Dye Box Testing and Results

I wanted to remove some of the confusion from using the dye boxes in BDO. I came to these conclusions with the help of several users on the main BDO forums: Sidney, Porcellain, and Arcane. I'm sure many of you are aware of the problem of dye boxes containing the wrong colors, causing a significant amount of frustration among users.

 

The problem lies in that while the actual colors of dye are properly named, the dye boxes have very misleading names.

 

Here is a picture of what I mean:

Dye Box Names vs. Actual Dye Names from that Box

 

I believe the dye bundles should be renamed to the dye color contained within that bundle, as according to the chart linked above. This more accurately represents the color of the 'dye bundle', as I prove below.

 

Current Bundle Name --> Rename:

Red --> Red

Orange --> Orange

Bright Orange --> Yellow

Yellow-Green --> Lime

Deep Green --> Mint

Green --> Aqua (Yes, you are reading that right, right now green boxes contain aqua dye)

Turquoise --> Sky

Blue --> Indigo

Violet --> Purple

Purple --> Pink

 

Further Proof: I purchased 6 boxes of each color of dye from the shop. Dye colors should fall within the categories listed in the right-hand side chart (linked above), besides basic dye colors:

 

6 'Red' Boxes that should contain the dye color 'Red', contained:

Shining Red

Shadow Red

Original Red

Sunshine Red

Rocker Blood (basic dye)

Hot Chocolate (basic dye)

 

6 'Orange' Boxes that should contain the dye color 'Orange', contained:

2x Sunshine Orange

Vivid Orange

Gloomy Orange

Brilliant Orange

Dark Chocolate (basic dye)

 

6 'Bright Orange' Boxes that should contain the dye color 'yellow', contained:

True Yellow

Shining Yellow

2x Brilliant Yellows

Sunshine Yellow

Gloomy Yellow

 

6 'Yellow-Green' Boxes that should contain the dye color 'Lime', contained:

2x Shadow Lime

Wine Lime

Sunshine Lime

Brilliant Lime

Aspen Green (basic dye)

 

6 'Deep Green' Boxes that should contain the dye color 'Mint', contained:

3x Brilliant Mint

2x Gloomy Mint

Shining Mint

 

6 'Green' Boxes that should contain the dye color 'Aqua', contained:

Shadow Aqua

Shining Aqua

2x Gloomy Aqua

2x Dark Pickle (basic dye)

 

6 'Turquoise' Boxes that should contain the dye color 'sky', contained:

3x Sunshine Sky

Wine Sky

2x Cold Lake (basic dye)

 

6 'Blue' Boxes that should contain the dye color 'Indigo', contained:

Sunshine Indigo

2x Shadow Indigo

Gloomy Indigo

Brilliant Indigo

Original Indigo

 

6 'Violet' Boxes that should contain the dye color 'Purple', contained:

Soft Purple

Gloomy Purple

Wine Purple

2x Sunshine Purple

Dry Lavender (basic dye),

 

6 'Purple' Boxes that should contain the dye color 'Pink', contained:

Brilliant Deep Pink

Sunshine Deep Pink

Shadow Deep Pink

2x Gloomy Deep Pink

Dark Powder Pink (basic dye)

 

My sample size was only an n of 6, but all dye colors fell within their predicted categories, and to that extent proves our theory of which colors are coming from which boxes.

 

The biggest problem I see is that aqua dye is in the green box and not the turquoise box. Another big problem is that there really is no true blue or true yellow in this group of colors, the closest we can get is sky blue or indigo, and a yellowy orange or darker orange, respectively. This may have lead to further confusion with the dye bundles, with people trying to get colors that really don't even exist within the pallet.

 

TLDR: I believe the dye bundles should be renamed to the main dye color found within that bundle, as according to this picture. This more accurately represents the actual colors within the 'dye bundle', as I prove above.

 

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*edited for spacing