Purple Dye
Purple Dye

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Purple dye is one of the sixteen available dyes. Crafting it is possible only with other dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Dye + Red Dye |
||
| Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] |
Trading
Wandering traders sometimes sell 3 purple 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, purple dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of purple 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magenta Dye | Purple Dye + Pink Dye |
||
| Firework Star | Matching Firework Star + Purple Dye |
Adds a "fade to color" effect to the firework star, overwriting any existing fades. Up to eight dyes can be added. | |
| Purple Balloon | Latex + Purple Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Purple Bed | Any Bed + Purple Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Purple Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| Purple Candle | Candle + Purple Dye |
||
| Purple Carpet | Any Carpet + Purple Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
| Purple Carpet | White Carpet + Purple Dye |
[Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Purple Concrete Powder | Purple Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Purple 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. | |
| Purple Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Matching Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Purple 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. | |
| Purple Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Purple Dye |
||
| Purple Stained Glass | Glass + Purple Dye |
||
| Purple Terracotta | Terracotta + Purple Dye |
||
| Purple Wool | Any Wool + Purple Dye |
||
| Purple Banner pattern | Purple Dye + Banner |
||
| Purple Banner image | Purple 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 | ||||||
| 1.7% | 1.7% | 12 × | 16 | 30 | |||
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
purple_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
purple_dye | dye / 5 | 400 | 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 | Purple dye can now be 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 | 14w02a | Due to lapis lazuli being renewable now, purple dye is also now renewable. | |||||
| 14w30a | Added banners which can be dyed. | ||||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. | |||||
| 1.12 | 17w06a | Purple dye can now be used to craft purple concrete powder. | |||||
| 17w15a | Added the ability to dye beds. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Purple dye is now crafted using blue dye, instead of lapis lazuli. | |||||
| 18w44a | Purple dye can now change the text color on signs to purple. | ||||||
| Purple dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells purple dye. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Purple dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Purple dye can now be used to craft purple candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Purple dye can no longer be used to craft purple candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | Purple dye can once again be used to craft purple candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Purple dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to purple. | |||||
| 1.21.9 | 25w31a | ||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | |||||||
| v0.4.0 | Purple dye is now craftable with rose red and lapis lazuli. | ||||||
| Purple dye can now be used to craft purple wool. | |||||||
| v0.6.0 | Purple dye can now be used to dye sheep. | ||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | Purple dye can now be used to craft magenta dye. | |||||
| v0.9.0 | build 11 | Purple dye can now be used to craft stained terracotta. | |||||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Purple dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars. | |||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Purple dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Purple dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Purple 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 | Purple dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Purple dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Purple dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Purple dye is now sold by wandering traders. | |||||
| Purple dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Purple 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 | Purple 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. | |
| Due to lapis lazuli being renewable now, purple dye is also now renewable. | |||||||
| 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. |
| Purple dye can now be used to craft purple 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 | Purple dye can now be used to dye leather horse armor. |
| Purple dye can now be used to dye water in a cauldron. | |||||||
| 1.83 | Purple dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | ||||||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| Purple dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||||
| 1.91 | Added the wandering trader, which sells purple 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 purple dye has been changed from dye/5 to purple_dye. | |||||
Trivia
- Purple dye is currently the only dye that cannot be obtained in any means other than combining other dyes, since it has no associated plant that can produce it.
- This is a reference to the dye's real life historic rarity, originally because Tyrian purple dye, which is made from the secretions of sea snails, was extremely expensive in antiquity.
Issues
Issues relating to "Purple Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.