How do you get Blue Dye in Minecraft?

Blue Dye is crafted from Lapis Lazuli at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

When was Blue Dye added to Minecraft?

Blue Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

How many Blue Dye can you stack?

64 Lapis Lazuli is what 64 Blue Dye costs, so filling a single slot is 64 crafts. A shulker box of Blue Dye comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

What is Blue Dye used for?

Blue Dye is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Blue Concrete Powder, Blue Stained Glass, Cyan Dye, Light Blue Dye, and Purple Dye.

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Blue Dye

Blue Dye is a blue dye used to color wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, concrete powder, candles, banners and more. It is made from lapis lazuli or a cornflower.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Blue Dye at a glance

Blue Dye, an item out of crafting from flowers/materials, sits under Miscellaneous. Carrying Blue Dye is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

Keep Blue Dye around: 5 recipes here call for it, which makes it worth a slot in the storage room rather than something you gather per project. It sits between Blaze Rod and Bolt Armor Trim in Miscellaneous, number 7 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Lapis Lazuli
Blue Dye
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Blue Dye has the grid for Blue Dye

Used to craft

From Blue Concrete Powder to Purple Dye, 5 recipes use Blue Dye, and 3 of those sit in Miscellaneous. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Blue Dye.

How to obtain

Crafting from flowers/materials

Notes

Crafting from a single flower/material yields 1 dye.

Frequently asked questions about Blue Dye

How do you get Blue Dye in Minecraft?
Blue Dye is crafted from Lapis Lazuli at a Crafting Table, in a single step.
When was Blue Dye added to Minecraft?
Blue Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.
How many Blue Dye can you stack?
64 Lapis Lazuli is what 64 Blue Dye costs, so filling a single slot is 64 crafts. A shulker box of Blue Dye comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.
What is Blue Dye used for?
Blue Dye is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Blue Concrete Powder, Blue Stained Glass, Cyan Dye, Light Blue Dye, and Purple Dye.

Building with it

Blue dye comes from lapis lazuli or from a cornflower. Lapis is also what enchanting runs on, so most players who need blue in quantity plant a cornflower patch instead and keep the lapis for the table.

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