How to Clear and Reset Customized Elytra

Washing Elytra in a Cauldron

If you want to remove applied colors or banner designs from your wings without losing the modded item status, use a water-filled cauldron:

1. Place a cauldron in the world and fill it with water using a water bucket.

2. Hold your customized elytra in your hand.

3. Right-click the filled cauldron while holding the elytra.

Right-clicking the cauldron clears away the applied patterns and dyes, leaving you with clean wings ready for a new design.

Reverting to a Plain Vanilla Elytra

If you ever want to turn your wings back into a completely standard, unmodded item, you can do so at a workbench:

1. Open a crafting table.

2. Place your customized elytra alone into any single slot of the 3x3 crafting grid. Do not add any dyes, paper, or other materials.

3. Take the resulting item out of the crafting output.

Placing the elytra entirely by itself in the crafting table strips all mod features and resets it into a completely vanilla elytra.