Dye

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Description

Dye is used to paint items and walls.

Method

1. Put substance in inventory.
2. Put water in container.
3. Activate substance.
4. Right click on water in container, select create/misc/dye/colour

Tools Required

• Jar
• Small bucket

Items Required

• Woad
• Zinc lump
• Copper lump or copper scrap
• Water
• Cave bug cochineal
• Scorpion cochineal
• Tannin and iron lump or iron scrap

Colors

• Black - Tannin and iron lump/scrap Difficulty 40 (hardest dye to make)
• Blue - Woad
• Green - Copper lump or copper scrap minimum 0.80 kg
• Red - Cave bug or scorpion cochineal
• White - Zinc lump or zinc scrap

Notes

• Resulting dye will have three color values, red, green and blue.
• R=255 G=255 B=255 is pure white.
• You can combine dye and the values will average out (although they will be about 2 points closer to grey across the board).
• The higher the quality is, the brighter and less grey the colour will be.
• Dye and water cannot be mixed to make a paler dye.
• The more difficult colours can not be made until after making some of the easier colours. Start with green, or maybe blue.
• To get rid of unwanted dye just right click and select "Pour" (don't worry, it won't leave a stain).
• When making dye with metal lumps, there is no need to heat them up first.
• The quality of the cochineal does not affect the success chance when creating red dye.
• If you fail making green dye using copper lump, you create a copper scrap of the same mass.
• If you fail making greed dye using copper scrap, the scrap is destroyed.

Usage

1. Activate dye
2. Right click on item, select Paint

You can paint building walls, chests, barrels, buckets, signs, carts, catapults, pottery, lanterns, statues and ships. The amount of dye used depends on the item being painted:

Object	Amount
Small Cart	6.05 kg
Large Cart	47.23 kg
Small barrel	0.36 kg
Large barrel	2 kg
Bucket	0.1 kg
House wall	1 kg
Large chest	2.4 kg
Statues	0.8 kg
Bed	5.76 kg
Lantern	0.015 kg
Small sign	0.01 kg
Rowing Boat	12.10 kg
Small Sailing Boat	12.10 kg
Chair	0.15 kg
Lamp	0.06 kg
Spirit castle	2 kg
Small raft	6.05 kg

Removal

You can remove dye from a painted object by using a metal brush on it.