Every Dye in Minecraft

Quick answer

• Most dyes come from flowers. Put one in a crafting grid.
• Green dye comes from smelting cactus.
• Some colours need mixing, like red and blue for purple.

Dyes colour wool, glass, concrete, terracotta, beds, banners and more. Here's where every colour comes from.

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All 16 dyes

Dye	Main source
White dye	Bone meal, lily of the valley
Light gray dye	Azure bluet, oxeye daisy, white tulip
Gray dye	Black + white dye
Black dye	Ink sac, wither rose
Brown dye	Cocoa beans
Red dye	Poppy, red tulip, rose bush, beetroot
Orange dye	Orange tulip, torchflower
Yellow dye	Dandelion, sunflower
Lime dye	Smelt sea pickles, or green + white
Green dye	Smelt cactus
Cyan dye	Pitcher plant, or blue + green
Light blue dye	Blue orchid, or blue + white
Blue dye	Lapis lazuli, cornflower
Purple dye	Red + blue dye
Magenta dye	Allium, lilac
Pink dye	Pink tulip, peony, pink petals

Getting more flowers

Use bone meal on grass to grow flowers around it. Use it on a tall flower like a sunflower or rose bush and it drops a copy.

Cheat sheet

• Flowers give most dyes
• Smelt cactus for green
• Mix for purple and gray
• Bone meal on tall flowers for more