Orange dye is a quasi-primary dye crafted from orange tulips, or by combining one red dye with one yellow dye.
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Orange Tulip or Torchflower |
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| Red Dye + Yellow Dye |
Loot chest[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Orange Dye | Trail ruins | Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4% |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Orange Dye | Trail ruins | Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.3% |
Trading[]
Wandering traders sell 3 orange dye for an emerald.
Usage[]
Like all other dyes, orange dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of orange 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[]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Orange Dye + Luminol |
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| Orange Balloon | Latex + Orange Dye + Helium + Lead |
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| Orange Balloon | Latex + Orange Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Orange Bed | Any Bed + Orange Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Orange Bed | Any Bed + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Candle | Candle + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Carpet | Any Carpet + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Carpet | Any Carpet + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Concrete Powder | Sand + Gravel + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Concrete Powder | Orange Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.[1] | |
| Orange Firework Star | Gunpowder + Orange 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. | |
| Orange Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Orange Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Orange Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Orange Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Orange Stained Glass | Glass + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Stained Glass | Glass + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Terracotta | Terracotta + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Terracotta | Terracotta + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Wool | Any Wool + Orange Dye |
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| Wool | Any Wool + Orange Dye |
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| Orange Banner pattern | Orange Dye + Banner |
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| Orange Banner image | Orange Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient[]
Trading[]
Apprentice-level shepherd villagers have a 20% chance to buy 12 orange dye for an emerald as part of their trades.[Bedrock Edition only]
Journeyman-level shepherd villagers have a 1⁄3 chance to buy 12 orange dye for an emerald.[Java Edition only]
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Dye | orange_dye | Item | item.minecraft.orange_dye |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Dye | orange_dye | dye / 14 | 409 | Item | item.dye.orange.name |
Video[]
History[]
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 |  Added orange dye. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Orange 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 the 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. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. | |||
| 1.12 | 17w15a | Added the ability to dye beds. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the dye ID has 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 |  The texture of orange dye has now been changed. | |||
| 18w44a | Orange dye can now change the text color on signs to orange. | ||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells orange dye. | ||||
| 19w11a | Orange dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Orange dye can now be used to craft orange candles. | |||
| 21w19a | Orange dye can no longer be used to craft orange candles. | ||||
| Pre-release 1 | Orange dye can now once again be used to craft orange candles. | ||||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 22w42a | Orange dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to orange. | |||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 23w07a | Torchflowers can now be crafted into orange dye. | |||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Orange dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins. | |||
| 23w16a | Orange dye no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins. | ||||
| Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within trail ruins, orange dye is now common loot. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.3.0 | Added orange dye. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose. | ||||
| v0.4.0 | Orange dye is now craftable with rose red and dandelion yellow. | ||||
| Orange dye can now be used to craft orange wool. | |||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | Orange dye is now used to craft cocoa beans (version exclusive). | |||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Orange dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||
| ? | The above recipe for orange dye has now been removed. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Orange dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Orange dye can now be used to craft concrete powder and colored beds. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Orange dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass, and patterns on banners. | |||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Orange dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Orange dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Orange dye is now sold by wandering traders. | |||
| Orange dye can now be used to dye white carpets. | |||||
| The texture of orange dye has now been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Orange dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of orange dye has been changed from dye/14 to orange_dye. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added orange dye. |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of orange dye has now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added orange dye. | ||||
Issues[]
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