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How to Craft Purple Stained Glass in Minecraft

Purple Stained Glass in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Colored transparent windows. Minecraft has used the name Purple Stained Glass since 1.7.2.

Feed a Crafting Table 8 Glass and 1 Purple Dye and Purple Stained Glass comes back. Read it row by row: three Glass, then two Glass down either side and a Purple Dye in the middle column, then three Glass. Done once, that is 8 Purple Stained Glass.

Purple Stained Glass Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Purple Stained Glass is minecraft:purple_stained_glass. In commands the namespace may be left off, so purple_stained_glass works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

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

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

Overview

Purple Stained Glass is a colored transparent block for windows and decoration. Purple Stained Glass uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Purple Stained Glass since 1.7.2, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with glass (smelt sand) and purple dye (craft from various materials).

Stack Maths

Counted per stack: 64 glass, 8 crafts, 64 purple stained glass. On top of that: 8 purple dye. It divides evenly, no glass left over.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Glass8xSmelt sand
Purple DyePurple DyePurple Dye1xCraft from various materials

Purple Stained Glass needs 8x Glass (smelt sand) and Purple Dye (craft from various materials), worked together at a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

5 crafts deep: Red Dye, Blue Dye, Purple Dye, Glass, then the Purple Stained Glass. All in: 8 Sand, 1 Lapis lazuli or cornflower and 1 Poppy or red tulip.

  1. 1
    Poppy or red tulipPoppy or red tulipRed DyeRed DyeRed Dye
  2. 2
    Lapis lazuli or cornflowerLapis lazuli or cornflowerBlue DyeBlue DyeBlue Dye
  3. 3
    Blue DyeBlue DyeRed DyeRed DyePurple DyePurple Dye2Purple Dye
  4. 4
    88GlassFurnace, repeat 8x
  5. 5
    Purple Stained Glassthis page

Gather this first

8SandLapis lazuli or cornflowerLapis lazuli or cornflowerLapis lazuli or cornflowerPoppy or red tulipPoppy or red tulipPoppy or red tulip

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    8x Glass

  2. 2

    Purple DyePurple DyePurple Dye

  3. 3

    8x Purple Stained Glass

Minecraft crafting recipe for Purple Stained Glass: 8 x Glass, 1 x Purple Dye in a crafting table, making 8 Purple Stained Glass.

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 8x Glass and 1x Purple Dye. Plan the Glass first: smelt sand.
  • The recipe returns 8 Purple Stained Glass at a time.

Uses for Purple Stained Glass

  • Colored transparent windows
  • Decorative building

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Purple Stained Glass on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Purple Stained Glass in Minecraft?
To craft Purple Stained Glass you need 8 Glass and 1 Purple Dye at a Crafting Table. Copy the grid above cell for cell, and one craft produces 8 Purple Stained Glass.
What do you need to make Purple Stained Glass from scratch?
Counting all the way down, Purple Stained Glass comes to 8 Sand, 1 Lapis lazuli or cornflower and 1 Poppy or red tulip, spread over 5 crafts.
Where do you find the materials for Purple Stained Glass?
Purple Stained Glass draws its parts from several different places. Glass: smelt sand. Purple Dye: craft from various materials.
How much Purple Stained Glass do you get from one craft?
The Purple Stained Glass recipe makes 8 Purple Stained Glass in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Purple Stained Glass in Minecraft?
The Purple Stained Glass item ID is minecraft:purple_stained_glass, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write purple_stained_glass on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for Purple Stained Glass?
Purple Stained Glass needs nothing you have to go find: glass from sand and purple dye from blue dye. Set those up once and you can keep making purple stained glass.
What is the give command for Purple Stained Glass?
Use /give @p purple_stained_glass to put Purple Stained Glass in your own inventory, or /give @p purple_stained_glass 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Purple Stained Glass recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on Purple Stained Glass: both want 8 Glass and 1 Purple Dye at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give 8 at a time.
What version of Minecraft added Purple Stained Glass?
The name Purple Stained Glass goes back to Minecraft 1.7.2, 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. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
8 Glass and 1 Purple Dye in, 8 Purple Stained Glass out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.7.2 uses this name 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: 8 Purple Stained Glass per craft against the stack size.

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