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Pink Dye
MiscellaneousCraftable

Pink Dye

Pink Dye is a pink dye used to color wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, concrete powder, candles, banners and more. It is made from a pink tulip or peony, or by combining red and white dye.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

1.0

Item ID

pink_dye

Pink Dye at a glance

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

Keep Pink Dye around: 3 recipes here call for it, which makes it worth a slot in the storage room rather than something you gather per project. It sits between Phantom Membrane and Pottery Sherd in Miscellaneous, number 97 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Red DyeRed Dye
White DyeWhite Dye
Pink DyePink Dye2

Used to craft

Pink Dye is an ingredient in 3 other recipes across 2 categories, 2 of them in Utility Blocks, Magenta Dye first and Pink Stained Glass last. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Pink 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 Pink Dye

  1. Red Dye, White Dye going into Pink Dye, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Pink Dye in Minecraft?

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

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

    How many Pink Dye can you stack?

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

  3. Pink Dye coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.0

    When was Pink Dye added to Minecraft?

    Pink Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

  4. Pink Dye turning into Magenta Dye and Pink Concrete Powder, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Pink Dye used for?

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

Building with it

Pink dye comes from a pink tulip, a peony, or red and white mixed. The mix is the reliable route, since red comes from poppies, beetroot or roses and white from bone meal, both of which any world has in quantity.