A big part of Minecraft is creativity, and the developers have included many ways to express and use your creativity in the game. One of these ways is the usage of dyes in Minecraft. There are many dyes of various colors, and there are many uses for them as well. From customizing your armor to creating colorful blocks. However, because there are so many dyes, there are many ways to craft them, and it can be difficult to figure out and remember all the crafting recipes. But once you learn the recipes, other ways to obtain dyes, and how to use your natural landscape to your advantage, making and using dyes in Minecraft becomes easier.
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Method 1
Method 1 of 4:
Using Flowers
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1Gather flowers. You will need a variety of flowers and other plants to craft dyes. Any of the flowers in Minecraft can be used to make dyes, so it is best to gather a handful of each flower type.
- Flowers can be found almost anywhere in the world where there is dirt and grass. You can most commonly find them in plains, sunflower plains, flower forests, and forest biomes. Blue orchid flowers can only be found in swamp biomes. [1] X Research source
- You can use bonemeal on dirt and grass blocks in these biomes to create new flowers. Some flowers, like sunflowers, peonies, rose bushes, and lilacs will only spawn upon world generation, meaning new ones cannot be created using bonemeal.
- If a Wither kills a mob, a wither rose will be placed on the block it died on, or it will be dropped by the mob.
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2Open your inventory or a crafting table. For most dyes, you will need only a 2x2 crafting space, which can be found by opening your survival inventory and looking in the top right corner. However, you can use a crafting table to do this too.
- To make a crafting table, you need find and chop down a tree for at least 1 wood log. Open your survival inventory and place the log in the 2x2 crafting area to make wooden planks. Fill each space in the 2x2 area with a wooden plank, this will give you a crafting table.
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3Place a flower in the crafting space. You can place a flower or multiple of the same flower type in the crafting table at the same time, this will give you multiple of the same dye. The flower can be placed anywhere in the crafting table, but you cannot place 2 flowers in it at once. Below is a list of flowers and what dyes they produce. [2] X Research source
- Lily of the Valley: White dye
- Azure Bluet: Light gray dye
- Oxeye Daisy: Light gray dye
- White Tulip: Light gray dye
- Wither rose: Black dye
- Poppy: Red dye
- Rose bush: Red dye
- Red tulip: Red dye
- Orange tulip: Orange dye
- Dandelion: Yellow dye
- Sunflower: Yellow dye
- Blue orchid: Light blue dye
- Cornflower: Blue dye
- Allium: Magenta dye
- Lilac: Magenta dye
- Pink tulip: Pink dye
- Peony: Pink dye
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Method 2
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Smelting Items
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1Gather materials. Cacti and sea pickles can be smelted into green and lime green dyes respectively. [3] X Research source Cacti can be found primarily in desert and badland biomes and can be broken using your fist. Sea pickles are primarily found at the bottom of warm ocean and coral reef biomes.
- Sea pickles can also be found as decorations in desert villages, and they may appear as a trade for wandering traders.
- Cacti can also be found in desert village chests or as a trade from wandering traders.
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Make a crafting table . Chop down a tree to get at least 1 wood log. Open your survival inventory and place the log in the 2x2 crafting space found in the top right corner to make wooden planks. Fill all 4 spots in the 2x2 space with a wooden plank, this will make a crafting table.
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Craft a furnace . Mine 8 stone blocks with a wooden pickaxe or better to get 8 blocks of cobblestone. Open your crafting table and place a cobblestone block in every space except the middle one.
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4Smelt the cacti or sea pickles . Open the furnace and place the cacti or sea pickles in the top left slot on the interface. Place fuel like coal or wood in the bottom slot. Wait for a while until green or lime green dye appears in the slot on the right.Advertisement
Method 3
Method 3 of 4:
Using Other Items
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1Gather cocoa beans. Cocoa beans are brown pods that are found growing on jungle trees. You will need to explore your world to find a jungle if you do not already know where one is. Once you've found one, look for brown pods and then break them. You may also want to bring some extra cocoa beans and jungle logs back to your base, as you can grow cocoa beans on jungle logs in any biome.
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2Gather ink sacs. Ink sacs are primarily found by killing squids, which spawn in rivers and oceans. You can also potentially find ink sacs from fishing and looting stronghold chests.
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3Get bonemeal. Bonemeal is primarily obtained by putting bones or bone blocks in a crafting table and turning them into bonemeal. You can also obtain bonemeal by filling up composters or by trading with a wandering trader. Bones can be obtained by killing skeletons and their variants or by looting dungeons, temples, and woodland mansions.
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4Find lapis lazuli. Lapis lazuli can be obtained by mining lapis lazuli ore with a stone pickaxe or better. The ore can be found from Y-levels 0-30. [4] X Research source You can also get it by looting shipwrecks, villages, and mineshafts, or by trading with cleric villagers and wandering traders.
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5Harvest beetroot. Beetroot can be obtained by breaking fully grown beetroot plants, often found in villages. A fully grown beetroot plant will have tall, red bits sticking out from the ground with a green top. You can also grow beetroot by planting beetroot seeds. Beetroot seeds can be found in dungeons, mineshafts, end cities, villages, and woodland mansions.
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6Place the materials in a crafting table. You can only put 1 ingredient in at a time and they can be placed in any space. Cocoa beans will give you brown dye, beetroot will give you red dye, bonemeal will give you white dye, ink sacs will give you black dye, and lapis lazuli will give you blue dye.
- On Bedrock Edition, you don't have to turn these items into dyes, you can just use them as is as a dye. This works with bonemeal, lapis lazuli, cocoa beans, and ink sacs, but not beetroot. Beetroot still has to be turned into red dye before you can use it.
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Method 4
Method 4 of 4:
Combining Dyes
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1Gather dyes. You will need to first obtain dyes using other methods, or you can use dyes you already have.
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2Open a crafting table or crafting space. You can use either your survival inventory crafting space or a crafting table to combine dyes.
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3Place the dyes in the crafting space. Place the dyes next to each other in the crafting space. Below is a list of what dyes can be combined and what dye they will combine into.
- Black dye + 2 White dye = Light gray dye
- Gray dye + White dye = Light gray dye
- Black dye + 1 White Dye = Gray dye
- Red dye + Yellow dye = Orange dye
- Green dye + White dye = Lime green dye
- Blue dye + White dye = Light blue dye
- Blue dye + Green dye = Cyan dye
- Blue dye + Red dye = Purple dye
- Purple dye + Pink dye = Magenta dye
- Red dye + Blue dye + White dye = Magenta dye
- Red dye + White dye = Pink dye
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Tips
- Some dyes have a chance to be sold by wandering traders, so check their stock when they come around.Thanks
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