Dye

Dye
This substance can be used to color certain items and structures.
Item
Type	Tool
Weight	0.1
Stack size	100
Single use	Yes
Crafting
Crafting Time	10s
Crafted in	Cooking Pot Industrial Cooker
Crafting Yields	5 Pieces

Overview

Dye in ARK: Survival Evolved is used to make the world more colorful and to customize structures and items, including building parts, flags, armor, saddles, weapons, and even creatures (including yourself and other players). There are 25 different dyes.

Recipes

Dyes are crafted in a Cooking Pot or Industrial Cooker.

All recipes use:

• 1 full Water Jar, Waterskin or Canteen
• 2 ×  Charcoal or 1 ×  Gunpowder or 1 ×  Sparkpowder
• An amount of berries depending on the desired color as listed below.

After the ingredients are placed in the cooking pot or the industrial cooker, it must be lit and allowed to cook. Each batch of ingredients cooks 5 dyes.

Tips

If you are making a specific dye using the minimum or more required berry quantities, and only want that one specific dye, do not put a combination of charcoal, gunpowder and sparkpowder, or more than 1 water unit in the pot. You may often get the specific dye you wanted, with any other dye possible from the mix, but not always. On the other side, using different kinds of ingredients may actually be preferred by players who want a certain range in colors and don't want to make the dyes separately.

For example, if you want purple, using the minimum requirements while having sparkpowder in the pot as well, you'll only get magenta. Using double the amount of berries and 2 water units will get you magenta and purple. Using multiples of the required berries and 3 water units will get you magenta, purple and red. Using 4 water units will get you blue as well. Any more water units will repeat the process for the next batch depending on how many berries are left.

Another example, using the ingredients for brown with large stacks of berries and 1 water unit while having sparkpowder in the pot as well, will only get you cyan. Using 2 water units will get you cyan and magenta. Only after using 3 water units will you get brown as well. Using 4, 5 and 6 water units will respectively add purple, orange and green to this range as the final 3 dyes. Doing this without sparkpowder and 7 water units will get you brown, purple, orange, green, yellow, red and blue dyes (in this order).

Table of Dyes

Dye	Color									Hex Code
	Black				15		2			#1c1c1c
	Blue		15				2			#0000ff
	Brick			12	6				1	#94321c
	Brown	6	3	9			2			#756046
	Cantaloupe	7		7		4			1	#ff9a00
	Cyan	6	12						1	#00ffff
	Forest	7	7		4			1		#006b00
	Green	9	9				2			#00ff00
	Magenta		9	9					1	#e71cd9
	Mud	4	1	7	6				1	#463b2b
Dye	Color									Hex Code
	Navy		12		6				1	#32326b
	Olive	12			6				1	#baba59
	Orange	9		9			2			#ff8800
	Parchment	12				6		1		#ffffba
	Pink			12		6		1		#ff7be1
	Purple		9	9			2			#7b00e0
	Red			15			2			#ff0000
	Royalty		7	7	4			1		#7b00a8
	Silver				6	12		1		#e0e0e0
	Sky		12			6		1		#bad4ff
Dye	Color									Hex Code
	Slate				12	6			1	#595959
	Tan	4	1	7		6		1		#ffedb2
	Tangerine	7		7	4			1		#ad652b
	White					15	2			#fefefe
	Yellow	15					2			#ffff00

Downloadable PDF

All dye-recipes on one page as PDF-file (good for printing).

Usage

To color your items like armor, weapons, and saddles, drag the dye over the item you want to color. Items that are able to be colored highlighted green in your inventory as you drag the dye. After this a menu will open where you can select the region of the item that you want to color, each region requires one dye.

Coloring structures requires a Paintbrush or a Spray Painter.

To use the Paintbrush, place the desired color onto it. Then, you can click on the structure you want to color and again select which part of the structure you want to dye (color region). The brush contains 10 charges of the selected color, so you can paint more than one structure part with it.

The paintbrush is also used to apply war paint to tamed creatures and players, or access the save/load images functionality. See Painting for more information.

To use the Spray Painter, place the desired color into it as you do with a paintbrush. To color a structure, stand in front of it and press Left Click (PC), Right Trigger (Xbox One). If you hold the alt-fire button Right Click (PC) and then the number keys 1-6, you can select which color region you want to dye.

Notes

• You will need a full selection of dyes to reproduce a photograph from the in-game camera onto a canvas.
• To remove dye use Soap. For item drag the soap over it. For structures use the option "Use soap to remove paint" of the radial menu (E, , ). To remove dye from a creature use the "erase painting" button in the paint menu.

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