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Lime Dye
MiscellaneousCraftable

Lime Dye

Lime Dye is a lime dye used to color wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, concrete powder, candles, banners and more. It is made from combining green and white dye, or smelting a sea pickle.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

1.0

Item ID

lime_dye

Lime Dye at a glance

Minecraft files Lime Dye under Miscellaneous: an item you get from crafting (combining dyes) and smelting Sea Pickle. A slot of Lime Dye holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

Lime Dye additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Lime Concrete Powder and Lime Stained Glass. It sits between Light Gray Dye and Magenta Dye in Miscellaneous, number 77 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Green DyeGreen Dye
White DyeWhite Dye
Lime DyeLime Dye2

Used to craft

Follow Lime Dye forward and you land on 2 recipes: 2 in Utility Blocks, the rest spread over that one category, Lime Concrete Powder through Lime Stained Glass. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Lime Dye.

How to obtain

  • Crafting (combining dyes)
  • Smelting Sea Pickle

Cooking

Lime Dye comes out of Sea Pickle, and a furnace does it. Lime Dye needs 10 seconds in the furnace. Lime Dye pays 0.1 experience each time, 6.4 for the whole 64.

Notes

Combining two dyes yields 2 dye. Also obtainable by smelting a sea pickle.

Frequently asked questions about Lime Dye

  1. Green Dye, White Dye going into Lime Dye, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Lime Dye in Minecraft?

    Lime Dye is crafted from Green Dye and White Dye at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 2. It also comes from crafting (combining dyes), and Lime Dye from smelting Sea Pickle, not just the recipe above.

  2. The raw item going into a furnace and coming out as Lime Dye

    How do you cook Lime Dye?

    Lime Dye comes out of Sea Pickle, and a furnace does it. It needs 10 seconds in the furnace. It pays 0.1 experience each time, 6.4 for the whole 64.

  3. 64 Lime Dye drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Lime Dye can you stack?

    32 Green Dye and 32 White Dye is what 64 Lime Dye costs, since each one returns 2, so filling a single slot is 32 crafts.

  4. Lime Dye coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.0

    When was Lime Dye added to Minecraft?

    Lime Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

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

    What is Lime Dye used for?

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

Building with it

Lime dye comes from a sea pickle smelted, or from green and white mixed. Green itself needs a cactus in a furnace, so lime is a two step dye either way, and a small cactus farm ends up supporting both colours at once.