Light Blue Dye
Light Blue Dye

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Light blue dye is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Orchid | ||
| Blue Dye + White Dye |
||
| Lapis Lazuli or Blue Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] |
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4%{ "item": "Light Blue Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
| ||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.3%{ "item": "Light Blue Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.04347826086956519, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
| ||
Trading
Wandering traders may sell 3 light blue 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 blue dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of light blue 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
light_blue_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
light_blue_dye | dye / 12 | 407 | 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 blue dye can 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 blue orchids, light blue 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 blue dye can now be used to craft light blue concrete powder. | |||||
| 17w15a | Added the ability to dye beds. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Light blue dye is now crafted using white and blue dyes, instead of bone meal and lapis lazuli. | |||||
| 18w44a | Light blue dye can now change the text color on signs to light blue. | ||||||
| Light blue dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells light blue dye. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Light blue dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Light blue dye can now be used to craft light blue candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Light blue dye can no longer be used to craft light blue candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | Light blue dye can now once again be used to craft light blue candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Light blue dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to light blue. | |||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Light blue dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins. | |||||
| 23w16a | Light blue dye no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins. | ||||||
| Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; light blue dye now is in the common loot. | |||||||
| 1.21.9 | 25w31a | ||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | |||||||
| v0.4.0 | Light blue dye is now craftable with lapis lazuli and bone meal. | ||||||
| Light blue dye can now be used to craft light blue wool. | |||||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Light dye can now be used to craft concrete powder and dye shulker boxes and beds. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Light blue dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass, and patterns on banners. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Light blue dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Light blue dye is now sold by wandering traders. | |||||
| Light blue dye can now be used to dye white carpets. | |||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Light blue dye can now 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 blue dye can 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 blue dye can now be used to craft light blue 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 blue dye can now be used to dye leather horse armor. |
| Light blue dye can now be used to dye water in a cauldron. | |||||||
| 1.83 | Light blue dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | ||||||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| Light blue dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||||
| 1.91 | Added the wandering trader, which sells light blue 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 blue dye has been changed from dye/12 to light_blue_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Light Blue Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.