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Cyan dye is a secondary dye color.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Dye + Green Dye |
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| Lapis Lazuli + Green Dye |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Pitcher Plant |
Trading
Wandering traders sell 3 cyan dye for an emerald.
Usage
Like all other dyes, cyan dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of cyan 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 |
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| Cyan Balloon | Latex + Cyan Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Cyan Balloon | Latex + Cyan Dye + Helium + Lead |
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| Cyan Bed | Any Bed + Cyan Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Cyan Bed | Any Bed + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Candle | Candle + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Carpet | Any Carpet + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Carpet | Any Carpet + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Concrete Powder | Sand + Gravel + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Concrete Powder | Cyan Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.[1] | |
| Cyan Firework Star | Gunpowder + Cyan 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. | |
| Cyan Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Cyan Dye + Luminol |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Cyan Shulker Box | Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Cyan Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Cyan Stained Glass | Glass + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Stained Glass | Glass + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Terracotta | Terracotta + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Terracotta | Terracotta + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Wool | Any Wool + Cyan Dye |
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| Dyed Bundle | Cyan Dye + Bundle |
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| Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Cyan Dye + Luminol |
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| Wool | Any Wool + Cyan Dye |
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| Cyan Banner pattern | Cyan Dye + Banner |
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| Cyan Banner image | Cyan Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient
Trading
In Bedrock Edition, journeyman-level shepherd villagers have 20% chance to buy 12 cyan dye for an emerald. [more information needed for Java Edition]
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyan Dye | cyan_dye | Item | item.minecraft.cyan_dye |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyan Dye | cyan_dye | dye / 6 | 401 | Item | item.dye.cyan.name |
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
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| 1.2 |  Added cyan dye. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Cyan dye can now be 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 | 14w02a | Due to lapis lazuli being renewable, cyan dye is also renewable. | |||
| 14w30a | Added banners, which can be dyed. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the dye ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
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| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Cyan dye is now crafted using blue dye, instead of lapis lazuli. | |||
 The texture of cyan dye has now been changed. | |||||
| 18w44a | Cyan dye can now change the text color on signs to cyan. | ||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sell cyan dyes. | ||||
| 19w11a | Cyan dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Cyan dye can now be used to craft cyan candles. | |||
| 21w19a | Cyan dye can no longer be used to craft cyan candles. | ||||
| Pre-release 1 | Cyan dye can once again be used to craft cyan candles. | ||||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 22w42a | Cyan dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to cyan. | |||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Added pitcher plants, which can be crafted into cyan dye. | |||
| 23w14a | Pitcher plants now craft into 2 cyan dye instead of 1. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.3.0 | Added cyan dye. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose. | ||||
| v0.4.0 | Cyan dye is now craftable with lapis lazuli and cactus green. | ||||
| Cyan dye can now be used to craft cyan wool. | |||||
| v0.6.0 | Cyan dye can now be used to dye sheep. | ||||
| v0.9.0 | build 11 | Cyan dye can now be used to craft colored terracotta. | |||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Cyan dye can now be used to dye tamed wolf collars. | |||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Cyan dye can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Cyan dye can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Cyan 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 | Cyan dye can now be used to craft firework stars, stained glass and patterns on banners. | |||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Cyan dye can now be used to craft ballons and glow sticks. | |||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Cyan dye can now be used to dye tamed cat collars. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Cyan dye are now sold by wandering traders. | |||
| Cyan dye can now be used to dye white carpets and undyed glass panes. | |||||
| The texture of cyan dye has now been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Cyan dye can be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of cyan dye has been changed from dye/6 to cyan_dye. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added cyan dye. |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of cyan dye has now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added cyan dye. | ||||
Issues
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