Ink Sacs are the darkest possible primary color dye.
Obtaining
Ink sacs are obtained by killing squids. A single squid will drop between one and three ink sacs upon death. Ink sacs are also occasionally caught as junk when fishing.
Usage
In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, ink sac 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 and shulker boxes.
- 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.
As a crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Black Banner pattern | Ink Sac + Banner |
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| Black Banner image | Ink Sac + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
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| Black Balloon | Latex + Ink Sac + Helium + Lead |
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| Black Bed | Any Bed + Ink Sac |
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| Black Carpet | White Carpet + Ink Sac |
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| Black Concrete Powder | Ink Sac + Sand + Gravel |
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| Black Dye | Ink Sac | |
| Black Firework Star | Gunpowder + Ink Sac + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
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| Black Firework Star | Black Firework Star + Ink Sac |
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| Black Shulker Box | Any Shulker Box + Ink Sac |
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| Black Stained Glass | Glass + Ink Sac |
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| Black Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Ink Sac |
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| Black Terracotta | Terracotta + Ink Sac |
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| Black Wool | Any Wool + Ink Sac |
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| Book and Quill | Book + Ink Sac + Feather |
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| Dark Prismarine | Prismarine Shard + Ink Sac |
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| Gray Dye | Ink Sac + Bone Meal or White Dye |
Data values
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Video
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Trivia
- In the statistics menu, the item name “Ink Sac” does not appear when the cursor is hovered over its image in the statistics page. This is due to it referring to all dyes combined.