How to Make a Black Candle in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Black Candle in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Black Candle recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 1 Candle and 1 Black Dye in a Crafting Table to make 1 Black Candle.

Shapeless recipe with 2 ingredients: the order does not matter and it also fits in your 2 × 2 inventory grid.
Each craft uses 2 ingredient items and produces 1 Black Candle. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 128 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Black Candle

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Black Candle. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.