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How to Craft Green Dye in Minecraft

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

A Green Dye comes out of a Furnace, not out of a crafting grid: 1 Cactus in the top slot and fuel below it. One pass through gives you 1 Green Dye.

Green Dye Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Green Dye is smelted from cactus. It is the only green dye variant that must be smelted rather than crafted. Green Dye is produced by smelting in a Furnace rather than by arranging items in a grid.

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 cactus (harvest cactus from deserts).

The Full Stack Sum

Counted per stack: 64 cactus, 64 crafts, 64 green dye. Nothing is wasted: craft 64 takes the rest.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
CactusCactusCactus1xHarvest cactus from deserts

For Green Dye: Cactus (harvest cactus from deserts), brought to a Furnace.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Open your Furnace interface.
  2. Place Cactus in the top input slot.
  3. Add fuel (coal, charcoal, wood, etc.) to the bottom fuel slot.
  4. Wait for the smelting progress bar to complete. Collect your Green Dye from the output slot.
Minecraft crafting recipe for Green Dye: 1 x Cactus in a furnace, making 1 Green Dye.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 1x Cactus before you open the Furnace. Cactus: harvest cactus from deserts.
  • Dried kelp blocks are the cheapest way to make Green Dye in bulk, at twenty smelts per block against coal's eight.

Uses for Green Dye

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

What Green Dye Goes Into

4 other recipes list Green Dye as an ingredient.

Cyan DyeCyan DyeCyan DyeCrafting TableGreen Concrete PowderCrafting TableGreen Stained GlassCrafting TableLime DyeLime DyeLime DyeCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Green Dye in Minecraft?
1 Cactus at a Furnace: that is the whole shopping list for a Green Dye. Put the input in the top slot and fuel underneath, and one craft produces one Green Dye.
What can you make with Green Dye?
Green Dye is an ingredient in 4 other recipes on this site, including Cyan Dye, Green Concrete Powder, Green Stained Glass and Lime Dye. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for a Green Dye?
The parts of a Green Dye do not all come from one place. Cactus: harvest cactus from deserts.
How many Green Dyes do you get from one craft?
The Green Dye recipe makes one Green Dye per craft.
What is the item ID for Green Dye in Minecraft?
The Green Dye item ID is minecraft:green_dye, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write green_dye on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for a Green Dye?
Green Dye needs nothing you have to go find: cactus from cactus that keeps growing. Set those up once and you can keep making green dye.
What is the give command for Green Dye?
/give @p green_dye gives you a Green 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 Green Dye recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on a Green Dye: both want 1 Cactus at a Furnace in the layout above, and both give one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Green Dye?
For the green dye the answer is Minecraft 1.14, and it is not a guess: that release carries the recipe, the one before it does not. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Cactus in, 1 Green Dye out, Furnace. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.14 describes this recipe and the release before it does not. 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 stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Green Dye per craft against the stack size.

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