Light Blue Dye
Light Blue Dye


| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Light blue dye is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Orchid | ||
| Blue Dye + White Dye |
||
| Lapis Lazuli or Blue Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye |
|
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4%{ "item": "Light Blue Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
| ||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.3%{ "item": "Light Blue Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
| ||
Trading
Wandering traders may sell 3 light blue dye for an emerald.
Usage
Like all other dyes, light blue dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of light 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
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light Blue Balloon | Latex + + Helium + Lead |
| |
| Light Blue Bed | Any Bed + |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Light Blue Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| Light Blue Candle | Candle + |
||
| Light Blue Carpet | Any Carpet + |
| |
| Light Blue Carpet | White Carpet + |
| |
| Light Blue Concrete Powder | + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Light Blue 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. | |
| Light Blue Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Matching Dye + Luminol |
| |
| Light Blue 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. | |
| Light Blue Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + |
||
| Light Blue Stained Glass | Glass + |
||
| Stained Terracotta | Terracotta + |
||
| Light Blue Wool | Any Wool + |
||
| Light Blue Banner pattern | + Banner |
||
| Light Blue 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
light_blue_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
light_blue_dye | dye / 12 | 407 | 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 | Light blue dye can be 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 | Light blue dye can now be used to craft light blue concrete powder. | |||||
| 17w15a | Added the ability to dye beds. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Light blue dye is now crafted using white and blue dyes, instead of bone meal and lapis lazuli. | |||||
| 18w44a | Light blue dye can now change the text color on signs to light blue. | ||||||
| Light blue dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells light blue dye. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Light blue dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Light blue dye can now be used to craft light blue candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Light blue dye can no longer be used to craft light blue candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | Light blue dye can now once again be used to craft light blue candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Light blue dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to light blue. | |||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Light blue dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins. | |||||
| 23w16a | Light 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; light blue dye now is in the common loot. | |||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | |||||||
| v0.4.0 | Light blue dye is now craftable with lapis lazuli and bone meal. | ||||||
| Light blue dye can now be used to craft light blue wool. | |||||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Light dye can now be used to craft concrete powder and dye shulker boxes and beds. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Light blue dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass, and patterns on banners. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Light blue dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Light blue dye is now sold by wandering traders. | |||||
| Light blue dye can now be used to dye white carpets. | |||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Light blue dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||||
| 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 | Light blue dye can be 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. |
| Light blue dye can now be used to craft light blue 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 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye leather horse armor. |
| Light blue dye can now be used to dye water in a cauldron. | |||||||
| 1.83 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | ||||||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| Light blue dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||||
| 1.91 | Added the wandering trader, which sells light blue dye. | ||||||
| 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 light blue dye has been changed from dye/12 to light_blue_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Light Blue Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.