Red dye is a primary color dye created primarily from flowers.
Notes
Red Dye can be crafted with crops.
Red Dye is called Rose Red in legacy console edition.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Poppy or Red Tulip or Beetroot |
|
| 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 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
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 | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Red Dye | red_dye | item.minecraft.red_dye |
Bedrock Edition: [until BE 1.16.100]
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Dye | dye | 351 | item.dye.red.name |
[upcoming: BE 1.16.100]
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Dye | red_dye | dye / 1 | 351 | item.dye.red.name |
Item data
In Bedrock Edition, red dye has the ID name dye, with a data value of 1.
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History
| beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | |||||
| 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". | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.4.0 | |||||
| ? | Rose red is now used to craft cocoa beans.[verify] | ||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | ||||
| 0.9.0 | build 3 | Rose red can now be obtained by putting a poppy, red tulip or rose bush flowers in the crafting grid. | |||
| 0.15.0 | build 1 | Red mushrooms can no longer be smelted to obtain rose red. | |||
| 0.16.0 | ? | 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. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Red dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 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.