Dyes

Dyes are used for hair color, cloth recipes, and clothing color in Age of Time.

• Using a dye directly applies it to your hair.
• To use dye on clothing, you must combine the dye into the clothing item.
• Dyes can be combined with each other to produce mixed colors.
• Cloth itself is not directly dyed after crafting; dyes are used either in the cloth recipe or later on the finished clothing item.

For interactive tools, see Dye Calculator and Dye Recipe Finder.

Mixing dyes

Mixing two dyes creates a new dye color by averaging each RGB channel. For example, mixing Bleach (255 255 255) with Pitch Black Dye (0 0 0) produces Gray Dye (127 127 127).

The game rounds each channel down after averaging:

result R = floor((first dye R + second dye R) / 2)
result G = floor((first dye G + second dye G) / 2)
result B = floor((first dye B + second dye B) / 2)

Use the Dye Calculator to test a two-dye mix, check whether the result matches a named dye, and reuse the output as one side of the next mix. Reusing the output is useful for chained recipes, where a color is made by mixing a dye, then mixing the result again with another dye.

If you already know the final RGB color you want, use the Dye Recipe Finder instead. It searches for a shortest exact recipe using named dyes.

Dye sources

Colored dyes are obtained from crates, not from enemies. Crates do not spawn in every area; they appear in the specific dye-bearing locations listed below and drop either Gold, the area's dye color, or occasional Dynamite.

Dye color	Source area
Green Dye	Woods
Cyan Dye	Swamp
Yellow Dye	Auric Fields
Red Dye	Red Crater
Blue Dye	Blue Hill
Orange Dye	Volcano
Black Dye	Volcano
Magenta Dye	Volcano

Note

Bleach acts as a white dye, but it is bought from the Port Town Shop rather than dropped from crates.

Named dyes

Image	Dye	RGB
	Orange Dye	255 127 0
	Bright Cyan Dye	0 255 255
	Cyan Dye	0 127 127
	Dark Cyan Dye	0 63 63
	Magenta Dye	255 0 255
	Bright Green Dye	0 255 0
	Green Dye	0 127 0
	Dark Green Dye	0 63 0
	Black Dye	31 31 31
	Bright Blue Dye	0 0 255
	Blue Dye	0 0 127
	Dark Blue Dye	0 0 63
	Midnight Blue Dye	0 0 31
	Bright Yellow Dye	255 255 0
	Yellow Dye	127 127 0
	Bright Red Dye	255 0 0
	Red Dye	127 0 0
	Dark Red Dye	63 0 0
	Brown Dye	79 61 23
	Ocre Dye	63 63 0
	Bleach	255 255 255
	Pitch Black Dye	0 0 0
	Pink Dye	255 127 127
	Light Pink Dye	255 192 192
	Lavender Dye	255 127 255
	Light Gray Dye	191 191 191
	Gray Dye	127 127 127
	Dark Gray Dye	63 63 63
	Purple Dye	127 0 127
	Dark Purple Dye	63 0 63