How To Create Dye In Ark

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This substance can be used to color certain items and structures.

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Purchase yields

10 pieces

Coloring 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 both living creatures (including yourself and other players) and robotic creatures on their parts like Mek and Enforcer.

There are 25 different Colorings.

1 Recipes
- 1.1 Tips
- 1.2 Table of Dyes
- 1.3 Downloadable PDF
2 Usage
3 Notes
4 Gallery

Recipes [ ]

Coloring is crafted in a Cooking Pot or Industrial Cooker.

All recipes use:

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 hand, 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.

A quick way to make small batches of every color assortment is to start by filling an Industrial Cooker with 6 stacks each of Berries. Ensure Water (Irrigation is preferrable) and Gasoline are available, then add 1 stack each of Charcoal, Gunpowder, and Sparkpowder, then turn on the Cooker. Wait for 24 units of Sparkpowder to be consumed (3 complete preparations), then remove the Sparkpowder. Wait for 30 units of Gunpowder to be consumed (3 complete preparations), then remove the Gunpowder. The remaining Charcoal will create the colors that are still needed (to create the following listed amounts, stop once 70 units of Charcoal have been consumed).

Cooking a large batch of dye in this manner produces 15 units of:

Blue, Brick, Brown, Cantaloupe, Cyan, Forest, Green, Magenta, Mud, Navy, Olive, Orange, Parchment, Pink, Purple, Red, Royalty, Silver, Sky, Slate and Yellow.

And the other colors: 30 units of Black, Tan, and Tangerine; and 40 units of White.

Table of Dyes [ ]

Dye									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`
Navy		12		6				1	`#32326b`
Olive	12			6				1	`#baba59`
Orange	9		9			2			`#ff8800`
Parchement	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`
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). This document includes colors in linear color-space contrary to the table above.

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 blue 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. On Xbox/PS4, this can be done by holding Left Trigger/L2 on PS4, and pressing D Pad Up, D Pad Right, D Pad Down, D Pad Left for Color Regions 1 - 4. Holding Left Trigger/L2, Left Bumper/L1, and then pressing X or Y/Triangle or Square on PS4, will enable and disable Color Regions 5 or 6 respectively.

If you would like to paint your creature in ARK: Mobile, you can use Potent Dust. Take the dust, and apply a dye to it, then put it in your tame's inventory and click 'remote use item'. It will take a few applications to get the entire creature covered, as it seems to cover 1 Region at a time.

Notes [ ]

Gallery [ ]

Thatch

Wood

Stone

Metal

v · d · e Consumables

Plants

Berries	Amarberry (Seed) • Azulberry (Seed) • Mejoberry (Seed) • Narcoberry (Seed) • Stimberry (Seed) • Tintoberry (Seed)

Crops	Citronal (Seed) • Longrass (Seed) • Rockarrot (Seed) • Savoroot (Seed)

Mushrooms	Aggeravic Mushroom • Aquatic Mushroom • Ascerbic Mushroom • Auric Mushroom • Rare Mushroom

Other	Cactus Sap • Plant Species R Seed • Plant Species X Seed • Plant Species Y Seed • Plant Species Z Seed • Rare Flower

Creatures

Meat	Raw Meat (Cooked, Jerky) • Raw Prime Meat (Cooked, Jerky) • Raw Mutton (Cooked) • Spoiled Meat

Fish	Raw Fish (Cooked) • Raw Prime Fish (Cooked)

Miscellaneous	Ambergris • Giant Bee Honey • Nameless Venom • Reaper Pheromone Gland • Snow Owl Pellet • Wyvern Milk

Feces	Human Feces • Animal Feces (Small, Medium, Large, Massive)

Eggs

Extra Small	Dilo • Dodo • Featherlight • Kairuku • Lystro • Parasaur • Tek Parasaur • Vulture

Small	Archaeopteryx • Camelsaurus • Compy • Dimorph • Gallimimus • Glowtail • Hesperornis • Microraptor • Oviraptor • Pachycephalosaurus • Pegomastax • Pteranodon • Raptor • Tek Raptor • Tek Trike • Trike

Medium	Ankylo • Baryonyx • Carno • Dimetrodon • Diplo • Ichthyornis • Iguanodon • Kaprosuchus • Kentro • Pachyrhino • Pelagornis • Sarco • Stego • Tek Stego • Terror Bird • Thorny Dragon • Troodon • Turtle • Velonasaur

Large	Allosaurus • Argentavis • Megalania • Megalosaurus • Moschops • Snow Owl • Spino • Tapejara • Titanoboa • Tropeognathus

Extra Large	Basilisk • Bronto • Giganotosaurus • Megachelon • Quetzal • Rex • Tek Quetzal • Tek Rex • Therizino

Special	Crystal Wyvern Egg (Blood, Ember, Tropical) • Deinonychus • Golden • Maewing • Magmasaur • Rock Drake • Voidwyrm • Wyvern (Fire, Lightning, Ice, Poison) • Yutyrannus

Other	Angler • Arthropluera • Araneo • Beelzebufo • Bloodstalker • Diplocaulus • Eel • Mantis • Moth • Pulmonoscorpius • Tusoteuthis

Kibble

Base	Basic • Simple • Regular • Superior • Exceptional • Extraordinary

Augmented	Basic • Simple • Regular • Superior • Exceptional • Extraordinary

Egg-based	Allosaurus • Ankylo • Araneo • Archaeopteryx • Argentavis • Baryonyx • Bronto • Camelsaurus • Carbonemys • Carno • Compy • Dilo • Dimetrodon • Dimorph • Diplo • Dodo • Featherlight • Gallimimus • Glowtail • Ichthyornis • Iguanodon • Kairuku • Kaprosuchus • Kentrosaurus • Lystrosaurus • Mantis • Megalania • Megalosaurus • Microraptor • Moth • Moschops • Oviraptor • Pachy • Pachyrhino • Parasaur • Pegomastax • Pelagornis • Pteranodon • Pulmonoscorpius • Raptor • Rock Drake • Quetzal • Rex • Sarco • Spino • Stego • Tapejara • Terror Bird • Therizinosaurus • Thorny Dragon • Titanoboa • Trike • Troodon • Vulture

Cooking/
Chemistry

Dishes	Battle Tartare • Broth of Enlightenment • Cactus Broth • Calien Soup • Custom Consumable • Enduro Stew • Focal Chili • Fria Curry • Lazarus Chowder • Mindwipe Tonic • Mushroom Brew • Shadow Steak Saute

Dino Food	Sweet Vegetable Cake

Medicine	Blood Pack • Energy Brew • Lesser Antidote • Medical Brew • Narcotic • Stimulant

Chemicals	Bio Toxin • Bug Repellant • Organic Polymer • Re-Fertilizer • Soap

Coloring	Black • Blue • Brick • Brown • Cantaloupe • Cyan • Forest • Green • Magenta • Mud • Navy • Olive • Orange • Parchement • Pink • Purple • Red • Royalty • Silver • Sky • Slate • Tan • Tangerine • White • Yellow

Liquids	Waterskin → Water Jar (Iced) → Canteen (Iced, Tek) • Beer Liquid (Jar)

Recipes

Rockwell Recipes	Battle Tartare • Calien Soup • Decorative Coloring • Egg-based Kibble • Enduro Stew • Energy Brew • Focal Chili • Fria Curry • Lazarus Chowder • Meat Jerky • Medical Brew • Mindwipe Tonic • Shadow Steak Saute

Other	Custom Recipe • Notes on Rockwell Recipes

Event-only

Candy	Box o' Chocolates • Dino Candy Corn • Festive Dino Candy • Summer Swirl Taffy • Thanksgiving Candy • Valentines Dino Candy

Cake	ARK Anniversary Cake Slice • Valentine's Cake