User:Sanddh/Guides/Fail-Dyeing

General

With Dyeing many Quest and Loot-generated Armor could be matched better. Unfortunately, the colors obtained by using plants are limited to 9 colors total, and these do not include orange or pink.

These colors can only be obtained by fail-dyeing. Each time a dye attempt is made, there is a small chance it can fail based on the cooking skill of the dyer. A minor failure will cause a loss of 20 AL, a critical failure a loss of 50 AL.

With Tailoring brought in, these losses of AL became less important, since the pink or orange item could be tailored upon another piece of armor or clothing.

With quest items becoming tailorable, the opportunities to walk around in hot pink or nuked orange increased tremendously.

The Fail-Dye Mule

To fail a dye, a character needs to have trained cook. A very very very low skill of trained Cook. A fail-dye mule should start with 10 Focus and 10 Coordination, and never raise these attributes. Leveling is of course possible, but with never raising these attributes, it is hard to make this a viable character, since for Magics a high focus is preferred, and for Melee & Missile, a high Coordination. Of course, never buff these skills either, nor wear armor that increases these attributes (or cooking).

Additionally, you need an alchemist with a high skill to actually make the dye-pots. Hand these pots to the fail-dye mule.

To increase the chance of the failing, it is a good idea to keep the mule at 40$ vitae, and debuff him with the level 8s for Cooking, Focus and Coordination. In other words, go pklite, clobber the mule a few times on the head, and debuff the said skills.

Orange and Pink

General rule: Armor made out of metal dyes orange, Clothing dyes pink, and Hide can go either way.

Notable exception for metal is Covenant Armor which, though made out of metal, fail-dyes pink.

Notable exception for clothing are the Aphus Wading Pants, the Sparring Pants and Sparring Shirt, which is the only clothing known to dye orange.

For examples of fail-dyeing, check the Category:Dyeable page, which lists all the items ingame currently dyeable, and includes a Dyed Variations Table, of which the last one is the result of fail-dyeing.

Pink Palettes

(see also the table below)

This is quite subjective, but here I will present the items known to dye pink, categorized in "Hot Pink", "Dull Pink", "Purplish Pink" and "Pale Pink"

Hot Pink

Underclothes
	Lace Shirt		Poet's Shirt		Vest

Robes and Dresses
	Faran Robe

Head Armor
	Aphus Sun Guard		Covenant Armor

Upper Body Armor
	Covenant Armor		Chiran Armor

Hand Armor
	Covenant Armor

Lower Body Armor
	Battle Pants		Chiran Armor		Covenant Armor

Feet Armor
	Covenant Armor		Loafers		Viamontian Laced Boots

Dull Pink

Underclothes
	Silken Wrap

Purplish Pink

Lower Body Armor
	Chiran Armor

Pale Pink

Underclothes
	Loose Shirt

Upper Body Armor
	Mattekar Hide Coat		Faran Over-robe

Samples of Pink Palettes

AC ID	Name	Hex	R	G	B	H	S	L	Item	Obtained
4055	CriticalPink	B06672	176	102	114	91790	32	55	Old Style Fail	Loot
4059	Unknown (Ex Color: CC0061, 40/40, Ex Color: 611730, 80/12, Ex Color: 641F3F, 116/12, Ex Color: 554241, 96/12	FF1985, 9E264E, 9E3265, 806362	255	25	133	91772	100	55	Faran Robe Fail	Shop
4158	Unknown (Ex Color: DC0072, 40/76, Ex Color: DC0072, 116/20, Ex Color: A9A29D, 136/4, Ex Color: B2005A, 140/20	FF2998, CDC8C5, FE007E	255	41	152	91769	100	58	Kireth Gown with Band Fail	Shop
5048	FailedOrange	EF3570	239	53	112	91781	85	57	Covenant	Loot
5495	TrapperPink	F5027E	245	2	126	91769	98	48	Aphus Sun Guard Fail	Quest
5996	Unknown (Ex Color: A6006A, 136/24)	F2009A	242	0	154	228	255	121	Battle Pants Fail	Shop
6128	BortinPink	CA0092	202	0	146	91757	100	40	Chiran Fail	Loot
6360	Unknown (Ex Color: 94114D, 174/66)	D81A6F	216	26	111	91773	79	47	Swamp Lord's War Paint Fail	Quest
6418	SilkenWrap	9B0057	155	0	87	91766	100	30	Silken Wrap Fail	Quest
6442	Unknown (Ex Color: 990049, 72/24, Ex Color: 7B003B, 136/24)	E6006C, C8005E	230	0	108	235	255	115	Winged Gromnie Armor Fail	Quest
6596	Unknown (Ex Color: 8A0046, 72/24)	D6006F	214	0	111	91769	100	42	Suzuhara's Girth of Flame Protection Fail	Quest
6884	Pink_VShirt	E40B70	228	11	112	91772	91	47	Lace Shirt, Vest, Poet's Shirt	Loot
7030	Unknown (Ex Color: 131313, 160/80)	3A3A3A	58	58	58	0	0	23	Loafers, Viamontian Laced Boots	Loot Fail
7084	Unknown (Ex Color: FF2580, 40/24)	FF71AD	255	113	173	91775	100	72	Lace Shirt, Vest, Poet's Shirt Fail	Loot

Orange Palettes

Samples of Orange Palettes

AC ID	Name	Hex	R	G	B	H	S	L	Item	Obtained
4051	NukedOrange	FB6C24	251	108	36	20	96	56	Old Style, Festival Shirt	Loot
4890	Unknown (Ex Color: 642D00, 160/8)	B04F00	176	79	0	27	100	35	Bunny Slippers Fail	Quest
5604	Unknown (Ex Color: 856200, 72/8, Ex Color: 713C00, 108/8, Ex Color: 815D00, 128/8, Ex Color: 8D6600, 174/12	D29900, BE6700,D29900,DA9F00	210	153	0	31	255	105	Bastion of Tukal Fail	Quest
5701	Unknown (Ex Color: 986400, 96/20)	E49600	228	155	0	28	255	114	Armoredillo Hide Armor Fail	Quest
5737	Unknown (Ex Color: BD7700, 72/64)	FFA60B	255	166	11	38	100	52	Leather Fail	Loot
6015	Unknown Ex Color: B36800, 64/8	FC9400	252	148	0	25	255	126	Sparring Pants Fail	Shop
6024	Unknown Ex Color: 823606, 40/24	CA520A	202	82	10	16	231	106	Sparring Shirt Fail	Shop

Images

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Pink Dyed Chiran Suit Front
Pink Dyed Chiran Suit Back

User:Sanddh/Guides/Fail-Dyeing

Contents

General

The Fail-Dye Mule