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.
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | ||||||
| Ordinary | 1.4% | 1.4% | 3 × | 12 | — | ||
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 + Black Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Black Bed | Any Bed + Black Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Black Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| Black Candle | Candle + Black Dye |
||
| Black Carpet | Any Carpet + Black Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
| Black Carpet | White Carpet + Black Dye |
[Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Black Concrete Powder | Black Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Black Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Extra ingredients (optional) |
More dyes (up to a total of eight) can be added for a mixed color. 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 Dye |
||
| Black Stained Glass | Glass + Black Dye |
||
| Black Terracotta | Terracotta + Black Dye |
||
| Black Wool | Any Wool + Black Dye |
||
| Dark Prismarine | Prismarine Shard + Black Dye |
||
| Gray Dye | Black Dye + White Dye |
||
| Gray Dye | Black Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Light Gray Dye | Black Dye + White Dye |
In Bedrock Edition, the black and white dye can be replaced with ink sacs and bone meal, respectively. | |
| Firework Star | Matching Firework Star + Black Dye |
Adds a "fade to color" effect to the firework star, overwriting any existing fades. Up to eight dyes can be added. | |
| Black Banner pattern | Black Dye + Banner |
||
| Black Banner image | Black Dye + 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 | Trades in stock | Villager experience | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | ||||||
| 5% | 20% | 12 × | 16 | 10 | |||
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. | |||||
| 1.21.9 | 25w31a | ||||||
| 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. | |||||
| 1.21.111 | 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.