Mapping out Chocobo Dye

[Ravenloft]

For the first 8 feedings I was following the "feather message" one type of fruit feeding and was not only getting random colors that were listed differently or not listed at all but also got stuck in a 24 hour loop of Regal Purple and Royal Blue. I tried feeding multiple fruits because plenty of other people were coming up with stuff close or exactly what they were looking for.

It's not that I don't want to listen, it's just that neither thing was producing results similar to other people doing either method so really I'm just at a loss as to why this color is being much more of a bother to get then a lot of the others.

If you feel like mapping out for me where to go from Loam Brown I'm all for it because that's where I'm stuck at now.

Despite me sounding like a bit of an a** last post, I do sincerely hope you get your Grape Purple, no matter which way you take to get there.

I'm not too sure this will work since you used the simulator last time. But, I hope it will, and I'll do my best to help you.

From what I see you went from Wine Red to Abyssal Blue to Loam Brown, Correct?

Let's try Pineapples for one feather message in attempt to back you up to Wine Red. Weather that works or not, we'll work from there. If It works, then Pears from Wine Red to Grape Purple hopefully. If it doesn't, we'll figure something else out.

[Ravenloft]

Hi, I'm currently at Pumpkin Orange, will probably be at Sunset Orange in 6 hours (I just feed some apples to my Chocobo). From there, what would you guys suggest to get closer to Chocolate Brown?

(PS : I already tried Mamook Pears from Sunset Orange, but I went back to Pumpkin Orange instead)

This is gonna be rough, no one's really mapped out browns yet. This guy hit Chocolate Brown on his second session, but I don't really condone feeding multiple fruit types at one time.

It's probably going to be a crap-chute, but I can give you a guess for 1 fruit per stage, but that's all it's going to be ( a guess). You should already have enough red. I think you can get Qiqirn Brown from Sunset Orange with Plums. From there, to get the darker Chocolate Brown, I'll have to think about it.

Edit: Maybe a round of Berries on Qiqirn Brown? I'd have to see where you landed from those to plan the next. If you can get to Opo-opo Brown, Valfruit "should" knock you to Chocolate.

[AttacKat]

Hi, I'm currently at Pumpkin Orange, will probably be at Sunset Orange in 6 hours (I just feed some apples to my Chocobo). From there, what would you guys suggest to get closer to Chocolate Brown?

In real life, you go from red, add yellow to get orange, then blue then adjust tone

So in your case, I suggest once you get sunset, start going playing with blue, then adjust with red/green (yellow) to deepen/lighten the brown.
In ARR values, we have
Pumpkin Orange (199, 119, 39)
Sunset Orange (183, 95, 55)
Chocolate Brown (111, 63, 39)
or a total adjustment of (88, 56, 0)

[Randelmire]

Thanks, I will give it a try tomorrow morning and then report here

[Snootles]

Hi, I'm currently at Pumpkin Orange, will probably be at Sunset Orange in 6 hours (I just feed some apples to my Chocobo). From there, what would you guys suggest to get closer to Chocolate Brown?

(PS : I already tried Mamook Pears from Sunset Orange, but I went back to Pumpkin Orange instead)

I'm curious why you didn't try to go down the O'Ghomorro Berries line towards Aldgoat or any of the other browns in there and then try to find your way from a brown starting colour?
Something to consider if Attackat's advice doesn't work, although I think it will.

For the first 8 feedings -snip-
If you feel like mapping out for me where to go from Loam Brown I'm all for it because that's where I'm stuck at now.

I would like some more info. Did you stop to check the colour after every feather proc? When you were stuck in your loop, did you try all 6 fruits for one specific colour? Most people seem to get so hung up on trying those two or three fruits that they think will work. So yeah, you won't get out of it then.
Which list/sheet/chart did you use? Were there any anomalies that you encountered that didn't match anything in my own spreadsheet? Needs more data... FOR SCIENCE!

[Snootles]

So colour, much science... WOW...

Ok, so from what I can see now we have the following:

1) There is a normal straight, no RNG nonsense, line for each type of fruit. You can see this clearly in my spreadsheet.

2) There is RNG. RNG factor will cause you to:
- Skip ahead 1, maybe even 2, colours
- Give you a bust. Feather proc but no colour change
- Set you in a colour line of another fruit
- Land you at a rare or uncommon colour for your type of fruit (EG, going from Lavender Purple to Raptor Blue with O'Ghomorro Berry as happened with me)

3) RGB, thanks to Attackat, seems to be the factor that SE based their presets on. These presets will be within RGB code range. (Attackat, feel free to correct me!)

4) You cannot tweak your colour by adding or subtracting OR mixing fruits.


This info is slowly starting to become fact, in my opinion.

What are your thoughts on this folks?

[Randelmire]

I'm curious why you didn't try to go down the O'Ghomorro Berries line towards Aldgoat or any of the other browns in there and then try to find your way from a brown starting colour?
Something to consider if Attackat's advice doesn't work, although I think it will.

Mostly because Chocolate Brown seemed to have much more red in it than some other already known browns that are much closer to grey or even green IMO. I figured it would be easier to get to something like Sunset Orange or the color after and then try something new from there. Also, for science.

Anyway, this morning my Chocobo went from Pumpkin Orange to Sunset Orange after feeding a few apples, exactly as expected. I did feed it the Doman Plums, as suggested. Will report the result after work.

[LyricalMelody]

1) There is a normal straight, no RNG nonsense, line for each type of fruit. You can see this clearly in my spreadsheet.

2) There is RNG. RNG factor will cause you to:
- Skip ahead 1, maybe even 2, colours
- Give you a bust. Feather proc but no colour change
- Set you in a colour line of another fruit
- Land you at a rare or uncommon colour for your type of fruit (EG, going from Lavender Purple to Raptor Blue with O'Ghomorro Berry)

3) RGB, thanks to Attackat, seems to be the factor that SE based their presets on. These presets will be within RGB code range. (Attackat, feel free to correct me!)

4) You cannot tweak your colour by adding or subtracting OR mixing fruits.

This info is slowly starting to become fact, in my opinion.

What are your thoughts on this folks?

I agree with you. When the colors are laid out on my spreadsheet, it seems that most (not all) colors can be reached by the ones they touch- with some rng variables.

[Randelmire]

It's probably going to be a crap-chute, but I can give you a guess for 1 fruit per stage, but that's all it's going to be ( a guess). You should already have enough red. I think you can get Qiqirn Brown from Sunset Orange with Plums.

Nope!

Sunset Orange + Plums = Pumpkin Orange

Edit : I don't know if I should have done that but I already fed it some apples to make it turn Sunset Orange again.

[Ravenloft]

Nope!

Sunset Orange + Plums = Pumpkin Orange

Edit : I don't know if I should have done that but I already fed it some apples to make it turn Sunset Orange again.

Well, since mine was a bust. Try AttacKat's advice with the berries?