Gray Dye
Gray Dye


| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Gray dye[a] is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Black Dye + White Dye |
||
| Ink Sac or Black Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye |
| |
| Closed Eyeblossom |
Trading
Wandering traders may sell 3 gray dye for an emerald.
Usage
Like all other dyes, gray dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of gray 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
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gray Balloon | Latex + + Helium + Lead |
| |
| Gray Bed | Any Bed + |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Gray Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| Gray Candle | Candle + |
||
| Gray Carpet | Any Carpet + |
| |
| Gray Carpet | White Carpet + |
| |
| Gray Concrete Powder | + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Gray Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Extra ingredients (optional) |
Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
| Gray Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Matching Dye + Luminol |
| |
| Gray Harness | Any Harness + Matching Dye |
||
| Dyed Shulker Box | Any Shulker Box + Matching Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Gray Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + |
||
| Gray Stained Glass | Glass + |
||
| Stained Terracotta | Terracotta + |
||
| Gray Wool | Any Wool + |
||
| Light Gray Dye | + White Dye |
In Bedrock Edition, the white dye can be replaced with bone meal. | |
| Gray Banner pattern | + Banner |
||
| Gray Banner image | + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||
| 5% | 20% | 12 × | ||
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
gray_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gray_dye | dye / 8 | 403 | Item | item |
Video
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | |||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Gray dye can be now crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | |||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w19a | Stained clay can now be crafted. | |||||
| 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. | ||||||
| 1.8 | 14w30a | Added banners, which can be dyed. | |||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. | |||||
| 1.12 | 17w06a | Gray dye can now be used to craft gray concrete powder. | |||||
| 17w15a | Added the ability to dye beds. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Gray dye is now crafted using black and white dyes, instead of ink sac and bone meal. | |||||
| 18w44a | Gray dye can now change the text color on the signs to gray. | ||||||
| Gray dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sell gray dyes. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Gray dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Gray dye can now used to craft gray candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Gray dye can no longer be used to craft gray candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | Gray dye can once again be used to craft gray candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Gray dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to gray. | |||||
| 1.21.4 | 24w44a | Gray dye can now be made from closed eyeblossoms. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | |||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | Gray dye can be crafted with bone meal and an ink sac, despite there being no way of obtaining ink sacs at the time. | |||||
| build 3 | Gray dye is now available in creative mode. | ||||||
| v0.9.0 | build 3 | Gray dye can now be obtained in survival mode. | |||||
| build 11 | Gray dye can now be used to craft stained terracotta. | ||||||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Gray dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars. | |||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Gray dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Gray dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Gray dye can now be used to craft concrete powder, colored beds and dyed shulker boxes. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Gray dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Gray dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Gray dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Gray dye is now sold by wandering traders. | |||||
| Gray dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Gray dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||||
| 1.21.50 | beta 1.21.50.25 | Gray dye can now be craft from closed eyeblossoms. | |||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.21.110 | Preview 1.21.110.20 | ||||||
| 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 | |
| TU14 | 1.04 | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||||
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.12 | Gray dye can be now crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | ||
| Stained clay can now be crafted. | |||||||
| TU25 | CU14 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | Stained glass can now be crafted. | ||
| 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. | |
| 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 | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. |
| Gray dye can now be used to craft gray concrete powder. | |||||||
| TU54 | CU44 | 1.52 | 1.52 | 1.52 | Patch 24 | 1.0.4 | Added the ability to dye beds. |
| TU60 | CU51 | 1.64 | 1.64 | 1.64 | Patch 30 | 1.0.11 | Gray dye can now be used to dye leather horse armor. |
| Gray dye can now be used to dye water in a cauldron. | |||||||
| 1.83 | Gray dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | ||||||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| Gray dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||||
| 1.91 | Gray dye is now sold by wandering traders. | ||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the dye ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
| |||||
| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of gray dye has been changed from dye/8 to gray_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Grey Dye" or "Gray Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Notes
- ↑ Known as Grey Dye in British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English variants.