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[Porpoisepower]

So I'm making a castle out of Skunk Soap.

I'd like to do some lovely mosaics. 

Has anyone have any success allowing soap to be dyeable? 

[sackhead]

i font know if you can dye bars/blocks or if you could would it change the colour of constructions.
you could possibly use blood and other contaminants. its harder to direct but more dorfy.
just leave some babies lying about and release angry dingo's

[Quietust]

Dyes can only be applied to constructed items (finished goods, including cloth) and thread - basic building materials (boulders, blocks, bars, and logs) cannot be dyed in any way.

[Meph]

Dyes can only be applied to constructed items (finished goods, including cloth) and thread - basic building materials (boulders, blocks, bars, and logs) cannot be dyed in any way.

I never figured out how to dye custom items... or armors. There is no way to simply do it with reactions, and I have never seen a script that allows this. It would be useful to be able to dye leather for example...

[IndigoFenix]

This sounds interesting, fun, and possibly not that difficult, unless it is impossible.  I'll see what I can do.

EDIT: It works!  The description will always read 'The thread is *color*', even if the item is not actually made of thread, and only improvable items can be dyed (so no painted blocks or bars, unfortunately), but the item does show up with the appropriate color.  I'll make a lua hook reaction script for it.

EDIT2: Hm.  Turns out that figuring out which item used in a reaction corresponds to which item in the reaction's definition is more complicated than I expected, especially when one item is stored in another.  At least I know it's possible in theory.  Worst case scenario, I can just make a very inflexible version (i.e. it must be one dye in powder form held in a container and one item to be dyed).

[GavJ]

You could instead make reactions that destroy a chunk of soap and replace it with a new item made out of a version of soap that has a given color. Thus not requiring any lua. And you should still be able to do this in a way that preserves the animal type description. Follow the example of tanning a hide (which destroys skin, makes leather, and still has it labeled as the correct type of leather).

So:

[REACTION:DYE_SOAP_G]
   [NAME:dye soap green]
   [BUILDING:SOAP_MAKER:CUSTOM_G]
   [REAGENT:A:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE][REACTION_CLASS:SOAP]   **need to make a reaction class for soap, and also a DYE_SOAP_MAT line in the soap material definition, one for each color, specifying the new materials for each color, and then add all of those to the first two entries in b_detail_plan_default.txt. Repeat this for every variant of soap, if you want people to be able to re-dye them later. Or only include for original soap, if dyeing is a one-time-deal.
      [HAS_MATERIAL_REACTION_PRODUCT:DYE_SOAP_MAT]
        [REAGENT:B:1:BOULDER:NONE:INORGANIC:OLIVINE]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:BAR:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:soap:DYE_SOAP_MAT] <--not 100% sure that "soap" here is correct, would have to test it, but you get the idea.
      [PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]
   [SKILL:DYEING] <--i don't remember the actual tag for this

[Quietust]

   [PRODUCT:100:1:BAR:NONE:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:soap:DYE_SOAP_MAT] <--not 100% sure that "soap" here is correct, would have to test it, but you get the idea.

That "soap" should be "A", since that's the name of the reagent.

[Porpoisepower]

Cool thanks!