Blue Dye
Blue Dye is a primary dye crafted from one lapis lazuli or one cornflower, used to color wool, beds, banners, and concrete.
Description
Blue Dye colors a wide range of objects: wool, terracotta, glass, concrete powder, beds, banners, candles, leather armor, shulker boxes, and the collars of tamed wolves and cats. Combining Blue Dye with green dye produces cyan dye, with white dye produces light blue dye, and with red dye produces purple dye, making Blue Dye a key ingredient for the cooler half of the color wheel. Builders rely on Blue Dye for ocean-themed builds, banner patterns, and large stained-glass windows where a deep saturated blue is needed.
Java & Bedrock Guide
How to make and use Blue Dye in Minecraft
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Get lapis lazuli or a cornflower
Mine lapis lazuli ore between Y-level 0 and 64, or pick a cornflower from a plains or sunflower plains biome. Either item works as the ingredient.
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Craft the Blue Dye
Place one lapis lazuli or one cornflower anywhere in the crafting grid. This shapeless recipe outputs one Blue Dye per ingredient.
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Apply the dye
Combine Blue Dye with wool, a bed, a banner, leather armor, a candle, or concrete powder to color it blue. On Bedrock you can also dye signs and tamed animal collars.
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Mix secondary colors
Craft Blue Dye with green dye for cyan, with white dye for light blue, or with red dye for purple to expand your palette.
Blue Dye exists as a separate item only from Java 1.14 and Bedrock 1.10 onward. In older versions, use lapis lazuli directly as the blue dye.
How to craft this block
Used in crafts
- Painter Blue
- Blue Shulker Box
- Blue Bundle
- Magenta Dye
- Purple Dye
- Light Blue Dye
- Cyan Dye
- Blue Candle
- Blue Bed
- Blue Stained Glass Pane
- Blue Stained Glass
- Blue Concrete Powder
Related blocks
Frequently asked questions
How do you make Blue Dye in Minecraft?
Place a single lapis lazuli or a single cornflower in the crafting grid. Each ingredient produces one Blue Dye in a shapeless recipe.
Is Blue Dye renewable?
Yes. The cornflower recipe makes Blue Dye renewable, because cornflowers spawn in plains biomes and can be regrown with bone meal.
What can you color with Blue Dye?
Blue Dye colors wool, terracotta, glass, concrete powder, beds, banners, candles, leather armor, shulker boxes, and tamed wolf and cat collars.
How do you make cyan or purple from Blue Dye?
Combine Blue Dye with green dye to make cyan dye, or with red dye to make purple dye. Blue Dye plus white dye makes light blue dye.
Does Blue Dye work in both Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes. Blue Dye works in both editions, available as a separate item from Java 1.14 and Bedrock 1.10. Before that, lapis lazuli was used directly.
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