Yellow Dye
Yellow Dye


| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Yellow dye is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Dandelion | ||
| Sunflower | ||
| Wildflowers |
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4%{ "item": "Yellow Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
| ||
| Mason's chest | 1 | 20.8%{ "item": "Yellow Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20842461344544605, "structure": "Village", "container": "Mason's chest" }
| ||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.3%{ "item": "Yellow Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
| ||
| Mason's chest | 1 | 20.8%{ "item": "Yellow Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20842461344544605, "structure": "Village", "container": "Mason's chest" }
| ||
Trading
Wandering traders may sell 3 yellow dye for an emerald.
Usage
Like all other dyes, yellow dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of yellow 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Dye | Red Dye + |
||
| Yellow Balloon | Latex + + Helium + Lead |
| |
| Yellow Bed | Any Bed + |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Yellow Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| Yellow Candle | Candle + |
||
| Yellow Carpet | Any Carpet + |
| |
| Yellow Carpet | White Carpet + |
| |
| Yellow Concrete Powder | + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Yellow 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. | |
| Yellow Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Matching Dye + Luminol |
| |
| Yellow 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. | |
| Yellow Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + |
||
| Yellow Stained Glass | Glass + |
||
| Stained Terracotta | Terracotta + |
||
| Yellow Wool | Any Wool + |
||
| Yellow Banner pattern | + Banner |
||
| Yellow 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 | |||
| 10% | 20% | 12 × | ||
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
yellow_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
yellow_dye | dye / 11 | 406 | Item | item |
Video
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | |||||||
| 1.6.6 | Dandelions can now be generated using bone meal, making dandelion yellow renewable. | ||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Dandelion yellow can be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | |||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w19a | Stained clay can now be crafted with dandelion yellow. | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Dandelion yellow can now be crafted using sunflowers. | |||||
| 13w37a | Each dandelion now yields only 1 dandelion yellow, instead of 2. | ||||||
| 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 | Dandelion yellow can now be used to craft yellow concrete powder. | |||||
| 17w15a | Dandelion yellow can now dye beds. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | "Dandelion Yellow" has now been renamed to "Yellow Dye". | |||||
| 18w44a | Yellow dye can now change the text color on signs to yellow. | ||||||
| Yellow dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||||
| 18w49a | Yellow dye can now be found in chests in village mason houses. | ||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells yellow dye. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Yellow dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Yellow dye can now be used to craft yellow candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Yellow dye can no longer be used to craft yellow candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | Yellow dye can once again used to craft yellow candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Yellow dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to yellow. | |||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Yellow dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins. | |||||
| 23w16a | Yellow dye no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins. | ||||||
| Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within trail ruins, yellow dye is now common loot. | |||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | |||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | Dandelion yellow is now used to craft cocoa beans. | |||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Dandelion yellow can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||||
| v0.16.0 | build 1 | Dandelion yellow is no longer used to craft cocoa beans. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Dandelion yellow can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Dandelion yellow can now be used to dye shulker boxes, beds, and craft yellow concrete powder. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Dandelion yellow can now be used to craft patterns on banners, firework stars, and stained glass. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Dandelion yellow can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Dandelion yellow can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||
| beta 1.8.0.10 | "Dandelion Yellow" has now been renamed to "Yellow Dye". | ||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Yellow dye is now sold by wandering traders. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Yellow dye can now be found in village mason chests. | |||||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Yellow 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 | Dandelion yellow can be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | ||
| Stained clay can now be crafted with dandelion yellow. | |||||||
| TU25 | CU14 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | Stained glass can now be crafted. | ||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Dandelion yellow can now be crafted using sunflowers. | |
| Each dandelion now yields only 1 dandelion yellow, instead of 2. | |||||||
| 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. |
| Yellow dye can now be used to craft yellow concrete powder. | |||||||
| TU54 | CU44 | 1.52 | 1.52 | 1.52 | Patch 24 | 1.0.4 | Dandelion yellow can now dye beds. |
| TU60 | CU51 | 1.64 | 1.64 | 1.64 | Patch 30 | 1.0.11 | Dandelion yellow can now be used to dye leather horse armor. |
| Dandelion yellow can now be used to dye water in a cauldron. | |||||||
| 1.83 | "Dandelion Yellow" has now been renamed to "Yellow Dye". | ||||||
| Yellow dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| 1.91 | Added the wandering trader, which sells yellow dye. | ||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
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| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the dye ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
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| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of yellow dye has been changed from dye/11 to yellow_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Yellow Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.