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How to Craft Blue Dye in Minecraft

Blue Dye in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Dyeing wool, leather armor, glass, concrete, terracotta and more. The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.14.

Making a Blue Dye takes 1 Lapis lazuli or cornflower at a Crafting Table. That comes out as 1 Blue Dye.

Blue Dye Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Blue Dye is minecraft:blue_dye. In commands the namespace may be left off, so blue_dye works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p blue_dye
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p blue_dye 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve blue_dye 1

Cheats have to be on for Blue Dye to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Blue Dye is used to color a wide variety of blocks and items. Blue Dye uses a shapeless recipe, so the ingredients can go in any cells of the grid as long as all of them are present.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.14, and not in the release before it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with lapis lazuli or cornflower (lapis lazuli or cornflower).

Cost Per Finished Item

The rate here is 1 lapis lazuli or cornflower for every blue dye that comes out.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Lapis lazuli or cornflowerLapis lazuli or cornflowerLapis lazuli or cornflower1xLapis lazuli or cornflower

Collect Lapis lazuli or cornflower (lapis lazuli or cornflower) first; the Crafting Table does the rest.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Lapis lazuli or cornflowerLapis lazuli or cornflowerLapis lazuli or cornflower

  2. 2

    Blue Dye

Minecraft crafting recipe for Blue Dye: 1 x Lapis lazuli or cornflower in a crafting table, making 1 Blue Dye.

Tips & Notes

  • Because this one is shapeless, Lapis lazuli or cornflower can go in any cells you like. The grid only checks that they are all present.
  • Line up 1x Lapis lazuli or cornflower before you open the Crafting Table. Lapis lazuli or cornflower: lapis lazuli or cornflower.

Uses for Blue Dye

  • Dyeing wool, leather armor, glass, concrete, terracotta and more

What Blue Dye Goes Into

4 other recipes list Blue Dye as an ingredient.

Blue Concrete PowderCrafting TableBlue Stained GlassCrafting TableCyan DyeCyan DyeCyan DyeCrafting TablePurple DyePurple DyePurple DyeCrafting Table

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Blue Dye on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Blue Dye in Minecraft?
a Blue Dye asks for 1 Lapis lazuli or cornflower, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. Place it in the grid in any arrangement, and one craft produces one Blue Dye.
What can you make with Blue Dye?
Blue Dye is an ingredient in 4 other recipes on this site, including Blue Concrete Powder, Blue Stained Glass, Cyan Dye and Purple Dye. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for a Blue Dye?
The materials for a Blue Dye each come from somewhere different. Lapis lazuli or cornflower: lapis lazuli or cornflower.
How many Blue Dyes do you get from one craft?
The Blue Dye recipe makes one Blue Dye per craft.
What is the item ID for Blue Dye in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Blue Dye goes by minecraft:blue_dye; blue_dye without the namespace does the same job in a command.
Can you farm everything you need for a Blue Dye?
Blue Dye needs nothing you have to go find: lapis lazuli or cornflower from a cleric villager. Set those up once and you can keep making blue dye.
What is the give command for Blue Dye?
/give @p blue_dye gives you a Blue Dye. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Blue Dye recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
No difference to worry about: a Blue Dye takes 1 Lapis lazuli or cornflower at a Crafting Table on Java and on Bedrock alike, one at a time.
Does it matter where you put the ingredients for a Blue Dye?
No, a Blue Dye is a shapeless recipe, so 1 Lapis lazuli or cornflower can go in any slots you like. Only the set of ingredients is checked, not their arrangement.
How do you unlock the Blue Dye recipe in the recipe book?
The Blue Dye recipe appears in your recipe book the moment you pick up Lapis Lazuli in Java Edition. Until then it stays hidden, even though the craft itself works if you already know the grid.
What version of Minecraft added the Blue Dye?
The recipe for blue dye ships in Minecraft 1.14 and in none of the releases before it. The current release still makes a Blue Dye exactly that way.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Lapis lazuli or cornflower in, 1 Blue Dye out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Java 1.14 is the first release that knows this recipe at all. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The cost per item
Counted, not played: 1 Blue Dye per craft.

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