Light Gray Dye
Light Gray Dye

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Light gray dye[a] is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Bluet or Oxeye Daisy or White Tulip |
||
| Black Dye + White Dye |
In Bedrock Edition, the black and white dye can be replaced with ink sacs and bone meal, respectively. | |
| Gray Dye + White Dye |
In Bedrock Edition, the white dye can be replaced with bone meal. |
Trading
Wandering traders may sell 3 light gray dye for an emerald.
| 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, light gray dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light Gray Bed | Any Bed + Light Gray Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Light Gray Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| Light Gray Candle | Candle + Light Gray Dye |
||
| Light Gray Carpet | Any Carpet + Light Gray Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
| Light Gray Carpet | White Carpet + Light Gray Dye |
[Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Light Gray Concrete Powder | Light Gray Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Light 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. | |
| Light 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. | |
| Light Gray Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Light Gray Dye |
||
| Light Gray Stained Glass | Glass + Light Gray Dye |
||
| Light Gray Terracotta | Terracotta + Light Gray Dye |
||
| Light Gray Wool | Any Wool + Light Gray Dye |
||
| Firework Star | Matching Firework Star + Light Gray Dye |
Adds a "fade to color" effect to the firework star, overwriting any existing fades. Up to eight dyes can be added. | |
| Silver Balloon | Latex + Light Gray Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Light Gray Banner pattern | Light Gray Dye + Banner |
||
| Light Gray Banner image | Light 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 | 20 | |||
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
light_gray_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
light_gray_dye | dye / 7 | 402 | 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 | Light gray dye can now be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | |||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w19a | Stained clay can now be crafted. | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | With the addition of azure bluets, oxeye daisies and white tulips, light gray dye is now a primary dye. | |||||
| 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 | Light gray dye can now be used to craft light gray concrete powder. | |||||
| 17w15a | Added the ability to dye beds. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Light gray dye is now crafted using white and black dyes, instead of bone meal and ink sacs. | |||||
| 18w44a | Light gray dye can now change the text color on signs to light gray. | ||||||
| Light gray dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells light gray dye. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Light gray dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Light gray dye can now be used to craft light gray candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Light gray dye can no longer be used to craft light gray candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | Light gray dye can now once again be used to craft light gray candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Light gray dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to light gray. | |||||
| 1.21.9 | 25w31a | ||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | |||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | Light gray dye can be crafted with bone meal and gray dye, or with two bone meals and an ink sac, despite there being no way of obtaining gray dye or ink sacs at the time. | |||||
| v0.8.0 | build 3 | Light gray dye is now available in creative mode. | |||||
| v0.9.0 | build 3 | Light gray dye can now be obtained in survival mode. | |||||
| build 11 | Light gray dye can now be used to craft stained terracotta. | ||||||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Light gray dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars. | |||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Light gray dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Light gray dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Light 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 | Light gray dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Light gray dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Light gray dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Light gray dye is now sold by wandering traders. | |||||
| Light gray dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Light gray dye can be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||||
| 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 | Light gray dye can now be 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. |
| Light gray dye can now be used to craft light 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 | Light gray can now be used to dye leather horse armor. |
| Light gray can now be used to dye water in a cauldron. | |||||||
| 1.83 | Light gray dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | ||||||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| Light gray dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||||
| 1.91 | Added the wandering trader, which sells light gray dye. | ||||||
| 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 light gray dye has been changed from dye/7 to light_gray_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Light Gray Dye" or "Light Grey Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Trivia
- In Bedrock Edition, some items/blocks' Block states/Item NBT uses Silver instead of Light Gray.
Notes
- ↑ Known as Light Grey Dye in British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English variants.