How to Make Green Dye in Minecraft (Easy Guide)

Colorful blocks are what turn an ordinary Minecraft house into a stunning build. Whether you’re making a cozy cottage or building a fantasy castle, dyes play an important role in making decorative items like banners, carpets, or colorful wool blocks. Thankfully, those gorgeous blocks are simple to obtain in most cases, thanks to their crafting recipes. One of the essential components in this process is the dyes in Minecraft, as they are actually the ones coloring the various blocks. We cover one of those, how to make green dye in Minecraft, in this article, and share everything you need to know about it.

Items Required to Make Green Dye in Minecraft

Before you learn how to make green dye in Minecraft, you have to gather a few materials and then smelt them in a furnace. So, the resources you are going to need are:

Cactus is a plant block that grows similarly to sugar cane in Minecraft. You will only come across cactus in dry Minecraft biomes, such as deserts and badlands. Follow our detailed guide on how to get a cactus.

Furnace is one of the most basic Minecraft blocks you can craft. We have a dedicated article on how to make a furnace as well. So if you are new to the game and need any help with it, you know where to look. Fuel can be any burnable material in-game, such as sticks, logs, coal, charcoal, various wooden blocks, etc.

How to Make Green Dye in Minecraft: Crafting Recipe

After you have got all the items, it’s time to learn the steps for how to make green dye in Minecraft. So, follow the step-by-step process below to smelt cactus in the furnace.

• Select the furnace on your hotbar and right-click the ground to place it in your world.
• Then, right-click on the furnace to open its UI. Place the fuel of your choice in the bottom slot on the left.
• After that, you can place the cactus or cacti, depending on how many green dyes you want, in the upper slot on the left.
• You will notice the arrow in the middle starts to fill up. This means you need to wait for the process to finish, and it will take just a few seconds.
• Once the smelting is done, you will see the green dye item appear in the slot on the right.
• To take it out of the furnace, just click on it and move it to your inventory. After that, you cannot put it back in the furnace anymore.

Also, every time you smelt something, you will get some XP as a reward. This includes the green dye recipe. If you wish to farm XP, we suggest you make a mob XP farm in Minecraft.

How to Find Green Dye in Your Minecraft World

If you wish to learn how to make green dye in Minecraft without a cactus, you have a couple of more options available to find it in the world. If you are nowhere near a desert biome and just cannot find a cactus, you may want to stick around a bit more and keep reading.

1. In Desert Village Chest

If you cannot find a desert in the vanilla survival world, then this is not really useful information. However, if you are playing on a custom map or mod that’s testing your knowledge about this blocky game, it is good to know that green dye can generate in a desert village house chest. There’s about a 14.3% chance of this happening, so not exactly guaranteed.

2. From Wandering Traders

This is not really a method for finding raw green dye items in your world, but definitely an alternative way of getting them. Wandering traders have a chance to sell three green dyes for an emerald in Minecraft. This is the case for other dyes as well. If you would like to learn about wandering traders in detail, check out our guide on all Minecraft villager jobs linked here.

How to Make Lime Green Dye in Minecraft

Having obtained the green dye, players often get curious about learning how to make lime green dye in Minecraft. Thankfully, this process is much easier and doesn’t even need a furnace. All you need is 1x Green Dye and 1x Bone Meal (for Minecraft Bedrock) or 1x Green Dye and 1x White Dye (for Minecraft Java). Place the two items adjacent to each other on a Minecraft crafting table, and you will get 2x lime green dye in the right cell.

An alternative way of making lime dye in Minecraft is to smelt sea pickle in a furnace using the fuel of your choice. Other than that, the Wandering trader also has a 7% chance of offering the lime dye as a trade item for 1 Emerald.

And that is all about the method for learning how to make green dye in Minecraft. So, if you’re up for making some cool Minecraft banner designs or decorative bases, use this color to make your structure pop out. What other dyes are you having trouble crafting? Tell us in the comments below.