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"Cactus Green" redirects here. For the plant, see Cactus.
Green dye is a primary color dye.
Obtaining[]
Chest loot[]
Green dye can be found in a desert village house chest.
Smelting[]
Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe | Description |
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Green Dye | Cactus + Any fuel |
[Java Edition only] | |
Green Dye | Cactus + Any fuel |
[Bedrock Edition only] |
Trading[]
Wandering traders sell 3 green dye for an emerald.
Usage[]
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[]
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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Cyan Dye | Lapis Lazuli + Green Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Cyan Dye | Blue Dye + Green Dye |
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Green Balloon | Latex + Green Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Green Bed | White Bed + Green Dye |
White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.[Java Edition only] | |
Green Bed | Any Bed + Green Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Green Candle | Candle + Green Dye |
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Green Carpet | White Carpet + Green Dye |
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Green Concrete Powder | Green Dye + Sand + Gravel |
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Green Firework Star | Gunpowder + Green 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. | |
Green Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Green Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Green Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Green Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
Green Stained Glass | Glass + Green Dye |
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Green Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Green Dye |
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Green Terracotta | Terracotta + Green Dye |
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Green Wool | White Wool + Green Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
Green Wool | Any Wool + Green Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Lime Dye | Green Dye + White Dye |
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Lime Dye | Green Dye + Bone Meal |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Green Banner pattern | Green Dye + Banner |
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Green Banner image | Green Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient[]
Trading[]
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[]
ID[]
Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
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Green Dye | green_dye | Item | item.minecraft.green_dye |
Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
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Green Dye | green_dye | dye / 2 | 397 | Item | item.dye.green.name |
Video[]
History[]
Java Edition Beta | |||||
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1.2 | ![]() | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.3.1 | 1.3 | ![]() | |||
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 | 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 | 17w06a | Cactus green can now be used to craft green concrete powder. | |||
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.
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Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||
1.14 | 18w43a | "Cactus Green" has been renamed to "Green Dye". | |||
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Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.3.0 | ![]() | ||||
v0.3.2 | Cactus green is now obtainable by smelting cacti in a furnace. It still has no usage. | ||||
v0.4.0 | Cactus green can now be used to craft cyan dye, lime dye, and green wool. | ||||
v0.8.0 | build 2 | ![]() | |||
v0.14.0 | 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. | |||
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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. | ||||
1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of green dye has been changed from dye/2 to green_dye . | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | ![]() | |
PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
1.83 | "Cactus Green" has been renamed to "Green Dye". | ||||
1.90 | ![]() | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Green Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.