Chocobo Deepwood Green to Soot Black... need help!

[Communion]

It seems I've tried every method I can find on Lord Google to turn my chocobo Soot Black, but I keep ending up with Deepwood Green. Has anyone figured this out yet?

What's the Feed combo? Deepwood Green => Soot Black

Please help.

[Dustytome]

There's some rng involved so multiple people could use the same food and get different results. The chocobo color calculator says you need Valfruit × 1 and Cieldalaes Pineapple × 1. I would feed it the valfruit and if it says the feathers are changing, wait to see the result. If it's not soot black, feed it the pineapple and wait. If it still isn't soot black use the calculator again, view the feeding order at the bottom and stop/wait each time the new feathers growing message pops up.

[Communion]

There's some rng involved so multiple people could use the same food and get different results. The chocobo color calculator says you need Valfruit × 1 and Cieldalaes Pineapple × 1. I would feed it the valfruit and if it says the feathers are changing, wait to see the result. If it's not soot black, feed it the pineapple and wait. If it still isn't soot black use the calculator again, view the feeding order at the bottom and stop/wait each time the new feathers growing message pops up.

Thanks. Yes, I used the calculator to try it with the Valfruit+1 and Cieldalaes Pineapple+1 last night. Was still Deepwood Green this morning. I think I might not have waited to see the feather growing message before I backed out. I did receive the timed message, but not the feathers message. Maybe my haste was the problem.

[Dustytome]

Thanks. Yes, I used the calculator to try it with the Valfruit+1 and Cieldalaes Pineapple+1 last night. Was still Deepwood Green this morning. I think I might not have waited to see the feather growing message before I backed out. I did receive the timed message, but not the feathers message. Maybe my haste was the problem.

It's possible it just didn't nudge the numbers behind the scenes enough that it would change the colors. In my experience, you just want to make sure that if they initial attempt where you dump in a large quantity of fruits doesn't take, you just want to nudge the recommended feeding and wait each time the feathers message comes up so you hopefully don't overshoot the color you're after.

[Communion]

It's possible it just didn't nudge the numbers behind the scenes enough that it would change the colors. In my experience, you just want to make sure that if they initial attempt where you dump in a large quantity of fruits doesn't take, you just want to nudge the recommended feeding and wait each time the feathers message comes up so you hopefully don't overshoot the color you're after.

LOL! My chocobo is Loam Brown today. Ugh... back to feeding time AH-gain.

[Alucard135]

I recall it being RNG. But the feeding order is very important. If you mess it up, which is common to happen, you'll end up with different colors.

You can check how each snack affects your color here https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Chocobo_Colors. What you need to get soot black is to get your RGB colors to 43 41 35. Since you're loam brown now, then your color is 63 51 41.

I'd recommend pulling put a spreadsheet where you mark your feeding order.

[Communion]

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SUCCESS! Thank you both for coming on to help. Used the ffxivchocobo.com/en calculator to get the order (took a couple tries). The key was just slowing down and making sure I saw the two separate messages (about feathers changing and time when I can retrieve my chocobo) each time before I started the next feeding. FINALLY got to Soot Black...