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How to Make a Purple Dye in Minecraft

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

Purple Dye recipe

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

Crafting Table method

Place 1 Blue Dye and 1 Red Dye in a Crafting Table to make 2 Purple 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 Purple Dyes. A full stack of 64 takes 32 crafts and 64 ingredient items in total.

Output: 2 Purple Dyes

About this Minecraft recipe

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Purple 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.