x11)
Chocobee is beginning to grow new feathers!
Chocobee's plumage will change in 5 hours and 47 minutes.
Chocobee has grown a new coat of feathers!
Result - Pumpkin Orange

to be continued...

[LionFranco]

Chocobee devours the Xelphatol apple.
Chocobee's plumage will change in 6 hours.
Chocobee devours the Xelphatol apple. (x10)
Chocobee is beginning to grow new feathers!
Chocobee's plumage will change in 5 hours and 44 minutes.
Chocobee has grown a new coat of feathers!
Result - Sunset Orange

Chocobee devours the Xelphatol apple.
Chocobee's plumage will change in 6 hours.
Chocobee devours the Xelphatol apple.(x15)
Chocobee is beginning to grow new feathers!
Chocobee's plumage will change in 5 hours and 33 minutes.

I expect that my next result will be Blood Red, then i will need to use the blue berries for 1 feather change and I should have Dalamud Red, which is my Goal. The next step would be to see if you can get that by doing it all at once...