Pigments and Dyes

Beyond the ordinary dye tub, UO Sagas has a system of special pigments — rare colors that drop as loot and are turned into one-shot dyes and rechargeable dye tubs by crafters. An item colored with a special hue shows the hue's name and rarity in its tooltip.

The items at a glance

	Item	What it does	Where to get it
	Pigments	The raw color, in one of many special hues. Consumed to charge dyes and dye tubs.	Monster loot and chests; Eren hues from the Vault of Eren Vendor
	Linseed Oil	Needed to craft the special dyes and to recharge dye tubs.	Farmer NPC (5,000 gold)
	Special Hair Dye	One-time use: dyes your hair.	Crafted (Alchemy)
	Special Beard Dye	One-time use: dyes your facial hair.	Crafted (Alchemy)
	Special Backpack Dye	One-time use: dyes your backpack.	Crafted (Alchemy)
	Special Cloth Dye Tub	Dyes cloth and clothing. Rechargeable.	Crafted (Carpentry)
	Special Furniture Dye Tub	Dyes furniture. Rechargeable.	Crafted (Carpentry)
	Special Runebook Dye Tub	Dyes runebooks. Rechargeable.	Crafted (Carpentry)

Bottles (one-time use)

An alchemist crafts the base hair, beard or backpack dye — the bottle starts colorless. To color it, double-click a pile of 4 or more pigments and target the bottle: 4 pigments are consumed and the dye takes their hue. The bottle can then be used once.

Dye tubs (rechargeable)

A carpenter crafts the base tub — also colorless. Double-click 1 pigment and target the tub: the pigment is consumed and the tub takes its hue with 2 charges.

• Recharging: with linseed oil in your backpack, double-click pigments of the same hue and target the tub. Each pigment + one linseed oil adds 2 charges. Stacks work — 10 pigments with 10 oils add 20 charges in one go. If you have fewer oils than pigments, only as many pigments as you have oil are used.
• Charge cost: the furniture and runebook tubs spend 1 charge per item. The cloth tub is the exception — see below.

Dyeing cloth and clothing

Double-click the Special Cloth Dye Tub and target what you want coloured. It has to be in your backpack — not worn, not in a bag inside your pack, not on the ground.

What it costs depends on what you target:

• Cloth — the raw tailoring resource — costs 1 charge per cloth in the stack. If the stack is larger than the charges left, the tub dyes as much as it can afford: the coloured portion splits off into your backpack and the rest of the stack stays plain.
• A finished garment costs exactly as much cloth as a tailor needs to make one. A Body Sash takes 4 cloth to sew, so it takes 4 charges to dye; a Robe takes 16 and 16. Nothing is consumed but the charges — the garment itself is simply recoloured.

Only cloth clothing works. Leather and studded pieces cannot be dyed with it, and neither can anything a tailor does not cut from cloth.

If the tub is short of charges you are told the exact number you need and nothing is spent, so there is no way to half-dye a garment by accident.

What each piece costs

A fresh tub holds 2 charges, so anything past a bandana needs recharging first — a full robe is eight pigments and eight linseed oils.

Crafting the base items

	Item	Crafter	Skill	Recipe needed	Materials
	Special Hair Dye	Alchemist	100–120	yes	1 empty bottle, 4 linseed oil
	Special Beard Dye	Alchemist	100–120	yes	1 empty bottle, 4 linseed oil
	Special Backpack Dye	Alchemist	100–120	yes	1 empty bottle, 4 linseed oil
	Special Cloth Dye Tub	Carpenter	110–120	yes	100 boards, 1 linseed oil, 1 screws
	Special Furniture Dye Tub	Carpenter	110–120	yes	100 boards, 1 linseed oil, 1 screws
	Special Runebook Dye Tub	Carpenter	110–120	yes	100 boards, 1 linseed oil, 1 screws

Hue rarities

Pigments come in five loot tiers, plus the Eren hues that are sold rather than found. Every pigment below is a real, obtainable colour — the swatches are rendered from the game's own art and hue tables, so they are the colours you actually get.

Eren Hues — the purchased tier, including the limited-time releases that can no longer be bought once they rotate out. Smoke is separate again: it belongs to the First Light veteran set.

Uncommon — the gem colours

Pigment		Pigment		Pigment
Amber		Amethyst		Diamond
Emerald		Ruby		Sapphire

Rare

The dungeon, town and regional colours.

Pigment		Pigment		Pigment
Adena		Cavern		Coldstone
Crematorium		Darkness		Deep Violet
Hydros		Khaki		Moonvale
New Buccaneer's Den		Orcish Brown		Orcish Green
Pyros		Swamp		Tangerine
Volaria		Westwend		Wine

Epic

The largest tier by far, and where the metal colours live.

Pigment		Pigment		Pigment
BalticSea		Bamboo		Bean
Birch		Bronze		Buccaneer's Rose
Cactus		Casal		Cedar
Clay		Copper		Coral Reef
Dark Purple		Dull Bouquet		Dusk
Duskfen		Dust		Emberthorn
Eminence		Firefly		Flint
Gold		Gras		Graveberry
Hellberry		Himalaya		Holy
Leaf		LightMaroon		Merlot
Myrtle		Oak		Old Copper
Old Lace		Olive		Pearl
Pesto		Pine		PineCone
Rhino		Salmon		Sea Green
Shadow		Spruce		Twilight
Valorite		Veilmarine		Venus
Verite		Vivid		Wherrywood

Legendary

Pigment		Pigment		Pigment
Acid		Blaze	see note	Blood
Bright Lavender		Coffee		Ebony
Evergreen		Halloween		Purple Haze
Seaweed		Sun Glow		Sunny Yellow
Valentine		Venice Blue		Woodrush

Blaze is shown without a swatch on purpose: its hue slot renders as a broken, near-flat colour in the client, so any swatch here would misrepresent it. Treat the in-game appearance as the truth until it is fixed.

Storing pigments