Light Blue Dye
Light blue dye is a quasi-primary dye.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Crafting[edit]
Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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Blue Orchid | ||
Blue Dye + White Dye |
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Lapis Lazuli or Blue Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] |
Trading[edit]
Wandering traders sell 3 light blue dye for an emerald.
Usage[edit]
Like all other dyes, light blue dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of light 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 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 |
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Light Blue Balloon | Latex + Light Blue Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Light Blue Bed | White Bed + Light Blue Dye |
White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.[Java Edition only] | |
Light Blue Bed | Any Bed + Light Blue Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Light Blue Candle | Candle + Light Blue Dye |
[upcoming: JE 1.17] | |
Light Blue Carpet | White Carpet + Light Blue Dye |
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Light Blue Concrete Powder | Sand + Light Blue Dye + Gravel |
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Light Blue Firework Star | Gunpowder + Light 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. | |
Light Blue Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Light Blue Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Light Blue Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Light Blue Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its contents. | |
Light Blue Stained Glass | Glass + Light Blue Dye |
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Light Blue Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Light Blue Dye |
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Light Blue Terracotta | Terracotta + Light Blue Dye |
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Light Blue Wool | White Wool + Light Blue Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
Light Blue Wool | Any Wool + Light Blue Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Light Blue Banner pattern | Light Blue Dye + Banner |
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Light Blue Banner image | Light Blue Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient[edit]
Trading[edit]
Apprentice-level shepherd villagers have a 20%[Bedrock Edition only] or 2⁄7[Java Edition only] chance to buy 12 light blue dye for an emerald as part of their trades.
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Name | Namespaced ID | Form | Translation key |
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Light Blue Dye | light_blue_dye | Item | item.minecraft.light_blue_dye |
Name | Namespaced ID | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
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Light Blue Dye | light_blue_dye | dye / 12 | 351 | Item | item.dye.lightBlue.name |
Video[edit]
History[edit]
Java Edition Beta | |||||
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1.2 | ![]() | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||
1.4.6 | 12w49a | Light blue dye 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. | |||
1.13 | 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 | Light blue dye is now crafted using white and blue dyes, instead of bone meal and lapis lazuli. | |||
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Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.3.0 | ![]() | ||||
v0.4.0 | Light blue dye is now craftable with lapis lazuli and bone meal. | ||||
Light blue dye can now be used to craft light blue wool. | |||||
v0.14.0 | build 1 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||
1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Light dye can now be used to craft concrete powder and dye shulker boxes and beds. | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Light blue dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass, and patterns on banners. | |||
1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Light blue dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||
1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Light blue dye are now sold by wandering traders. | |||
Light blue dye can now be used to dye white carpets. | |||||
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1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Light blue dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||
1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of light blue dye has been changed from dye/12 to light_blue_dye . | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() |
PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
1.90 | ![]() | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() |
Issues[edit]
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