Dye

Dye
An item in Minetest Game
Item Type	Craftitem
Renewable	Yes (except for dark green and black dye)
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	Renewable?
	White dye	dye:white	Yes
	Grey dye	dye:grey	Yes
	Dark grey dye	dye:dark_grey	Yes
	Black dye	dye:black	No
	Blue dye	dye:blue	Yes
	Cyan dye	dye:cyan	Yes
	Green dye	dye:green	Yes
	Dark green dye	dye:dark_green	No
	Yellow dye	dye:yellow	Yes
	Orange dye	dye:orange	Yes
	Brown dye	dye:brown	Yes
	Red dye	dye:red	Yes
	Pink dye	dye:pink	Yes
	Magenta dye	dye:magenta	Yes
	Violet dye	dye:violet	Yes

Renewing

Most dyes are renewable because they are crafted from renewable flowers. Black dye is not renewable, it can only be crafted from non-renewable coal lumps. Dark green dye is not renewable, it requires black dye to be crafted.

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

Mixing

More dyes can be crafted by placing any two dyes into the crafting grid; the recipes are shapeless and yield 2 new dyes 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
Orange dye	Yellow dye + Red dye	2

Version 0.4.16

This table shows all of the possible dye combinations in version 0.4.16 (an empty cell means the combination is not possible):

Version 0.4.15

This table shows all of the possible dye combinations in version 0.4.15:

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)