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Red dye is a primary color dye created primarily from flowers.
Contents
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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Poppy or Red Tulip or Beetroot |
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Rose Bush |
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 |
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Magenta Dye | Blue Dye + Red Dye + White Dye |
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Magenta Dye | Blue Dye + Red Dye + Pink Dye |
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Magenta Dye | Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye + Pink Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Magenta Dye | Lapis Lazuli or Blue Dye + Red Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Orange Dye | Red Dye + Yellow Dye |
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Pink Dye | Red Dye + White Dye |
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Pink Dye | Red Dye + Bone Meal |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Purple Dye | Blue Dye + Red Dye |
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Purple Dye | Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye |
[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 |
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Red Carpet | White Carpet + Red Dye |
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Red Concrete Powder | Red Dye + Sand + Gravel |
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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 |
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Red Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Red Dye |
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Red Terracotta | Terracotta + Red Dye |
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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 |
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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[]
Trading[]
Journeyman-level shepherd villagers have a 1⁄6 chance to buy 12 red dye for an emerald.
Data values[]
ID[]
Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
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Red Dye | red_dye | Item | item.minecraft.red_dye |
Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
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Red Dye | red_dye | dye / 1 | 396 | Item | item.dye.red.name |
Video[]
History[]
Java Edition Beta | |||||
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1.2 | ![]() | ||||
1.6.6 | Roses can now be generated using bone meal, making rose red renewable. | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.3.1 | 1.3 | ![]() | |||
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.
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Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||
1.14 | 18w43a | "Rose Red" has now been renamed to "Red Dye". | |||
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Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.3.0 | ![]() | ||||
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 | ![]() | |||
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. | |||
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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 | ![]() |
1.83 | "Rose Red" has now been renamed to "Red Dye". | ||||
1.90 | ![]() | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Red Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.