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This ARK: Survival Evolved guide details everything you need to know about making dye, which is used to add color and customize structures and items, as well as characters, dinos and creatures, flags, Armor, Saddles, Weapons, and tools.

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How to Make Dye in ARK: Survival Evolved

Dyes are crafted in a Cooking Pot or Industrial Cooker. To craft the dyes, place the ingredients in the cooking pot or industrial cooker, light/turn on, and allow the items time to cook. Each batch of ingredients creates 5 dyes.

All Recipes Use:

  • 1 Full Water Jar, Waterskin or Canteen
  • 2 × Charcoal OR 1 × Gunpowder OR 1 × Sparkpowder
  • Berries (Amount and type depends on the color you are trying to create)

Table of Dyes

​See the table below to know which berries are needed and whether or not you need Charcoal, Gunpowder, or Sparkpowder.

All ARK: Survival Evolved Dyes
ColorMaterials Required
Black
  • 15 Narcoberry
  • 2 Charcoal
  • Water
Blue
  • 15 Azulberry
  • 2 Charcoal
  • Water
Brick
  • 12 Tintoberry
  • 6 Narcoberry
  • Sparkpowder
  • Water
Brown
  • 6 Amarberry
  • 3 Azulberry
  • 9 Tintoberry
  • 2 Charcoal
  • Water
Cantaloupe
  • 7 Amarberry
  • 7 Tintoberry
  • 4 Stimberry
  • Sparkpowder
  • Water
Cyan
  • 6 Amarberry
  • 12 Azulberry
  • Sparkpowder
  • Water
Forest
  • 7 Amarberry
  • 7 Azulberry
  • 4 Narcoberry
  • Gunpowder
  • Water
Green
  • 9 Amarberry
  • 9 Azulberry
  • 2 Charcoal
  • Water
Magenta
  • 9 Azulberry
  • 9 Tintoberry
  • Sparkpowder
  • Water
Mud
  • 4 Amarberry
  • 1 Azulberry
  • 7 Tintoberry
  • 6 Narcoberry
  • Sparkpowder
  • Water
Navy
  • 12 Azulberry
  • 6 Narcoberry
  • Sparkpowder
  • Water
Olive
  • 12 Amarberry
  • 6 Narcoberry
  • Sparkpowder
  • Water
Orange
  • 9 Amarberry
  • 9 Tintoberry
  • 2 Charcoal
  • Water
Parchment
  • 12 Amarberry
  • 6 Stimberry
  • Gunpowder
  • Water
Pink
  • 12 Tintoberry
  • 6 Stimberry
  • Gunpowder
  • Water
Purple
  • 9 Azulberry
  • 9 Tintoberry
  • 2 Charcoal
  • Water
Red
  • 15 Tintoberry
  • 2 Charcoal
  • Water
Royalty
  • 7 Azulberry
  • 7 Tintoberry
  • 4 Narcoberry
  • Gunpowder
  • Water
Silver
  • 6 Narcoberry
  • 12 Stimberry
  • Gunpowder
  • Water
Sky
  • 12 Azulberry
  • 6 Stimberry
  • Gunpowder
  • Water
Slate
  • 12 Narcoberry
  • 6 Stimberry
  • Sparkpowder
  • Water
Tan
  • 4 Amarberry
  • 1 Azulberry
  • 7 Tintoberry
  • 6 Stimberry
  • Gunpowder
  • Water
Tangerine
  • 7 Amarberry
  • 7 Tintoberry
  • 4 Narcoberry
  • Gunpowder
  • Water
White
  • 15 Stimberry
  • 2 Charcoal
  • Water
Yellow
  • 15 Amarberry
  • 2 Charcoal
  • Water

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