Gray Dye

Gray dye^[a] is a secondary color dye.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Trading[]

Wandering traders sell 3 gray dye for an emerald.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Usage[]

Like all other dyes, gray dye can be:

• Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of gray wool.
• Applied to tamed wolves and cats to dye their collars.
• Used to dye or stain wool, carpets, candles, leather armor, leather horse armor, wolf armor, beds, glass, glass panes, terracotta, shulker boxes, and bundles.
• Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
• Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
• Used to add patterns to banners.
• Used to dye shulkers in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
• Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Used to change the color of the text on signs or hanging signs.

Crafting ingredient[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Dyed Bundle	Gray Dye + Bundle
Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Gray Dye + Luminol
Gray Balloon	Latex + Gray Dye + Helium + Lead		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Gray Balloon	Latex + Gray Dye + Helium + Lead
Gray Bed	Any Bed + Gray Dye
Gray Bed	Any Bed + Gray Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.
Gray Candle	Candle + Gray Dye
Gray Carpet	Any Carpet + Gray Dye
Gray Carpet	Any Carpet + Gray Dye
Gray Concrete Powder	Sand + Gravel + Gray Dye	8
Gray Concrete Powder	Gray Dye + Sand + Gravel	8	Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.[1]
Gray Firework Star	Gunpowder + Gray Dye + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond		Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients.
Gray Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Gray Dye + Luminol		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Gray Shulker Box	Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Gray Dye		The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name.
Gray Stained Glass	Glass + Gray Dye	8
Gray Stained Glass	Glass + Gray Dye	8
Gray Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Gray Dye	8
Gray Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Gray Dye	8
Gray Terracotta	Terracotta + Gray Dye	8
Gray Terracotta	Terracotta + Gray Dye	8
Gray Wool	Any Wool + Gray Dye
Light Gray Dye	Gray Dye + White Dye	2	In Bedrock Edition, the white dye can be replaced with bone meal.
Wool	Any Wool + Gray Dye
Gray Banner pattern	Gray Dye + Banner
Gray Banner image	Gray Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple

Loom ingredient[]

Trading[]

Journeyman-level villagers have a 20% chance to buy 12 gray dye for an emerald.

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Video[]

History[]

Java Edition Beta
1.2					Added gray dye.
Java Edition
1.4.2		12w34a			Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars.
1.4.6		12w49a			Gray dye can be now crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star.
1.6.1		13w19a			Stained clay can now be crafted.
1.7.2		13w36a			With the addition of new flowers, many secondary and tertiary dyes are now primary dyes.
		13w41a			Stained glass can now be crafted.
1.8		14w30a			Added banners, which can be dyed.
1.11		16w39a			Added the ability to dye shulker boxes.
1.12		17w15a			Added the ability to dye beds.
1.13		17w47a			The different data values for the dye ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351.
1.14		18w43a			Gray dye is now crafted using black and white dyes, instead of ink sac and bone meal.
					The texture of gray dye has now been changed.
		18w44a			Gray dye can now change the text color on the signs to gray.
		19w05a			Added the wandering trader, which sell gray dyes.
		19w11a			Gray dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers.
1.17		20w45a			Gray dye can now used to craft gray candles.
		21w19a			Gray dye can no longer be used to craft gray candles.
		Pre-release 1			Gray dye can once again be used to craft gray candles.
1.20 (Experimental)		22w42a			Gray dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to gray.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.0					Added gray dye. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose.
v0.8.0		build 1			Gray dye can be crafted with bone meal and an ink sac, despite there being no way of obtaining ink sacs at the time.
		build 3			Gray dye is now available in creative mode.
v0.9.0		build 3			Gray dye can now be obtained in survival mode.
		build 11			Gray dye can now be used to craft colored terracotta.
v0.11.0		build 1			Gray dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars.
v0.14.0		build 1			Gray dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Gray dye can now be used to dye shulkers.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Gray dye can now be used to craft concrete powder, colored beds and dyed shulker boxes.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Gray dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Gray dye can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Gray dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Gray dye is now sold by wandering traders.
					Gray dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes.
					The texture of gray dye has now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Gray dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.56			The ID of gray dye has been changed from dye/8 to gray_dye.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added gray dye.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of gray dye has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added gray dye.

Issues[]

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