Blue Dye
Blue dye is a primary dye color.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Crafting[edit]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Dye | Lapis Lazuli | |
| Blue Dye | Cornflower |
Usage[edit]
Like all other dyes, blue dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of blue 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 and Education editions.
- Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock and Education editions.
- Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
- Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock and Education editions.
Crafting ingredient[edit]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Balloon | Latex + Blue Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Blue Bed | White Bed + Blue Dye |
White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.[Java Edition only] | |
| Blue Bed | Any Bed + Blue Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Blue Candle | Candle + Blue Dye |
[upcoming: JE 1.17] | |
| Blue Carpet | White Carpet + Blue Dye |
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| Blue Concrete Powder | Sand + Blue Dye + Gravel |
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| Blue Firework Star | Gunpowder + Blue 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. | |
| Blue Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Blue Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Blue Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Blue Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Blue Stained Glass | Glass + Blue Dye |
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| Blue Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Blue Dye |
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| Blue Terracotta | Terracotta + Blue Dye |
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| Blue Wool | Any Wool + Blue Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Blue Wool | White Wool + Blue Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
| Cyan Dye | Blue Dye + Green Dye |
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| Light Blue Dye | Blue Dye + Bone Meal |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Light Blue Dye | Blue Dye + White Dye |
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| Magenta Dye | Blue Dye + Red Dye + Bone Meal |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Magenta Dye | Blue Dye + Red Dye + White Dye |
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| Magenta Dye | Blue Dye + Red Dye + Pink Dye |
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| Purple Dye | Blue Dye + Red Dye |
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| Blue Banner pattern | Blue Dye + Banner |
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| Blue Banner image | Blue Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient[edit]
Trading[edit]
Expert-level shepherd villagers have a 1⁄6 chance to buy 12 blue dye for an emerald.
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Name | Namespaced ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Dye | blue_dye | item.minecraft.blue_dye |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Dye | blue_dye | dye / 18 | 351 | item.dye.blue_new.name |
History[edit]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  Added blue dye. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | Added blue dye. | |||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Added cornflowers, which can be used to craft blue dye. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Blue dye can now be used to dye white carpets and uncolored glass panes. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Blue dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of blue dye has been changed from dye/18 to blue_dye. | |||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.83 | Added blue dye. | ||||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Blue Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
References[edit]
