Craftable Vegan Ink Sacs
by notblue
With Craftable Vegan Ink Sacs, players can make ink sacs, glow ink sacs and black dye from plant and mineral ingredients, without killing squid.
What it does
The mod adds crafting recipes that produce ink sacs, glow ink sacs and black dye from vegan ingredients. Black dye can be made from charcoal, coal or coal blocks. Leather can be obtained through smelting, smoking or cooking rotten flesh, and string can be made from wool or wheat. Honey bottles, flowers, sugar and water bottles can also feed the recipe chain, and honeycomb, honey and bone meal can be composted. Rabbit hide, paper, string and honeycomb are accepted for making leather.
The recipes are provided by a data pack, and the Craftable Vegan Ink Sacs pack works on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.20 – 26.3. The server must run the pack, while players may leave it out, so it works on the server alone. Latest files are 1.6+mod for 26.3, dated 2026-10-05. The content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license and is not open source.
Key features
Vegan ink sac recipes
Ink sacs are crafted from plant and mineral ingredients, so squid do not need to be hunted for them.
Glow ink sacs
Glow ink sacs combine glowstone dust or glow berries with leather and string in a recipe of their own.
Black dye from coal and charcoal
Charcoal, coal and coal blocks can each be turned into black dye through a dedicated recipe.
Leather from rotten flesh and rabbit hide
Leather is reachable through cooking routes from rotten flesh, and through rabbit hide, paper or honeycomb.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
1.20.x7 of 7 versions with builds
This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want ink and dye without farming squid, and server owners who prefer recipes built from common materials. The pack is a data pack, so it does not need a mod loader on the client.
How it compares
Rotten Flesh to Leather is a server-side mod for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt covering 1.19 – 26.3, under the MIT License and not open source. Craftable Leather runs on either side, is needed on the server, with the client optional, for 1.20 – 26.1.1 and is All rights reserved. Rotten Flesh Leather targets 1.20.5 – 1.21.4 under the BSD 2-Clause License, and Wool To String runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.19.4 – 26.2 as a server-side only mod.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craftable Vegan Ink Sacs | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-10-05 |
| Rotten Flesh to Leather | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.19 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-09-19 |
| Craftable Leather | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20 – 26.1.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-03-25 |
| Rotten Flesh Leather | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.20.5 – 1.21.4 | Server required, client optional | 2025-01-27 |
| Wool To String | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.4 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-06-16 |
Questions
Does the server need Craftable Vegan Ink Sacs?
Which loaders does the pack support?
Can the pack be modified and shared?
In the catalog
Craftable Vegan Ink Sacs is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Craft ink sacs and glow ink sacs without killing squid--or any other mobs, for that matter. This pack adds the following recipes: - Black dye from charcoal, coal and coal blocks - Leather from smelting, smoking or cooking rotten flesh - String from both wool and wheat - Honey bottles from flowers, sugars and water…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/vegan-ink-sacs
- Owner
- notblue
- Published
- 2024-10-14
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-05
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
