Smelting a cactus to produce cactus green doesn't work

Any idea when this might be handled? I really want green in my game!

@unknown The devs decide when they fix certain bugs.

Fairly annoying bug for survival; because of the exclusivity of green dye being tied to cactus (not appearing in any loot tables), we effectively lost a spectrum of color; Cyan, Green, and Light Green. While obviously not game breaking, I really hope priority is given to this bug soon.

still got this bug in 18w11a needs fixing asap

@unknown, 18w11a has already been marked as affected.

Adding this to data pack should fix:

{
    "type": "smelting",
    "ingredient": {
        "item": "minecraft:cactus"
    },
    "result": "minecraft:cactus_green",
    "experience": 0.2,
    "cookingtime": 200
}

Thanks, Hayden!

For reference, what I did was open a text editor and make a new file with the contents Hayden posted. I saved that as cactus_green.json, then I placed it into the server.jar for 18w11a snapshot, and placed it into data/minecraft/recipes. It's confirmed working here. Seems like an easy thing the devs could do...

Seems this has been fixed.  We can now resume smelting cactus into cactus green.  So happy.

I am unable to smelt a cacti on the XBox version that is in the beta phase

@@unknown, what you are describing sounds like MCPE-42497.
However this report here is for the Java Edition. Please do not comment on similar reports of other projects, but search instead.