All 16 Color Dyes in Minecraft and How to Get Them
Building is one of the main aspects of playing Minecraft. It makes the game special and unique as the players are encouraged to create their own stories through builds. So, different block colors and textures are of utmost importance since they provide players with options and a chance to enhance the look of theirhouse ideas in Minecraft. In many cases though, you are the one crafting the bright and colorful blocks, and you need dyes for them. So, in this guide, we have covered how you can get and craft every single dye in Minecraft.
Last updated on March 1, 2024, to make minor changes to the title and descriptions
How to Get Every Dye in Minecraft
In order to craft dyes in Minecraft, we will first need some ingredients. Thankfully, they are fairly straightforward to obtain. Besides all the specific ways to get each dye mentioned below, awandering trader(one of the manyMinecraft villager jobs) has a chance tosell three pieces of any dyefor one emerald. That said, let’s look at how you can make every dye in Minecraft:
White Dye
White dye in Minecraft can be crafted using one bonemeal or one lily of the valley flower. You can also unearth white dye from a suspicious gravel block intrail ruins in Minecraft.
Lily of the Valley can easily be found in forest biomes, i.e. Woodland andCherry Blossom Grove in Minecraft. As for bonemeal, you need to kill skeletons to get bones, which you can then place on acrafting tableto get bonemeal.
Black Dye
For the black dye, you either need toobtain an ink sac by killing a squidor a wither rose to craft it. Squids spawn in rivers and oceans, so the fastest and easiest way to make black dye is using them.
Gray Dye
Gray dye in Minecraft can be obtained throughcombining black dye and white dye. You get two gray dye with this crafting recipe. The Bedrock Edition also lets you buy gray dye from Wandering traders in exchange for emeralds.
Light Gray Dye
You can craft light gray dye fromflowers such as azure bluet, oxeye daisy,or white tulip. The azure bluets generate in most grassy biomes, whereas the other flowers generate in all flower forest biome. Placing one gray dye and a white dye or one black dye and two white dyes in thecrafting tablewill also produce light gray dye.
Brown Dye
You canturn cocoa beans into brown dye. Cocoa beans only generate on the logs of jungle trees in junglebiomes in Minecraft.
Red Dye
You can craft red dye using apoppy, red tulip, beetroot or a rose bushin Minecraft. Poppies generate in most grassy areas, whereas red tulip and rose bushes appear in the flower forests. If you are lucky, you will find beetroot growing in a village farm.Wool in Minecraftor concrete of this color are usually used in marking specific areas or planning builds in Minecraft.
Yellow Dye
You can craft this dye from a dandelion or a sunflower in a crafting grid. You can also find it in a mason’s chest in villages or dig it out of a suspicious gravel block in trail ruins. Dandelions are fairly common and generate in many biomes, while sunflowers generate in sunflower plains biomes.
Orange Dye
You can break down an orange tulip or atorchflower in Minecraftto get orange dye. In addition,combining a red and a yellow dyein the crafting UI produces orange dye. Moreover, you can get this item from a suspicious gravel block in trail ruins in Minecraft.
Orange tulips, similarly to all the tulips in Minecraft, generate in flower forest biomes. Torchflower can only be obtained through asniffer in Minecraft, so make sure to check out that guide.
Green Dye
You can craft green dye in Minecraft bycooking a cactus in a furnaceor in a chest in a desert village house. Cacti commonly generate in deserts and badlands biomes.
Lime Dye
You can get lime dye bycombining green dye and white dyein a crafting interface or by smelting a sea pickle in a furnace. Sea pickles generate at the bottom of warm oceans, usually on top of coral blocks.
Blue Dye
With a cornflower or a piece of lapis lazuli, you can craft blue dye in Minecraft. It can also be found in trail ruins in the game. Cornflowers generate in plains biomes, meadows, and flower forests. You can easily find lapis ores while exploring caves or branch mining even in thediamond levels. Moreover, apprentice-level cleric villagers sell one lapis lazuli for an emerald.
Cyan Dye
You can get cyan dye by combining green and blue dyes in a crafting grid or breaking down a pitcher plant. Wool of this and next two colors can be found in theAncient cities in Minecraft. Furthermore, pitcher plant can be obtained through the sniffer, similarly to the torchflower.
Light Blue Dye
If you break down a blue orchid or combine blue dye and white dye, you will get light blue dye. Furthermore, this dye can be unearthed in trail ruins. Blue orchids commonly generate in swamp biomes.
Purple Dye
You can only craft purple dye from blue and red dyes. Simply combine the two on a crafting table, and you are good to go.
Pink Dye
You can break down a peony, pink tulip, or pink petals to get the pink dye. Combining a red dye and a white dye produces the same dye, as well. Peony and pink tulips generate in flower forests and pink petals cover the grass in Cherry Grove biomes.
Magenta Dye
You can get magenta dye bybreaking down an allium or lilacin a crafting grid. Alliums generate in the flower forests and meadows, whereas lilacs appear in forest biomes.
Also, combining purple and pink dyes, or blue, red, and pink dyes, or blue, two red dyes, and a white dye produces this dye.
Uses of Dyes in Minecraft
You guessed it, you can use dyes to color different items, blocks, and even mobs in Minecraft. Similarly to the real world, colors bring beauty and diversity to Minecraft worlds. They allow us to draw attention to certain locations, blend builds with the environment and experiment with contrast rules. Here are all the uses for dyes in Minecraft.
Dying Items, Blocks, and Mobs
Coloring Signs
Every sign orhanging sign in Minecrafthas default black colored text. This is fine for the bright types of wood, but it’s not well visible on the darker ones. This is why we use dyes to color the text on signs and make them more noticeable. Furthermore, you can use glow squid ink to increase the brightness of the text and make it stand out.
Trading
Apart from coloring a variety of blocks and items, you can also trade dyes for emeralds. Shepherd villagers at apprentice, journeyman and expert levels have a chance to sell any of the 16 dyes (12 pieces) for a single emerald. So, if you have already built aniron farm in Minecraftand have no better use for poppies, you can trade them and earn emeralds. Workstation for thisMinecraft villager jobis a loom.
The rarest dye is the brown dye. You can only craft it from cocoa beans and they generate only in the jungle biomes.
No, kelp doesn’t produce any dyes in Minecraft.
Radojka Travar
I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.
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