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Orange Dye
MiscellaneousCraftable

Orange Dye

Orange Dye is a orange dye used to color wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, concrete powder, candles, banners and more. It is made from an orange tulip, or by combining red and yellow dye.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

1.0

Item ID

orange_dye

Orange Dye at a glance

Miscellaneous holds Orange Dye: an item out of crafting (combining dyes) and crafting from flowers/materials. A single slot takes 64 Orange Dye, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Orange Dye additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Orange Concrete Powder and Orange Stained Glass. It sits between Ominous Trial Key and Painting in Miscellaneous, number 93 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Red DyeRed Dye
Yellow DyeYellow Dye
Orange DyeOrange Dye2

Used to craft

2 recipes call for Orange Dye, from Orange Concrete Powder to Orange Stained Glass, and Utility Blocks takes 2 of them. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Orange Dye.

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 Orange Dye

  1. Red Dye, Yellow Dye going into Orange Dye, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Orange Dye in Minecraft?

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

  2. Orange Dye coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.0

    When was Orange Dye added to Minecraft?

    Orange Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

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

    What is Orange Dye used for?

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

  4. 64 Orange Dye drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Orange Dye can you stack?

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

Building with it

Orange dye comes from an orange tulip or from mixing red and yellow. Since poppies and dandelions grow together in most grassy biomes, the mixed route is usually the easy one, and it gives two dye per pair rather than one per flower.