How to Make Lime Dye in Minecraft: Mix It or Smelt It
Mix green and white dye for 2 lime dye, or smelt a sea pickle for 1. How to make lime dye in Minecraft, where to get each part, and the cheapest route.
Put 1 green dye and 1 white dye in any crafting grid and you get 2 lime dye. The recipe is shapeless, so position doesn’t matter. The other way is to smelt a sea pickle in a furnace, which gives 1 lime dye per pickle.
There’s no flower for lime, so you always go through one of those two routes.
Route 1: green + white
Green dye comes from smelting cactus in a regular furnace. A smoker or blast furnace won’t take it. The green dye guide covers cactus spots and a small farm.
White dye comes from crafting 1 bone meal or 1 lily of the valley. Bones are the easier source: skeletons drop 0 to 2, and each bone crafts into 3 bone meal. More on that in our white dye guide.
Then combine:
- Open your inventory or a crafting table.
- Add 1 green dye and 1 white dye.
- Take 2 lime dye.
Bedrock shortcut: Bedrock also accepts bone meal directly, so green dye plus bone meal makes 2 lime dye without the extra step. Java doesn’t have that recipe.
Route 2: smelt sea pickles
Sea pickles sit on the sea floor in warm oceans, usually on or around coral. They glow, so they’re easy to spot. Each one you break drops itself (clusters drop up to 4). Put them in a furnace with any fuel and each pickle becomes 1 lime dye.
You can farm them too: use bone meal on a sea pickle sitting on a live coral block and it spreads more pickles nearby.
Which route to pick
If you already grow cactus, mixing wins: one cactus plus one bone meal ends up as 2 lime dye, double what a pickle gives. If you’re based near a warm ocean, a pickle-and-coral setup gives you lime dye without needing a desert. Wandering traders sometimes sell 3 lime dye for an emerald as well.
Using it
Lime is a bright, almost neon green. It’s popular for:
- Modern builds with lime concrete accents
- Slime-themed or toxic-looking decorations
- Glass, terracotta and wool pixel art
- Leather armor and firework colors
Green dye is darker and more natural; lime pops more. Browse the other dye recipes and building guides from the guides hub.
Common questions
Can I use bone meal instead of white dye for lime dye?
In Bedrock, yes: green dye plus bone meal makes 2 lime dye. In Java you must turn the bone meal into white dye first.
Where do I find sea pickles?
On the floor of warm oceans, often around coral reefs. They glow, which makes them easy to spot at night.
Which lime dye method is fastest?
If you already have cactus, mixing is fastest because it gives 2 dye per craft. Sea pickles are better if you live near a warm ocean and have no cactus.
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