The Minecraft dyes can be used for quite a few items. Changing their color on demand. However, there are also quite a few to choose from. We will go over them, explaining how to craft these items with our list of all Minecraft dyes.
White Dye
The most generic color out of them all will be white dye. This simple choice of color can be widely applied no matter where you are. Painting our fence white is the nicest approach to slightly enhancing our building’s appeal.
Crafting white dye is done using either a bone meal or a lily of the valley. Either will result in the same item, no matter your crafting method. Bone meal can be obtained from skeletons, while you can get lilies of the valley from flower forests.
Orange Dye
As we go on, we have orange dye. A less omnipresent and widely useful one but a nice one. Orange dye is a lot stronger on the eyes in gradient, offering us quite a few options for lining the edges of various items.
It’s possible to craft orange dye by using an orange tulip. Unlike lily, this one grows in various plains and forests, making it easy to find. Alternatively, combining red and yellow dyes to generate orange is possible. That takes more materials but works well in a pinch.
Magenta Dye
Magenta is a beautiful dye to use and is yet another quasi-primary color dye. The available sources of it are more impressive than the general uses of magenta we will have throughout the game.
A single stack of magenta dye can be crafted by using allium. However, lilac is a more effective flower for this purpose as it crafts two stacks of magenta. Lastly, we can combine colors to get it. There are many options, but the general one uses blue, red, and pink dye.
Light Blue Dye
Another common color among the available dyes is light blue. This color is slightly less varied in how it can be made than the previous one.
The crafting of the light blue dye can be done directly by crafting it with a blue orchid. Alternatively, combine blue and white dye to get two stacks of light blue dye. Blue can be replaced with lapis lazuli if you are playing, and white can be replaced with a bone meal if you are playing Bedrock Edition.
Yellow Dye
Yellow is a primary color without much in the way of generation. It’s simple enough to get but lacking in options for creation.
You can use dandelion or sunflower to craft the Yellow dye. Sunflower is especially useful as it gives two stacks instead of one. You can find dandelions in plains, forests, meadows, and other locations, so it’s plentiful. Meanwhile, sunflowers only grow in sunflower plains.
Lime Dye
Now, we have lime dye for a dye that will be a bit harder to get. This dye is less useful due to how bright it is, but lime does make a nice accent.
The lime dye can be crafted in multiple ways. You can get some stacks of lime dye by smelting sea pickles with any fuel. Otherwise, mixing green dye with white dye works well. You can replace the white with bone meal in Bedrock Edition.
Pink Dye
Pink dye is another dye we can get some use out of. It’s simpler to get than most, especially due to the ease of finding pink flowers.
The pink dye can be made from two different flowers or a combination of colors. For example, you can use a peony to generate two stacks of pink dye or pink tulip for a single stack. Players can gather the pink dye by combining red and white dye too. Pink tulips can be gathered in the plains and flower forests, while you can find peonies in any forest.
Gray Dye
The gray dye is only craftable when combining black dye and white dye. If you play Bedrock Edition, the white color can be changed with bone meal, and the black dye can be switched with ink sacs.
Light Gray Dye
Unlike gray dye, the light gray dye has multiple ways of being crafted. However, its components are a bit rarer. Nevertheless, it’s still possible to find them quickly.
In terms of crafting, this dye can be crafted by using azure bluet, oxeye daisy, or white tulip. It will give a single stack of gray dye. Combining gray dye with white dye can generate two stacks. Combining black dye with two white dyes will actually generate three light gray dyes.
Cyan Dye
Just adding some green to the blue can make cyan dye. This color is more often used as a secondary dye color. Blue and green generate cyan dye. Cyan dye can also be generated by combining lapis lazuli with green dye in Bedrock Edition.
Purple Dye
With the purple dye, we get yet another common color. This color is a secondary dye color, so it’s craftable by combining other dyes.
Blue and red dye are the combinations you are looking for. You will get two stacks of purple dye by putting these two together. Alternatively, we can replace that lapis lazuli in Bedrock Edition.
Blue Dye
Going back to primary colors, we have blue. The blue color is consistently useful, providing us with basic colors to mix and generate others.
You can craft the blue dye in two ways. First, it’s possible to do so by crafting it with lapis lazuli or using a cornflower.
Brown Dye
With the brown dye, we get some standard colors to put on things. It’s also a decently neutral color to put on things.
The brown dye can be made by using cocoa beans. Crafting with cocoa beans will generate brown dye outright. We can get the materials to do so from cocoa pods.
Green Dye
With green dye, we unlock quite a few combinations of colors later on. Due to green being among the primary colors, its use is quite wide.
A green dye can be crafted from smelting cactus in any form of the furnace and with any fuel. This will give us at least a single stack of green.
Red Dye
Red combines with so many colors to generate secondary or quasi-primary colors. These can be made by using red dye with other dyes.
Using poppy, red tulip, and even beetroot will get us a stack of red dye. Of course, the red dye can be crafted with a rose bush too, in which case we will get two stacks of red dye for our troubles.
Black Dye
Lastly, we have black dye. It’s used in some combinations, otherwise playing a good role in making certain items more neutral in color.
The black dye is crafted through ink sacs which can be found easily from squids. On the other hand, we can get wither rose to craft black dye. We will have to defeat Wither to get it.
Purchasing dyes from wandering traders
You can get a wandering trader to spawn in a game. When one does spawn, it’s possible to trade a single emerald for three stacks of the same dye. It’s among the common items these mobs can carry around. Wandering traders may have multiple dyes too, depending on what’s generated.