Magenta dye is a quasi-primary color dye.
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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| Allium | ||
| Lilac | ||
| Purple Dye + Pink Dye |
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| Blue Dye + Red Dye + Pink Dye |
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| Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye + Pink Dye |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Blue Dye + Red Dye + White Dye |
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| Lapis Lazuli or Blue Dye + Red Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] |
Trading[]
Wandering traders sell 3 magenta dye for an emerald.
Usage[]
Like all other dyes, magenta dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of magenta 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 + Magenta Dye + Luminol |
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| Magenta Balloon | Latex + Magenta Dye + Helium + Lead |
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| Magenta Balloon | Latex + Magenta Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Magenta Bed | Any Bed + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Bed | Any Bed + Magenta Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Magenta Candle | Candle + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Carpet | Any Carpet + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Carpet | Any Carpet + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Concrete Powder | Magenta Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.[1] | |
| Magenta Concrete Powder | Sand + Gravel + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Firework Star | Gunpowder + Magenta 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. | |
| Magenta Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Magenta Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Magenta Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Magenta Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Magenta Stained Glass | Glass + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Stained Glass | Glass + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Terracotta | Terracotta + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Terracotta | Terracotta + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Wool | Any Wool + Magenta Dye |
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| Wool | Any Wool + Magenta Dye |
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| Magenta Banner pattern | Magenta Dye + Banner |
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| Magenta Banner image | Magenta 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 magenta dye for an emerald.
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magenta Dye | magenta_dye | Item | item.minecraft.magenta_dye |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magenta Dye | magenta_dye | dye / 13 | 408 | Item | item.dye.magenta.name |
Video[]
History[]
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
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| 1.2 |  Added magenta dye. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Magenta 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. | |||
| 13w41a | Stained glass can now be crafted. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w30a | Added banners, which can be dyed. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Added shulker boxes, which can be dyed. | |||
| 1.12 | 17w15a | Added 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 | Magenta dye is now crafted using blue dye and white dye, instead of lapis lazuli and bone meal. | |||
 The texture of magenta dye has now been changed. | |||||
| 18w44a | Magenta dye can now change the text color on signs to magenta. | ||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells magenta dye. | ||||
| 19w11a | Magenta dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Magenta dye can now be used to craft magenta candles. | |||
| 21w19a | Magenta dye can no longer be used to craft magenta candles. | ||||
| Pre-release 1 | Magenta dye can now once again be used to craft magenta candles. | ||||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 22w42a | Magenta dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to magenta. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.3.0 | Added magenta dye. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose. | ||||
| v0.4.0 | Magenta dye is now craftable with one lapis lazuli, two rose reds, and one bone meal. | ||||
| Magenta dye can now be used to craft magenta wool. | |||||
| v0.6.0 | Magenta dye can now be used to dye sheep. | ||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | Magenta dye can now additionally be crafted with one purple dye and one pink dye, or with one lapis lazuli, one rose red, and one pink dye. | |||
| v0.9.0 | build 11 | Magenta dye can now be used to craft colored terracotta. | |||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Magenta dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars. | |||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Magenta dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Magenta dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Magenta 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 | Magenta dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners. | |||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Magenta dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Magenta dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Magenta dye is now sold by wandering traders. | |||
| Magenta dye can now be used to dye white carpets and regular glass panes. | |||||
| The texture of magenta dye has now been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Magenta dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of magenta dye has been changed from dye/13 to magenta_dye. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added magenta dye. |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of magenta dye has now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added magenta dye. | ||||
Issues[]
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