Purple dye is a secondary dye color created by combining red dye and blue dye in a crafting grid.
Contents
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Blue Dye + Red Dye |
|
| Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye |
Trading[]
Wandering traders sometimes sell 3 purple dye for an emerald.
Usage[]
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[]
Loom ingredient[]
Trading[]
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[]
ID[]
| Name | Resource location | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purple Dye | purple_dye | Item | item.minecraft.purple_dye |
| Name | Resource location | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purple Dye | purple_dye | dye / 5 | 351 | Item | item.dye.purple.name |
Video[]
History[]
| 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[]
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