Light gray dye is a dye made from Azure Bluets, Oxeye Daisies, or White Tulips. It can also be made by crafting bone meal and gray dye together, or two units of bone meal and an Ink Sac.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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| Azure Bluet or Oxeye Daisy or White Tulip |
Both of the recipes below require 12 units of primary dye to produce 12 units of light gray dye. The first recipe uses 4 Ink Sac and 8 Bone Meal. The second recipe uses 3 Ink Sac and 9 Bone Meal.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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| Ink Sac + Bone Meal |
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| Gray Dye + Bone Meal |
Usage
Like all other dyes, light gray dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of light gray 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.
As a crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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| Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Light Gray Dye + Luminol |
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| Light Gray Balloon | Latex + Light Gray Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Light Gray Balloon | Latex + Light Gray Dye + Helium + Lead |
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| Light Gray Bed | Any Bed + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Bed | Any Bed + Light Gray Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Light Gray Candle | Candle + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Carpet | Any Carpet + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Carpet | Any Carpet + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Concrete Powder | Sand + Gravel + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Concrete Powder | Light Gray Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.[1] | |
| Light Gray Firework Star | Gunpowder + Light Gray 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 Gray Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Light Gray Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Light Gray Stained Glass | Glass + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Stained Glass | Glass + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Terracotta | Terracotta + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Terracotta | Terracotta + Light Gray Dye |
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| Light Gray Wool | Any Wool + Light Gray Dye |
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| Wool | Any Wool + Light Gray Dye |
Data values
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