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

Resulting Colors

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

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.
• 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.

Usage

1. Activate dye
2. Right click on item, select Paint (amount depends on item, cart is somewhere between 6.05kgs, large barrel is 2kgs, small barrel is 0.3kgs, bucket is 0.1kgs house walls are 1kg per wall tile, large chest is 2.4kg, Statues are 0.8kgs, Bed is 5.76kgs, lantern .01kg, small sign < .01kg, chairs are .15kg, please add more :p)

You can paint building walls, chests, barrels, buckets, signs, carts, catapults, pottery, lanterns and statues.

Removal

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