Purple Dye

Items

Purple Dye — item.

Obtaining

Purple dye is crafted shapelessly by combining one blue dye with one red dye. The recipe returns two purple dye, so each pair of base dyes produces a pair of the finished color.

Data: Obtaining
Ingredients	1 blue dye + 1 red dye
Output	2 purple dye
Recipe type	Shapeless crafting

Crafting

crafting grid

Result

Purple Dye× 2

Ingredients match the published snapshot.

Usage

Purple dye colors wool, carpets, beds, banners, concrete, glass, glass panes, candles, shulker boxes and terracotta. It is also a loom ingredient for applying a purple banner pattern and a dye component for purple harnesses and bundles. The dye can be consumed by the corresponding crafting recipes or selected in the loom interface.

Data: Usage
Wool family	Purple wool and carpet
Building families	Concrete, stained glass and terracotta
Utility families	Candle, bed, banner and shulker box
Loom	Applies purple dye to a banner

Crafting ingredient

Purple dye is the color component for the purple variants of several decorative families. These recipes keep the base item and replace its color without changing the item's normal behavior.

Data: Crafting ingredient
Purple wool	1 wool + 1 purple dye
Purple candle	1 candle + 1 purple dye
Purple concrete powder	4 sand + 4 gravel + 1 purple dye
Purple stained glass	8 glass + 1 purple dye

Trading

Purple dye is also a renewable trade item: a master-level shepherd can buy it for emeralds, and a wandering trader can offer a small bundle of purple dye. These trades are alternatives to collecting the two base dyes.

Data: Trading
Shepherd	12 purple dye for 1 emerald
Wandering trader	3 purple dye for 1 emerald
Shepherd trade level	Master
Shepherd uses	16
Wandering trader uses	12

Data values

The item identifier is minecraft:purple_dye. It belongs to the dye item tag and stacks to 64, like the other basic dyes.

Data: Data values
Identifier	`minecraft:purple_dye`
Version	Minecraft 26.2
Item model	assets/minecraft/models/item/purple_dye.json
Stack size	64
Item tag	minecraft:dyes

History

Purple dye uses the modern two-dye recipe: blue dye and red dye are combined directly instead of relying on an old metadata value. The same item remains the colour ingredient for purple decorative variants.

26.2Item facts were published from the verified snapshot.Provenance: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5

Trivia

The recipe is shapeless, so the two input dyes can be placed in any crafting slots. Purple dye is a member of the common `minecraft:dyes` tag and can therefore be selected by systems that accept any basic dye.

Gallery

Purple Dye image · Local Minecraft asset

Blue dye — Ingredient · Local Minecraft asset

Red dye — Ingredient · Local Minecraft asset

Purple wool — Dyed block · Local Minecraft asset

Purple candle — Dyed utility block · Local Minecraft asset

Purple shulker box — Dyed storage · Local Minecraft asset

References

Data: References
Validated DeepMine snapshot	Validated DeepMine snapshot
Snapshot ID	918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Digest	`4db9e2812b9eacbfbd14e16b6e7fc99bb491c0b5cd626123f73bb3c81e177d2c`

Data and provenance

minecraft:purple_dye

Snapshot digest verified.

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Facts

Facts are not available for this version yet.

Data source4db9e2812b9eacbfbd14e16b6e7fc99bb491c0b5cd626123f73bb3c81e177d2c

Provenance and publication

Readiness: Pending
Snapshot: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Source set: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Entity identifier: minecraft:purple_dye
Digest: 4db9e2812b9eacbfbd14e16b6e7fc99bb491c0b5cd626123f73bb3c81e177d2c
Missing locales: ru, en