Dye

Dye, used to colour clothing and items with.

Creation
One kg of water or tannin is needed per each item of its counterpart. When using combined materials the amount of liquid must be increased by 1 kg for every full unit combined. Since only copper and zinc lumps can be combined, combining-creation is only possible with green and white dye.

Failing a creation destroys some weight or quality of one or both materials: copper lump by 0.1kg, cochineal by 0.5ql, woad by 0.5ql, iron lump by 0.1kg, tannin by 0.1kg, water by 0.1kg.

Dye quality is affected by both materials, Natural substances skill and the dye's difficulty. The dye producing item caps the creation quality and the liquid is the chance item. Since water is always 100 QL for all but black dye getting better quality items doesn't affect creation chance. This is the reason black is so hard to make as it's the highest difficulty and frequently the tannin is lower quality.

The color of the die is explained by it's quality.

The most effective way to get low values is to use a high quality ingredient and have high Natural substances skill for the initial creation.

Improvement
One color spectrum, at a time, for a dye, can be changed by using one of the (cochineal-red, copper lump-green, woad-blue) color producing materials. Simply active one, use it on the other and choose "Mix" from the context menu. This can increase or lower that shades value. It will take more items to increase larger volumes of dye and visa-versa.

The maximum color something can be improved to is: 155 + the quality of the material. The minimum color something can be reduced to is: 156 (155 + a 1ql item).

Usage
For dyeing structures either a wall or fence of any type will take 1kg of dye.

Many items can be painted. The amount needed to dye them is the lesser of a volume and weight formulas:
 * Volume / 125 or 1, whichever is bigger
 * Volume / WeightInGrams * 1000 or 1, whichever is bigger

e.g. a lamp takes ~0.06kg dye.:: (2*20*200) 8,000 / 125 = 64.:: 8,000 / 5,000 * 1,000 = 1600

Paint can be removed with a Metal brush.