Minecraft Recipes For Dummies, Portable Edition

Chapter 7

Creating and Applying Dyes

In This Chapter

Crafting dyes

Applying dye to wool, sheep, glass, and more

Uncovering hidden uses for dyes

Dyes are largely decorative in Minecraft, allowing players to enhance their creations and add visual appeal. For example, you can dye wool, carpets, and glass.

But dyes can also be quite functional. A common use of dyes is in redstone wiring: Many players use dyed wool to trace their circuit lines as they create more complex mechanisms.

This chapter explains how to make the 16 different dyes and how to apply them to different items.

Creating the 16 Dyes

Minecraft has a dye for every color in the rainbow. (You can even use dyed blocks to build rainbows.) In the following sections, you find recipes for each dye.

Starting with bonemeal

Bonemeal is the color white in Minecraft. Because wool is commonly white, bonemeal is usually used as a dye ingredient in other dyes (such as lime green or pink).

To craft bonemeal, place a bone (acquired from a killed skeleton) anywhere on the crafting grid, yielding 3 bonemeal, as shown in Figure 7-1.

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