Dye

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

Dyes are used as crafting ingredient. Their main use is to color Wool. Dyes come in 15 different colors.

Colors

Symbol	Name	Itemstring
	White Dye	dye:white
	Grey Dye	dye:grey
	Dark grey Dye	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

Renewing

All dyes are renewable because they can be crafted from renewable flowers or mixed from colors that come from flowers.

Crafting

Dyes can be crafted from flowers and coal lumps:

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output
White Dye	White Dandelion	4
Green Dye	Green Chrysanthemum	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	Black Tulip	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

Since version 0.4.16

This table shows all of the possible dye combinations since 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)