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Green Dye
"Cactus Green" redirects here. For the plant, see Cactus.
Green dye is a primary color dye.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Chest loot[edit]
Green dye can be found in a desert village house chest.
Smelting[edit]
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Dye | Cactus + Any fuel |
[Java Edition only] | |
| Green Dye | Cactus + Any fuel |
[Bedrock Edition only] |
Trading[edit]
Wandering traders sell 3 green dye for an emerald.
Usage[edit]
Like all other dyes, green dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of green 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]
Loom ingredient[edit]
Trading[edit]
Expert level shepherd villagers have 1⁄6 chance to buy 12 green dye for an emerald.[Bedrock Edition only] Expert level shepherds have a 2⁄7 chance to buy 12 green dye for 1 emerald.[Java Edition only]
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Name | Namespaced ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Green Dye | green_dye | item.minecraft.green_dye |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Dye | dye | 351 | item.dye.green.name |
Item data[edit]
In Bedrock Edition, green dye has the ID name dye, with a data value of 2.
| DV | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Ink Sac | |
| 1 | Red Dye | |
| 2 | Green Dye | |
| 3 | Cocoa Beans | |
| 4 | Lapis Lazuli | |
| 5 | Purple Dye | |
| 6 | Cyan Dye | |
| 7 | Light Gray Dye | |
| 8 | Gray Dye | |
| 9 | Pink Dye | |
| 10 | Lime Dye | |
| 11 | Yellow Dye | |
| 12 | Light Blue Dye | |
| 13 | Magenta Dye | |
| 14 | Orange Dye | |
| 15 | Bone Meal | |
| 16 | Black Dye | |
| 17 | Brown Dye | |
| 18 | Blue Dye | |
| 19 | White Dye |
Video[edit]
History[edit]
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 |  Added cactus green. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 1.3 |  The texture of green dye has been changed. | |||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Cactus green can be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | |||
| 1.6.1 | 13w19a | Stained clay can now be crafted. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | With the addition of new flowers, many secondary and tertiary dyes are now primary dyes. | |||
| 13w41a | Stained glass can now be crafted. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w30a | Added banners, which can be dyed. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. | |||
| 1.12 | 17w15a | Added the ability to dye beds. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the dye ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
| |||
| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | "Cactus Green" has been renamed to "Green Dye". | |||
 The texture of green dye has been changed. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.4.0 | Added cactus green. | ||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | The texture of green dye has been changed. | |||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Cactus green can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Cactus green can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Cactus green can now be used to dye beds, shulker boxes, and craft concrete powder. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Cactus green can now be used to craft stained glass, patterns on banners, and firework stars. | |||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Cactus green can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | "Cactus Green" has been renamed to "Green Dye". | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Green dye are now sold by wandering traders. | |||
| The texture of green dye has been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Green dye can now be found in desert village house chests. | |||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Green dye can be sold to shepherd villagers. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | Added cactus green. | |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.83 | "Cactus Green" has been renamed to "Green Dye". | ||||
| 1.90 | The texture of green dye has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added cactus green. | ||||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Green Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
