Gray Dye
Gray Dye

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Gray dye[a] is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Black Dye + White Dye |
||
| Ink Sac or Black Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Closed Eyeblossom |
Trading
Wandering traders may sell 3 gray dye for an emerald.[Bedrock Edition only]
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | ||||||
| Ordinary | 1.4% | 1.4% | 3 × | 12 | — | ||
Usage
Like all other dyes, gray dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of gray wool.
- Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
- Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
- Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, shulker boxes, candles, and harnesses.
- Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
- Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
- Used to add patterns to banners.
- Used to dye shulkers in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
- Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gray Balloon | Latex + Gray Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Gray Bed | Any Bed + Gray Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Gray Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| Gray Candle | Candle + Gray Dye |
||
| Gray Carpet | Any Carpet + Gray Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
| Gray Carpet | White Carpet + Gray Dye |
[Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Gray Concrete Powder | Gray Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Gray Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Extra ingredients (optional) |
More dyes (up to a total of eight) can be added for a mixed color. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
| Gray Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Matching Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Gray Harness | Any Harness + Matching Dye |
||
| Dyed Shulker Box | Any Shulker Box + Matching Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Gray Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Gray Dye |
||
| Gray Stained Glass | Glass + Gray Dye |
||
| Gray Terracotta | Terracotta + Gray Dye |
||
| Gray Wool | Any Wool + Gray Dye |
||
| Light Gray Dye | Gray Dye + White Dye |
In Bedrock Edition, the white dye can be replaced with bone meal. | |
| Firework Star | Matching Firework Star + Gray Dye |
Adds a "fade to color" effect to the firework star, overwriting any existing fades. Up to eight dyes can be added. | |
| Gray Banner pattern | Gray Dye + Banner |
||
| Gray Banner image | Gray Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | ||||||
| 2% | 2% | 12 × | 16 | 10 | |||
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
gray_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gray_dye | dye / 8 | 403 | Item | item |
Video
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | |||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Gray dye can be now crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | |||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w19a | Stained clay can now be crafted. | |||||
| 13w41a | Stained glass can now be crafted. | ||||||
| 1.8 | 14w30a | Added banners, which can be dyed. | |||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. | |||||
| 1.12 | 17w06a | Gray dye can now be used to craft gray concrete powder. | |||||
| 17w15a | Added the ability to dye beds. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Gray dye is now crafted using black and white dyes, instead of ink sac and bone meal. | |||||
| 18w44a | Gray dye can now change the text color on the signs to gray. | ||||||
| Gray dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sell gray dyes. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Gray dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Gray dye can now used to craft gray candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Gray dye can no longer be used to craft gray candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | Gray dye can once again be used to craft gray candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Gray dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to gray. | |||||
| 1.21.4 | 24w44a | Gray dye can now be made from closed eyeblossoms. | |||||
| 1.21.9 | 25w31a | ||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | |||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | Gray dye can be crafted with bone meal and an ink sac, despite there being no way of obtaining ink sacs at the time. | |||||
| build 3 | Gray dye is now available in creative mode. | ||||||
| v0.9.0 | build 3 | Gray dye can now be obtained in survival mode. | |||||
| build 11 | Gray dye can now be used to craft stained terracotta. | ||||||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Gray dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars. | |||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Gray dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Gray dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Gray dye can now be used to craft concrete powder, colored beds and dyed shulker boxes. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Gray dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Gray dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Gray dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Gray dye is now sold by wandering traders. | |||||
| Gray dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Gray dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||||
| 1.21.50 | beta 1.21.50.25 | Gray dye can now be craft from closed eyeblossoms. | |||||
| 1.21.111 | Preview 1.21.110.20 | ||||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU14 | 1.04 | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||||
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.12 | Gray dye can be now crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | ||
| Stained clay can now be crafted. | |||||||
| TU25 | CU14 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | Stained glass can now be crafted. | ||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | With the addition of new flowers, many secondary and tertiary dyes are now primary dyes. | |
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | 1.36 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Added banners, which can be dyed. | |
| TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | 1.50 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. |
| Gray dye can now be used to craft gray concrete powder. | |||||||
| TU54 | CU44 | 1.52 | 1.52 | 1.52 | Patch 24 | 1.0.4 | Added the ability to dye beds. |
| TU60 | CU51 | 1.64 | 1.64 | 1.64 | Patch 30 | 1.0.11 | Gray dye can now be used to dye leather horse armor. |
| Gray dye can now be used to dye water in a cauldron. | |||||||
| 1.83 | Gray dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | ||||||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| Gray dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||||
| 1.91 | Gray dye is now sold by wandering traders. | ||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the dye ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
| |||||
| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of gray dye has been changed from dye/8 to gray_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Grey Dye" or "Gray Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Notes
- ↑ Known as Grey Dye in British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English variants.