How To Get Light Grey Dye In Minecraft

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

1 Obtaining
- 1.1 Crafting
- 1.2 Trading
2 Usage
- 2.1 Crafting ingredient
- 2.2 Loom ingredient
- 2.3 Trading
3 Data values
- 3.1 ID
4 Video
5 History
6 Issues
7 Notes
8 References

Obtaining [ ]

Crafting [ ]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Black Dye + White Dye	2
Ink Sac or Black Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye	2	‌^{[ Bedrock and Education editions only ]}

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 to dye their collars.
Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta and shulker boxes.
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 and Education editions.
Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock and Education editions.
Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock and Education editions.

Crafting ingredient [ ]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Gray Balloon	Latex + Gray Dye + Helium + Lead		‌^{[ Bedrock and Education editions only ]}
Gray Bed	White Bed + Gray Dye		White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.‌^{[ Java Edition only ]}
Gray Bed	Any Bed + Gray Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.‌^{[ Bedrock and Education editions only ]}
Gray Candle	Candle + Gray Dye
Gray Carpet	White Carpet + Gray Dye	8
Gray Concrete Powder	Gray Dye + Sand + Gravel	8
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 and Education editions 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 Pane	Glass Pane + Gray Dye	8
Gray Terracotta	Terracotta + Gray Dye	8
Gray Wool	White Wool + Gray Dye		‌^{[ Java Edition only ]}
Gray Wool	Any Wool + Gray Dye		‌^{[ Bedrock and Education editions only ]}
Light Gray Dye	Gray Dye + White Dye	2	In Bedrock Edition, the white dye can be replaced with bone meal.
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:

Name	Resource location	Form	Translation key
Gray Dye	`gray_dye`	Item	`item.minecraft.gray_dye`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Resource location	Alias ID (BE)	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Gray Dye	`gray_dye`	`dye / 8`	`351`	Item	`item.dye.gray.name`

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.
1.7.2		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.
1.13		17w47a			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.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of gray dye has now been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.0					Added gray dye. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose.
v0.8.0		build 2			Gray dye can be crafted with bone meal and an ink sac, despite there being no way of obtaining ink sacs at the time.
v0.8.0		build 3			Gray dye is now available in creative mode.
v0.9.0		build 3			Gray dye can now be obtained in survival mode.
v0.9.0		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 are 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.