White dye is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Bone Meal | |
| Lily of the Valley |
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Common suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4%{ "item": "White Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Common suspicious gravel" }
| ||
Trading
Wandering traders have a chance to trade 3 white dyes for an emerald.
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | Price multiplier | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||||||
| Ordinary | 6% | 6% | 3 × | 12 | — | — | ||
Mob loot
In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 25% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 3 white dyes when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.
Usage
Like all other dyes, white dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of white 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
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
white_dye | Item | dyes |
item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
white_dye | dye / 19 | 410 | Item | item |
History
Java Edition
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 18w44a | White dye can now change the text color on signs to white. | ||||||
| White dye can now change the color of collars on cats to white. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells white dye. | ||||||
| 19w11a | White dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | White dye can now be used to craft white candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | White dyes can no longer be used to craft white candles. | ||||||
| pre1 | White dye can once again be used to craft white candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | White dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to white. | |||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | White dye can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins. | |||||
| 23w16a | White dye no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins. | ||||||
| Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for suspicious gravel within the trail ruins, white dye is now common loot. | |||||||
| 1.20.5 | 24w09a | White dye can now used to dye wolf armor. | |||||
| 1.21.2 | 24w38a | White dye can now used to dye bundles. | |||||
| 1.21.6 | 25w15a | Added harnesses, which can be dyed using white dye. | |||||
| 1.21.9 | 25w31a | ||||||
| 26.1 | snap5 | White dye is now included in the item tag dyes. | |||||
Bedrock Edition
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | ||||||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Added lilies of the valley, which can be used to craft white dye. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | White dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||||
| 1.20.30 | Preview 1.20.20.21 | Wandering traders now sell white dye instead of bone meal. | |||||
| 1.21.111 | Preview 1.21.110.20 | ||||||
PlayStation 4 Edition
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.83 | |||||||
| 1.88 | Added lilies of the valley, which can be used to craft white dye. | ||||||
Data history
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of white dye has been changed from dye/19 to white_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "White Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.








