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How to Craft White Dye in Minecraft

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

Bring 1 Bone meal or lily of the valley to a Crafting Table and you have a White Dye. Expect 1 White Dye from every craft.

White Dye Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

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 bone meal or lily of the valley (bone meal or lily of the valley).

The Rate Per Item

Reduced to one item, this recipe asks 1 bone meal or lily of the valley for a single white dye.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Bone meal or lily of the valleyBone meal or lily of the valleyBone meal or lily of the valley1xBone meal or lily of the valley

Gather Bone meal or lily of the valley (bone meal or lily of the valley), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Bone meal or lily of the valleyBone meal or lily of the valleyBone meal or lily of the valley

  2. 2

    White Dye

Minecraft crafting recipe for White Dye: 1 x Bone meal or lily of the valley in a crafting table, making 1 White Dye.

Tips & Notes

  • Cell positions do not matter here: drop Bone meal or lily of the valley anywhere in the grid and White Dye appears.
  • Shopping list: 1x Bone meal or lily of the valley. Plan the Bone meal or lily of the valley first: bone meal or lily of the valley.

Uses for White Dye

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

What White Dye Goes Into

4 other recipes list White Dye as an ingredient.

Gray DyeGray DyeGray DyeCrafting TableLime DyeLime DyeLime DyeCrafting TableWhite Concrete PowderCrafting TableWhite Stained GlassCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a White Dye in Minecraft?
The list for a White Dye is short: 1 Bone meal or lily of the valley, worked at a Crafting Table. Any arrangement works as long as all of it are in the grid, and one craft produces one White Dye.
What can you make with White Dye?
White Dye is an ingredient in 4 other recipes on this site, including Gray Dye, Lime Dye, White Concrete Powder and White Stained Glass. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for a White Dye?
The parts of a White Dye do not all come from one place. Bone meal or lily of the valley: bone meal or lily of the valley.
How many White Dyes do you get from one craft?
The White Dye recipe makes one White Dye per craft.
What is the item ID for White Dye in Minecraft?
The White Dye item ID is minecraft:white_dye, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write white_dye on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for a White Dye?
White Dye needs nothing you have to go find: bone meal or lily of the valley from bone. Set those up once and you can keep making white dye.
What is the give command for White Dye?
Use /give @p white_dye to put a White Dye in your own inventory, or /give @p white_dye 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the White Dye recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 1 Bone meal or lily of the valley at a Crafting Table gives you a White Dye, in the layout shown above, one at a time.
Does it matter where you put the ingredients for a White Dye?
No, a White Dye is a shapeless recipe, so 1 Bone meal or lily of the valley can go in any slots you like. Only the set of ingredients is checked, not their arrangement.
What version of Minecraft added the White Dye?
Minecraft 1.14 is where the white dye starts. The recipe sits in that release and is missing from the one before, across every Java version Mojang still hands out. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Bone meal or lily of the valley in, 1 White Dye out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Present in Minecraft Java 1.14, missing from the release immediately before. 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 cost per item
Counted, not played: 1 White Dye per craft.

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