How to Get Dyes and Dye Your Outfits – Horizon Forbidden West Guide – ryan
Looking to Spruce Up Aloy’s Outfits with Fancy New Colorways? This Guide Breaks Down Not Only Breaks Down how to find every outfit thye But also how to locate Dye Plants and even apply them to your outfits. Don’t Forget, You Can Change face paintstoo!
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How to get dyes
A selection of dyes will be available automatically from Dye Merchants found through the world, but aside from the Gray Dawn Dye and the Default Colors, they must be unlocked first. Dyes are unlocked in one of three ways:
- Unlocked Through Gameplay – These include completing an activity, including Hunting grounds, Salvage contracts, Melee pitsFinding all the Signal Lensesor helping someone being attacked by machines.
- Available automatically – Lord, you’ll have to exchange Thigh plants To unlock them first. To find Dye Plants, Search Rocky Ledges and Cliff Faces. All Ledges and Cliff faces will house all thye plants, so don’t worry about searching specific regions for specific flowers.
- Purchase with Champion’s Tokens in New Game Plus -New Game Plus has a new orange-and-Black Dye for all the outfit tribes (except Oseram). Read our New Game + Page To learn about how to get champion’s tokens.
Once you’ve unlocked a dye, it’ll only requires 25 metal shards to be applied to any outfit for its tribe, so you won’t gather too many thighs plants to apply your favorite color scheme to all your gear.
How to find a dyer and apply dyes to outfits
Now that you have unlocked some dyes, you’re probably wondering how to apply them to your outfits. Throughout the forbidden West, you will encounter merchants inside of Settlementknown as dyers.
Dye Merchants can be found in the four major settlements in the forbidden West: Plainsong, Scalding spear, The Bulwark and Thornmarsh.
Upon speaking with the dyer, you will enter an interface showcasing your entire collection of outfits, as well as their compatible dyes. Dyes are exclusive to specific tribes (nora, carja, seram, utaru and ternetrh), five for each one, except erseram who only get four. While dyes are exclusive to that tribe, there are some that look very similar to those in other tribes, like the pink or orange dyes.
Once you’ve purchased an outfit thye, it will become available for all of that tribe’s outfits, meaning you don’t have to buy the same dye multiple times. Dyes will cost 25 metal shards to equip, except the “no dye” option, which costs 1 shard. You always pay shards to equip a dye, even if you’ve bought it before.
Looking to find and unlock more dyes to Color Aloy’s Armor? This section lists all of the outfit dyes and how to unlock them, grouped by the outfit tribe they are exclusive to.
All Nora Outfit Dyes
All carja outfit dyes
All Oseram Outfit Dyes
All Utaru Outfit Dyes
All Ternakth Outfit Dyes
All Quen Outfit Dyes
These outfit dyes are exclusive to the burning shores dlc.
As well, the pre-order exclusive “Blacktide Quen Commander” Outfit’s Default Dye is the Blacktide Dye, meaning it does not have the standard “white, teal and orange” default dye that the other three outfits do.
This section groups all of the dyes by the method required to unlock them. These include Dye Flowers, Activities, Collectibles and World Events.
Dyes Unlocked With Dye Flowers
| Outfit tribe | Thigh names | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Nora | Gray Dawn | 25 Metal Shards |
| Poles fens | 1 Azure Bloom, 2 Gold Blooms, 1 Midnight Bloom, 1 Verdant Bloom, 25 Metal Shards | |
| Eventide | 2 Azure Blooms, 2 Crimson Blooms, 1 Midnight Bloom, 25 Metal Shards | |
| Frozen Wilds | 3 Azure Blooms, 1 Pale Bloom, 1 Verdant Blooms, 25 Metal Shards | |
| Carja | Verdant Jewel | 1 Golden Bloom, 1 Pale Bloom, 1 Verdant Bloom, 25 Metal Shards |
| Oeram | Mountain sunrise | 1 Azure Bloom, 1 Crimson Bloom, 2 Midnight Blooms, 1 Pale Bloom, 25 Metal Shards |
| Utaru | Bright amber | 1 Verdant Bloom, 1 Crimson Bloom, 3 Golden Blooms, 25 Metal Shards |
| Twilight bloom | 2 Verdant Blooms, 1 Midnight Bloom, 2 Golden Blooms, 25 Metal Shards | |
| Den | Night Blood | 2 Crimson Blooms, 1 Pale Bloom, 2 Azure Blooms, 25 Metal Shards |
| Renegade Sentinel | 2 Midnight Blooms, 1 Pale Bloom, 2 Verdant Blooms, 25 Metal Shards | |
| Quen (Burning Shores) |
Crimson Coast | 2 Crimson Bloom, 2 Pale Bloom, 1 Azure Bloom, 25 Metal Shards |
| Twilight waves | 2 Crimson Bloom, 1 Pale Bloom, 2 Golden Bloom, 25 Metal Shards | |
| Dark Current | 2 Golden Bloom, 1 Pale Bloom, 2 Azure Bloom, 25 Metal Shards | |
| Calm Shoals | 25 Metal Shards | |
| Blacktide | Pre-order the Burning Shores DLC, 25 Metal Shards |
Dyes unlocked via activities
| Outfit tribe | Thigh names | How to Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Carja | Blood Dusk | Defeat the pit master at the chainscrape melee pit |
| Stormbird Skies | Earn full stripes at the daunt hunting grounds | |
| Oeram | Forge flare | Complete All Four Salvage Contracts at Salvage Contractor: Barren Light |
| Metal Sheen | Complete All Four Salvage Contracts at Salvage Contractor: The Stillsands | |
| Ash and Coal | Complete All Five Salvage Contracts at Salvage Contractor: The Greenswell | |
| Utaru | Summer Stream | Earn Full Stripes at the Plinsong Hunting Grounds |
Dyes unlocked via collectibles
Dyes Unlocked via World Events
| Outfit tribe | Thigh names | How to Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Utaru | Early autumn | At the South Road up to plainsong, close to a tallneck, will be some utaru being attacked by a skydrifter. Defeat it and talk to then after the fight to get this reward. |
| Tankath | Cold Sands | When visiting the campfire that’s located just east of Fall’s Edge, You’ll encounter a group of Rebels. After taking them down, tunes will arrive and you will be rewarded with the cold sands and lowland stalker dyes. |
| Lowland Stalker |
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