Blue Dye

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli
Blue Dye	Cornflower

Chest loot[]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Blue Dye	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.4%
Bedrock Edition
Blue Dye	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.3%

Usage[]

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 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.

Crafting ingredient[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Blue Balloon	Latex + Blue Dye + Helium + Lead		‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
Blue Balloon	Latex + Blue Dye + Helium + Lead
Blue Bed	Any Bed + Blue Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.
Blue Bed	Any Bed + Blue Dye
Blue Candle	Candle + Blue Dye
Blue Carpet	Any Carpet + Blue Dye
Blue Carpet	Any Carpet + Blue Dye
Blue Concrete Powder	Sand + Gravel + Blue Dye	8
Blue Concrete Powder	Blue Dye + Sand + Gravel	8	Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.^[1]
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 Edition and Minecraft Education 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	8
Blue Stained Glass	Glass + Blue Dye	8
Blue Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Blue Dye	8
Blue Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Blue Dye	8
Blue Terracotta	Terracotta + Blue Dye	8
Blue Terracotta	Terracotta + Blue Dye	8
Blue Wool	Any Wool + Blue Dye
Cyan Dye	Blue Dye + Green Dye	2
Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Blue Dye + Luminol
Light Blue Dye	Blue Dye + Bone Meal	2	‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
Light Blue Dye	Blue Dye + White Dye	2
Magenta Dye	Blue Dye + Red Dye + Bone Meal	4	‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
Magenta Dye	Blue Dye + Red Dye + Pink Dye	3
Magenta Dye	Blue Dye + Red Dye + White Dye	4
Purple Dye	Blue Dye + Red Dye	2
Wool	Any Wool + Blue Dye
Blue Banner pattern	Blue Dye + Banner
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[]

Name	Ingredients	Loom recipe	Description
Blue Banner pattern	White Banner + Blue Dye		Field masoned banner and bordure indented banner don't require banner patterns.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
Blue Banner image	White Banner + Blue Dye + Banner Pattern		Exceptions: Field masoned and bordure indented banner patterns.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Trading[]

Expert-level shepherd villagers have a ¹⁄₆ chance to buy 12 blue dye for an emerald.

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Blue Dye	`blue_dye`	Item	`item.minecraft.blue_dye`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Blue Dye	`blue_dye`	`dye / 18`	`399`	Item	`item.dye.blue_new.name`

History[]

Java Edition
1.14	18w43a	Added blue dye.
	18w44a	Blue dyes now can changed the text color on the signs to blue.
	19w05a	Added the wandering trader, which sell blue dyes.
	19w11a	Blue dyes can now be bought by shepherd villagers.
1.17	20w45a	Blue dyes can now used to craft newly added blue candles.
	21w19a	Blue dyes can no longer used to craft blue candles.
	Pre-release 1	Blue dyes can once again used to craft blue candles.
1.20 (Experimental)	22w42a	Blue dyes can now change the text color on hanging signs to blue.
1.20	23w12a	Blue dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins.
	23w16a	Blue dye no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
	23w16a	Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; blue dye now is in the common loot.
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[]

Issues relating to "Blue Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

References[]

↑ MC-150278

Items

[1] MC-150278

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