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Magenta Dye
MiscellaneousCraftable

Magenta Dye

Magenta Dye is a magenta dye used to color wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, concrete powder, candles, banners and more. It is made from an allium or lilac, or by combining purple and pink dye.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

1.0

Item ID

magenta_dye

Magenta Dye at a glance

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

Magenta Dye additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Magenta Concrete Powder and Magenta Stained Glass. It sits between Lime Dye and Magma Cream in Miscellaneous, number 78 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Purple DyePurple Dye
Pink DyePink Dye
Magenta DyeMagenta Dye2

Used to craft

Follow Magenta Dye forward and you land on 2 recipes: 2 in Utility Blocks, the rest spread over that one category, Magenta Concrete Powder through Magenta Stained Glass. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Magenta Dye in it.

How to obtain

  • Crafting (combining dyes)
  • Crafting from flowers/materials

Notes

Combining two dyes yields 2 dye. Crafting from a single flower/material yields 1 dye.

Frequently asked questions about Magenta Dye

  1. Purple Dye, Pink Dye going into Magenta Dye, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Magenta Dye in Minecraft?

    Magenta Dye is crafted from Purple Dye and Pink Dye at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 2. It also comes from crafting (combining dyes), and Magenta Dye from crafting from flowers/materials, not just the recipe above.

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

    How many Magenta Dye can you stack?

    64 Magenta Dye fill one slot, and filling it costs 32 Purple Dye and 32 Pink Dye, since each one returns 2: 32 crafts. A double chest of Magenta Dye comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

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

    What is Magenta Dye used for?

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

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

    When was Magenta Dye added to Minecraft?

    Magenta Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

Building with it

Magenta dye comes from an allium, from a lilac, or from mixing purple and pink, or blue, red and two pink. The allium is by far the simplest, which makes a flower forest worth a visit for anyone planning a magenta build.