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There are sixteen different colors of dyes that you can use to change the colors of wool, terracotta, concrete, beds, glass, and even your wolf’s collar. The large number of dyes help when you need a specific colored block to fit into your builds. There are also some unique interactions with colored glass that can change the color that a beacon emits. It is good to familiarize yourself with different colors of dye to ensure that your build looks exactly as you want them to.
| Color of Dye | How to Obtain |
| White Dye | Bone Meal or Lily of the Valley |
| Light Gray Dye | Azure Bluet, Oxeye Daisy, White Tulip, or combining White Dye with Gray Dye |
| Gray Dye | Combining Black Dye/Ink Sac with Bone Meal/White Dye |
| Black Dye | Ink Sacs or Wither Rose |
| Brown Dye | Cocoa Beans |
| Red Dye | Poppy, Rose Bush, Red Tulip, or Beetroots |
| Orange Dye | Orange Tulip or combining Red Dye and Yellow Dye |
| Yellow Dye | Dandelions or Sunflowers |
| Lime Dye | Combining Green Dye and White Dye or smelting Sea Pickles |
| Green Dye | Smelting Cactus |
| Cyan Dye | Combining Green Dye and Lapis Lazuli/Blue Dye |
| Light Blue Dye | Combining Lapis Lazuli/Blue Dye with Bone Meal/White Dye |
| Blue Dye | Lapis Lazuli |
| Purple Dye | Combining Red Dye with Lapis Lazuli/Blue Dye |
| Magenta Dye | Lilac, Allium, or combining Purple Dye and Pink Dye |
| Pink Dye | Peony, Pink Tulip, or combining Red Dye and White Dye |
To make most dyes in the game you can do so through flowers. There are seven primary colors in Minecraft used to make different shades of dye. Five of these colors can be made through flowers, black, red, yellow, blue, and white. You cannot find brown or green dye through flowers.
To get black dye you will have to hunt down squids to get ink sacs or as a more expensive option you can use wither roses to get black dye.
To get brown dye you will need to locate cocoa beans grown in jungles.
Finally, to get green dye you will need to smelt cactus.
Many of the dyes available in the game can be obtained through flowers. If you manage to find a flower field you will have the majority of dyes available to you.
To turn a flower into dye simply place it in your crafting menu.
You will end up with that flower’s respective color as a dye. You can make the remaining dyes by combining other dyes together. For example, you can make purple dye by combining red and blue dye.
You can use pink tulips to get pink dye and combine purple and pink to make magenta.
You may have noticed that each dye recipe will yield two dyes for use. This is to ensure that the different shades of dye do not consume the base ingredients. You will end up with an equal quantity of dye.
Dyes are interchangeable in these recipes, you can swap out the dyes used in example for the color of dye you want to use. You can dye terracotta, which is obtained through smelting clay blocks, to make stained terracotta. Smelt this terracotta to make glazed terracotta which hold a unique amount of patterned shapes.
You can also stain glass to make stained glass panes or simply add some color to your windows.
You can dye firework stars to explode into a certain color, dye shulker boxes to color code your sorting, and create colored concrete powder for a smooth block that is entirely a specific color.
Finally, you can also dye wool which can be used to make a different color of bed.
If you want to change the color of an existing bed simply place the bed alongside the color of dye you want the bed to be.
That is every use of dye in the game of Minecraft.
You can obtain every color of dye with 1 cocoa bean, 2 yellow dye, 2 ink sacs, 3 green dye, 4 lapis lazuli, 4 red dye, and 6 bone meals.
There are sixteen different colors of dye available in Minecraft. You can dye beds, concrete, fireworks, glass, wool, shulker boxes, and terracotta.
You can dye wool to make a different colored bed, or use an existing bed and place the bed and the dye you want into a crafting menu to get the color you want.
Besides the primary colors most of the dyes are relatively simple to obtain. The rarest to find would be brown or magenta as cocoa beans can only be found in deserts or through trade. Magenta dye takes the most steps to complete.
Flower forests will spawn nearby other forests. Look for plains biomes and look for forests that are nearby to get a sense of where a flower forest could generate. A lot of flowers can lead to a lot of dyes, but the flower forest will never spawn with sunflowers, blue orchids, or wither rose.
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