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How to Craft Orange Dye in Minecraft

Orange 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 Orange Dye since Beta 1.2.

An Orange Dye costs you 1 Orange tulip, put together at a Crafting Table. A single craft gives you 1 Orange Dye.

Orange Dye Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Orange Dye is used to color a wide variety of blocks and items. Orange 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 Orange Dye since Beta 1.2, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with orange tulip (orange tulip, or red dye + yellow dye).

The Yield Per Stack

1 orange tulip for 1 orange dye scales to 64 out of a 64 stack. Down to the last orange tulip, nothing spare.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Orange tulipOrange tulipOrange tulip1xOrange tulip, or red dye + yellow dye

To make Orange Dye you will gather Orange tulip (orange tulip, or red dye + yellow dye), and craft them at a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Orange tulipOrange tulipOrange tulip

  2. 2

    Orange Dye

Minecraft crafting recipe for Orange Dye: 1 x Orange tulip in a crafting table, making 1 Orange Dye.

Tips & Notes

  • Because this one is shapeless, Orange tulip can go in any cells you like. The grid only checks that they are all present.
  • Shopping list: 1x Orange tulip. Plan the Orange tulip first: orange tulip, or red dye + yellow dye.

Uses for Orange Dye

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

What Orange Dye Goes Into

2 other recipes list Orange Dye as an ingredient.

Orange Concrete PowderCrafting TableOrange Stained GlassCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft an Orange Dye in Minecraft?
Bring 1 Orange tulip to a Crafting Table and you can make an Orange Dye. Any arrangement works as long as all of it are in the grid, and one craft produces one Orange Dye.
What can you make with Orange Dye?
Orange Dye is an ingredient in 2 other recipes on this site, including Orange Concrete Powder and Orange Stained Glass. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for an Orange Dye?
Here is where each part of an Orange Dye comes from. Orange tulip: orange tulip, or red dye + yellow dye.
How many Orange Dyes do you get from one craft?
The Orange Dye recipe makes one Orange Dye per craft.
What is the item ID for Orange Dye in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Orange Dye goes by minecraft:orange_dye; orange_dye without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Orange Dye?
The command for Orange Dye is /give @p orange_dye. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p orange_dye 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Orange Dye recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 1 Orange tulip at a Crafting Table gives you an Orange Dye, in the layout shown above, one at a time.
Does it matter where you put the ingredients for an Orange Dye?
No, an Orange Dye is a shapeless recipe, so 1 Orange tulip can go in any slots you like. Only the set of ingredients is checked, not their arrangement.
What version of Minecraft added the Orange Dye?
Minecraft Beta 1.2 is the oldest release that calls the orange dye by that name. The current release still makes an Orange Dye exactly that way.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Orange tulip in, 1 Orange Dye out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java Beta 1.2 uses this name and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Orange Dye per craft against the stack size.

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