Yellow dye is a primary dye created by placing a dandelion or sunflower into a crafting grid.
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Dandelion or Sunflower |
Chest loot[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Yellow Dye | Trail ruins | Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4% |
| Village | Mason's chest | 1 | 20.8% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Yellow Dye | Trail ruins | Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.3% |
| Village | Mason's chest | 1 | 20.8% | |
Trading[]
Wandering traders sell 3 yellow dye for an emerald.
Usage[]
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 and cats to dye their collars.
- Used to dye or stain wool, carpets, candles, leather armor, leather horse armor, wolf armor, beds, glass, glass panes, terracotta, shulker boxes, and bundles.
- 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 the text on signs or hanging signs.
Crafting ingredient[]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dyed Bundle | Yellow Dye + Bundle |
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| Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Yellow Dye + Luminol |
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| Orange Dye | Red Dye + Yellow Dye |
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| Wool | Any Wool + Yellow Dye |
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| Yellow Balloon | Latex + Yellow Dye + Helium + Lead |
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| Yellow Balloon | Latex + Yellow Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Yellow Bed | Any Bed + Yellow Dye |
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| Yellow Bed | Any Bed + Yellow Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Yellow Candle | Candle + Yellow Dye |
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| Yellow Carpet | Any Carpet + Yellow Dye |
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| Yellow Carpet | Any Carpet + Yellow Dye |
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| Yellow Concrete Powder | Sand + Gravel + Yellow Dye |
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| Yellow Concrete Powder | Yellow Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.[1] | |
| 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 Edition and Minecraft Education 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 name. | |
| Yellow Stained Glass | Glass + Yellow Dye |
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| Yellow Stained Glass | Glass + Yellow Dye |
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| Yellow Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + 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 Terracotta | Terracotta + Yellow Dye |
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| Yellow Wool | Any Wool + Yellow Dye |
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| 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[]
Trading[]
Expert-level shepherd villagers have a 1⁄6 chance to buy 12 yellow dye for an emerald.
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow Dye | yellow_dye | Item | item.minecraft.yellow_dye |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow Dye | yellow_dye | dye / 11 | 406 | Item | item.dye.yellow.name |
Video[]
History[]
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
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| 1.2 |  Added dandelion yellow. | ||||
| 1.6.6 | Dandelions can now be generated using bone meal, making dandelion yellow renewable. | ||||
| 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 | Yellow dye 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". | |||
 The texture of yellow dye has now been changed. | |||||
| 18w44a | Yellow dye can now change the text color on signs to yellow. | ||||
| 18w49a | Yellow dye can now be found in chests in village mason houses. | ||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells yellow dye. | ||||
| 19w11a | Yellow dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Yellow dye can now be used to craft yellow candles. | |||
| 21w19a | Yellow dye can no longer be used to craft yellow candles. | ||||
| Pre-release 1 | Yellow dye can once again used to craft yellow candles. | ||||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 22w42a | Yellow dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to yellow. | |||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Yellow dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins. | |||
| 23w16a | Yellow dye no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins. | ||||
| Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within trail ruins, yellow dye is now common loot. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.3.0 | Added dandelion yellow. | ||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | 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 is now sold by wandering traders. | |||
| The texture of yellow dye has now been changed. | |||||
| 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 | Added dandelion yellow. |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.83 | "Dandelion Yellow" has now been renamed to "Yellow Dye". | ||||
| 1.90 | The texture of yellow dye has now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added dandelion yellow. | ||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Yellow Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.