Shadow dye

Shadow dye
Release	17 November 2014 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Actions
Backpack	Use, Drop, Examine
Values
Value	500,000 coins
High alch	300,000 coins
Low alch	200,000 coins
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 6,984,233 Sacrifice: 27,936,932
Weight	0.02 kg
Examine
This can be used to colour high-level items to resemble Shadow gear.
Grand Exchange
Exchange	1,382,746,631 coins (info)
Buy limit	2
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Advanced data
Item ID	33296
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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Shadow dye is obtained from hard, elite or master reward caskets and from the Giant Oyster. It can be used to dye tier 90 and above weapons and armours. Most tier 90 and 92 power armour and weapons can be dyed with it, provided that the item in question is not already dyed.

It can't be used to dye defenders, reprisers, rebounders, masterwork equipment (including its trimmed version) or the spear of annihilation (including its masterwork version).

Once the dye is applied to an item, that item becomes untradeable, and the dye cannot be removed by any means. It is currently not possible to dye tier 90 tank armour. A warning message is given if the player attempts to use dye on eligible equipment.

When added to armour, it renders the armour repairable by using the raw materials to replenish charges. The repair mechanics of dyed weapons remain unchanged.

If lost in the wild, the dye will be removed and only a broken item will be left if the item is degradable.

The drop chance of Shadow dye is approximately 1/15,360 per reward spot from hard clues, and approximately 1/16,016 per reward spot from elite clues. As both hard and elite clues have an average of 5 rewards, the per-clue chance of receiving at least one Shadow dye is approximately 1/3072 (0.03255%) from hard clues and approximately 1/3204 (0.03122%) from elite clues. For a more detailed breakdown of drop mechanics and calculations, see Treasure Trails/Rewards.

Dyeable items

The following 42 items can be dyed:

• Ascension crossbow (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Blightbound crossbow (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Dark Shard of Leng (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Dark sliver of Leng (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Drygore longsword (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Drygore mace (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Drygore rapier (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Ek-ZekKil (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Eldritch crossbow (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Elite sirenic chaps (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Elite sirenic hauberk (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Elite sirenic mask (dyed)
• Elite tectonic mask (dyed)
• Elite tectonic robe bottom (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Elite tectonic robe top (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Fractured Staff of Armadyl (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Imperium core (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Khopesh of Elidinis (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Khopesh of Tumeken (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Malevolent cuirass (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Malevolent greaves (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Malevolent helm (dyed)
• Noxious longbow (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Noxious scythe (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Noxious staff (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Off-hand ascension crossbow (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Off-hand blightbound crossbow (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Off-hand drygore longsword (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Off-hand drygore mace (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Off-hand drygore rapier (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Seismic singularity (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Seismic wand (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Seren godbow (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Sirenic chaps (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Sirenic hauberk (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Sirenic mask (dyed)
• Staff of Sliske (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Tectonic mask (dyed)
• Tectonic robe bottom (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Tectonic robe top (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Wand of the praesul (dyed • augmented dyed)
• Zaros godsword (dyed • augmented dyed)

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Giant Oyster	N/A	1	1/16465
Giant Oyster	N/A	1	1/3072
Magical Dice (T3)	T3	1	1/944
Magical Dice (T4)	T4	1	1/946
Magical Dice (T5)	T5	1	1/1047
Reward casket (elite)	Elite	1	1/16465
Reward casket (hard)	Hard	1	1/3072
Reward casket (master)	Master	1	1/16299

Disassembly

Shadow dye
Disassembly category	Default disassembly items
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Simple parts	99/100
Rare materials
Variable components	1/100

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

patch 19 September 2016 (Update):

• • You can now augment any dyed weapons/armour.
  • Dyed weapons will now drop their base weapon variant upon killing someone in PvP.

• patch 1 December 2014 (Update):
  • Barrows and Shadow dyes will now be broadcast to friends when won from a Treasure Trail.
• update 17 November 2014 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The examine text states that the dye can be used to resemble Shadow gear, although such equipment doesn't exist.
• In Evil Dave's Big Day Out a clerk at the Grand Exchange tells the player how Evil Dave apparently bought a great amount of shadow dye to dye some of his mother's dresses, which dissolved in the dye as it was too strong.
• In a Developer Q&A on 2 March 2016, it was revealed that to date, 2421 Shadow dyes have been found.