Cyan Dye
Cyan dye is a secondary dye color.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Crafting[edit]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Blue Dye + Green Dye |
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| Lapis Lazuli + Green Dye |
The recipe with Lapis is Bedrock and Education editions only.
Trading[edit]
Wandering traders sell 3 cyan dye for an emerald.
Usage[edit]
Like all other dyes, cyan dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of cyan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyan Balloon | Latex + Cyan Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Cyan Bed | White Bed + Cyan Dye |
White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.[Java Edition only] | |
| Cyan Bed | Any Bed + Cyan Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Cyan Candle | Candle + Cyan Dye |
[upcoming: JE 1.17] | |
| Cyan Carpet | White Carpet + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Concrete Powder | Sand + Cyan Dye + Gravel |
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| Cyan Firework Star | Gunpowder + Cyan 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. | |
| Cyan Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Cyan Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Cyan Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Cyan Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its contents. | |
| Cyan Stained Glass | Glass + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Terracotta | Terracotta + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Wool | White Wool + Cyan Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
| Cyan Wool | Any Wool + Cyan Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Cyan Banner pattern | Cyan Dye + Banner |
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| Cyan Banner image | Cyan Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient[edit]
Trading[edit]
In Bedrock Edition, journeyman-level shepherd villagers have 20% chance to buy 12 cyan dye for an emerald. [more information needed for Java Edition]
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Name | Namespaced ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyan Dye | cyan_dye | Item | item.minecraft.cyan_dye |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyan Dye | cyan_dye | dye / 6 | 351 | Item | item.dye.cyan.name |
History[edit]
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 |  Added cyan dye. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Cyan dye can now 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 | 14w02a | Due to lapis lazuli being renewable now, cyan dye is also now renewable. | |||
| 14w30a | Added banners, which can be dyed. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the dye ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
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| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Cyan dye is now crafted using blue dye, instead of lapis lazuli. | |||
 The texture of cyan dye has now been changed. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.3.0 | Added cyan dye. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose. | ||||
| v0.4.0 | Cyan dye is now craftable with lapis lazuli and cactus green. | ||||
| Cyan dye can now be used to craft cyan wool. | |||||
| v0.6.0 | Cyan dye can now be used to dye sheep. | ||||
| v0.9.0 | build 11 | Cyan dye can now be used to craft colored terracotta. | |||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Cyan dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars. | |||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Cyan dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Cyan dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Cyan dye can now be used to craft concrete powder, colored beds and dyed shulker boxes. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Cyan dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners. | |||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Cyan dye can now be used to craft ballons and glow sticks. | |||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Cyan dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Cyan dye are now sold by wandering traders. | |||
| Cyan dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||
| The texture of cyan dye has now been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Cyan dye can be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of cyan dye has been changed from dye/6 to cyan_dye. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added cyan dye. |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of cyan dye has now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added cyan dye. | ||||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Cyan Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
