Dye

Obtaining

A guide to crafting all the dyes.

Most dyes are produced by crafting various flowers or other items, or by combining other dyes.

Info

Dyes

Type	Items
Durability	N/A
Renewable A renewable resource (as opposed to a non-renewable, or finite, resource) is a resource that can be recreated indefinitely in survival without exploiting glitches or using commands. While running out of resources isn t likely to	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
First appearances	See history
Data value	dec:351 hex:15F bin:101011111
Name See values from the latest PCPersonal Computer version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	dye

Dyes are a set of 16 items used to change the color of wool Wool Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 4 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same color only Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 35 hex: 23 bin: 100011 Name wool Wool is a block derived from sheep , leather armor Armor Type Wearable items Durability See Durability Renewable Yes Stackable No Data values See Data values Name See Data values For the armor that can be worn by horses, see Horse Armor. Armor classes. From , terracotta Terracotta Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 21 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Experience Smelted: 0.1 Drops Itself Data values Terracotta dec: 172 hex: AC bin: 10101100 Stained Terracotta dec: 159 hex: 9F bin: 10011111 Name Terracotta hardened_clay , certain mobs, the patterns on banners Banner Type Non-Solid Block Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 5 Hardness 1 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (16) Flammable No, but catches fire from lava First appearances See history Drops Itself Block , shulker boxes Shulker Box Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 30 Hardness 6 Tool Renewable No Stackable No Flammable No Drops Itself Block entity id shulker_box Data values PC: dec: 219 hex: DB bin: 11011011 , glass Glass Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 1.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops None Data values Glass: dec: 20 hex: 14 bin: 10100 Stained Glass: PC: dec: 95 hex: 5F bin: 1011111 PE: dec: 241 hex: F1 , concrete powder Concrete Powder Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values PC: dec: 252 hex: FC bin: 11111100 PE: dec: 237 hex: ED bin: 11101101 Name concrete_powder See and beds Bed Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 1 Hardness 0.2 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable No Flammable PC: No, but catches fire from lava PE: No First appearances See .

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Lapis Lazuli can be mined "Punch" redirects here. For the enchantment, see Enchanting#Punch. The Player punches trees and gets wood (click to view animation). Breaking, digging, punching, or mining is one of the most fundamental activities in Minecraft, performed (by from lapis lazuli ore Lapis Lazuli Ore Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Experience Mined: 2–5 Smelted: 0.2 Drops Lapis Lazuli (4–8) Data value dec: 21 hex: 15 bin: 10101 Name lapis_ore This in amounts of 4 to 8 per ore. They can also be bought from cleric villagers.

Cocoa beans can be harvested from cocoa pods Cocoa Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Cocoa Beans (1) (premature) Cocoa Beans (3) (fully grown) Data value dec: 127 hex: 7F bin: 1111111 Name cocoa This article in amounts of 1 to 3 per fully grown pod. A pod that is not fully grown will only yield one cocoa beans.

Ink sacs can be dropped by slain squid Squid Health points 10 () Size Height: 0.8 Blocks Width: 0.8 Blocks Spawn 1 or more blocks of water, any light level, spawning block must be between level 46 (inclusive) and sea level First appearances in amounts of 1 to 3 per squid. Looting can increase this amount.

Pocket Edition

Ink sacs Ink Sac Type Wool dyes Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Data value dec: 351 hex: 15F bin: 101011111 Name dye Ink sacs are the darkest possible primary color dye. Contents 1 Obtaining 1.1 Squids 1.2 Fishing can be found in dungeons and blacksmith chests, and can be obtained by killing squids.

Dyeing wool and mobs

Players can dye wool by placing white wool Wool Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 4 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same color only Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 35 hex: 23 bin: 100011 Name wool Wool is a block derived from sheep and a dye in a crafting grid.

Ingredients

Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe

Matching Colored Dye Dyes Type Items Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See history Data value dec: 351 hex: 15F bin: 101011111 Name dye Dyes are a set of 16 items used to change the color of wool, + White Wool Wool Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 4 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same color only Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 35 hex: 23 bin: 100011 Name wool Wool is a block derived from sheep

Dyes can be used on sheep to change the color of the wool. After shearing a colored sheep, they will drop the corresponding color of the wool, as well keep the color of their wool when it regenerates. Breeding colored sheep will result the baby sheep`s color to be one of the parental sheep`s color, or a resulting color of the combination of both parental sheep`s color. Note that the color combining follows the same rules that dyes use – red and yellow sheep will produce an orange lamb, but a blue and yellow sheep cannot create a green lamb. The unlimited reproduction of colored sheep makes dyeing and shearing sheep infinitely more efficient than just dyeing wool directly.

Dye can also be used on tamed wolves. Using a dye on a tamed wolf will change the color of the wolf`s collar (red by default) to the color of the dye.

Dye can also be used on shulkers^{Pocketedition only}.

Dyeing Terracotta

Terracotta can be dyed by placing 8 blocks around a dye on a crafting table.

Ingredients	Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe
Terracotta⃂+ Matching Dye	8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Staining glass

Stained glass can be stained by placing 8 blocks of glass around a dye on a crafting table. Just like regular glass, stained glass can be crafted into stained glass panes. The recipe for this is the same as with regular glass.

Ingredients	Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe
Glass⃂+ Matching Dye	8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Dyeing armor

A graph showing all combinations of two dyes on a tunic.

Leather armor Armor Type Wearable items Durability See Durability Renewable Yes Stackable No Data values See Data values Name See Data values For the armor that can be worn by horses, see Horse Armor. Armor classes. From can be dyed by:

• Crafting dyes with a piece of leather armor,^{Javaedition only}
• Dousing the leather armor or leather horse armor in a cauldron to which dyes have been added.^{Pocketedition only}
• Combining the dye with a piece of leather armor in the inventory ^{Consoleedition only}

There are a possible combination of 12,326,391 colors, as it is possible to put more than one dye on the crafting bench alongside the leather armor. Armor can be dyed multiple times with previous colors affecting the final outcome. Colored armor can be reverted to their original color using a cauldron with undyed water.

The game has a specific formula for calculating the color of dyed armor: each color, in the RGB color model, has a red value, green value, and blue value. For each dye in the crafting grid, and the armor itself (if it is already dyed), the red, green, and blue values are added to running totals. In addition, a running total of the highest value (be it red, green, or blue) is also kept. After this, each total is divided by the number of colors tested. This effectively produces the average red, green, blue, and maximum values. The maximum value of the average RGB values is also calculated. At long last, each average RGB value is multiplied by the average maximum value, and divided by the maximum of the average RGB values. The modified average RGB values are then used as the final color. This procedure can be summed up with the following equations:

 for each color (all "total" variables start at 0 before counting):  totalRed = totalRed + redValue  totalGreen = totalGreen + greenValue  totalBlue = totalBlue + blueValue  totalMaximum = totalMaximum + max(red, green, blue)  numberOfColors = numberOfColors + 1  averageRed = totalRed / numberOfColors averageGreen = totalGreen / numberOfColors averageBlue = totalBlue / numberOfColors averageMaximum = totalMaximum / numberOfColors  maximumOfAverage = max(averageRed, averageGreen, averageBlue) gainFactor = averageMaximum / maximumOfAverage  resultRed = averageRed * gainFactor resultGreen = averageGreen * gainFactor resultBlue = averageBlue * gainFactor 

Due to the way this formula works, the resulting color will never be darker than the average of the input colors, and will often be lighter and more saturated. Of course, the resulting color will never be lighter or more saturated than the lightest or most saturated input color. In addition, this formula will never create an RGB value higher than 255 (which would be invalid in the 8 bit RGB color model).

Dyeing firework stars

A firework star can have a single color or a combination of up to eight colors when crafted with dyes. Adding one or more dyes to a crafted firework star will add a "fade to color" effect to it, overwriting any existing fade colors.

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	Ingredients	Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe
Firework Star	Gunpowder + Any Dye (1-8x) + Extra ingredient (optional)
Firework Star	Matching Firework Star⃂+ Any Dye