White Dye

White dye is a primary color dye similar to bone meal.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Bone Meal
Lily of the Valley

Loot chest[]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
White Dye	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.4%
Bedrock Edition
White Dye	Trail ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.3%

Usage[]

Like all other dyes, white dye can be:

Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of white 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 + White Dye + Luminol
Gray Dye	Black Dye + White Dye	2
Gray Dye	Ink Sac + White Dye	2	‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
Light Blue Dye	Blue Dye + White Dye	2
Light Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli + White Dye	2	‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
Light Gray Dye	Black Dye + White Dye	3	In Bedrock Edition, the black and white dye can be replaced with ink sacs and bone meal, respectively.
Light Gray Dye	Gray Dye + White Dye	2	In Bedrock Edition, the white dye can be replaced with bone meal.
Lime Dye	Green Dye + White Dye	2
Magenta Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye + White Dye	4	‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
Magenta Dye	Blue Dye + Red Dye + White Dye	4
Pink Dye	Red Dye + White Dye	2
White Balloon	Latex + White Dye + Helium + Lead		‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
White Balloon	Latex + White Dye + Helium + Lead
White Bed	Any Bed + White Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.
White Bed	Any Bed + White Dye
White Candle	Candle + White Dye
White Carpet	Any Carpet + White Dye
White Carpet	Any Carpet + White Dye
White Concrete Powder	White Dye + Sand + Gravel	8	Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.^[1]
White Concrete Powder	Sand + Gravel + White Dye	8
White Firework Star	Gunpowder + White 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.
White Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + White Dye + Luminol		‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
White Shulker Box	Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + White Dye		The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name.
White Stained Glass	Glass + White Dye	8
White Stained Glass	Glass + White Dye	8
White Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + White Dye	8
White Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + White Dye	8
White Terracotta	Terracotta + White Dye	8
White Terracotta	Terracotta + White Dye	8
White Wool	Any Wool + White Dye
Wool	Any Wool + White Dye
White Banner pattern	White Dye + Banner
White Banner image	White 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
White Banner pattern	White Banner + White Dye		Field masoned banner and bordure indented banner don't require banner patterns.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
White Banner image	White Banner + White Dye + Banner Pattern		Exceptions: Field masoned and bordure indented banner patterns.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Trading[]

Apprentice-level shepherd villagers have a 20% chance to buy 12 white dye for an emerald.

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
White Dye	`white_dye`	Item	`item.minecraft.white_dye`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
White Dye	`white_dye`	`dye / 19`	`410`	Item	`item.dye.white_new.name`

History[]

Java Edition
1.14	18w43a	Added white dye.
	18w44a	White dye can now change the text color on signs to white.
	19w05a	Added the wandering trader, which sells white dye.
	19w11a	White dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers.
1.17	20w45a	White dye can now be used to craft white candles.
	21w19a	White dyes can no longer be used to craft white candles.
	Pre-release 1	White dye can once again be used to craft white candles.
1.20 (Experimental)	22w42a	White dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to white.
1.20	23w12a	White dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins.
	23w16a	White dye no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
	23w16a	Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; white dye is now common loot.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0	beta 1.8.0.10	Added white dye.
1.9.0	beta 1.9.0.0	Added lilies of the valley, which can be used to craft white dye.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.4	White dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers.
1.16.100	beta 1.16.100.56	The ID of white dye has been changed from `dye/19` to `white_dye`.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.83		Added white dye.

Issues[]

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