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Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

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Dyes are a set of sixteen items used to change the color of wool, carpets, terracotta, concrete powder, glass, shulker boxes, beds, candles, bundles, harnesses, the patterns on banners, firework stars, certain mobs, and text on signs and hanging signs. In Bedrock Edition they can also be used to dye water in a cauldron (which is thereafter used to dye leather armor); in Java Edition leather armor can be dyed directly. In Minecraft Education dyes can also be used to dye balloons and glow sticks.

In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, bone meal, ink sacs, lapis lazuli, and cocoa beans can generally substitute for white dye, black dye, blue dye, and brown dye, respectively, in crafting recipes and for use in dyeing items or mobs. However, they have other important uses that aren't related to color, and are therefore not considered true dyes. They are mentioned in this article only in regard to their use as dyeing agents; see their individual articles for complete information about them.

Obtaining

Most dyes can be crafted from flowers and a few other items, some dyes can be crafted by combining multiple dyes of different colors, and every dye is sold by the wandering trader. Some dyes can also be found in loot, and green dye is obtained by smelting cactus.

Main articles

White Dye	Light Gray Dye
Gray Dye	Black Dye
Brown Dye	Red Dye
Orange Dye	Yellow Dye
Lime Dye	Green Dye
Cyan Dye	Light Blue Dye
Blue Dye	Purple Dye
Magenta Dye	Pink Dye

Crafting dye

In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, lapis lazuli, bone meal, and ink sacs, singly or in any combination, can be substituted for blue dye, white dye, and black dye, respectively, in any recipe. These substitutions are not shown in the recipes given here. Substitution must be total: You cannot use a combination of lapis lazuli and blue dye in the same recipe, for example.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
White Dye	Bone Meal or Lily of the Valley
Light Gray Dye	Black Dye + White Dye + White Dye --or-- Gray Dye + White Dye --or-- Azure Bluet or Oxeye Daisy or White Tulip	32
Gray Dye	Black Dye + White Dye or Closed Eyeblossom	2
Black Dye	Ink Sac or Wither Rose
Brown Dye	Cocoa Beans
Red Dye	Poppy or Red Tulip or Rose Bush or Beetroot	2
Orange Dye	Red Dye + Yellow Dye --or-- Orange Tulip or Torchflower or Open Eyeblossom	2
Yellow Dye	Dandelion or Sunflower or Wildflowers	2
Lime Dye	Green Dye + White Dye	2
Cyan Dye	Blue Dye + Green Dye --or-- Pitcher Plant	22
Light Blue Dye	Blue Dye + White Dye --or-- Blue Orchid	2
Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli or Cornflower
Purple Dye	Blue Dye + Red Dye	2
Magenta Dye	Purple Dye + Pink Dye --or-- Red Dye + Red Dye + Blue Dye + White Dye --or-- Pink Dye + Red Dye + Blue Dye --or-- Allium or Lilac	2432
Pink Dye	Red Dye + White Dye --or-- Pink Tulip or Peony or Pink Petals or Cactus Flower	22

Smelting

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Lime Dye	Sea Pickle + Any fuel	0.1
Green Dye	Cactus + Any fuel	1

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Blue Dye	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.4% { "item": "Blue Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Green Dye	Village	Desert house chest	1	14.3% { "item": "Green Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.14254173828500694, "structure": "Village", "container": "Desert house chest" }
Orange Dye	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.4% { "item": "Orange Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Light Blue Dye	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.4% { "item": "Light Blue Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Yellow Dye	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.4% { "item": "Yellow Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
	Village	Mason's chest	1	20.8% { "item": "Yellow Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20842461344544605, "structure": "Village", "container": "Mason's chest" }
White Dye	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.4% { "item": "White Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Bedrock Edition
Blue Dye	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.3% { "item": "Blue Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Green Dye	Village	Desert house chest	1	14.3% { "item": "Green Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.14254173828500694, "structure": "Village", "container": "Desert house chest" }
Orange Dye	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.3% { "item": "Orange Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Light Blue Dye	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.3% { "item": "Light Blue Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Yellow Dye	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.3% { "item": "Yellow Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
	Village	Mason's chest	1	20.8% { "item": "Yellow Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20842461344544605, "structure": "Village", "container": "Mason's chest" }
White Dye	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.3% { "item": "White Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }

Trading

Wandering traders may sell 3 of any dye for one emerald.

Usage

Crafting

Dye can be used to add dye to undyed items through crafting, and to craft dyed items directly. In Bedrock Edition, bone meal, ink sacs, lapis lazuli, and cocoa beans can be substituted for the corresponding dye in any of the following usages unless otherwise specified.

Wool

A piece of wool in any color can be dyed by combining 1 wool with any dye in a crafting grid.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Wool + Matching

Carpets

A carpet of any color can be dyed by combining 1 carpet with any dye in a crafting grid.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Carpet + Matching

Terracotta

Terracotta can be stained by placing 8 blocks of terracotta around a dye in a 3×3 crafting table. Stained terracotta can not be restained to a different color.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Terracotta + Matching	8888888888888888

Concrete powder

Dyes can also be used to craft concrete powder, which can then be set into their respective concrete blocks. Concrete powder and concrete cannot be redyed.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Sand + Gravel + Matching	8888888888888888

Stained glass

Glass can be stained by placing 8 blocks of glass around a dye in a 3×3 crafting grid.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Glass + Matching	8888888888888888

Stained glass panes

Glass panes can be stained by placing 8 glass panes around a dye in a 3×3 crafting grid.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Glass Pane + Matching	8888888888888888

Shulker boxes

A shulker box can be dyed by combining it with any dye in a crafting grid. A dyed shulker can be re-dyed using the same crafting recipe. A dyed shulker box can only be undyed using a cauldron.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Shulker Box + Matching

Beds

A bed of any color can be dyed, by combining it with any dye in a crafting grid.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Bed + Matching

Candles

An undyed candle can by dyed by combining it with any dye in a crafting grid.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Candle + Matching

Bundles

A bundle of any color can be dyed, by combining it with any dye in a crafting grid.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Bundle + Matching

Harnesses

A harness of any color can be dyed, by combining it with any dye in a crafting grid.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Harness + Matching

Firework stars

A firework star can have a single color or a combination of up to eight colors when crafted with dyes. Adding one or more dyes to a crafted firework star adds a "fade to color" effect to it, overwriting any existing fade colors.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Firework Star	Gunpowder + Any Dye (1–8) + Extra ingredient (optional)
Firework Star	Matching Firework Star + Any

Balloons

This section describes an education-related feature.

 

This feature is available only in Minecraft Education or when enabling the "Education" option in Bedrock Edition.

Dye can be used to craft balloons.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Latex + Matching  + Helium + Lead

Glow sticks

This section describes an education-related feature.

 

This feature is available only in Minecraft Education or when enabling the "Education" option in Bedrock Edition.

Dye can also be used to craft glow sticks.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Matching + Luminol

Banner patterns

Dye is used to add a banner pattern to a banner. Each pattern uses 1 dye, which also determines the color of that pattern.

Dyeing armor

Leather armor, wolf armor, and leather horse armor can be dyed:

• In Java Edition, armor is dyed by crafting it and dyes together on a crafting table.
• In Bedrock and Legacy Console editions, armor is dyed by using it on a cauldron filled with dyed water. This consumes 1 layer of water but does not change the color of the water.
  • The armor can be undyed by using it on a cauldron with undyed water. This changes the water's color to the color of the armor and changes the armor to have no dye color.

It is possible to put more than one dye alongside the armor. Armor can be dyed multiple times with previous colors affecting the final outcome. Colored armor can be reverted to their original color using a cauldron with undyed water.

The game has a specific formula for calculating the color of dyed armor: each color, in the RGBA color model, has a red value, green value, blue value and layer opacity or alpha value. For each dye in the crafting grid, and the armor itself (if it is already dyed), the red, green, and blue values are added to running totals. In addition, a running total of the highest value (be it red, green, or blue) is also kept. After this, each total is divided by the number of colors used. This effectively produces the average red, green, blue, and maximum values. The maximum value of the average RGB values is also calculated. Finally, the average maximum value is divided by the maximum of the average RGB values. The average RGB values are then used as the final color and the modified average maximum value used as the layer opacity value. If a resulting color channel ends in a non-integer, It gets rounded down. This procedure can be summed up with the following pseudocode:

set all "total" variables to 0
set numberOfColors to 0
for each color:
 set totalRed to: totalRed + redValue
 set totalGreen to: totalGreen + greenValue
 set totalBlue to: totalBlue + blueValue
 set totalMaximum to: totalMaximum + (max of redValue, greenValue, blueValue)
 set numberOfColors to: numberOfColors + 1

set averageRed to: totalRed / numberOfColors
set averageGreen to: totalGreen / numberOfColors
set averageBlue to: totalBlue / numberOfColors
set averageMaximum to: totalMaximum / numberOfColors

set maximumOfAverage to: max of averageRed, averageGreen, averageBlue
set alphaFactor to: averageMaximum / maximumOfAverage

set resultRed to: floor of averageRed
set resultGreen to: floor of averageGreen
set resultBlue to: floor of averageBlue
set resultLayerOpacity to: alphaFactor

Due to the way this formula works, the resulting color can never be darker than the average of the input colors and is often lighter and more saturated. Of course, the resulting color can never be lighter or more saturated than the lightest or most saturated input color. In addition, this formula never creates an RGB value higher than 255 (which would be invalid in the 8-bit RGB color model). Finally, this formula does not allow for every possible color to be obtained. Therefore, not all dyed armors are obtainable.

If armor is renamed on an anvil, it retains its name when dyed or undyed.

Mixing samples

+ = #FED83D

+ + = #C898BE

+ + = #B56D51

Dyeing sheep

Dyes can be used on sheep to change the color of the wool. Shearing a colored sheep drops the corresponding color of the wool, and the sheep retains the color when the wool regenerates. Killing colored sheep drops one block of wool with corresponding color. Breeding colored sheep produces a lamb colored as one of the parent sheep, or a color resulting from the combination of both parents' color. The color combining follows the same rules that dyes use – red and yellow sheep produce an orange lamb, but a blue and yellow sheep cannot create a green lamb. In case when color of colored sheep do not mix, color of a lamb is randomly chosen between two parents with equal chance. The unlimited reproduction of colored sheep makes dyeing and shearing sheep infinitely more efficient than just dyeing wool directly.

Dyeing collars

Dye can also be used on a tamed wolf or cat to change the color of its collar from the default red to the color of the dye.

Dyeing signs

Dye can be used on a sign or a hanging sign to change the text color. In Bedrock Edition, ink sacs cannot be used for this purpose; black dye must be used to change the text to black.

Dyeing water inside cauldrons

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

 

Water can be dyed in a cauldron by holding any dye in the hand and pressing use on a cauldron filled with water.

Trading

Apprentice, journeyman and expert-level shepherd villagers buy 12 of any of the dyes for an emerald.

Color values

The "color codes" are used to determine the color imparted on banners, dyed leather armor, leather horse armor and wolf armor, wolf and cat collars, beacon beams, sheep, and firework stars. The hex value is shown in the extended tooltips of dyed armor; however, to set the color using an NBT data tag in a command, the decimal value must be used instead. The color values for firework stars are slightly different. In Java Edition, sheep's wool also uses different colors than the base dye values, appearing noticeably darker.

Color codes are usually encoded using the corresponding numeric ID, although e.g. signs store the color name instead to represent text color.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Rainbow Collection	Gather all 16 colors of wool.	All the colors of wool do not have to be in the inventory at the same time, but must have been picked up by the player at least once.	30	Silver
		Tie Dye Outfit	Use a cauldron to dye all 4 unique pieces of leather armor.	—	15	Bronze

Videos

History

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Java Edition Beta
January 3, 2011							Notch mentions adding a "paint" feature if he can figure out how.
January 10, 2011							Shown rose red in development as part of Minecraft: The Story of Mojang.[n 1]
1.2							Added dyes.
							Leftovers of old textures can be seen in items.png with 100% opacity. The white dye texture was reused for Sugar.
							The colors were as follows: Description Color Code Dec Hex White 16777215  #FFFFFF Light gray 10066329  #999999 Gray 5000268  #4C4C4C Black 1644825  #191919 Brown 8349260  #7F664C Red 13388876  #CC4C4C Orange 15905331  #F2B233 Yellow 15066419  #E5E533 Lime 8375321  #7FCC19 Green 6717235  #667F33 Cyan 5020082  #4C99B2 Light blue 10072818  #99B2F2 Blue 3368652  #3366CC Purple 11691749  #B266E5 Magenta 15040472  #E57FD8 Pink 15905484  #F2B2CC
Java Edition
1.1			11w49a				Sheep can now regrow their wool by eating grass. Dyed sheep regrow wool in their new color.
1.3.1			12w19a				The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
			1.3				The textures of bone meal, cactus green, cocoa beans and rose red have been changed. The textures have been lowered one pixel.
1.4.2			12w34a				Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars.
1.4.4			1.4.3				Color codes have been changed. The colors of red, brown, blue, purple, cyan, pink, light blue, magenta and orange were adjusted a little vividly. Name Old Color Code Sample New Color Code Color Dec Hex Dec Hex Brown 8349260 #7F664C 6704179 #664C33 Red 13388876 #CC4C4C 10040115 #993333 Orange 15905331 #F2B233 14188339 #D87F33 Cyan 5020082 #4C99B2 5013401 #4C7F99 Light Blue 10072818 #99B2F2 6724056 #6699D8 Blue 3368652 #3366CC 3361970 #334CB2 Purple 11691749 #B266E5 8339378 #7F3FB2 Magenta 15040472 #E57FD8 11685080 #B24CD8 Pink 15905484 #F2B2CC 15892389 #F27FA5
1.6.1			13w19a				Stained clay can now be crafted using dyes.
1.7.2			13w36a				With the addition of new flowers, many secondary and tertiary dyes are now primary dyes.
			13w41a				Stained glass can now be crafted using dyes.
1.8			14w02a				As cleric villagers now sell lapis lazuli, all dyes have become fully renewable.
			14w30a				Added banners, which can be dyed.
1.9			15w34a				Added shields, which can be dyed indirectly by applying a matching banner.
1.11			16w39b				Dyes are now used to change the color of shulker boxes.
1.12			17w06a				Dyes are now used to craft concrete powder.
							Color codes have been changed. All colors are adjusted more vividly. The changes were as follows: Name Old Color Code Sample New Color Code Color Dec Hex Dec Hex White 16777215 #FFFFFF 16383998 #F9FFFE Light Gray 10066329 #999999 10329495 #9D9D97 Gray 5000268 #4C4C4C 4673362 #474F52 Black 1644825 #191919 1908001 #1D1D21 Brown 6704179 #664C33 8606770 #835432 Red 10040115 #993333 11546150 #B02E26 Orange 14188339 #D87F33 16351261 #F9801D Yellow 15066419 #E5E533 16701501 #FED83D Lime 8375321 #7FCC19 8439583 #80C71F Green 6717235 #667F33 6192150 #5E7C16 Cyan 5013401 #4C7F99 1481884 #169C9C Light Blue 6724056 #6699D8 3847130 #3AB3DA Blue 3361970 #334CB2 3949738 #3C44AA Purple 8339378 #7F3FB2 8991416 #8932B8 Magenta 11685080 #B24CD8 13061821 #C74EBD Pink 15892389 #F27FA5 15961002 #F38BAA
							Light blue dye, stained glass, and stained glass panes did not change colors in this update. This means that they still use old colors.[3]
			17w15a				Dyes can now apply color to white beds.
1.14			18w43a				Bone meal, ink sacs, cocoa beans and lapis lazuli are no longer considered dyes.
							Added white, black, brown and blue dyes.
							"Rose Red", "Dandelion Yellow" and "Cactus Green" have been renamed to "Red Dye", "Yellow Dye" and "Green Dye", respectively.
							Glass panes and carpets can now be dyed.
							The textures of light gray, gray, red, orange, yellow, lime, green, cyan, light blue, purple, magenta, and pink dyes, have been changed. These changed textures still do not reflect the updated colors from 1.12.[3]
			18w44a				The color of the text on signs can now be changed with dye.
							Dyes can now be used to dye cat collars.
			18w49a				Yellow dyes can now be found in chests in village mason houses.
			18w50a				Green dyes can now be found in chests in desert village houses.
			19w05a				Added the wandering trader, which can sell any type of dye.
			19w11a				All 16 types of dyes can now be bought by shepherd villagers.
1.16.2			Pre-release 2				Reversed the order of dyes to match other colored items in the Creative inventory.[4]
							Regrouped dyes in the Creative inventory such that white, blue, brown, and black dyes are within and not cocoa beans, ink sacs, lapis lazuli, and bone meal.[5]
1.17			20w45a				Added candles, which can be dyed.
			21w03a				Added a sound for applying dyes.
			21w19a				Candles can no longer be dyed.
			Pre-release 1				Candles can now once again be dyed.
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20			22w42a				The color of the text on hanging signs can now be changed with dye.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Torchflowers can now be crafted into orange dye.
							Pink petals can now be crafted into pink dye.
1.20			23w12a				Pitcher plants can now be crafted into cyan dye.
							Blue, light blue, orange, white, and yellow dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins.
			23w14a				Pitcher plants can now craft two cyan dye instead of one.
			23w16a				Blue, light blue, orange, white, and yellow 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, light blue, orange, white, and yellow dye now are in the common loot.
1.20.5			24w09a				Wolf armor can now be dyed.
1.21.2			24w38a				Bundles can now be dyed.
1.21.6			25w15a				Added harnesses, which can be dyed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.0							Added dyes. Only dandelion yellow and lapis lazuli are currently obtainable and have functionality.
v0.3.2							Cactus green is now obtainable by smelting cacti.
v0.3.3							Bone meal is now obtainable via crafting.
v0.4.0							Cyan dye, light blue dye, lime dye, magenta dye, orange dye, pink dye, and purple dye are now obtainable via crafting.
							Rose red is now obtainable by smelting red mushrooms.
							All available dyes, excluding bone meal, can now be used to craft their respective wool color.
v0.8.0			build 1				The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
			build 3				Ink sacs, cocoa beans, gray dye, and light gray dye are now available in the Creative inventory.
							Rose red can now be obtained from beetroots.
v0.9.0			build 1				Cocoa beans can now be obtained from cocoa pods.
							The rose has been reworked into the poppy. It can be crafted into rose red.
			build 3				All new flowers can now be crafted into dyes. Because of this, many secondary and tertiary dyes are now primary dyes.
							Gray dye and light gray dye can now be obtained in Survival.
			build 11				Stained clay can now be crafted using dyes.
v0.11.0			build 1				Ink sacs can now be obtained from squid.
							Added the ability to dye wolf collars.
v0.12.1			build 1				Red mushrooms can no longer be smelted to obtain rose red.
v0.14.0			build 1				Cauldrons now used for leather dyeing, by applying a dye to a water-filled cauldron.
v0.16.0			build 1				Cocoa beans can no longer be crafted.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added a Dye button for sheep.
							Added shulkers, which can be dyed.
							Added stained glass. Stain glass cannot be crafted, but purple glass generates in end cities.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Dyes can now apply color to a white beds.
							Dyes are now used to craft concrete powder.
							The color palette has been changed.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.2				Dyes can now be used for banner crafting.
							Dyes can now be used to craft firework stars.
							Stained glass is now craftable, using dyes.
1.4.0			beta 1.2.20.1				Lime dye can now be obtained from smelting sea pickles.
							Dyes can now used to craft glow sticks and balloons.
1.8.0			beta 1.8.0.8				Dyes can now be used to dye cat collars.
			beta 1.8.0.10				Added white, brown, black and blue dyes, which can be crafted from lapis lazuli, bone meal, cocoa beans and ink sacs. This, however, the later four still use as dyes.[6]
							"Rose Red", "Dandelion Yellow" and "Cactus Green" have been renamed to "Red Dye", "Yellow Dye" and "Green Dye", respectively.
1.9.0			beta 1.9.0.0				Blue and white dye can now be obtained from cornflowers and lily of the valleys.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Glass panes and carpets can now be dyed.
							Only a single dye is now required to apply a banner pattern in a loom.
							Various dyes except black dye, white dye, brown dye and blue dye are now sold by wandering traders.
							The textures of all dyes except black, white, brown and blue have been changed. These changed textures still do not reflect the updated colors from 1.1.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.4				Dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers.
1.16.210			beta 1.16.210.59				The color of the text on signs can now be changed with dye.
			beta 1.16.210.60				The ability to dye the color of the text on signs was temporarily removed.
1.16.220			beta 1.16.220.50				The color of the text on signs can now be changed with dye again.
1.17.10			beta 1.17.10.22				Added candles, which can be dyed.
1.20.80			Preview 1.20.80.20				Wolf armor can now be dyed.
1.21.40			Preview 1.21.40.22				Bundles can now be dyed.
1.21.80 Experiment Drop 2 2025			Preview 1.21.80.25				Added harnesses, which can be dyed.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.21.110			Preview 1.21.110.20				The textures of all dyes have been changed. They still do not reflect the updated colors from 1.1.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added dyes.
TU9							The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
TU14		1.04					Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Stained clay can now be crafted using dyes.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Stained glass can now be crafted using dyes.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		With the addition of new flowers, many secondary and tertiary dyes are now primary dyes.
							As cleric villagers now sell lapis lazuli, all dyes have become fully renewable.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Added banners, which can be dyed.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Dyes are now used to change the color of shulker boxes.
							Dyes are now used to craft concrete powder.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Dyes can now be used to dye leather horse armor.
							Dyes can now be used to change the water color in a cauldron to dye leather armor.
			1.83				Added white, black, brown, and blue dyes, which can crafted from bone meal, ink sac, cocoa beans, and lapis lazuli.
							"Rose Red", "Dandelion Yellow" and "Cactus Green" have been renamed to "Red Dye", "Yellow Dye" and "Green Dye", respectively.
							Dyes can now be used to dye cat collars.
			1.90				The textures of bone meal, light gray, gray, ink sac, cocoa beans, red, orange, yellow, lime, green, cyan, light blue, lapis lazuli, purple, magenta, and pink dyes have been changed.
							Glass panes and carpets can now be dyed.
							Only a single dye is now required to apply a banner pattern in a loom.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added dyes from Pocket Edition v0.15.4 alpha.

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  Pre-release dye textures hidden within Items.png.

Notes

Gallery

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  White dye
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  Light gray dye
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  Gray dye
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  Black dye
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  Brown dye
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  Red dye
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  Orange dye
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  Yellow dye
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  Lime dye
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  Green dye
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  Cyan dye
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  Light blue dye
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  Blue dye
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  Purple dye
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  Magenta dye
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  Pink dye
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  Recreation of two dark-colored dyes that appeared briefly in a transition at MINECON Earth 2017 Pre-show.

Issues

Issues relating to "Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Players can obtain each one of every color with 1 cocoa bean, 2 dandelions/wildflowers or 1 sunflower, 2 ink sacs, 3 cactuses, 4 lapis lazuli or 4 cornflowers, 4 small red flowers (for example 4 poppies) or 2 rose bushes, and 6 bone meal.
• The dyed sheep breeding behavior mirrors Lamarck's theory, in which the organisms evolve inheriting the external changes and adaptations of the previous generation, transmitting them to their offspring.
• In Bedrock Edition, tertiary colors, along with their regular crafting recipes, can be crafted with primary colors. E.g.: Magenta can be crafted with one red dye and two white dye.
• The colors of the dyes match the chat colors in color codes except for brown (dye only), light aqua, and gold (color codes only).
• The texture for light blue dye still uses the color from prior to the 1.12 World of Color update.^[3]
• Gray, lime, purple, magenta and pink dyes are the dyes of the same shape texture.‌

References

External links

• Tools for calculating leather dye combination: minecraft.tools (webapp); pyMCDyes (open-source Python script, outdated); DyeLeatherArmor: a tool for calculating an exact crafting recipe for any sRGB color

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