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How to Craft Lime Dye in Minecraft

Lime Dye in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Dyeing items lime green. Minecraft has used the name Lime Dye since Beta 1.2.

At a Crafting Table, Lime Dyes ask for 1 Green Dye and 1 White Dye. The grid returns 2 Lime Dyes.

Lime Dye Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Lime Dye is made by combining green dye with white dye. Lime 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 Lime 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 lime dye, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with green dye (smelt cactus) and white dye (craft from bone meal or lily of the valley).

The Full Stack Sum

A full stack of 64 green dye gives 128 lime dye, across 64 crafts at 1 for 2. You supply 64 white dye to go with it. Craft 64 empties the box exactly.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Green DyeGreen DyeGreen Dye1xSmelt cactus
White DyeWhite DyeWhite Dye1xCraft from bone meal or lily of the valley

Lime Dye needs Green Dye (smelt cactus) and White Dye (craft from bone meal or lily of the valley), worked together at a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

White Dye, then Green Dye, then the Lime Dye. All in: 1 Cactus and 1 Bone meal or lily of the valley.

  1. 1
    Bone meal or lily of the valleyBone meal or lily of the valleyWhite DyeWhite DyeWhite Dye
  2. 2
    CactusCactusGreen DyeGreen DyeGreen DyeFurnace
  3. 3
    Lime DyeLime DyeLime Dyethis page

Gather this first

CactusCactusCactusBone meal or lily of the valleyBone meal or lily of the valleyBone meal or lily of the valley

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Green DyeGreen DyeGreen DyeWhite DyeWhite DyeWhite Dye

  2. 2

    2x Lime Dye

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

Tips & Notes

  • Cell positions do not matter here: drop Green Dye and White Dye anywhere in the grid and Lime Dye appears.
  • One craft costs 1x Green Dye and 1x White Dye. Start with the Green Dye: smelt cactus.
  • Each craft yields 2 Lime Dye, so a full stack of 64 takes 32 crafts.

Uses for Lime Dye

  • Dyeing items lime green

What Lime Dye Goes Into

2 other recipes list Lime Dye as an ingredient.

Lime Concrete PowderCrafting TableLime Stained GlassCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Lime Dye in Minecraft?
The list for a Lime Dye is short: 1 Green Dye and 1 White Dye, worked at a Crafting Table. Any arrangement works as long as all of them are in the grid, and one craft produces 2 Lime Dyes.
What do you need to make a Lime Dye from scratch?
Counting all the way down, a Lime Dye comes to 1 Cactus and 1 Bone meal or lily of the valley, spread over 3 crafts.
What can you make with Lime Dye?
Lime Dye is an ingredient in 2 other recipes on this site, including Lime Concrete Powder and Lime Stained Glass. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for a Lime Dye?
A Lime Dye draws its parts from several different places. Green Dye: smelt cactus. White Dye: craft from bone meal or lily of the valley.
How many Lime Dyes do you get from one craft?
The Lime Dye recipe makes 2 Lime Dyes in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Lime Dye in Minecraft?
Lime Dye is registered as minecraft:lime_dye. Commands accept the short form lime_dye as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for a Lime Dye?
Lime Dye needs nothing you have to go find: green dye from cactus and white dye from bone meal. Set those up once and you can keep making lime dye.
What is the give command for Lime Dye?
/give @p lime_dye gives you a Lime 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 Lime Dye recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 1 Green Dye and 1 White Dye at a Crafting Table gives you a Lime Dye, in the layout shown above, 2 at a time.
How many crafting steps does a Lime Dye take?
A Lime Dye takes 3 crafts once you count the parts: White Dye and Green Dye, and then the Lime Dye. The chain section above walks through them in order.
What version of Minecraft added the Lime Dye?
The name Lime Dye goes back to Minecraft Beta 1.2, and no older release we can read uses it. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. The Lime Dye recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Green Dye and 1 White Dye in, 2 Lime Dyes out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Java Beta 1.2 is the earliest release that calls it this. 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 Lime Dyes per craft against the stack size.

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