Cyan Dye

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Blue Dye + Green Dye	2
Lapis Lazuli + Green Dye	2	‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
Pitcher Plant	2

Trading[]

Wandering traders sell 3 cyan dye for an emerald.

Usage[]

Like all other dyes, cyan dye can be:

Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of cyan 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 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 text on signs or hanging signs.

Crafting ingredient[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Cyan Balloon	Latex + Cyan Dye + Helium + Lead		‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
Cyan Balloon	Latex + Cyan Dye + Helium + Lead
Cyan Bed	Any Bed + Cyan Dye
Cyan Bed	Any Bed + Cyan Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.
Cyan Candle	Candle + Cyan Dye
Cyan Carpet	Any Carpet + Cyan Dye
Cyan Carpet	Any Carpet + Cyan Dye
Cyan Concrete Powder	Cyan Dye + Sand + Gravel	8	Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.^[1]
Cyan Concrete Powder	Sand + Gravel + Cyan Dye	8
Cyan Firework Star	Gunpowder + Cyan 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.
Cyan Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Cyan Dye + Luminol		‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
Cyan Shulker Box	Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Cyan Dye		The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name.
Cyan Stained Glass	Glass + Cyan Dye	8
Cyan Stained Glass	Glass + Cyan Dye	8
Cyan Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Cyan Dye	8
Cyan Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Cyan Dye	8
Cyan Terracotta	Terracotta + Cyan Dye	8
Cyan Terracotta	Terracotta + Cyan Dye	8
Cyan Wool	Any Wool + Cyan Dye
Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Cyan Dye + Luminol
Wool	Any Wool + Cyan Dye
Cyan Banner pattern	Cyan Dye + Banner
Cyan Banner image	Cyan 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
Cyan Banner pattern	White Banner + Cyan Dye		Field masoned banner and bordure indented banner don't require banner patterns.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
Cyan Banner image	White Banner + Cyan Dye + Banner Pattern		Exceptions: Field masoned and bordure indented banner patterns.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Trading[]

In Bedrock Edition, journeyman-level shepherd villagers have 20% chance to buy 12 cyan dye for an emerald. ^{[more information needed for Java Edition]}

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Cyan Dye	`cyan_dye`	Item	`item.minecraft.cyan_dye`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Cyan Dye	`cyan_dye`	`dye / 6`	`401`	Item	`item.dye.cyan.name`

History[]

Java Edition Beta
1.2					Added cyan dye.
Java Edition
1.4.2		12w34a			Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars.
1.4.6		12w49a			Cyan dye can now be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star.
1.6.1		13w19a			Stained clay can now be crafted.
1.7.2		13w36a			With the addition of new flowers, many secondary and tertiary dyes are now primary dyes.
1.7.2		13w41a			Stained glass can now be crafted.
1.8		14w02a			Due to lapis lazuli being renewable, cyan dye is also renewable.
1.8		14w30a			Added banners, which can be dyed.
1.13		17w47a			The different data values for the `dye` ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351.
1.14		18w43a			Cyan dye is now crafted using blue dye, instead of lapis lazuli.
		18w43a			The texture of cyan dye has now been changed.
		18w44a			Cyan dye can now change the text color on signs to cyan.
		19w05a			Added the wandering trader, which sell cyan dyes.
		19w11a			Cyan dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers.
1.17		20w45a			Cyan dye can now be used to craft cyan candles.
		21w19a			Cyan dye can no longer be used to craft cyan candles.
		Pre-release 1			Cyan dye can once again be used to craft cyan candles.
1.20 (Experimental)		22w42a			Cyan dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to cyan.
1.20		23w12a			Added pitcher plants, which can be crafted into cyan dye.
1.20		23w14a			Pitcher plants now craft into 2 cyan dye instead of 1.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.0					Added cyan dye. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose.
v0.4.0					Cyan dye is now craftable with lapis lazuli and cactus green.
v0.4.0					Cyan dye can now be used to craft cyan wool.
v0.6.0					Cyan dye can now be used to dye sheep.
v0.9.0		build 11			Cyan dye can now be used to craft colored terracotta.
v0.11.0		build 1			Cyan dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars.
v0.14.0		build 1			Cyan dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Cyan dye can now be used to dye shulkers.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Cyan dye can now be used to craft concrete powder, colored beds and dyed shulker boxes.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Cyan dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Cyan dye can now be used to craft ballons and glow sticks.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Cyan dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Cyan dye are now sold by wandering traders.
					Cyan dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes.
					The texture of cyan dye has now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Cyan dye can be sold to shepherd villagers.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.56			The ID of cyan dye has been changed from `dye/6` to `cyan_dye`.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cyan dye.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of cyan dye has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added cyan dye.