Dye

Dye
An item in Minetest Game
Item Type	Craftitem
Renewable	Yes
Durability	N/A
Stackable	Yes (99)
Itemstring	See table

Dyes are used to color Wool. Dyes come in 15 different colors.

Colors

Symbol	Name	Itemstring
	White dye	dye:white
	Grey dye	dye:grey
	Dark grey cye	dye:dark_grey
	Black dye	dye:black
	Blue dye	dye:blue
	Cyan dye	dye:cyan
	Green dye	dye:green
	Dark green dye	dye:dark_green
	Yellow dye	dye:yellow
	Orange dye	dye:orange
	Brown dye	dye:brown
	Red dye	dye:red
	Pink dye	dye:pink
	Magenta dye	dye:magenta
	Violet dye	dye:violet

Crafting

Dyes can be crafted from flowers and coal lumps:

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output
White Dye	White Dandelion	4
Yellow dye	Yellow Dandelion	4
Orange dye	Orange Tulip	4
Red dye	Rose	4
Violet dye	Viola	4
Blue dye	Blue Geranium	4
Black dye	Coal Lump	4

More dyes can be crafted by placing any two dyes (except the pink dye) into the crafting grid; the recipes are shapeless and yield 2 new dyes which are of the color by mixing the two initial dyes. This is the general crafting recipe where each letter stands for a dye type:

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output
Dye	Dye	2

Here's a concrete example:

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output
Dark green dye	Yellow dye + Blue dye	2

This table shows all of the possible dye combinations:

As a crafting ingredient

Dyes can be used to color wool of any color:

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output	Description
Any wool	Dye + Any wool		Used as decoration (shapeless recipe)