Black Dye
Black Dye


| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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Black dye is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Ink Sac | |
| Wither Rose |
Trading
Wandering traders have a chance to trade 3 black dyes for 1 emerald.
Usage
Like all other dyes, black dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of black wool.
- Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
- Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
- Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, shulker boxes, candles, and harnesses.
- Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
- Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
- Used to add patterns to banners.
- Used to dye shulkers in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
- Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Balloon | Latex + + Helium + Lead |
| |
| Black Bed | Any Bed + |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Black Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| Black Candle | Candle + |
||
| Black Carpet | Any Carpet + |
| |
| Black Carpet | White Carpet + |
| |
| Black Concrete Powder | + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Black Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Extra ingredients (optional) |
Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
| Black Harness | Any Harness + Matching Dye |
||
| Dyed Shulker Box | Any Shulker Box + Matching Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Black Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + |
||
| Black Stained Glass | Glass + |
||
| Stained Terracotta | Terracotta + |
||
| Black Wool | Any Wool + |
||
| Dark Prismarine | Prismarine Shard + |
||
| Gray Dye | + Bone Meal or White Dye |
| |
| Gray Dye | + White Dye |
||
| Light Gray Dye | + White Dye |
In Bedrock Edition, the black and white dye can be replaced with ink sacs and bone meal, respectively. | |
| Black Banner pattern | + Banner |
||
| Black Banner image | + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||
| 5% | 20% | 12 × | ||
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
black_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
black_dye | dye / 16 | 395 | Item | item |
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 18w44a | Black dyes now can change the text color on the signs to black. | ||||||
| Black dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sell black dyes. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Black dyes can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.15 | Pre-release 1 | Black dye can now be used to craft dark prismarine, just like in Bedrock Edition. | |||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Black dyes can now used to craft newly added black candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Black dyes can no longer used to craft black candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | Black dyes can once again used to craft black candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Black dyes now can change the text color on hanging signs to black. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | ||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Black dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.9 | Black dye can now be crafted from wither roses. | |||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.21.110 | Preview 1.21.110.20 | ||||||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||||
| 1.83 | |||||||
Data history
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of black dye has been changed from dye/16 to black_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Black Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.