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Rainbow Collection achievement in Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition

Rainbow Collection

Gather all 16 colors of wool.

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How to unlock the Rainbow Collection achievement

  • RepairedSpace06RepairedSpace06
    29 Apr 2015 29 Apr 2015 05 Feb 2016
    (WARNING: Since the last title update, it is possible for a new world to not spawn a desert due to the new added biomes. So, make sure your world has a desert or you can't get this achievement! Also, jungles are less likely to be generated, but it's still possible to get brown wool from a brown sheep if necessary.)

    I was messing around with the new flowers from Title Update 31, and in the end I decided it's best to just ignore the new flowers and focus on just the two original flowers, red and yellow. But if you pick up some other flowers, it certainly doesn't hurt!

    Before you start crafting anything, you should collect the following:
    -4 poppy
    -2 dandelion
    -3 cactus
    -4 lapis lazuli
    -2 ink sac
    -2 bone
    -1 cocoa beans
    -16 white wool
    -3 oak planks (or other fuel for smelting)
    NOTE: If you come across a gray, light gray, brown or black sheep you can use their wool for the achievement instead of crafting it yourself.

    Once you've collected all the necessary ingredients, follow these steps:
    1. Smelt the cactus blocks in a furnace to get 3 "cactus green."
    2. Save your game, just in case!
    3. Make 2 yellow dyes using the dandelions.
    4. Make 4 red dyes using the poppies.
    5. Make 6 bone meals using the bones.
    6. Make pink dye.
    7. Make orange dye.
    8. Make lime dye.
    9. Make gray dye.
    10. Make light gray dye using the FIRST option (gray dye + bone meal).
    11. Make light blue dye.
    12. Make cyan dye.
    13. Make purple dye.
    14. Make magenta dye using the FIRST option (purple dye + pink dye).
    15. Now comes the fun part. Scroll over to the wool column and, starting with orange wool, go down the list crafting one of each wool until you reach white. If you did everything right, you now have one of each color with some dyes left over! Awesome!

    There is a common glitch where the achievement doesn't pop when it should. If this happens to you, the best thing to do is throw all the wool blocks out of your inventory and pick them all back up at once.

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    b0seijuSince the tutorial world chanced once more, this guide is by far the best. Thought a small list of the combinations you have to make would be even better. You've got my upvote already though.
    Posted by b0seiju On 14 Jan 16 at 12:23
    RepairedSpace06Thanks. I'm hoping I can find some time to sit down and update the solution after experimenting with all the new flowers from the last update.
    Posted by RepairedSpace06 On 17 Jan 16 at 00:24
    DunderMifflin83Thank you for memtioning a sheep with brown wool. I had no jungle biome and was getting angry because i had the ingredients for the other 15 and no cocoa beans. Upvoted!
    Posted by DunderMifflin83 On 22 Mar 16 at 06:32
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  • Krows GraveyardKrows Graveyard
    25 Feb 2016 25 Feb 2016 26 Dec 2021
    Note: This solution may not work anymore due to many updates since this solution was made!

    Okay so this solution is up to date as of 2017. The "Inspiration Room" no longer exists so all those guides that talk about it are invalid sorry to say. However, you can now easily get all of the wool in seconds from a chest in the new Tutorial World. The chest is located at X: -16, Y: 82, Z: -95 Once you have them all, you may need to drop them and then pick them all back up so the game registers it and gives you the achievement.
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    oHIGHxINxAxBOXoWOW, BLOODY BRILLIANT.. The majority of the time was spent walking to this point... ie: its near x: -172, y: 69, z: 21
    Posted by oHIGHxINxAxBOXo On 02 Apr 16 at 04:58
    Krows GraveyardAll comments above are from the former tutorial world's Rainbow Collection solution, ignore them.
    Posted by Krows Graveyard On 13 Feb 17 at 15:49
    pezza888Great solution, still working perfectly as of August 2017!
    Posted by pezza888 On 10 Aug 17 at 20:42
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    Rainbow Collection - Gather all 16 colors of wool. - 20G

    This one is going to be long run for you. You need to collect all 16 color dyes in the game. Some are easy to obtain, some aren't. I'll list them all down below.

    Bone Meal - Made from one bone. Easy to get, kill a skeleton, go to crafting table and craft. I'd suggest getting a few of these.

    Ink Sac - Killing Squids will always obtain this, killing one squid will drop between 1 to 3, you can also get 10 at once as a "junk" item while fishing, collect a few of these.

    Gray Dye - This is only obtainable by going to the crafting table and having one Bone Meal and one Ink Sac, going to the crafting table and crafting it, it'll let you get two Grey Dyes

    Light Gray Dye - This is only obtainable by going to the crafting table and having either - One Ink Sac and Two Bone Meal , Or - One Grey Dye and One Bone Meal.

    Rose Red - Find a Rose, go to the crafting table and craft Rose Red Dye, it'll give you two of these. If you can't find any Roses, first, wow. Secondly, grab one bonemeal, and use cn_LT on some grass, this'll spawn some grass, Dandelions and Roses.

    Dandelion Yellow - Grab a Dandelion and go to the Crafting Table and craft Dandelion Yellow, if you can't find any Dandelions, grab one bonemeal, and use cn_LT on some grass, this'll spawn some grass, Dandelions and Roses.

    Orange Dye - Only Craftable with one Rose Red and one Dandelion Yellow.

    Cactus Green - Find some Cactus, they are usually on Sand. Go to a furnace and smelt it. The fuel you use to smelt doesn't matter. You will get one Cactus Green. Be sure to make two.

    Lime Dye - Only Craftable by having one Bone Meal and one Cactus Green.

    Lapis Lazuli - To obtain Lapis Lazuli, you need to go mining, this Ore seems to be the second rarest ore to spawn for me. I can't really help with finding it as minecraft randomly generates worlds. Breaking the ore will drop a lot of Lapis Lazuli. You better hope it dropped at least Five. We will need the other four for four other dyes.

    Light Blue Dye - You will need one Lapis Lazuli and One Bone Meal

    Cyan Dye - You will need one Lapis Lazuli and one Cactus Green.

    Purple Dye - You will need one Lapis Lazuli and one Rose Red

    Pink Dye - You will need one Rose Red and one Bone Meal

    Magenta Dye - There is three ways to make this Dye
    1. Purple Dye + Pink Dye
    2. Lapis Lazuli + Bone Meal + 2 Rose Red
    3. Pink Dye + Rose Red + Lapis Lazuli
    I suggest the third method.

    Cocoa Beans - Luckily the 360 version has Jungles. Head to a jungle and you will see some orange pods hanging from Trees, destroys these for an sum amount of Cocoa Beans.

    Now, to get wool, you need to find sheep of the white colour, craft a Shear and go up to the sheep and shear them, this gives around 1-3 wool, rather than the regular 1 from killing a sheep. Collect 16.

    Head into the crafting table and craft all the wool you need for each dye. Achievement Unlocked!
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    Shadow 00 FoxGreat solution!
    Posted by Shadow 00 Fox On 28 Apr 15 at 01:57
    Sparkii ElectraJust to confirm, this does not have to be on one world - i got the achievement across multiple as I had an older save without a Jungle biome which prevented me getting the brown wool :)
    Posted by Sparkii Electra On 29 Apr 15 at 20:01
    trialiaYou do know you can get light blue, pink and magenta dyes directly from individual flowers, don't you? (Light blue orchids, peonies, lilacs, I forget if the last two are in the right order or not.) Same applies to orange (orange tulips).

    Also, it tends to be easier to find brown sheep than cocoa beans in most worlds. I usually farm some sheep and breed them for certain colours if I can't find the right flowers: white sheep + black sheep create grey lambs, white+grey create light grey lambs, white+red create pink lambs, red+yellow create orange lambs, red+blue create purple lambs, & white+blue create light blue lambs. Sometimes you'll get a lamb that inherits the colour of a parent directly, you only need to breed for another lamb then. :)
    Posted by trialia On 26 Jun 17 at 10:29
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