How to Craft Green Dye in Minecraft

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Discover the best uses for green dye in Minecraft

Co-authored by GraySun Builds and Janice Tieperman

Last Updated: January 31, 2026 Fact Checked

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• How to Craft Green Dye
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• How to Craft Lime Dye
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• Where to Find Green Dye
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• Recipes That Use Green or Lime Dye
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Green dye is one of the 16 dye options available in Minecraft used for recoloring items like beds, wool, concrete powder, and even Shulker boxes. While you can get it from NPCs (either through looting or trading), it’s also easy to craft on your own—and we’re here to show you how. Read on to learn how to craft both green and lime dye, as well as the different items you can customize with it.

Things You Should Know

• Make green dye by smelting cactus in a furnace.
• Craft lime dye by adding bonemeal to green dye, or by smelting sea pickles.
• Find green dye independently in NPC desert villages, or by trading 1 emerald to a wandering trader.

Steps

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How to Craft Green Dye in Minecraft

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   Place wood or coal in the fuel portion of the furnace. Interact with the furnace to open up the furnace panel. Stick some fuel in the bottom portion of your furnace, like a few pieces of wood or some coal.

   • Don’t have a furnace? Make a crafting table, collect 8 cobblestones, and arrange them in an “O” shape on a crafting table to create your own.
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   Put a cactus block in the upper portion of the furnace. Cactus blocks can be collected in desert and badlands biomes. Be careful when mining this type of block, though—half a heart gets depleted if you touch it with your bare hands.

   • Wandering traders may also offer cactus blocks in exchange for 1 emerald.
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   Wait a few seconds for the cactus to be made into green dye. When the smelting process is done, grab the green dye from the completed box on the right side of the furnace panel—it should resemble a green leaf.
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How to Craft Lime Dye in Minecraft

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   Combine bone meal and green dye on a crafting table. Interact with a crafting table and stick your green dye into one of the boxes, along with some bone meal. In the output box on the right side of the crafting panel, grab the lime dye.

   • Don’t have bone meal? Place a bone in the center of a crafting table, which produces 3 bone meal in total. Bones are a common drop from skeletons and shouldn’t be too difficult to find.
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   Smelt sea pickles in a furnace. Place a sea pickle in the top portion of the furnace panel, along with a fuel source in the bottom portion (like wood or coal). Once the smelting process is finished, a lime dye will be deposited in the right output box of the furnace.

   • Don’t have sea pickles? Search in the coral reef sections to find one of these blocks—they typically spawn near the top.
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Where to Find Green Dye

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   Wandering traders The wandering trader can offer a wide variety of goods available for trade, including green and lime dye (each available for 1 emerald). As you trade more and more with the trader, your trade ability levels up; at the 2nd trade level (also known as Apprentice), lime dye is potentially available for trade. At the 4th trade level (also known as Expert), green dye is potentially available.

   • Want to improve your Minecraft trades? Try making a fletching table.
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   Desert villagers After finding a desert village, search the different chests available in the different villager homes. In some, you might find green dye.

   • Lime dye can’t be found in desert villager homes.
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Recipes That Use Green or Lime Dye

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   Beds, wool, and other customizable items can be recolored with dye. When placed on a crafting table with a customizable item, green or lime dye can transform said item into a green version of itself. Here’s a list of some items that can be dyed:

   • Beds
   • Terracotta
   • Armor
   • Stained glass
   • Wool
   • Wolf collars
   • Firework stars
   • Concrete powder
   • Shulker boxes

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Tips

• Use green or lime dye to permanently dye a sheep that color. In the future, you’ll always get green or lime wool when you shear that animal.
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