Paint

Paint
(Item)
Weight	1
Bulk	1

Paint is used to provide color to various projects.

Sources

Created in a Pigment Laboratory using various quantities of ingredients. The 11 ingredients that make up the bulk of any paint, and what paint color they give unmixed, are:

Cabbage Juice - purple, "Beet"
Carrots - orange, "Carrot"
Clay - brown, "Saddle Brown"
Dead Tongue Mushrooms - red like, "Burnt Umber"
Toad Skin Mushrooms - dark green, "Dark Slate Grey"
Falcon's Bait Mushrooms - light green, "Aquamarine"
Red Sand - bold red, "Ruby Red"
Lead - blue grey, "Dim Grey"
Silver Powder - black, "Licorice"
Iron - rust, "Burnt Umber"
Copper - aqua, "Medium Turquoise"

Regular paint needs at least 10 units of the ingredients above. You can add more, but will only ever get one deben of paint. Every unit is 0.1 deben of the ingredient, so one deben of an ingredient can make one deben of paint.

There are also four ”catalysts”, meaning they act as ”spice” and might modify the resulting colour, but don’t add any bulk (they are ”colourless”):

They are also added in units of 0.1 deben, but it is enough to add only one per recipe, more will just be wasteful. They are useless if they don’t react with any other ingredient or catalyst. See more about character specific reactions below.

Ingredients and Mixing

There are eleven base ingredients, and each has a starting RGB value, listed below. Note: in earlier tellings, ores were used instead of metals. However, the RGB values are unchanged.

seem to be the same for t10

Ingredient	Short	Red	Green	Blue
Cabbage Juice	CJ	128	64	144
Carrots	Cr	224	112	32
Clay	Cl	128	96	32
Copper	Cu	64	192	192
Dead Tongue	DT	112	64	64
Falcon's Bait	FB	128	240	224
Toad Skin	TS	48	96	48
Iron	Fe	96	48	32
Lead	Pb	80	80	96
Red Sand	RS	144	16	24
Silver Powder	Ag	16	16	32
Catalyst	Short	-	-	-
Lime	C:Li	-	-	-
Potash	C:Po	-	-	-
Saltpeter	C:Sa	-	-	-
Sulfur	C:Su	-	-	-

List of Known Reactions

The gray squares mean there is no reaction, so the resulting paint color mixing without reactions will simply be the average of all ingredients and equal for all characters.
"R" means the red value of the resulting paint will change when mixing these two ingredients, how much is character specific
"G" means the green value of the resulting paint will change when mixing these two ingredients, how much is character specific
"B" means the blue value of the resulting paint will change when mixing these two ingredients, how much is character specific
"W" means all three values - red, green and blue, more or less "white" - of the resulting paint will change, exactly the same amount, when mixing these two ingredients, how much is character specific

	CJ	Cr	Cl	DT	TS	FB	RS	Pb	Ag	Fe	Cu	C:Su	C:Po	C:Li	C:Sa
Cabbage Juice	---			G		G		G			W		G	W
Carrots		---			B			G	R	R			W	G
Clay			---			G					B	R		R	R
Dead Tongue	G			---		W		R	W			B			W
Toad Skin		B			---			R		W		R	B	R	R
Falcon's Bait	G		G	W		---					R		B		G
Red Sand							---	G	R			B	G	G
Lead	G	G		R	R		G	---	R				R		B
Silver Powder		R		W			R	R	---					W
Iron		R			W					---				W	G
Copper	W		B			R					---	B	G		G
Catalyst: Sulfur			R	B	R		B				B	---
Catalyst: Potash	G	W			B	B	G	R			G		---	W
Catalyst: Lime	W	G	R		R		G		W	W			W	---	G
Catalyst: Saltpeter			R	W	R	G		B		G	G			G	---

Recipes

Recipes involving ingredients that react with each other, according to the table above, are character specific and thus will be different from person to person. But there are a lot of Reactionless Paint Recipes involving just the base ingredients that don't react with each other that can be used by anyone. Some of those are really cheap, although most reactionless recipes are unnecessarily expensive. Finding a friend with lucky reactions this tale can make paint less expensive (using more Red Sand and Clay, with less metal and mushrooms).

Uses

Paint is primarily used as a building material, and in research.

You can buy a Paint License in the Desert Nomad Store. When using this it costs 75 paint to paint your warehouse.

Paint License: Permission to paint one warehouse once. Supplied in packs of 5

You can use paint to add color to Shop shelves at the cost of 10 paint per shelf.

When a building or research requires paint of a non-specific colour (ie, Greenish, or Whiteish), then any paint colour with that non-specific colour in the name will be accepted. For example, Spring Green and Forest Green will both satisfy a requirement for Greenish paint.

Building	Count	Properties	Verified
Basic House	20	Golden Rod	✓
Basic House	20	Light Green	✓
Basic House	20	Light Blue	✓
User:Augusta/Guild	DONE 25/25	Navajo White	?
User:Augusta/Guild	DONE 350/350	Tomato	?
User:Augusta/Guild	DONE 350/350	Forest Green	?
User:Augusta/Guild	DONE 250/250	Slate Blue	?
User:Augusta/Guild	DONE 500/500	Deep Sky Blue	?
User:Augusta/Guild	DONE 250/250	Dark Red	?
User:Augusta/Guild	DONE 500/500	Violet	?
Gazebo	500	Violet	?
Gazebo	25	Navajo White	?
Gazebo	500	Deep Sky Blue	?
Gazebo	350	Forest Green	?
Gazebo	350	Tomato	?
Gazebo	250	Dark Red	?
Gazebo	250	Slate Blue	?
Hexaglyph Tablet	100	Orange	?
Ka Tomb	100	Greenish	?
Ka Tomb	100	Blueish	?
Ka Tomb	100	Yellowish	?
Ka Tomb	100	Whiteish	?
Ka Tomb	100	Redish	?
Library of Alexandria	156	Green	?
Library of Alexandria	1300	Orange Red	✓
Library of Alexandria	156	Yellow	?
Library of Alexandria	1300	Orange	✓
Modern Sheep Farm	50	White	✓
Serpentarium	12	Light Blue	✓
Serpentarium	30	Indian Red	✓
Serpentarium	20	Aquamarine	✓
Serpentarium	15	Dark Green	✓
Silkworm Farm	20	Turquoise	✓
Silkworm Farm	20	Pale Turquoise	✓

Specific Colours required

Pulse of the People

150 Green Paint
100 Blue Paint
50 Purple Paint

Tomb of the Immortal

100 Gold Paint
200 Maroon Paint
50 Yellow Paint
200 Sky Blue Paint
50 Midnight Blue Paint

Serpentarium

20 Aquamarine Paint
30 Indian Red Paint
12 Light Blue Paint
15 Dark Green Paint

Lesser Sphinx

7673 Black Paint
6529 Light Coral Paint
5851 Pale Golden Rod Paint
4523 Sea Green Paint
3307 Violet Red Paint
2129 Saddle Brown Paint

Windsong Tower

105 Blue Violet Paint
105 Crimson Paint
150 Dark Slate Grey Paint

Raeli Mosaic

250 Spring Green Paint
150 Pale Violet Red Paint

Hexaglyph Tablet

100 Orange Paint

Alchemist's Rune Tablet

100 Orange Paint

Phoenix Growing Old

125 Olive Drab Paint
125 Sandy Brown Paint

Phoenix Being Born

100 Sienna Paint
100 Tan Paint

Phoenix In His Prime

97 Indian Red Paint

Phoenix on the Hunt

100 Dark Orange Paint
100 Golden Rod Paint

Phoenix Parting Ways

100 Dark Golden Rod Paint
100 Olive Paint

Phoenix Taking Shelter

100 Dark Grey Paint
100 Dark Khaki Paint

Phoenix Twisting Fate

120 Fire Brick Paint
130 Pale Golden Rod Paint

Research and Tuition

50 Red Paint needed for Carpentry 3?
100 Burnt Sienna Paint needed for Carpentry 4?
100 Oxford Blue Paint needed for Carpentry 4?
24,706 needed for Chromatic Touch research - see Chromatic Touch for colors
400 required for Herpeculture research - see Herpeculture for colors
500 (Red, Green, Blue, Pink, Orange, Indigo and Yellow) required for The Science of Color 2 research

Guide/Tools (Updated for T10)

Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-zU3pyFG2M

Paint By Numbers

This is an Automato macro that will automatically test your character specific paint reactions, and log them to reactions.txt.

So run this, and take that reactions.txt file and import it into Desert Paint Codex (described below) under File > Profile > Import Practical Paint Reactions... (I had to manually change the file name from reactions to reactions.txt -Tazendra)

Then go to the Recipe Generator tab, and generate your character specific recipes. This will take hours, as it has to test more than a billion possible recipes with the default settings.

Once complete, you can optionally File > Recipes > Copy Paint Recipes to Clipboard to get them in Wiki format which you can put on your User page on this wiki

Desert Paint Codex

Desert Paint Codex paint ingredient reaction recorder and simulator. (Formerly "Desert Paint Lab")
- Features
  - Log your character's paint reactions by automatically scanning the screen.
  - Experiment with inventing your own recipes, using the Simulator.
  - Discover an entire recipe collection, using the Recipe Generator.
  - Maintain multiple character profiles, so you can help out your friends, your loved ones, your game spouse, or your mule team.
  - T11: If you "clip" a pair of Catalysis, you may not be to generate any recipes that have catalysis included. The Desert Paint Codex team was not able to find a way around this problem after working on it for over one month. I can generate only 44 recipes using all ingredients except 2 mushrooms. I also tried to resolve "clip" using the "A-B-C" method but nothing changed. Zotep - 24 March 2024
- T10 Windows build now available here.
- Updates are announced in the ATITD Discord #tools channel.

You can also download the Source Code and build it for yourself.