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How to Craft Cyan Dye in Minecraft

Cyan Dye in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Dyeing wool, leather armor, glass, concrete, terracotta and more. Minecraft has used the name Cyan Dye since Beta 1.2.

Cyan Dyes cost you 1 Blue Dye and 1 Green Dye, put together at a Crafting Table. You end up with 2 Cyan Dyes each time.

Cyan Dye Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

Minecraft has used the name Cyan Dye since Beta 1.2, the oldest release whose language file lists it. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.14. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the cyan dye, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with blue dye (craft from lapis lazuli or a cornflower) and green dye (smelt cactus in a furnace).

One Stack, Counted

Feed 1 blue dye a craft, so 64 covers 64 of them: 128 cyan dye. Have 64 green dye ready as well. Nothing is wasted: craft 64 takes the rest.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Blue DyeBlue DyeBlue Dye1xCraft from lapis lazuli or a cornflower
Green DyeGreen DyeGreen Dye1xSmelt cactus in a furnace

For Cyan Dye: Blue Dye (craft from lapis lazuli or a cornflower) and Green Dye (smelt cactus in a furnace), brought to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

Green Dye, then Blue Dye, then the Cyan Dye. All in: 1 Lapis lazuli or cornflower and 1 Cactus.

  1. 1
    CactusCactusGreen DyeGreen DyeGreen DyeFurnace
  2. 2
    Lapis lazuli or cornflowerLapis lazuli or cornflowerBlue DyeBlue DyeBlue Dye
  3. 3
    Cyan DyeCyan DyeCyan Dyethis page

Gather this first

Lapis lazuli or cornflowerLapis lazuli or cornflowerLapis lazuli or cornflowerCactusCactusCactus

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Blue DyeBlue DyeBlue DyeGreen DyeGreen DyeGreen Dye

  2. 2

    2x Cyan Dye

Minecraft crafting recipe for Cyan Dye: 1 x Blue Dye, 1 x Green Dye in a crafting table, making 2 Cyan Dye.

Tips & Notes

  • Cell positions do not matter here: drop Blue Dye and Green Dye anywhere in the grid and Cyan Dye appears.
  • Shopping list: 1x Blue Dye and 1x Green Dye. Plan the Blue Dye first: craft from lapis lazuli or a cornflower.
  • The recipe returns 2 Cyan Dye at a time.

Uses for Cyan Dye

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

What Cyan Dye Goes Into

2 other recipes list Cyan Dye as an ingredient.

Cyan Concrete PowderCrafting TableCyan Stained GlassCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Cyan Dye in Minecraft?
a Cyan Dye asks for 1 Blue Dye and 1 Green Dye, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. Any arrangement works as long as all of them are in the grid, and one craft produces 2 Cyan Dyes.
What do you need to make a Cyan Dye from scratch?
From raw materials only, a Cyan Dye comes down to 1 Lapis lazuli or cornflower and 1 Cactus. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 3 crafts to get there.
What can you make with Cyan Dye?
Cyan Dye is an ingredient in 2 other recipes on this site, including Cyan Concrete Powder and Cyan Stained Glass. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for a Cyan Dye?
The parts of a Cyan Dye do not all come from one place. Blue Dye: craft from lapis lazuli or a cornflower. Green Dye: smelt cactus in a furnace.
How many Cyan Dyes do you get from one craft?
The Cyan Dye recipe makes 2 Cyan Dyes in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Cyan Dye in Minecraft?
The Cyan Dye item ID is minecraft:cyan_dye, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write cyan_dye on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Cyan Dye?
The command for Cyan Dye is /give @p cyan_dye. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p cyan_dye 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Cyan Dye recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Cyan Dye recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Cyan Dye from 1 Blue Dye and 1 Green Dye at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, 2 at a time.
How many crafting steps does a Cyan Dye take?
A Cyan Dye takes 3 crafts once you count the parts: Green Dye and Blue Dye, and then the Cyan Dye. The chain section above walks through them in order.
What version of Minecraft added the Cyan Dye?
As far back as the language files go, the cyan dye appears under this name in Minecraft Beta 1.2 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. Today the game builds it from 1 Blue Dye and 1 Green Dye, as shown above.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Blue Dye and 1 Green Dye in, 2 Cyan Dyes out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
The name appears in Minecraft Java Beta 1.2 and in nothing older. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed
Walked forward through 50 Java releases from 1.13 onwards; 1.14 is the last one that altered it.
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 stack sum
Counted, not played: 2 Cyan Dyes per craft against the stack size.

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