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Cyan Dye
MiscellaneousCraftable

Cyan Dye

Cyan Dye is a cyan dye used to color wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, concrete powder, candles, banners and more. It is made from combining blue and green dye.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

1.0

Item ID

cyan_dye

Cyan Dye at a glance

Cyan Dye, an item out of crafting (combining dyes), sits under Miscellaneous. 64 Cyan Dye fit in a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 3456 in a double chest.

Cyan Dye additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Cyan Concrete Powder and Cyan Stained Glass. It sits between Copper Ingot and Diamond in Miscellaneous, number 29 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Blue DyeBlue Dye
Green DyeGreen Dye
Cyan DyeCyan Dye2

Used to craft

2 items take Cyan Dye on the crafting grid, Cyan Concrete Powder and Cyan Stained Glass among them, with Utility Blocks accounting for 2. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Cyan Dye.

How to obtain

  • Crafting (combining dyes)

Notes

Combining two dyes yields 2 dye.

Frequently asked questions about Cyan Dye

  1. Blue Dye, Green Dye going into Cyan Dye, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Cyan Dye in Minecraft?

    Cyan Dye is crafted from Blue Dye and Green Dye at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 2.

  2. 64 Cyan Dye drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Cyan Dye can you stack?

    64 Cyan Dye fills a slot, and that slot costs 32 Blue Dye and 32 Green Dye, since each one returns 2, which is 32 crafts at the crafting table.

  3. Cyan Dye coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.0

    When was Cyan Dye added to Minecraft?

    Cyan Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

  4. Cyan Dye turning into Cyan Concrete Powder and Cyan Stained Glass, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Cyan Dye used for?

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

Building with it

Cyan is blue and green mixed, which means lapis or cornflowers on one side and a smelted cactus on the other. It is the colour of prismarine and of warped wood, so ocean and Nether themed builds use more of it than anything else.