
Purple Dye
1 crafting recipe found
Item stats
Purple Dye is a craftable item in Minecraft. To craft Purple Dye, you need 1× Blue Dye and 1× Red Dye. This recipe fits the 2×2 grid, so you can make it in your inventory without a crafting table. Each craft yields 2 Purple Dye.
Ingredients to craft Purple Dye
Purple Dye, from scratch
Breaking every ingredient down to materials with no recipe of their own, one Purple Dye traces back to roughly:
- 1×Beetroot

- 1×Lapis Lazuli

Some steps produce more than one at a time. A log yields four planks and four planks yield four sticks, for example. The counts above are rounded up to whole crafting steps, so you will likely end up with a few spares along the way.
Traded by Villagers
Purple Dye appears in 2 villager trades across 2 professions.
- ShepherdExpertBuys this item
- Wandering TraderWandering TraderSells this item
How to craft Purple Dye in Minecraft
- Open your inventory to use the 2×2 crafting grid (or a crafting table).
- Place 1× Blue Dye and 1× Red Dye in the grid exactly as shown in the layout above.
- Drag the Purple Dye from the result box into your inventory. You'll receive 2 at a time.
Items you can craft with Purple Dye
Purple Dye is used as an ingredient in 10 recipes, including Purple Wool, Magenta Dye, Purple Stained Glass, Purple Bed and Purple Candle.

