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Minecraft has 16 standard dye colors. Most come from a directly usable item or plant; green dye and lime dye require smelting, and several colors can also be crafted by mixing dyes. Use the recipes below to find the route that suits your materials.
All 16 Minecraft dye recipes
The table lists direct sources, processing routes, and dye combinations. You only need one route for a color. Recipe availability can vary by edition and version; if a listed recipe does not appear in your crafting interface, check the in-game recipe book.
| Dye | Direct source or processing route | Dye combination |
|---|---|---|
| White | Bone meal or lily of the valley | — |
| Light gray | Azure bluet, oxeye daisy, or white tulip | Gray dye + white dye; black dye + two white dyes |
| Gray | Closed eyeblossom (listed in newer community recipe references) | Black dye + white dye |
| Black | Ink sac or wither rose | — |
| Brown | Cocoa beans | — |
| Red | Poppy, red tulip, rose bush, or beetroot | — |
| Orange | Orange tulip; open eyeblossom (listed in newer community recipe references) | Red dye + yellow dye |
| Yellow | Dandelion or sunflower | — |
| Lime | Smelt sea pickle | Green dye + white dye |
| Green | Smelt cactus in a furnace | — |
| Cyan | Pitcher plant (listed in newer community recipe references) | Blue dye + green dye |
| Light blue | Blue orchid | Blue dye + white dye |
| Blue | Lapis lazuli or cornflower | — |
| Purple | — | Red dye + blue dye |
| Magenta | Allium or lilac | Purple dye + pink dye; recipe references list other combinations |
| Pink | Pink tulip, peony, or pink petals (listed in newer community recipe references) | Red dye + white dye |
For direct-source and crafting routes, see the Minecraft Wiki dye recipe reference and the Minecraft crafting dye guide. These community-maintained references include newer plant recipes; the in-game recipe book is the practical check for your world.
Which dyes need a furnace?
Green and lime are the processing exceptions in this guide. Put cactus in a furnace to make green dye, or smelt sea pickle for lime dye. Other listed direct sources can be used as ingredients without this smelting step.
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Mixing dyes and Bedrock substitutions
Color mixing provides alternate routes when you already have dyes: for example, red plus yellow makes orange, blue plus green makes cyan, black plus white makes gray, and red plus white makes pink. The table includes the other commonly listed combinations.
In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, recipes may allow lapis lazuli in place of blue dye, bone meal in place of white dye, and ink sacs in place of black dye. For a given recipe, use either the dye or its substitute consistently; do not combine both forms for the same color in one recipe. This substitution behavior is not established here for Java Edition.
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Edition and version notes
Microsoft’s Bedrock DyeColor enumeration lists 16 colors. Its enum uses “Silver” for the color whose item is named Light Gray Dye; the item names appear in Microsoft’s Bedrock item list. Java Edition’s 1.21.5 release notes also refer to the 16 dye colors.
The standard color set is consistent across those official references, but that does not establish that every ingredient route in the table exists in every historical version or edition. In particular, the eyeblossom and several newer plant routes come from community-maintained recipe references, so consult your in-game recipe book if they are unavailable.
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