Red Dye

Red Dye

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

Red dye is a primary color dye created primarily from flowers.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Poppy or Red Tulip or Beetroot
Rose Bush	2

Trading

Wandering traders sell 3 red dye for an emerald.

Usage

Like all other dyes, red dye can be:

• Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of red 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

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Magenta Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye + Pink Dye	3	‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Magenta Dye	Blue Dye + Red Dye + Pink Dye	3
Magenta Dye	Lapis Lazuli or Blue Dye + Red Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye	4	‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Magenta Dye	Blue Dye + Red Dye + White Dye	4
Orange Dye	Red Dye + Yellow Dye	2
Pink Dye	Red Dye + White Dye	2
Pink Dye	Red Dye + Bone Meal	2	‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Purple Dye	Blue Dye + Red Dye	2
Purple Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye	2	‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Red Balloon	Latex + Red Dye + Helium + Lead		‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Red Bed	White Bed + Red Dye		White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.‌[Java Edition only]
Red Bed	Any Bed + Red Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Red Candle	Candle + Red Dye
Red Carpet	White Carpet + Red Dye	8
Red Concrete Powder	Red Dye + Sand + Gravel	8
Red Firework Star	Gunpowder + Red 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.
Red Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Red Dye + Luminol		‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Red Shulker Box	Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Red Dye		The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name.
Red Stained Glass	Glass + Red Dye	8
Red Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Red Dye	8
Red Terracotta	Terracotta + Red Dye	8
Red Wool	Any Wool + Red Dye		‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Red Wool	White Wool + Red Dye		‌[Java Edition only]
Red Banner pattern	Red Dye + Banner
Red Banner image	Red Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple

Loom ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Loom recipe	Description
Red Banner pattern	White Banner + Red Dye		Field masoned banner and bordure indented banner don't require banner patterns.‌[Java Edition only]
Red Banner image	White Banner + Red Dye + Banner Pattern		Exceptions: Globe banner pattern;‌[Java Edition only] Field masoned and bordure indented banner patterns.‌[Bedrock Edition only]

Trading

Journeyman-level shepherd villagers have a ¹⁄₆ chance to buy 12 red dye for an emerald.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Resource location	Form	Translation key
Red Dye	red_dye	Item	item.minecraft.red_dye

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Resource location	Alias ID (BE)	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Red Dye	red_dye	dye / 1	351	Item	item.dye.red.name

History

Java Edition Beta
1.2					Added rose red.
1.6.6					Roses can now be generated using bone meal, making rose red renewable.
Java Edition
1.3.1		1.3			The texture of rose red has now been changed.
1.4.2		12w34a			Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars.
1.4.6		12w49a			Rose red 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			Now crafted using poppy instead of rose, as the latter is removed.
					Can now be crafted using red tulips and rose bushes.
		13w37a			Each poppy now yields only 1 rose red, instead of 2.
		13w41a			Stained glass can now be crafted.
1.8		14w30a			Added banners, which can be dyed.
1.9		15w31a			Rose red can now be crafted using beetroot.
1.11		16w39a			Added the ability to dye shulker boxes.
1.12		17w06a			Can now be used to craft red concrete powder.
		17w15a			Added the ability to dye beds.
1.13		17w47a			The different data values for the dye ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351.
1.14		18w43a			"Rose Red" has now been renamed to "Red Dye".
					The texture of red dye has now been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.0					Added rose red. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose.
v0.4.0					Rose red is now obtainable by smelting red mushrooms.
					Rose red can now be used to craft other dyes and red wool.
v0.8.0		build 2			The texture of red dye has now been changed.
					Rose red is now used to craft cocoa beans.
v0.9.0		build 3			Rose red can now be obtained by putting a poppy, red tulip or rose bush flowers in the crafting grid.
v0.15.0		build 1			Red mushrooms can no longer be smelted to obtain rose red.
v0.16.0		build 1			Rose red is no longer used to craft cocoa beans.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.10			"Rose Red" has now been renamed to "Red Dye".
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Red dye can now be bought from wandering traders.
					The texture of red dye has now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Red dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.56			The ID of red dye has been changed from dye/1 to red_dye.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added rose red.
		1.83			"Rose Red" has now been renamed to "Red Dye".
		1.90			The texture of red dye has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added rose red.

Issues

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