Updated 23 October 2026. Facts on this page come from minecraft.wiki, minecraft.net and the live Artemis PvP server; sources are listed at the bottom.
How to Make Every Dye in Minecraft
There are 16 dyes. Most come from flowers (a poppy makes red, a dandelion yellow, a cornflower blue), some from items (ink sac for black, bone meal for white, cocoa beans for brown, lapis lazuli for blue), green from smelting cactus and lime from smelting sea pickles, and the rest from mixing two dyes, like red and white for pink.
How do you make each dye?
| Dye | Main sources |
|---|---|
| White | Bone meal, lily of the valley |
| Light gray | Azure bluet, oxeye daisy, white tulip, or black + white dyes |
| Gray | Black + white dye, closed eyeblossom |
| Black | Ink sac, wither rose |
| Brown | Cocoa beans |
| Red | Poppy, red tulip, rose bush, beetroot |
| Orange | Orange tulip, torchflower, open eyeblossom, or red + yellow |
| Yellow | Dandelion, sunflower, wildflowers |
| Lime | Smelt a sea pickle, or green + white |
| Green | Smelt cactus |
| Cyan | Pitcher plant, or blue + green |
| Light blue | Blue orchid, or blue + white |
| Blue | Lapis lazuli, cornflower |
| Purple | Blue + red |
| Magenta | Allium, lilac, or purple + pink |
| Pink | Pink tulip, peony, pink petals, cactus flower, or red + white |
What can you dye?
Dyes colour wool, carpets, terracotta, concrete powder, glass, shulker boxes, beds, candles, bundles, harnesses, banner patterns and firework stars, among others. A piece of wool of any colour can be re-dyed by crafting it with any dye. See fireworks.
Can you buy dyes?
Yes: the wandering trader sells every dye. Some dyes also turn up in chest loot. On Bedrock, bone meal, ink sacs, lapis lazuli and cocoa beans can be used directly instead of white, black, blue and brown dye in recipes.
What do you need to make one of every dye?
minecraft.wiki works it out: 1 cocoa bean, 2 dandelions or wildflowers (or 1 sunflower), 2 ink sacs or wither roses, 3 cactuses, 4 lapis lazuli or cornflowers, 4 small red flowers such as poppies (or 2 rose bushes) and 6 bone meal, with the mixing recipes filling in the rest. Smelt the cactus in a furnace for green; see furnaces and smelting.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you make green dye?
Smelt cactus in a furnace.
How do you make pink dye?
Red dye + white dye, or from a pink tulip, peony, pink petals or cactus flower.
Sources
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