How to Make a Black Dye in Minecraft

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

Black Dye recipe

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

Place 1 Ink Sac in a Crafting Table to make 1 Black Dye.

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

Output: 1 Black Dye

Place 1 Wither Rose in a Crafting Table to make 1 Black Dye.

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

Output: 1 Black Dye

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Black Dye. 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.