Questing for a particular body dye

[RasielD]

Somehow I feel like I'm gonna screw this up and make it sound like I'm begging, but here goes.

I'm questing to try to get my mits on the Black Body dye. From the prices I've seen in the market, saving up gold for it might take a really long time (as of this post, I have 112 Gold and the cheapest black dye is 178k), so I'm going to try for it a slightly cheaper yet more labor intensive way, the bug/ink route. Here is what I've got so far.

Bugs
House Fly: 32
Cicadia: 2
Firefly: 12

Inks
Black: 1

To make a semi-long story short, I figure I'm gonna need a wee bit of help getting this done. So, anyone have any tips to share that might speed this along better or any other assistance that can be granted?  

[RasielD]

bump and update

Got 5 more black ink earlier.  

[CheevaWoW]

How many black inks does a body dye take? (I'm a noob) razz 50 bugs per ink too... yikes!

 

[RasielD]

For one body dye, it seems to take 500 inks of the same color (with grey being an exception, it need 250 white and 250 black).

In bug terms, that would be 25000 bugs for 1 body dye.

Also, a progress update, found some more bugs recently in the gaia towns thing and made the first trade of what I expect to be a whole lot.

7 ink bottles down, 493 to go stare  

[SpiralRabbit]

A few bugs coming your way.

Good luck.  

[RasielD]

@SpiralRabbit

Thanks for the offer, but I'm trying to keep the list of bugs in my inventory to a minimum by only getting the ones that make black ink. However, I have dropped by your thread. Give me a few days and I might just have a pic for ya. Check your thread as I'll be posting a few rabbit questions for you in there within the next few minutes.  

[RasielD]

Bump and Update

13 ink down, 487 to go  

[RasielD]

bump  

[RasielD]

Bump, Update and Thanks

Big thanks to Sharkworld for helping to bring my total black ink up to 19.

Also, sometime in the next few days I'll probably be updating that first post to show my current ink totals and to place up a thanks list.  

[CheevaWoW]

I do think I have some Black ink around here somewhere too! Sending your way ^.^  

[Chimaria]

whooah 500 inks...YIKES...I'll check my inventory for bugs and ink...& I thought the elegant veil was gonna kill me eek  

[CheevaWoW]

Yeah, lol... that's a LOT! By the way, you didn't have to send me anything in return! but Thanks ^.^