Wool Dyes

Wool Dyes

Type	Items
Durability	N/A
Renewable	Rose Red: Yes Dandelion Yellow: Yes Lapis Lazuli: No Cactus Green: Yes Ink Sac: Yes Bone Meal: Yes Cocoa Beans: Yes Orange Dye: Yes Cyan Dye: No Purple Dye: No Gray Dye: Yes Light Blue Dye: No Pink Dye: Yes Lime Dye: Yes Magenta Dye: No Light Gray Dye: Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
First Appearance	Beta 1.2
Data value	dec: 351 hex: 15F

Dye Crafting Production Chain

Wool dyes are items used to change the color of wool. There are currently 16 dyes, including seven "primary" dyes (red, yellow, blue, green, white, black and brown), seven "secondary" dyes, and two "tertiary" dyes.

[edit] History

Wool dyes were added in the Beta 1.2 update.

Update 1.1 gave sheep the ability to regrow their wool by eating grass. Dyed sheep will regrow wool in their new color.

[edit] Uses

Dyes can be placed with wool on a crafting table (in any position) to dye a single block. It can also be used on sheep to paint them. After shearing, the wool dropped will be of the painted color as well, sometimes yielding more colored wool than from crafting (see Notes section). Not all the dyes are renewable, but the colored wool itself is; after shearing colored sheep, they will regenerate their wool by eating grass (11w49a). Additionally, there are naturally occurring gray, light gray, black, brown and pink sheep that drop corresponding color wool as well. Note, that you can only dye white wool via crafting – painting colored sheep is the only way to dye non-white wool. For example, you can get "bleached" wool by using white dye on a colored sheep.

[edit] Primary Colors

These primary dyes (with the exception of cocoa beans) are created from a single ingredient spawned naturally in a world.

Name	Source	Color	Notes
Rose Red	Rose	Red	Made by placing rose on a crafting grid.
Dandelion Yellow	Dandelion	Yellow	Made by placing dandelion on a crafting grid.
Lapis Lazuli	Lapis Lazuli Ore	Blue	Mined (one ore yields 4-8 dye).
Cactus Green	Cactus	Green	Made by cooking cactus in a furnace.
Ink Sac	Squid	Black	Each squid drops 0-3 ink sacs upon dying. (Black wool can also be obtained from black sheep.)
Bone Meal	Bone	White	Made by placing bone on a crafting grid. (Only changes sheep to white; can't be used to craft white wool from colored wool.)
Cocoa Beans	Dungeons Note: In 12w18a and later jungle leaves.	Brown	Found in dungeons, or growing on jungle trees. (Brown wool can also be obtained from brown sheep.)

[edit] Secondary Colors

Secondary dyes are created by combining primary dyes together.

Name	Source	Color	Notes
Orange Dye	Rose Red + Dandelion Yellow	Orange
Cyan Dye	Cactus Green + Lapis Lazuli	Cyan
Purple Dye	Rose Red + Lapis Lazuli	Purple
Gray Dye	Ink Sac + Bone Meal	Gray	(Gray wool can also be obtained from gray sheep.)
Light Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Bone Meal	Light Blue
Pink Dye	Rose Red + Bone Meal	Pink	(Pink wool can also be obtained from rare pink sheep.)
Lime Dye	Cactus Green + Bone Meal	Lime Green

[edit] Tertiary Colors

Tertiary dyes are created by combining at least one secondary dye.

Name	Source	Color	Notes
Magenta Dye	Purple Dye + Pink Dye	Magenta	See Magenta Dye page for alternate recipes and comparison of recipes' efficiency.
Light Gray Dye	Gray Dye + Bone Meal	Light Gray	See Light Gray Dye page for alternate recipe and comparison of recipes' efficiency. (Light gray wool can also be obtained from light gray sheep.)

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[edit] Notes

If you are looking to make Wool dyed a certain color, it is better to dye a sheep the desired color and get the colored wool directly from the sheep. This method gives you the sheep's drop of 1-3 colored wool blocks per dye and which will be regrown, instead of only one dyed block from crafting wool with dye. You can also dye non-white sheep, which would otherwise yield permanently dyed wool of a different color. Sheep can also be bred and children inherit color of one parent.

These colors of wool naturally occur on sheep; all others must be created by using dye on a sheep (right-click):

1. White sheep (the most common)
2. Light gray sheep
3. Dark gray sheep
4. Black sheep
5. Brown sheep
6. Pink sheep

[edit] Data Values

The color of a dye item depends on a secondary data field (beyond the item ID of 254), which is also used to store the damage for tools and so is commonly referred to as a “damage value”.

Icon	Dec	Hex	Description
	0	0x0	Ink Sac
	1	0x1	Rose Red
	2	0x2	Cactus Green
	3	0x3	Cocoa Beans
	4	0x4	Lapis Lazuli
	5	0x5	Purple Dye
	6	0x6	Cyan Dye
	7	0x7	Light Gray Dye
	8	0x8	Gray Dye
	9	0x9	Pink Dye
	10	0xA	Lime Dye
	11	0xB	Dandelion Yellow
	12	0xC	Light Blue Dye
	13	0xD	Magenta Dye
	14	0xE	Orange Dye
	15	0xF	Bone Meal

[edit] Trivia

• The reversed color values closely resemble an ANSI or VGA palette with the biggest outlier being Orange.
• The metadata values for the Wool and Wool Dyes are the inverse of each other, with White Wool having 0, Bone Meal 15; Orange Wool having 1, Orange Dye 14; etc.
• Giving yourself a dye with damage value bigger than or equal to 16, will be in result of it looking like a random item, at first it looks like a wooden tool. Moving the mouse over it to get the tooltip will crash the game.
• Dying sheep is more efficient than dying wool, as one dye can be used to get endless colored wool, as long as the player has shears.

[edit] See also

• Renewable Resources, for which dye colors are renewable.