Dyes are the key form of customization in Minecraft when it comes to building and decorating. They can be used to color a variety of blocks and items, which allows players to create more custom builds that are completely functional. This guide will focus on purple dye, but there are a total of sixteen dyes available in Minecraft currently:
- Red Dye -beetroot, poppies, red tulips, rose bushes
- Orange Dye – red dye + yellow dye, orange tulips
- Yellow Dye – dandelion, sunflower
- Lime Dye – sea pickle, white dye + green dye
- Green Dye – cacti
- Cyan Dye – green dye + blue dye
- Light Blue Dye – blue orchid, blue dye + white dye
- Blue Dye – cornflower, lapis lazuli
- Purple Dye – red dye + blue dye
- Magenta Dye – allium, lilac, purple dye + pink dye
- Pink Dye – peony, pink tulip, red dye + white dye
- Brown Dye – cocoa beans
- White Dye – lily of the valley, bone meal
- Light Grey Dye – oxeye daisy, white tulip, grey dye + white dye
- Grey Dye – black dye + white dye
- Black Dye – ink sac, wither rose
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What Is Purple Dye Used for in Minecraft?
Purple dye has the same uses as all other dyes, like dying certain blocks and coloring sheep, while also being an ingredient for crafting magenta dye.
Crafting Magenta Dye in Minecraft
Magenta dye is crafted by combining one purple dye with one pink dye. This recipe produces two magenta dyes.
Dyeing Wool and Carpet Purple
Combining one purple dye with one block of wool will produce one block of purple wool.
Crafting carpet with two purple wool will create three purple carpets.
Carpet can also be dyed purple after crafting by adding purple dye. It is more cost-effective to make the carpet from pre-dyed wool, though.
Dyeing Sheep Purple in Minecraft
To dye a sheep purple, walk up to it while holding purple dye. Interact with it and its wool will become purple!
When the sheep is sheared, it will drop purple wool and its wool will continue to grow back purple. The color of a sheep can be changed at any time by interacting with it while holding a new color of dye.
Dyeing Banners and Beds
Using purple wool to craft a banner will create a purple banner. In a crafting table, fill the top and middle rows of the crafting grid with purple wool, placing one stick in the center box of the bottom row.
Additionally, purple patterns can be added to banners using a loom and purple dye.
A purple bed can be crafted on a crafting table by filling the top row with purple wool and the middle row with wooden planks.
A white bed can also be dyed purple by combining it with one purple dye.
Dyeing Dog Collars
A not-as-well-known ability of dye is that it can be used to change the color of dog collars! Simply interact with your puppy while holding a piece of purple dye to give them a majestic purple collar.
It’s a great way to help differentiate your dogs, especially if you don’t have nametags yet.
Making Stained Glass and Stained Glass Panes
Purple stained glass can be created on a crafting table by placing one purple dye in the center of the table and filling the surrounding eight blocks with glass.
Purple-stained glass panes can be created with the same recipe, substituting the glass blocks for glass panes.
Purple stained glass panes can also be created by crafting them directly with purple stained glass.
Dyeing Terracotta Purple and Purple Glazed Terracotta
The recipe for crafting purple terracotta is identical to the one used to craft purple stained glass. In a crafting table, add one purple dye in the center box and fill the rest with regular terracotta blocks.
To make purple glazed terracotta, smelt the regular purple terracotta in a furnace.
Purple glazed terracotta has a mix of black, dark purple, and light purple. Its design is reminiscent of crossing swords.
Dyeing Concrete Powder Purple and Making Purple Concrete
In order to craft purple concrete powder, you will need one purple dye, four blocks of sand, and four blocks of gravel. On a crafting table, place the purple dye on the left of the top row, filling the rest of the top row with sand blocks. In the middle row, place a sand block in the left box, another sand block in the middle box, and then a gravel block in the right box. Afterward, fill the three bottom-row boxes with gravel.
To turn the purple concrete powder into purple concrete, you just need to add water! Place the blocks on the ground and pour water from a bucket onto them.
Concrete powder blocks will fall like sand and have a similar texture, while concrete blocks hold their shape and are very smooth and rich in color.
Dyeing Shulker Boxes Purple
A shulker box can be dyed purple by combining it with one purple dye in a crafting interface.
Making Purple Candles in Minecraft
A regular candle can be crafted by combining one string and one honeycomb. In a crafting grid, just place the string one block above the honeycomb to produce one candle.
To dye the candle purple, just add one purple dye to it.
Dyeing Leather Armor
To dye a piece of leather armor purple, just add one purple dye to the piece of armor in question.
If you really want to stand out, an additional pattern can be added to the armor using a smithing table and armor templates.
Dyeing leather armor also applies to horse armor! Just add the purple dye to one leather horse armor to make purple horse armor.
Making Minecraft Fireworks Purple
In order to craft purple fireworks, you need a purple firework star. Combine one purple dye with one gunpowder to make one.
Now you can craft a purple firework! In a crafting table’s 3×3 grid, place one piece of gunpowder in the center box of the top row, the previously crafted purple firework star in the center box of the middle row, and one piece of paper in the center box of the bottom row.
Launch the fireworks by interacting on the ground while holding them, and you’ll see beautiful purple particles in the sky!
How to Craft Purple Dye in Minecraft
Purple dye can be crafted by combining red dye with blue dye in Minecraft. This can be done in either the crafting interface in the player’s inventory or in the crafting table’s crafting grid. The red and blue dye can be placed anywhere in the grid as long as there is one of each.
Of course, this means that knowing how to make red and blue dye is necessary for crafting purple dye.
Crafting Red Dye in Minecraft
Four plants can be used to craft red dye— rose bushes, poppies, red tulips, and beetroot.
Rose bushes are found mainly in the Flower Forest biome.
They can be placed into a crafting grid to produce two red dyes per bush.
What is special about rose bushes is that they can be duplicated using bonemeal! Using bone meal on a planted rose bush will make it drop another rose bush. This can be done continuously until you run out of bone meal.
Poppies, red tulips, and beetroots all have the same crafting recipe. One of any of these can be used to craft one red dye.
Poppies can be found growing all over the Overworld in grassy biomes.
Red tulips can be found in the Flower Forest biome alongside rose bushes.
Beetroots can only be found growing in villages, but their seeds can occasionally be found in dungeon and mineshaft chests.
Trading for Red Dye in Minecraft
Wandering traders will give players three red dyes in exchange for one emerald.
Crafting Blue Dye in Minecraft
Blue dye can be created from either lapis lazuli or cornflower.
Cornflowers can be found growing in Plains, Flower Forest, and Meadow Mountain biomes.
One cornflower can be used to craft one blue dye.
Lapis lazuli can be found underground closer to bedrock than the surface.
One lapis lazuli produces one blue dye.
Trading for Blue Dye in Minecraft
A wandering trader will trade players three blue dyes for one emerald. You can do this 12 times at once, giving you a total of 36 dyes.
How to Get Purple Dye from a Wandering Trader
Like all other dyes, wandering traders will trade purple dye for emeralds. The exchange rate is three purple dyes for one emerald.
