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Glow Ink Sac

A glow ink sac is an item dropped by a glow squid upon death. It can be used on signs to make glowing text and can be used to craft glow item frames.

Glow ink sacs can be used on signs or hanging signs to make their text brighter in low light levels. This also adds an outline around the text on the sign, the color of which is based on the color of the sign's text. The text does not emit any light, it is only more visible in darkness, similarly to the eyes of spiders and endermen. Normal ink sacs can be applied to revert glowing text back to default. Breaking the sign removes the glowing text when placed again.

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Source: Minecraft Wiki cacheUpdated: 2026-05-08 Open Original

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Glow Ink Sac

Java 1.21.4
Typeitem
Stack64
Durability-
Sections1
Canonical IDitem:glow_ink_sac
Minecraft IDminecraft:glow_ink_sac
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displayNameGlow Ink Sac
nameglow_ink_sac
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stackSize64