InMinecraft, players can alter the world around them in any way they wish. This now includesbuilding a peaceful garden inMinecraft Bloomand using flowers and other ingredients to make dyes and change the color of the materials in the world.
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Updated by Jake Fillery on July 16, 2025:There are many accessible personal touches that players can put into their Minecraft worlds and characters. From an interesting house to an assortment of the best Minecraft skins. However, what players might not have known about, is the fact that they can actually dye armor, and run around in a more stylized set of armor that will have them more fashionable than other players, especially those pesky creepers. For the players asking how to dye armor in Minecraft, this will be a useful one. Considering armor dye has been around for quite some time, it’s as good a chance as any to discuss all dyes in Minecraft, and all items that can be dyed in Minecraft so players have a greater joy in their use of dye materials.
All Minecraft Dyes
There are sixteen different colors of dyes inMinecraftthat players can use to change the color of their armor. These colors can be created with a Crafting Table by using rocks, vegetables, flowers, and other flora. These colors are:
The majority of these dyes can be found in the form of flowers. Flower forest biomes are the best location to find the biggest variety of colorful flowers.
Dyes can also be made by combining other colors of dyes to create a new color. This can be done also at one ofMinecraft’scrafting tables.
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Bedrock Edition Only: Making A Cauldron And A Bucket
Because of Bedrock Edition’s differences from Java, players will need to craft a bucket and a cauldron before they dye any of their armor. To dye armor, players will need the armor they wish to dye as well as the dye color of their choice. But they will also need an iron bucket full of water and a cauldron. to make these two things, players will need a lot of iron ingots.
Raw iron can be found underground and in caves, and then smelted into ingots with a furnace. Here are the diagrams for making the two iron tools that players will need to dye their armor.
Dyeing Armor
Since leather armor is the only armor that can be dyed, players will first have to get some leather. Leather is dropped by cows, whichplayers can tame inMinecraftand farm for plenty of leather. After that, they can make the leather armor at a crafting table. Leather armor can also be retrieved off offrom some ofMinecraft’s zombie villagers.
It’s also a common loot in the various dungeon and shipwreck chests, so players won’t have a difficult time finding any. In a worst-case scenario, the leatherworker villager will trade a few pieces of leather armor for some emeralds, though this isn’t a good trade to make due to how rare emeralds are.
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For Java Edition, once players have some extra leather armor to dye, the process is pretty simple. They just need to place the leather armor into a crafting grid, along with their dye of choice. The output will be dyed leather armor.
In Bedrock Edition, players have to do things in a more complicated fashion to dye their leather armor:
After that, the player’s leather armor should be a different color, giving them a fashionable new look.
What else can be dyed?
Dyes in Minecraft have a multitude of uses outside of just armor. When players create or find any of the sixteen dyes, they can use them for all manners of craftables. Here’s a list of blocks that can be dyed, and their crafting recipe to further maximize the addition of color that can be added to every player’s Minecraft world:
Source:DigMinecraft,MinecraftGamepedia
Minecraftis available now on Mobile, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
