Everything You Need to Know about Glow Squid in Minecraft

Today, you will learn about Glow Squid in Minecraft. You can use the table of contents above to navigate quickly.

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A Glow Squid.

Glow Squid Overview

A Glow Squid Swimming in the Ocean.

Glow Squid is a new variant of Squid that has been added to Minecraft. It was added to Minecraft because it won The Mob Vote on October 4th, 2020. The other candidates were Iceologer and Moobloom.

The most notable difference between Glow Squid and Squid is their texture. Glow Squid has a bright luminescent texture and also produces particle effects. 

These particle effects have the same shape as particle effects you found when speeding up growth. Such as using Bone Meal on crops, Bee Pollinate crops, or you fed a baby Goat with Wheat.

Glow Squid isn’t glowing though, they just aren’t affected by darkness and yet have bright colors. Since they spawn in dark areas, they may seem glowing.

Glow Squid with and without Dynamic Lights. There are three options: fast, fancy, and off.

If you use Optifine on Minecraft Java, you can make Glow Squid produce light by enabling Dynamic Lights options in the settings. With Dynamic Lights, items that produce lights (Torch, Glow Berries, Glow Lichen, etc.) can produce light even when you hold it or drop it. 

Glow Squid spawns in the dark deep ocean. They can also spawn in dark caves as long as there’s water somewhere. Just like the regular Squid, they are passive and wander around forever.

When you attack Glow Squid, they will spurt their green ink (which is supposed to glow, I guess), and they will turn black for a couple of seconds.

A Glow Squid with its baby | Minecraft Bedrock

Just like regular Squid, Glow Squid cannot be bred. But in Minecraft Bedrock, sometimes Glow Squid spawns with its baby.

Glow Squid’s natural predators are Guardians, Elder Guardians, and Axolotl. They will start an attack if Glow Squid is near them.

What Can You Get From Glow Squid?

Two Glow Ink Sacs.

When you kill a Glow Squid, it will drop 1 – 2 Glow Ink Sac. Glow Ink Sac is an item that can be used to craft Glow Item Frame. 

Glow Item Frame is the same as regular Item Frame. What makes it different is that Glow Item Frame has a different texture and, as the name suggests, it glows in the dark. Here’s a comparison.

Glow Item Frame and Item Frame Comparison.

Glow Ink Sac can also be used to make the text on a sign glow in the dark. All you have to do is click the Sign after you wrote a text. It works with colored text too. If you want to change it back (remove the glow), use regular Ink Sac. Here’s what it looks like:

So, that is pretty much about Glow Squid in Minecraft. For more guides like this, see Mob Guides. Thank you for reading the article.