Minecraft dyes and how to get them

Sat Dec 10. 2022

Minecraft allows players to colorize items using dyes. You can customize your Minecraft world with a variety of dyes. You can get all these dyes in different ways. Some are found naturally in the world while others must be created by you.

A type of item that can be extracted from other naturally-generated items like flowers, squids and so on is dye. These natural items can then be used to create various dyes.

It can also colorize concrete, bricks, terracotta and beds.

There are 16 colors available in the game. They can be divided into three types depending on how they were produced: primary, quasi-primary and secondary. Each dye can be obtained using a different method.

Primary Dyes

These dyes are only made from natural spawning materials.

1) Black Dye

You can make this with ink sac or wither rose.

2) Blue Dye

You can make this with lapis lazuli or cornflower.

3) Brown Dye

This recipe can be made with just one ingredient: cocoa beans

4) Green Dye

You can make this with just one item: Cactus.

5) Red Dye

You can make this with four items: red tulip (red rose bush), poppy, and beetroot.

6) White Dye

You can make this with bone meal or lily from the valley.

7) Yellow Dye

You can make this with two items: dandelion or sunflower.

Quasi-Primary

These dyes can either be made from natural spawning materials or by mixing other dyes.

1) Light Blue Dye

You can make this with either blue orchids or with a combination of blue and white dye.

2) Light Gray Dye

You can choose to use oxeye daisy or azure bluet for the tulip, or combine white and gray dyes. You can also use one black and two white dyes.

3) Lime Dye

You can make this with sea pickles or combine green and white dye.

4) Magenta Dye

You can make this with either lilac, or allium. You can also combine purple and pink dyes, red, blue, and pink dyes, or two red and bye dyes with white.