Purple Dye
Purple dye is a secondary dye color created by combining red dye and blue dye in a crafting grid.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Crafting[edit]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Blue Dye + Red Dye |
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| Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye |
Trading[edit]
Wandering traders sell 3 purple dye for an emerald.
Usage[edit]
Like all other dyes, purple dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of purple 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magenta Dye | Purple Dye + Pink Dye |
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| Purple Balloon | Latex + Purple Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Purple Bed | Any Bed + Purple Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Purple Bed | White Bed + Purple Dye |
White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.[Java Edition only] | |
| Purple Candle | Candle + Purple Dye |
[upcoming: JE 1.17] | |
| Purple Carpet | White Carpet + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Concrete Powder | Sand + Purple Dye + Gravel |
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| Purple Firework Star | Gunpowder + Purple 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. | |
| Purple Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Purple Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Purple Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Purple Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its contents. | |
| Purple Stained Glass | Glass + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Terracotta | Terracotta + Purple Dye |
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| Purple Wool | Any Wool + Purple Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Purple Wool | White Wool + Purple Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
| Purple Banner pattern | Purple Dye + Banner |
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| Purple Banner image | Purple 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% chance to buy 12 purple dye for an emerald as part of their trades.[Bedrock Edition only]
Expert-level Shepherd villagers have a 2⁄7 chance to buy 12 purple dye for an emerald.[Java Edition only]
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Name | Namespaced ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purple Dye | purple_dye | Item | item.minecraft.purple_dye |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purple Dye | purple_dye | dye / 5 | 351 | Item | item.dye.purple.name |
Video[edit]
History[edit]
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 |  Added purple dye. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Purple 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, purple 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 | Purple dye is now crafted using blue dye, instead of lapis lazuli. | |||
 The texture of purple dye has now been changed. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.3.0 | Added purple dye. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose. | ||||
| v0.4.0 | Purple dye is now craftable with rose red and lapis lazuli. | ||||
| Purple dye can now be used to craft purple wool. | |||||
| v0.6.0 | Purple dye can now be used to dye sheep. | ||||
| v0.8.0 | build 2 | Purple dye can now be used to craft magenta dye. | |||
| v0.9.0 | build 11 | Purple dye can now be used to craft colored terracotta. | |||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Purple dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars. | |||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Purple dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Purple dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Purple 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 | Purple dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners. | |||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Purple dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Purple dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Purple dye are now sold by wandering traders. | |||
| Purple dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||
| The texture of purple dye has now been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Purple dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of purple dye has been changed from dye/5 to purple_dye. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added purple dye. |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of purple dye has now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added purple dye. | ||||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Purple Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
