White Tulip
White Tulip is a white flower of plains and flower forests that yields light gray dye, not white dye despite its color.
Description
A common point of confusion: the white tulip produces light gray dye, not white dye, when placed in a crafting grid. White dye in Minecraft is obtained from bone meal or lily of the valley, not from this flower. Light gray dye shares this source with azure bluet and oxeye daisy. It can recolor wool, terracotta, concrete powder, glass, shulker boxes, and other dyeable items.
Like other small flowers, white tulip can be combined with a bowl, a red mushroom, and a brown mushroom in the crafting table to produce suspicious stew; the effect applied is weakness. Bone meal applied to a planted flower on grass spreads more flowers in the surrounding area. Bees can pollinate this flower during foraging flights. The item can also be placed in a composter.
Minecraft Guide
How to get and use White Tulip in Minecraft
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Find White Tulip
Search plains, sunflower plains, and flower forest biomes. Flower forests have the densest tulip spawns, where White Tulip grows alongside red, orange, and pink tulips.
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Harvest the flower
Break White Tulip by hand or with any tool; it always drops itself with no tool requirement and never breaks the flower.
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Craft light gray dye
Place one White Tulip anywhere in the crafting grid to get one light gray dye, used to recolor wool, terracotta, concrete powder, glass, and shulker boxes.
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Farm more flowers
Apply bone meal to grass blocks inside a flower forest biome to spread White Tulip and other flowers across the surrounding area.
White Tulip yields light gray dye, NOT white dye, despite its color. White dye comes from bone meal or lily of the valley.
Used in crafts
Frequently asked questions
Does White Tulip make white dye?
No. White Tulip produces light gray dye when placed in the crafting grid. White dye comes from bone meal or lily of the valley.
Where do you find White Tulip?
White Tulip generates in plains, sunflower plains, and flower forest biomes, growing most densely in flower forests.
Can you grow White Tulip with bone meal?
Yes. Bone meal used on grass blocks in a flower forest biome spreads White Tulip and other flowers nearby.
Can White Tulip be used in suspicious stew?
Yes. Combining a bowl, a brown mushroom, a red mushroom, and White Tulip makes suspicious stew that applies the Weakness effect.
Is White Tulip in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes. White Tulip exists in both Minecraft Java Edition and Bedrock Edition with the same drops and crafting use.
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