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Rainbow Collection

Rainbow Collection

Gather all 16 colors of wool.

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How to unlock the Rainbow Collection achievement in Minecraft - Definitive Guide

For this achievement you need 16 different colors of wool. Some of these wools are easy to get while others are a little tricky. The majority of this will require white wool and bone meal so shear a bunch of sheep and kill skeletons so you have plenty of items when doing this.

1. White Wool

Shear a white sheep
Or
Have 4 pieces of string

2. Red Wool

Get a red flower to create red dye. Combine with white wool to create red wool.
*Have a few extra red dyes for the other wools

3. Yellow Wool

Get a yellow flower to create yellow dye. Combine with white wool to create yellow wool.
*Have a few extra yellow dyes for the other wools

4. Orange Wool

Combine red dye with yellow dye for orange dye. Combine orange dye with white wool for orange wool.

5. Blue Wool

You will need 1 Lapis Lazuli which is underground. combine it with white wool for blue wool.
*Have a few extra Lapis Lazuli for the other wools

6. Black Wool

Shear a black sheep
Or
Get an Ink Sac from a squid. Combine it with white wool for black wool.


7. Brown Wool

Shear a brown sheep
Or
Find a cocoa bean. They are normally found in jungle biomes. Combine it with a white wool to make a brown wool.

8. Green Wool

Destroy a cactus that resides in the desert. Heat it in a furnace for Cactus green. Combine it with white wool for Green Wool.
*Save a couple extra cactus green for other wools

9. Lime Wool

Use some of the cactus green from the last one and combine it with bone meal to create lime dye. Combine the lime dye with white wool to create lime wool.

10. Cyan Wool

Combine Lapis Lazuli with cactus green to make cyan dye. Combine cyan dye with white wool to make cyan wool.

11. Gray Wool

Shear a gray sheep
Or
Combine an Ink Sac with bone meal to make gray dye. Use that and combine it with white wool to create gray wool.

12. Light gray Wool

Shear a light gray sheep
Or
Combine the gray dye you just made on the previous one (you get 2 dyes) with bone meal to get light gray dye. Use that and combine it with white wool to create Light gray wool.

13. Light blue Wool

Combine a lapis Lazuli with bone meal to make light blue dye. Combine it with white wool to create light blue wool.

14. Pink Wool

Combine red dye with bone meal to make pink dye. Combine it with white wool to create pink wool.

15. Purple Wool

Combine a red dye with lapis lazuli to make purple dye. Combine it with white wool to make purple wool.

16. Magenta Wool

*There are a few different ways to make magenta dye. Either option will still get you the dye but will yield different quantity.

Combine 1 purple dye with 1 pink dye = 2 magenta dye

Combine 1 pink dye with 1 red dye with 1 lapis lazuli = 3 magenta dye

Combine 1 bone meal with 1 lapis lazuli with 2 red dye = 4 magenta dye

Once you have your dye, like the others combine it with white wool to make magenta wool.






When you have created all 16 different colors your achievement will unlock. Unfortunately loading a previous save with all of the 16 wools premade didn't unlock for me, even having all of them in my inventory. You have to create them all over again. If there is anything I missed please let me know so I can change it.
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05 Sep 2017 23:14

17 Comments
Unfortunately loading a previous save with all of the 16 wools premade didn't unlock for me, even having all of them in my inventory.
This is because worlds imported from old saves(from the Xbox One Edition) have achievements disabled.
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By xKeelar on 23 Sep 2017 05:28
They don't have achievements disabled. I've imported an old world and have got all my achievements so far on that. Although they have been a little glitchy unlocking.
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By SimonWyeJR on 23 Sep 2017 21:44
All of my achievement that have been earned from this game has been an import from an Xbox one version. Same as SimonWyeJR they have been a little glitchy.
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By Cr4ck Sh0t23 on 23 Sep 2017 21:58
I had this unlock from the win 10 achievement world. If I took the whole stack of each from the chest it didn't unlock, but when I only put one of each in my inventory it unlocked without issue
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By nicklesminer on 07 Oct 2017 16:04
I got this this morning. I started a new tutorial world on XBox one and then immediately saved and loaded the XBox live version and imported the XBox One save. In the tutorial world in a chest in the back of the area I found all 16 colors. I put them all in my inventory and then put them back. Achievement unlocked.
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By PerverseCross40 on 19 Oct 2017 17:26
I downloaded my save from the Xbox live version. I had all wool created, but it wouldn't unlock.
I dropped everything into my inventory, placed one of the wool blocks on the floor, broke it and picked it up again - achievement unlocked.
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By k0pp0 on 15 Nov 2017 21:53
I think either this counts over multiple saves or else it's glitchy. I had started a new world on this version and had acquired all but green, lime green and teal as I couldn't find cactus. I loaded up an old world where I was in the desert and gathered up every wool but brown and it unlocked without ever finding it.

Also for new worlds, some of these colors are a bit easier. There are new flowers that will make orange, light blue, pink, magenta and light gray (as well as more red and yellow). This can let you spend more time on peaceful, although you'll still need a bone meal to make lime green.
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By Moustachio on 01 Jan 2018 07:04
I already had all the colours from the Xbox One version, but could never get any progress to work in this adding them all to my inventory at once. What worked for me was to grab them one at a time and run around my house placing and destroying the wool a few times. I would then check the achievement progress page once or twice and it would always add progress what after checking the tracker. It seemed pretty consistent once I got the hang of it, and managed to pop the achievement.
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By WithTheDawn on 31 Mar 2018 04:30
Blue dye can also be made from cornflowers, which I found much easier to get than lapis
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By Amorachius on 13 Feb 2019 23:54
Fire up the Tutorial on Xbox One, accept that you're "ready to play", then save and exit. Startup Minecraft Live (or whatever it's called), run straight towards the Elytra spot and there contains a chest with every wool color possible. Achievement popped for me today in two seconds (April, 29th, 2018). Good work @Darkwings17
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By RAINES69 on 29 Apr 2019 17:15
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GT: Leo Deo Neo
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By Leo Deo Neo on 04 Aug 2020 19:17
Very good guide. I lucked into a few of the rarer colors in chests, so I only needed a few extra ingredients to finish this. Took less than twenty minutes using this guide for the remainder. 👍
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By One Eyed Tigh on 27 Feb 2021 01:23
cornflowers can also give blue dye
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By Slay on 27 Dec 2022 08:33
I had all the 16 colors on an old save, and I didnt get the achievement right away.

BUT, as soon as I mined them, collected and put them again in the same place where they were, I got the achievement. You dont need to create them again.
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By Braylovsky on 24 Jul 2023 23:17
Thumbs up from me 👍
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By on 18 Dec 2023 22:46
One addition, red can also come from beetroot, can be a bit easier if you're not around any red flowers.
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By FalloutImminent on 10 May 2018 14:22
I went onto the older version (Minecraft: Xbox One Edition), started the tutorial world up then transferred that over onto this version. There is a double chest in front of where the bed is (just before the wings in the sky) which has all the colours. I just placed one of each colour next to it and it popped. It also has all of the dyes, but these weren't needed.
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By Darkwings17 on 23 Mar 2019 18:12
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In order to obtain all 16 colors of wool, you'll first need to obtain 16 dyes in order to dye the wool. Any color of wool can be dyed any other color, for example: you can dye White Wool to be Orange Wool, or Purple Wool to be Green Wool, etc.

Heres all the ways to obtain all the different types of Dye! (Compiled from the Minecraft Wiki)

White Dye
-Crafted from Bone Meal.
-Crafted from Lily of the Valley (Flower)

Light Gray Dye
-Crafted from Black Dye + 2x White Dye
-Crafted from Gray Dye + White Dye
-Crafted from Azure Bluet, Oxeye Daisy, or White Tulip. (Flowers)

Gray Dye
-Crafted from Black Dye + White Dye

Black Dye
-Crafted from Ink Sacs
-Crafted from Wither Rose (Flower)

Red Dye
-Crafted from Beetroot
-Crafted from Poppy, Red Tulip, or Rose Bush (Flowers)

Orange Dye
-Crafted from Red Dye + Yellow Dye
-Crafted from Orange Tulip (Flower)

Yellow Dye
-Crafted from Dandelion, or Sunflower (Flowers)
-Obtained from Village Mason's chest

Lime Dye
-Crafted from Green Dye + White Dye
-Obtained from Smelting Sea Pickles

Green Dye
-Obtained from Smelting Cactus
-Obtained from Desert Village House chests

Light Blue Dye
-Crafted from Blue Dye + White Dye
-Crafted from Blue Orchid

Cyan Dye
-Crafted from Blue Dye + Green Dye

Blue Dye
-Crafted from Lapis Lazuli
-Crafted from Cornflower (Flower)

Purple Dye
-Crafted from Blue Dye + Red Dye

Magenta Dye
-Crafted from Purple Dye + Pink Dye
-Crafted from 2x Red Dye + Blue Dye + White Dye
-Crafted from Pink Dye + Red Dye + Blue Dye
-Crafted from Allium, or Lilac (Flowers)

Pink Dye
-Crafted from Red Dye + White Dye
-Crafted from Pink Tulip, or Peony (Flowers)

Brown Dye
-Crafted from Cocoa Beans


(NOTE)
-Wandering Traders can also have random Dyes for sale for 3 emeralds.


Okay, now that you know all the ways to obtain all 16 dyes, you just need to craft them with any piece of wool. Wool is obtained by killing, or shearing sheep. It can also spawn naturally in the world around Villages and Pillager Outposts.

edit: Wool can also be crafted with 4 string.

If I were you, id clear your inventory and hold one of each piece of wool in your inventory. Then, after you've obtained all 16 colors, your achievement should pop!
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