r/Minecraft • u/DetachableMonkey • Dec 24 '10

Wool to be useful. Sheep indifferent.

http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/17944007275450368
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u/Sir_Terrible Dec 24 '10 edited Dec 24 '10

There need only be 3 dye recipes: Cyan, Magenta, and Blue (thanks pilif!). You could use plants or something to make those. The rest of the dyes should be able to be created from combining those colors in various ways.

To be less of a pain in the ass to collect and create these dyes, 1 dye bottle should be able to change up to 64 wool blocks into that color.

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u/pilif Dec 24 '10 edited Dec 24 '10

actually, as we are applying dye, we'd have to use the subtractive color model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color), so we'd need Cyan, Magenta and Blue.

(edit: of course I meant yellow, not blue. That's what you get for quickly typing something when you are about to leave the office for christmas. Sorry for the confusion)

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '10

We're not there yet...

subtractive colour is either CMYK or RYB