Lime Dye

Lime dye is a quasi-primary dye obtained by combining one green dye and one white dye in a crafting square, or by smelting a sea pickle.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Smelting[]

Trading[]

Wandering traders sell 3 lime dye for 1 emerald.

Usage[]

Like all other dyes, lime dye can be:

• Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of lime 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
Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Lime Dye + Luminol
Lime Balloon	Latex + Lime Dye + Helium + Lead		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Lime Balloon	Latex + Lime Dye + Helium + Lead
Lime Bed	Any Bed + Lime Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.
Lime Bed	Any Bed + Lime Dye
Lime Candle	Candle + Lime Dye
Lime Carpet	Any Carpet + Lime Dye
Lime Carpet	Any Carpet + Lime Dye
Lime Concrete Powder	Lime Dye + Sand + Gravel	8	Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.[1]
Lime Concrete Powder	Sand + Gravel + Lime Dye	8
Lime Firework Star	Gunpowder + Lime 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.
Lime Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Lime Dye + Luminol		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Lime Shulker Box	Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Lime Dye		The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name.
Lime Stained Glass	Glass + Lime Dye	8
Lime Stained Glass	Glass + Lime Dye	8
Lime Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Lime Dye	8
Lime Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Lime Dye	8
Lime Terracotta	Terracotta + Lime Dye	8
Lime Terracotta	Terracotta + Lime Dye	8
Lime Wool	Any Wool + Lime Dye
Wool	Any Wool + Lime Dye
Lime Banner pattern	Lime Dye + Banner
Lime Banner image	Lime Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple

Loom ingredient[]

Trading[]

Journeyman-level shepherd villagers have a 20% chance to buy 12 lime dye for an emerald as part of their trades.‌

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Video[]

History[]

Java Edition Beta
1.2					Added lime dye.
Java Edition
1.4.2		12w34a			Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars.
1.4.6		12w49a			Lime 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		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		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.
					Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351.
		18w14b			Lime dye can now be smelted from sea pickles.
1.14		18w43a			Lime dye is now crafted using white dye, instead of bone meal.
					The texture of lime dye has now been changed.
		18w44a			Lime dye can now change the text color on signs to lime.
		19w05a			Added the wandering trader, which sells lime dye.
		19w11a			Lime dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers.
1.17		20w45a			Lime dye can now be used to craft lime candles.
		21w19a			Lime dye can no longer be used to craft lime candles.
		Pre-release 1			Lime dye can now once again be used to craft lime candles.
1.20 (Experimental)		22w42a			Lime dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to lime.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.0					Added lime dye. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose.
v0.4.0					Lime dye is now craftable with cactus green and bone meal.
					Lime dye can now be used to craft lime wool.
v0.6.0					Lime dye can now be used to dye sheep.
v0.9.0		build 11			Lime dye can now be used to craft colored terracotta.
v0.11.0		build 1			Lime dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars.
v0.14.0		build 1			Lime dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Lime dye can now be used to dye shulkers.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Lime 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			Lime dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Lime dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks.
					Lime dye can now be obtained from smelting sea pickles.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Lime dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Lime dye is now sold by wandering traders.
					Lime dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes.
					The texture of lime dye has now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Lime dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers.‌
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.56			The ID of lime dye has been changed from dye/10 to lime_dye.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added lime dye.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of lime dye has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added lime dye.

Issues[]

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