Yellow Dye
Yellow dye is a primary dye created by placing a dandelion or sunflower into a crafting square.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Crafting[edit]
Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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Dandelion or Sunflower |
Trading[edit]
Wandering traders sell 3 yellow dye for an emerald.
Natural generation[edit]
Yellow dye can be found in village mason chests.
Usage[edit]
Like all other dyes, yellow dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of yellow 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 |
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Orange Dye | Red Dye + Yellow Dye |
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Yellow Balloon | Latex + Yellow Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Yellow Bed | Any Bed + Yellow Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Yellow Bed | White Bed + Yellow Dye |
White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.[Java Edition only] | |
Yellow Candle | Candle + Yellow Dye |
[upcoming: JE 1.17] | |
Yellow Carpet | White Carpet + Yellow Dye |
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Yellow Concrete Powder | Sand + Yellow Dye + Gravel |
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Yellow Firework Star | Gunpowder + Yellow 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. | |
Yellow Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Yellow Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Yellow Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Yellow Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its contents. | |
Yellow Stained Glass | Glass + Yellow Dye |
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Yellow Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Yellow Dye |
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Yellow Terracotta | Terracotta + Yellow Dye |
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Yellow Wool | Any Wool + Yellow Dye |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Yellow Wool | White Wool + Yellow Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
Yellow Banner pattern | Yellow Dye + Banner |
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Yellow Banner image | Yellow Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient[edit]
Trading[edit]
Expert-level shepherd villagers have a 1⁄6 chance to buy 12 yellow dye for an emerald.
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Name | Namespaced ID | Form | Translation key |
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Yellow Dye | yellow_dye | Item | item.minecraft.yellow_dye |
Name | Namespaced ID | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
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Yellow Dye | yellow_dye | dye / 11 | 351 | Item | item.dye.yellow.name |
Video[edit]
History[edit]
Java Edition Beta | |||||
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1.2 | ![]() | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||
1.4.6 | 12w49a | Dandelion yellow can be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | |||
1.6.1 | 13w19a | Stained clay can now be crafted. | |||
1.7.2 | 13w36a | Can now be crafted using sunflower. | |||
13w37a | Each dandelion now yields only 1 dandelion yellow, instead of 2. | ||||
13w41a | Stained glass can now be crafted. | ||||
1.8 | 14w30a | Added banners, which can be dyed. | |||
1.11 | 16w39a | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. | |||
1.12 | 17w06a | Can now be used to craft yellow 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 | "Dandelion Yellow" has now been renamed to "Yellow Dye". | |||
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Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.3.0 | ![]() | ||||
v0.8.0 | build 2 | Dandelion yellow is now used to craft cocoa beans. | |||
v0.14.0 | build 1 | Yellow dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||
v0.16.0 | build 1 | Dandelion yellow is no longer used to craft cocoa beans. | |||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Yellow dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||
1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Yellow dye can now be used to dye shulker boxes, beds, and craft concrete powder. | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Yellow dye can now be used to craft patterns on banners, firework stars, and stained glass. | |||
1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Yellow dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||
1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Dandelion yellow can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||
beta 1.8.0.10 | "Dandelion Yellow" has now been renamed to "Yellow Dye". | ||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Yellow dye are now sold by wandering traders. | |||
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1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Yellow dye can now be found in village mason chests. | |||
beta 1.11.0.4 | Yellow dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | ||||
1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of yellow dye has been changed from dye/11 to yellow_dye . | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() |
PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
1.83 | "Dandelion Yellow" has now been renamed to "Yellow Dye". | ||||
1.90 | ![]() | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Yellow Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.