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Updated on December 1, 2021, by Anastasia Maillot: Dyes and their uses are often not the best-known features in Minecraft. Since leather armor is such a weak armor type in the game, it’s likely that some players might even know that they can dye their leather armor a different color.
On top of that, the method to dyeing is vastly different depending on the version of the Minecraft players are on. Bedrock Edition and Java Edition require a different method to dye leather armor, and so this guide has been updated with that in mind.
All Minecraft Dyes
There are sixteen different colors of dyes in Minecraft that players can use to change the color of their armor. These colors can be created with a Crafting Table by using rocks, vegetables, flowers, and other flora. These colors are:
Red - beetroot (found in village farms), roses, poppies, red tulips Green - cactus (found in desert biomes) Light grey - azure bluet, white tulips, oxeye daisies Pink - pink tulips, peonies Lime green - sea pickles, which can be farmed underwater in warm ocean biomes with a Minecraft Potion of Water Breathing Yellow - dandelions, sunflowers Light blue - blue orchids Magenta - alliums, lilacs Orange - orange tulips Blue - lapis lazuli (found in caves as a blue ore), cornflowers Brown - cocoa beans (found exclusively in jungle biomes) Black - ink sacs (looted from squids), wither roses (dropped by the Wither) White - bone meal (looted from skeletons and various dungeons), lily of the valley
The majority of these dyes can be found in the form of flowers. Flower forest biomes are the best location to find the biggest variety of colorful flowers.
Dyes can also be made by combining other colors of dyes to create a new color. This can be done also at one of Minecraft’s crafting tables.
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Purple - combining one red dye and one blue dye Cyan - combining one green dye and one blue dye Light grey - combining one black dye and two white dyes, or combining one grey dye with one white dye Grey - combining one white dye and one black dye Pink - combining one red dye and one white dye Lime green - combining one green dye and one white dye Light blue - combining one blue dye and one white dye Magenta - combining one pink dye and one purple dye, combining one blue dye and one white dye and one red dye, combining one blue dye and two red dye and one white dye Orange - combining one red dye and one yellow dye
Bedrock Edition Only: Making A Cauldron And A Bucket
Because of Bedrock Edition’s differences from Java, players will need to craft a bucket and a cauldron before they dye any of their armor. To dye armor, players will need the armor they wish to dye as well as the dye color of their choice. But they will also need an iron bucket full of water and a cauldron. In order to make these two things, players will need a lot of iron ingots.
Raw iron can be found underground and in caves, and then smelted into ingots with a furnace. Here are the diagrams for making the two iron tools that players will need to dye their armor.
Dyeing Armor
Since leather armor is the only armor that can be dyed, players will first have to get some leather. Leather is dropped by cows, which players can tame in Minecraft and farm for plenty of leather. After that, they can make the leather armor at a crafting table. Leather armor can also be retrieved off of from some of Minecraft’s zombie villagers.
It’s also a common loot in the various dungeon and shipwreck chests, so players won’t have a difficult time finding any. In a worst-case scenario, the leatherworker villager will trade a few pieces of leather armor for some emeralds, though this isn’t a good trade to make due to how rare emeralds are.
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For Java Edition, once players have some extra leather armor to dye, the process is pretty simple. They just need to place the leather armor into a crafting grid, along with their dye of choice. The output will be dyed leather armor.
In Bedrock Edition, players have to do things in a more complicated fashion to dye their leather armor:
Place the Cauldron Using the bucket, grab some water and fill the cauldron Add the selected color of dye to the cauldron Select the item that is to be dyed and add it to the cauldron
After that, the player’s leather armor should be a different color, giving them a fashionable new look.
Source: DigMinecraft, MinecraftGamepedia
Minecraft is available now on Mobile, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
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