How to Craft Black Bed in Minecraft – Recipe

Variant 1/3 · Black Wool and Any Planks

Ingredients

3×Black Wool
3×Any Planksany of 13 kinds: Oak Planks, Spruce Planks, Birch Planks, Jungle Planks …

Result: 1× Black Bed · variant 1 of 3

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Crafting Black Bed step by step

Black Bed can be crafted in 3 ways — the grid above cycles through all of them. Variant 1 is a shaped crafting recipe that uses 6 items: 3 Black Wool and 3 Any Planks. Place the ingredients exactly in the pattern shown above. The pattern can sit anywhere on the grid as long as its shape stays the same. It needs the full 3×3 grid, so you have to use a crafting table. "Any Planks" means any of 13 kinds: Oak Planks, Spruce Planks, Birch Planks, Jungle Planks …

Open a crafting table (3×3 crafting grid).
Place 3 Black Wool and 3 Any Planks in the pattern shown above (variant 1 — or the ingredients of any other variant).
Take the Black Bed from the result slot and move it into your inventory.

How to get the ingredients

Black Wool Crafting recipe

Any Planksany of 13 kinds: Oak Planks, Spruce Planks, Birch Planks, Jungle Planks … Oak Planks recipe

Any Bedany of 16 kinds: White Bed, Light Gray Bed, Gray Bed, Black Bed … White Bed recipe

Black Dye Crafting recipe Sold by the Wandering Trader

Ink Sac Dropped by Squid

What you can make with Black Bed 16 recipes

Black Bed

Blue Bed

Brown Bed

Cyan Bed

Gray Bed

Green Bed

Light Blue Bed

Light Gray Bed

Lime Bed

Magenta Bed

Orange Bed

Pink Bed

… and 4 more recipes that use Black Bed.

Other variants of this recipe 15

White Bed

Light Gray Bed

Gray Bed

Brown Bed

Red Bed

Orange Bed

Yellow Bed

Lime Bed

Green Bed

Cyan Bed

Light Blue Bed

Blue Bed

Purple Bed

Magenta Bed

Pink Bed

Black Bed recipe FAQ

What do you need to craft Black Bed in Minecraft?

You need 3 Black Wool and 3 Any Planks — 6 items in total, arranged as shown in the crafting grid. The recipe gives you 1× Black Bed.

Do you need a crafting table to make Black Bed?

Yes. The recipe needs the full 3×3 grid, which only a crafting table offers.

Is the Black Bed recipe shaped or shapeless?

It is a shaped recipe: the arrangement matters. You can shift the pattern around the grid, but the shape must stay the same.

Is there more than one way to craft Black Bed?

Yes. There are 3 variants of the recipe — the others use Any Bed and Black Dye and Any Bed and Ink Sac. The grid on this page cycles through all of them.

Can you use different kinds of an ingredient for Black Bed?

Yes. "Any Planks" means any of 13 kinds: Oak Planks, Spruce Planks, Birch Planks, Jungle Planks …

What can you make with Black Bed?

Black Bed is an ingredient in 16 crafting recipes, for example Black Bed, Blue Bed and Brown Bed.