How do you get Gray Dye in Minecraft?

Gray Dye is crafted from Black Dye and White Dye at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 2.

How many Gray Dye can you stack?

64 Gray Dye fills a slot, and that slot costs 32 Black Dye and 32 White Dye, since each one returns 2, which is 32 crafts at the crafting table.

What is Gray Dye used for?

Gray Dye is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Gray Stained Glass and Light Gray Dye.

When was Gray Dye added to Minecraft?

Gray Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

MiscellaneousCraftable

Gray Dye

Gray Dye is a gray dye used to color wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, concrete powder, candles, banners and more. It is made from combining black and white dye.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Gray Dye at a glance

Gray Dye comes from crafting (combining dyes), and Miscellaneous is where it sits as an item. A single slot takes 64 Gray Dye, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Gray Dye additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Gray Stained Glass and Light Gray Dye. It sits between Gold Nugget and Green Dye in Miscellaneous, number 61 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Black Dye
White Dye
Gray Dye2
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Gray Dye has the grid for Gray Dye

Used to craft

2 recipes call for Gray Dye, from Gray Stained Glass to Light Gray Dye, and Utility Blocks takes 1 of them. Each link below opens that recipe with Gray Dye in the grid.

How to obtain

Crafting (combining dyes)

Notes

Combining two dyes yields 2 dye.

Frequently asked questions about Gray Dye

How do you get Gray Dye in Minecraft?
Gray Dye is crafted from Black Dye and White Dye at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 2.
How many Gray Dye can you stack?
64 Gray Dye fills a slot, and that slot costs 32 Black Dye and 32 White Dye, since each one returns 2, which is 32 crafts at the crafting table.
What is Gray Dye used for?
Gray Dye is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Gray Stained Glass and Light Gray Dye.
When was Gray Dye added to Minecraft?
Gray Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

Building with it

Gray dye is black and white mixed, and there is no flower that gives it directly. Ink sacs from squid and bone meal from skeletons are both renewable, so gray is one of the few colours that is genuinely unlimited once two farms are running.

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