Cherry Pink Dye is a covered material in Final Fantasy XIV and pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a cherry pink colored dye that you can apply to gear and glamour in FFXIV. It’s also easily purchasable on the Market Board for gil, for a price depending on your server. The question is: how do you get Cherry Pink Dye in FFXIV? And what if you just don’t want to spend the necessary gil? Let’s take a look with our very brief FFXIV guide to Cherry Pink Dye!
If you need help finding more dyes, we’ve got guides to finding Ruby Red Dye and Dragon Blue Dye in FFXIV as well!
How to Preview Cherry Pink Dye on Your Glam
Like any dye in FFXIV, you can preview the Cherry Pink Dye on any or all of your gear on a whim. Just pull up your Character menu in-game, right-click on the armor piece you want to preview (or press X/Square on a controller). This brings up a dropdown menu of options like “Unequip” and “Try On.” If the armor piece in question can use dye — like the Cherry Pink Dye we want to see — you should see the option to “Dye” it from here.
Otherwise, you can select “Try On” and click the icon again in the new “Fitting Room” menu that appears. At which point there should be an option for “Enable Dye Preview.” Either option will bring you to the same “Item Dyeing” menu regardless.
FFXIV splits its dye options into eight categories: white, red, brown, yellow, green, blue, purple, and a miscellaneous option mostly used for metallic dyes. Despite being called “Cherry Pink Dye,” you need to select the red category (the second circle from the left for those that might have issues with color blindness). Cherry Pink Dye is then the eleventh and final square under our red dye options. Click it to show whatever your gear piece would look like with Cherry Pink Dye applied.
Where to Get Cherry Pink Dye in FFXIV
In FFXIV, Cherry Pink Dye is one of the more in-demand cosmetic colors to choose from. Perhaps this is because of its distinct, light color. Or maybe it’s because it’s quite rare; you can’t craft or purchase Cherry Pink Dye through normal means in the game.
Instead, you can find it in Coerthas — specifically the capital city of Ishgard. It’s sold in the special, instanced area called The Firmament. Many crafters and gatherers in FFXIV are probably already familiar with the place from the Ishgardian Restoration effort.
While the specific “restoration” part of this event is technically over, players can still do pretty much all of the delivery missions and other activities related to it. Some of which award Skybuilders’ Scrips. This is a unique currency in FFXIV mostly awarded via two methods: gathering in the Diadem and delivering to Potkin the Collectable Appraiser.
If you still have yet to unlock the Firmament, it’s time to find the aptly named side quest “Towards the Firmament.” Just inspect the Recruitment Notice at Ishgard, inside the Foundation district, at (X: 9.7, Y: 11.5). You can start the quest as any class or Job, so long as they are level 60 or higher. This will unlock access to The Firmament — to get there, you can either interact with the Central Aetheryte in Ishgard or speak to Thomelin, the Gatekeep in The Brume section of the city.
The Diadem is yet another special zone accessible through the Firmament by speaking to Aurvael: Mission Commander. Miners, Fishers, and Botanists can gather materials en masse in this special zone. You then turn these items in to Flotpassant (the Resource Inspector NPC standing right next to Aurvael) in exchange for “approved” Skybuilders’ crafting materials.
Said materials can then be turned into Collectables as any of the various FFXIV crafting Jobs. You just need to know where to find the right menu:
- Open your “Crafting Log” under the Logs menu
- Click on “Special Recipes” (or press Y/Triangle with a controller)
- Open the “Ishgardian Restoration” tab below
- Select “Restoration (4) from the available recipes lists
- Craft any of the Level 20-80 “Grade 4 Skybuilder” items
- Hand the item(s) in to Potkin
You will receive more Skybuilders’ Scrips for your trouble the higher the level of the Collectable you craft. The green-colored “Expert Recipes” provide the most Scrips, at a minimum of 66 per delivery, but are also much harder to craft than the standard level 80 options. These are the second option down under the deliveries list and award a minimum of 31 Skybuilders’ Scrips per craft. For example, the “Grade 4 Skybuilders’ Bed” for Carpenter players.
Last but certainly not least, take these Scrips just a few steps north to Enie, the Scrip Exchange NPC, and interact with her to bring up a list of dialogue options. We want the third choice down: “Skybuilders’ Scrips (Materials/Materia/Items).” This opens a shop menu with a variety of different items for you to purchase. Scroll down until you find Cherry Pink Dye among the list of available options — just below the listed Materia. You should see it there for a total of 100 Skybuilders’ Scrips apiece.
What is Cherry Pink Dye Worth in FFXIV?
The short answer to this question is “100 Skybuilders’ Scrips.” That’s very obviously how much it costs when buying them from the vendor Enie.
The real answer is that Cherry Pink Dye is worth whatever you can sell it for on the Market Board. This will fluctuate depending on all sorts of factors: your server, your Data Center, the time of day, the time of week. Especially, though, it will depend on your proximity to a major patch. Cosmetics prices in FFXIV always skyrocket after a big update (when more players are playing and demanding more stuff). Prices then frequently cool again just before a major patch (when players are waiting to get back into the game).
If you really want to get into the weeds, the value is mostly tied to those Approved Skybuilders’ crafting items. These can be sold as raw materials on the Market Board as well.
Using the Grade 4 Skybuilders’ Bed as an example again: you would need 10 White Cedar Logs, 10 units of Wheat, and 10 Gossamer Cotton Bolls. All of the special Ishgardian Restoration variety. Plus one normal piece of Dwarven Cotton. Then multiply all that by two, since you need that many beds of the highest Collectability level for Potkin.
In order to make a profit, Cherry Pink Dye should sell for the cost of those materials or more in order to turn a profit. (You don’t technically need to sell for more than the cost of materials, since you will have excess Scrips left over that contribute to the next Cherry Pink Dye you buy, but it makes for an easy point of comparison).
Most of the time, FFXIV crafters and gatherers are smart enough to do that math for you. Nobody plays the Market Board to lose money on purpose. So, while the overall prices fluctuate, people generally try to make sure any item sold to other players stays above the cost of materials. This isn’t 100 percent foolproof, though, so just add up the cost of materials yourself in comparison to Market Board prices for Cherry Pink Dye if you’re nervous!
Of course, there’s also the value Cherry Pink Dye has for your fashion. Nobody can but you can put a price on that.
And that’s it for our look at Cherry Pink Dye in FFXIV. We hope it helped you find some, get some, and enjoy some with your glamour collection. Enjoy and take care!
