White Dye
White dye is a primary color dye similar to bone meal.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Crafting[edit]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Bone Meal | |
| Lily of the Valley |
Usage[edit]
Like all other dyes, white dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of white 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gray Dye | Black Dye + White Dye |
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| Gray Dye | Ink Sac + White Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Light Blue Dye | Lapis Lazuli + White Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Light Blue Dye | Blue Dye + White Dye |
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| Light Gray Dye | Gray Dye + White Dye |
In Bedrock Edition, the white dye can be replaced with bone meal. | |
| Light Gray Dye | Black Dye + White Dye |
In Bedrock Edition, the black and white dye can be replaced with ink sacs and bone meal, respectively. | |
| Lime Dye | Green Dye + White Dye |
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| Magenta Dye | Blue Dye + Red Dye + White Dye |
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| Magenta Dye | Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye + White Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Pink Dye | Red Dye + White Dye |
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| White Balloon | Latex + White Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| White Bed | Any Bed + White Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| White Candle | Candle + White Dye |
[upcoming: JE 1.17] | |
| White Concrete Powder | Sand + White Dye + Gravel |
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| White Firework Star | Gunpowder + White 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. | |
| White Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + White Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| White Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + White Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its contents. | |
| White Stained Glass | Glass + White Dye |
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| White Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + White Dye |
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| White Terracotta | Terracotta + White Dye |
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| White Wool | Any Wool + White Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| White Banner pattern | White Dye + Banner |
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| White Banner image | White Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient[edit]
Trading[edit]
Journeyman-level shepherd villagers have a 20% chance to buy 12 white dye for an emerald.
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Name | Namespaced ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Dye | white_dye | Item | item.minecraft.white_dye |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White Dye | white_dye | dye / 19 | 351 | Item | item.dye.white_new.name |
History[edit]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  Added white dye. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | Added white dye. | |||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Added lilies of the valley, which can be used to craft white dye. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | White dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of white dye has been changed from dye/19 to white_dye. | |||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.83 | Added white dye. | ||||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "White Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
References[edit]
