How do you get Purple Dye in Minecraft?

Purple Dye is crafted from Red Dye and Blue Dye at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 2.

When was Purple Dye added to Minecraft?

Purple Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

What is Purple Dye used for?

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

How many Purple Dye can you stack?

64 Purple Dye fill one slot, and filling it costs 32 Red Dye and 32 Blue Dye, since each one returns 2: 32 crafts. A shulker box of Purple Dye comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

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Purple Dye

Purple Dye is a purple dye used to color wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, concrete powder, candles, banners and more. It is made from combining red and blue dye.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Purple Dye at a glance

Miscellaneous holds Purple Dye: an item out of crafting (combining dyes). Carrying Purple Dye is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

Keep Purple 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 Pumpkin Seeds and Rabbit Hide in Miscellaneous, number 102 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Red Dye
Blue Dye
Purple Dye2
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Purple Dye has the grid for Purple Dye

Used to craft

Purple Dye is an ingredient in 3 other recipes across 2 categories, 2 of them in Utility Blocks, Magenta Dye first and Purple Stained Glass last. Each link below opens that recipe with Purple Dye in the grid.

How to obtain

Crafting (combining dyes)

Notes

Combining two dyes yields 2 dye.

Frequently asked questions about Purple Dye

How do you get Purple Dye in Minecraft?
Purple Dye is crafted from Red Dye and Blue Dye at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 2.
When was Purple Dye added to Minecraft?
Purple Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.
What is Purple Dye used for?
Purple Dye is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Magenta Dye, Purple Concrete Powder, and Purple Stained Glass.
How many Purple Dye can you stack?
64 Purple Dye fill one slot, and filling it costs 32 Red Dye and 32 Blue Dye, since each one returns 2: 32 crafts. A shulker box of Purple Dye comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

Building with it

Purple dye is red and blue mixed, one of each giving two. Because blue depends on lapis or cornflowers, purple is one of the more expensive dyes to make in bulk, and purple concrete walls tend to appear late in a world rather than early.

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