White Dye
White Dye


| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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White dye is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Bone Meal | |
| Lily of the Valley |
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4%{ "item": "White Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
| ||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.3%{ "item": "White Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
| ||
Trading
Wandering traders sell 3 white dye for an emerald.
Usage
Like all other dyes, white dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of white 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 Dye | Ink Sac or Black Dye + |
| |
| Gray Dye | Black Dye + |
||
| Light Blue Dye | Blue Dye + |
||
| Light Blue Dye | Lapis Lazuli or Blue Dye + |
| |
| Light Gray Dye | Gray Dye + |
In Bedrock Edition, the white dye can be replaced with bone meal. | |
| Light Gray Dye | Black Dye + |
In Bedrock Edition, the black and white dye can be replaced with ink sacs and bone meal, respectively. | |
| Lime Dye | Green Dye + |
||
| Magenta Dye | Blue Dye + Red Dye + |
||
| Magenta Dye | Lapis Lazuli or Blue Dye + Red Dye + |
| |
| Pink Dye | Red Dye + |
||
| White Balloon | Latex + + Helium + Lead |
| |
| White Bed | Any Bed + |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| White Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| White Candle | Candle + |
||
| White Carpet | Any Carpet + |
| |
| White Concrete Powder | + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| White 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. | |
| White Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Matching Dye + Luminol |
| |
| White 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. | |
| White Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + |
||
| White Stained Glass | Glass + |
||
| Stained Terracotta | Terracotta + |
||
| White Wool | Any Wool + |
||
| White Banner pattern | + Banner |
||
| White 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
white_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
white_dye | dye / 19 | 410 | Item | item |
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 18w44a | White dye can now change the text color on signs to white. | ||||||
| White dye can now change the color of collars on cats to white. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells white dye. | ||||||
| 19w11a | White dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | White dye can now be used to craft white candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | White dyes can no longer be used to craft white candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | White dye can once again be used to craft white candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | White dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to white. | |||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | White dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins. | |||||
| 23w16a | White dye no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins. | ||||||
| Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; white dye is now common loot. | |||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | ||||||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Added lilies of the valley, which can be used to craft white dye. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | White dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.21.110 | Preview 1.21.110.20 | ||||||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||||
| 1.83 | |||||||
| 1.88 | Added lilies of the valley, which can be used to craft white dye. | ||||||
Data history
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of white dye has been changed from dye/19 to white_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "White Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.