Purple dye is a secondary dye color created by combining one Rose Red and a Lapis Lazuli in a crafting square.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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| Lapis Lazuli + Rose Red |
Usage
Like all other dyes, purple dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of purple wool.
- Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
- Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
- Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta and shulker boxes.
- Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
- Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
- Used to add patterns to banners.
- Used to dye shulkers in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
- Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs.
As a crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Purple Dye + Luminol |
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| Magenta Dye | Purple Dye + Pink Dye |
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| Purple Balloon | Latex + Purple Dye + Helium + Lead |
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| Purple Balloon | Latex + Purple Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Purple Bed | Any Bed + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Bed | Any Bed + Purple Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Purple Candle | Candle + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Carpet | Any Carpet + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Carpet | Any Carpet + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Concrete Powder | Sand + Gravel + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Concrete Powder | Purple Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.[1] | |
| Purple Firework Star | Gunpowder + Purple Dye + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
| Purple Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Purple Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Purple Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Purple Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Purple Stained Glass | Glass + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Stained Glass | Glass + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Terracotta | Terracotta + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Terracotta | Terracotta + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Wool | Any Wool + Purple Dye |
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| Wool | Any Wool + Purple Dye |
Data values
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Video
Purple Dye/video