Well, let's start. So, first you should know that there are 7 basic dyes in MineCraft, each of which can be obtained in one way or another.
Basic dyes:
Rose color(Red) - the Rose
Harvested from red rose flowers found all over the world, it can often be found in forests and plains. To get a dye from a rose, just put it in the crafting grid.
Dandelion yellow(yellow) - Dandelion
Similarly to flowers, roses are found all over the world, they are crafted in the same way.
Ultramarine(blue) - Lapis lazuli ore
Natural mineral, most often located at the 19th level, but the main spawn is located from the 32nd and below. Mined with a pickaxe.
Cactus greens(green) - Cactus
They grow in deserts, but can grow in any biome in the presence of sand. To get the dye, you need to throw the cactus into the oven and fry it.
Ink bag(black) - Octopuses
The water mob can be found in any body of water - from rivers to oceans and seas. To get the ink sac, you need to kill the octopus (unexpected, right?).
Bone flour(White) - Bones(skeletons)
Skeletons are hostile night monsters. After killing a skeleton, there is a chance that bones will fall out of it. By placing bones in the crafting grid, you can get bone meal, which is also used as fertilizer.
Cocoa beans(Brown) - Treasure Chests
It is necessary to search for cocoa beans in treasuries. In the snapshot 12w18a also falls out of the foliage of trees in the jungle.
The screenshots below show which materials the dyes correspond to.
To dye wool with any dye, you need to put white wool and dye in the crafting grid, the location does not matter.
In addition to the primary seven colors, there are also 7 secondary and 2 tertiary colors. If you think logically, then it is not difficult to guess that for crafting secondary dyes we need basic ones, and for tertiary ones we need secondary ones.
Secondary:
Orange- crafted from rose color and yellow dandelion.
Turquoise- crafted from cactus green and ultramarine.
Violet- crafted from rose color and ultramarine.
Grey- crafted from ink bag and bone dust.
Light blue- crafted from bone meal and ultramarine.
Pink- crafted from bone meal and rose color.
Lime- crafted from cactus green and bone dust.
Tertiary:
Purple- crafted from purple and pink dye.
Light gray- crafted from bone meal and gray dye.
That's it! Having put on a ton of wool, hurry up and run to build masterpieces of pixel art and colorful houses, however, this is a bit delusional, but fun!
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When you play Minecraft, you may come across objects painted in bright and attractive colors. Naturally, in this case, you may have a completely normal desire - to paint something with your own hand in the color you like. But not everyone knows exactly how to do this. Many do not even imagine that in this game you can get dyes and use them for their intended purpose. Therefore, it is worth considering in detail how to do it.Also, special attention should be paid to the types of dyes, since they are also different.
Dyes in the game
Everyone who has seen something bright in the game wonders how to make a dye in Minecraft, but not everyone finds the answer to this question. And the solution lies on the surface, because most of them are done in the simplest way - by crafting a single item. This is just where the question arises: what exactly needs to be crafted to get the dye? After all, it can then be used for a variety of purposes, for example, for dyeing wool, armor and other items. This will allow you to make life much brighter, and at the same time diversify the gameplay. So it's time to learn how to make a dye in Minecraft.
Natural dyes
In total, you can paint anything in more than twenty colors, but not all of them are simple. The fact is that in the game, only thirteen shades can be obtained in nature, the rest must be obtained in more complex ways. And how to make a dye in Minecraft from what the game gives you? It's very simple - you only need one workbench, because the paint itself is produced from specific resources. For example, you can get red dye if you craft a poppy or tulip, which you can easily find in the field. Yellow is easy to achieve from dandelion or sunflower. You can find a table that lists all the natural resources that simple dyes give you, or you can not spoil your experience and experiment. Perhaps, in addition to interesting colors, you will also get something that you did not expect at all. However, it is important not to concentrate solely on the workbench, because by firing a cactus, for example, you will get a green dye. Minecraft provides you with a huge number of possibilities, so use them all.
Composite colors
As mentioned earlier, in nature you can only find materials for the manufacture of thirteen natural dyes. But there are also nine components that simply cannot be done. Seven of them are only slightly more difficult than the basic ones. For example, you can make lime dye by mixing bone meal and cactus greens. Minecraft, however, offers you two more unique colors that are the hardest to make. If you have followed the path of experimentation and do not look at the table, then it will be very difficult for you to find the right ingredients. Indeed, to make a lilac dye, you will need to mix two ready-made shades, purple and pink. What can we say about which you need to add to the gray bone meal. This is how difficult it is to acquire knowledge on painting in Minecraft. How to make a blue dye is one question, but how to achieve brighter and more unusual colors is a completely different matter.
How to paint an item
It's worth starting with the fact that not all objects in the game can be painted, so you will have to accept that some of your experiments will fail. The most striking example of a thing that is constantly dyed is wool. It is obtained thanks to the sheep, but often it is dyed even before they are sheared, for this purpose the dye is used directly on the sheep - and its wool takes on a new color. It should be noted that it will continue to be passed on to her children, and if you cross her with a breed of a different color, then you can get something extraordinary. If you need to paint an item, then place it in the workbench along with the dye, and if its color can be changed, then the process will be successful.
Armor painting
We should also consider the process of painting the armor. It is important to know that only the color of leather armor can be changed, so do not try to recolor others, such as metal or gold. Please also note that this feature appeared only in one of the latest versions, so if your client was downloaded for a long time and has not been updated since then, then you will not have a chance to change the color of the armor. Well, it's worth noting that there are many more colors available for painting armor than for crafting, so your imagination will have more space to work with. In addition, this fact gives hope that in subsequent versions of the game the number of dyes will noticeably increase, and you will be able to more original decorate your house, as well as your surroundings, painting walls, fences and even sheep in different colors.
Dyes are primarily used to dye wool, and later dyes can be dyed. There are seven natural dyes and nine color mixing shades. Even more shades are used when painting armor.The color scheme of items and dyes obtained from these items and by mixing different dyes.
Dye crafting
To dye wool, it is placed on a workbench or in inventory. Only white wool can be dyed. Items are placed randomly, the order is not important here. One block is colored.
To obtain colored wool, you can also dye the sheep using dye. The dye should be in hand, get as close as possible to the sheep, and right-click on the sheep. When shearing a dyed sheep with scissors, you can get 1-3 blocks of dyed wool from it, and when crafting, you get only one block of colored wool. In later versions, after shearing, wool grows back on the sheep and the player can get an infinite number of wool blocks using just one dye. Using dyes of different colors, you can get an infinite amount of wool of all colors the player needs.
A lamb received from parents with wool of different colors will receive an arbitrary color from mixing the colors of the parents' wool, for example, a purple lamb will be born from a blue and red sheep. In the world of Minecraft, only white, gray, black, light blue, light gray, less often brown and, very rarely, pink sheep spawn.
You can also dye the collars of tamed wolves with dyes.
For painting, one piece of armor is placed in the crafting grid along with dyes. The order is not important. Armor is painted in a variety of shades, when crafting, you can put a lot of dyes at once, you can repaint already painted armor, new colors will mix with the previous one and a certain average shade is obtained. You can wash painted armor in the cauldron, which wastes water.
Possible shades when painting leather armor with dyes.
Since version 12w49а (1.4.6), dyes are used to create fireworks.
From version 13w41a glass can be painted.
Dyes and colors
Primary colors
Primary colors can be obtained through the game or made from ingredients that must also be obtained first.
| Icon | Name | Extracted from | Gives color | Description |
| Red | obtained by crafting a rose, it turns out two dyes per craft | |||
| Yellow | dandelion craft | |||
| Blue | Lapis lazuli ore is mined (4-8 dyes per block) | |||
| Green | obtained by roasting a cactus | |||
| Black | from a killed octopus, you can not kill the octopus, but hit from below, 1-3 dyes fall out | |||
| White | killing skeletons drops bones | |||
| Cocoa fruit | Brown | cocoa beans fall from the jungle trees |
By mixing primary dyes, secondary dyes are obtained.
| Icon | Name | Mixing | It turns out |
| Rose + Dandelion Yellow | Orange | ||
| Cactus Greens + Ultramarine | Turquoise | ||
| Rose color + Ultramarine | Violet | ||
Special dyes are used to dye wool and leather armor. There are many types of dyes in minecraft. For example, 22 types of dyes are used for dyeing wool. Thirteen of them can be obtained naturally, nine are obtained by mixing different shades. But there are many more options for painting armor. The dyes themselves are made by crafting in a workbench or recycling in an oven.
Every plant or item is a new color
Hence:
- Cactus - green
- Rose, poppy, red tulip - red;
- Peony or tulip pink - pink;
- Lapis lazuli - ultramarine color;
- Onions - lilac color;
- Bone meal - white;
- Ink bag - black;
- White tulip - light gray;
- Sunflower is yellow.
How to paint - applying dyes
So, in order to dye the wool, you need to place the white wool and the desired dye color in your inventory. This will dye just one block of wool. It is much more profitable to dye a sheep. In this case, you need to bring the dye very close and press RMB. Next, take scissors and trim the animal. You get two or three times more wool than in the case of crafting in the standard way. In addition, wool tends to grow back. Moreover, it grows back already painted. Having decided to cross two sheep of different colors, you get a cub of a completely different color. Using this algorithm, in the new version of the game, you can also paint the collars of wolves.