Charcoal to Dye
by biggsmcb
Charcoal to Dye lets players craft black dye from charcoal, a common furnace product, instead of relying on wither roses or squid drops.
What it does
A recipe turns charcoal into black dye, giving players a way to dye cloth black that does not depend on rare drops. The author made the change for a personal modpack and kept the mod limited to this single function. Only the server needs it, so players join without installing anything. Files are published for Forge and NeoForge, covering 1.20.1 and 1.21.4, and the code is released under the MIT License, but the project is not open source.
Key features
Charcoal to black dye recipe
Charcoal can be crafted into black dye, adding a recipe that the vanilla game does not include.
Independent of rare drops
Black dye no longer has to come from wither roses or squid spawns, which were the only sources in vanilla.
Single-purpose mod
The mod changes only this one crafting path and adds no other blocks, items or systems.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Charcoal to Dye need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders does Charcoal to Dye support?
In the catalog
Charcoal to Dye is one of 8,499 Technology mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,122 Technology mods for Forge. 17,979 mods support Minecraft 1.21.4.
More from biggsmcb
Similar mods
What the author says
This mod does one thing only: Allows you to craft black dye from charcoal. Charcoal was the main method of dying cloth black for the majority of human history, it makes sense that you would have this option in MInecraft too.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/charcoal-to-dye
- Owner
- biggsmcb
- Published
- 2024-09-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-02-17
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15