Giacomo's Better Dye Plugin is the Paper server edition of Giacomo's Better Dye.

It allows players to recolor supported vanilla blocks and mount equipment with a simple right-click while holding an ordinary dye. The plugin runs entirely on the server, so players can join with an unmodified vanilla client.

Supported blocks

Wool and carpets
Terracotta, including uncolored terracotta
Concrete and concrete powder
Glazed terracotta
Glass and glass panes, including uncolored variants
Shulker boxes, including uncolored shulker boxes
Beds
Candles, including uncolored candles
Standing banners and wall banners

Block properties are preserved whenever possible. Shulker boxes retain their inventory and custom data, banners retain their patterns, and both halves of a bed are recolored together.

Supported entities

Leather horse armor
Llama and trader llama carpets
Happy Ghast harnesses

A normal right-click replaces the color of leather horse armor. Sneak-right-clicking blends the new dye with the existing armor color, producing different shades.

Llama carpets and Happy Ghast harnesses are replaced with the selected vanilla color while preserving their item data.

Dye usage

One dye is consumed in Survival mode
Dyes are not consumed in Creative mode
No dye is consumed when the target already has the selected color
Recoloring a lit candle extinguishes it
The offhand keeps its normal vanilla behavior

Requirements

Minecraft 26.1.2
Paper 26.1.2
Java 25
No client-side installation required

This plugin does not add custom blocks, items, textures, or resource packs. Everything uses existing vanilla content.

Giacomo's Better dye plugin