How do you get Green Dye in Minecraft?

Green Dye is crafted from Cactus at a Furnace, in a single step.

How many Green Dye can you stack?

64 Green Dye fills a slot, and that slot costs 64 Cactus, which is 64 smelts at the furnace. A double chest of Green Dye comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

What is Green Dye used for?

Green Dye is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Cyan Dye, Green Stained Glass, and Lime Dye.

How do you cook Green Dye?

Heat is all Green Dye asks for: Cactus goes in a furnace and comes back out. It needs 10 seconds in the furnace. Each Green Dye hands back 1 experience, and 64 Green Dye make 64.

When was Green Dye added to Minecraft?

Green Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

Where do you find Green Dye in chests?

Green Dye is chest loot in one place and one only: desert village houses (about 14%). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

MiscellaneousCraftable

Green Dye

Green Dye is a green dye used to color wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, concrete powder, candles, banners and more. It is made from smelting cactus in a furnace.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Green Dye at a glance

Minecraft files Green Dye under Miscellaneous: an item you get from smelting Cactus. A slot of Green Dye holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

Green Dye is also a hub ingredient, feeding 3 different recipes in this catalogue, so a stock in a chest unlocks that many crafts at once. Generated chests only ever hold Green Dye in one place: desert village houses (about 14%). It sits between Gray Dye and Gunpowder in Miscellaneous, number 62 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Furnace
Cactus
Green Dye
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Green Dye has the grid for Green Dye

Used to craft

3 recipes call for Green Dye, from Cyan Dye to Lime Dye, and Miscellaneous takes 2 of them. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Green Dye in it.

How to obtain

Smelting Cactus

Cooking

Heat is all Green Dye asks for: Cactus goes in a furnace and comes back out. Green Dye needs 10 seconds in the furnace. Each Green Dye hands back 1 experience, and 64 Green Dye make 64.

Notes

Green dye must be smelted from cactus, not crafted from a flower.

Frequently asked questions about Green Dye

How do you get Green Dye in Minecraft?
Green Dye is crafted from Cactus at a Furnace, in a single step.
How many Green Dye can you stack?
64 Green Dye fills a slot, and that slot costs 64 Cactus, which is 64 smelts at the furnace. A double chest of Green Dye comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.
What is Green Dye used for?
Green Dye is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Cyan Dye, Green Stained Glass, and Lime Dye.
How do you cook Green Dye?
Heat is all Green Dye asks for: Cactus goes in a furnace and comes back out. It needs 10 seconds in the furnace. Each Green Dye hands back 1 experience, and 64 Green Dye make 64.
When was Green Dye added to Minecraft?
Green Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.
Where do you find Green Dye in chests?
Green Dye is chest loot in one place and one only: desert village houses (about 14%). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

Building with it

Green dye comes from smelting a cactus, and nothing else in the game produces it. Cactus grows on sand without water and can be harvested automatically, so a green dye supply is really a question of building the farm once.

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