Blue dye is a primary dye color.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Dye | Lapis Lazuli | |
| Blue Dye | Cornflower |
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
Loom ingredient
Trading
Expert-level shepherd villagers have a 1⁄6 chance to buy 12 blue dye for an emerald.
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Dye | blue_dye | item.minecraft.blue_dye |
Bedrock Edition: [until BE 1.16.100]
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Dye | dye | 351 | item.dye.blue_new.name |
[upcoming: BE 1.16.100]
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Dye | blue_dye | dye / 18 | 351 | item.dye.blue_new.name |
Item data
In Bedrock Edition, blue dye has the ID name dye, with a data value of 18.
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History
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | ||||
| 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. | |||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.83 | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Blue Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.