White Dye

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

White dye is a primary color dye similar to bone meal.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Bone Meal
Lily of the Valley

Usage[]

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[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Gray Dye	Black Dye + White Dye	2
Gray Dye	Ink Sac + White Dye	2	‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Light Blue Dye	Blue Dye + White Dye	2
Light Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli + White Dye	2	‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Light Gray Dye	Gray Dye + White Dye	2	In Bedrock Edition, the white dye can be replaced with bone meal.
Light Gray Dye	Black Dye + White Dye	3	In Bedrock Edition, the black and white dye can be replaced with ink sacs and bone meal, respectively.
Lime Dye	Green Dye + White Dye	2
Magenta Dye	Blue Dye + Red Dye + White Dye	4
Magenta Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye + White Dye	4	‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Pink Dye	Red Dye + White Dye	2
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
White Concrete Powder	White Dye + Sand + Gravel	8
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 name.
White Stained Glass	Glass + White Dye	8
White Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + White Dye	8
White Terracotta	Terracotta + White Dye	8
White Wool	Any Wool + White Dye		‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
White Banner pattern	White Dye + Banner
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[]

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

Trading[]

Apprentice-level shepherd villagers have a 20% chance to buy 12 white dye for an emerald.

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Resource location	Form	Translation key
White Dye	`white_dye`	Item	`item.minecraft.white_dye`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Resource location	Alias ID (BE)	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
White Dye	`white_dye`	`dye / 19`	`351`	Item	`item.dye.white_new.name`

History[]

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[]

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References[]

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