Blue Dye
Blue Dye


| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Blue dye is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Lapis Lazuli | ||
| Cornflower |
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4%{ "item": "Blue Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
| ||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.3%{ "item": "Blue Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
| ||
Trading
Wandering traders have a chance to trade 3 blue dyes for 1 emerald.
Usage
Like all other dyes, blue dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of blue wool.
- Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
- Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
- Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, shulker boxes, candles, and harnesses.
- Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
- Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
- Used to add patterns to banners.
- Used to dye shulkers in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
- Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs.
Crafting ingredient
Loom ingredient
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||
| 9% | 17% | 12 × | ||
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
blue_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
blue_dye | dye / 18 | 399 | Item | item |
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 18w44a | Blue dyes can now change the text color on signs to blue. | ||||||
| Blue dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars to blue. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sell blue dyes. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Blue dyes can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Blue dyes can now be used to craft the newly added blue candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Blue dyes can no longer be used to craft blue candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | Blue dyes can once again be used to craft blue candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Blue dyes can now change the text color on hanging signs to blue. | |||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Blue dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins. | |||||
| 23w16a | Blue dye no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins. | ||||||
| Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins, blue dye now is in the common loot. | |||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | ||||||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Added cornflowers, which can be used to craft blue dye. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Blue dye can now be used to dye white carpets and uncolored glass panes. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Blue dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||||
| 1.83 | |||||||
| 1.88 | Added cornflowers, which can be used to craft blue dye. | ||||||
| 1.90 | Blue dye can now be used to dye white carpets and uncolored glass panes. | ||||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.21.110 | Preview 1.21.110.20 | ||||||
Data history
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of blue dye has been changed from dye/18 to blue_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Blue Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.