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How to Make a Gray Dye in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Gray Dye in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Gray Dye recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Method 1: Crafting Table

Place 1 Black Dye and 1 White Dye in a Crafting Table to make 2 Gray Dyes.

Ingredients

Crafting notes

  • Shapeless recipe with 2 ingredients: the order does not matter and it also fits in your 2 × 2 inventory grid.
  • Each craft uses 2 ingredient items and produces 2 Gray Dyes. A full stack of 64 takes 32 crafts and 64 ingredient items in total.

Output: 2 Gray Dyes

Method 2: Crafting Table

Place 1 Closed Eyeblossom in a Crafting Table to make 1 Gray Dye.

Ingredients

  • 1 Closed Eyeblossom

Crafting notes

  • Shapeless recipe with 1 ingredient: the order does not matter and it also fits in your 2 × 2 inventory grid.
  • Each craft uses 1 ingredient item and produces 1 Gray Dye. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 64 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Gray Dye

About this Minecraft recipe

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Gray Dye. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.