Brown dye is a primary color dye derived from cocoa beans.
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
Cocoa Beans |
Usage[]
Like all other dyes, brown dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of brown wool.
- Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
- Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
- Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta and shulker boxes.
- Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
- Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
- Used to add patterns to banners.
- Used to dye shulkers in Bedrock and Education editions.
- Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock and Education editions.
- Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
- Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock and Education editions.
Crafting ingredient[]
Latex + Brown Dye + Helium + Lead | [Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
White Bed + Brown Dye | White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.[Java Edition only] | |
Any Bed + Brown Dye | A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Candle + Brown Dye | ||
White Carpet + Brown Dye |
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Brown Dye + Sand + Gravel |
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Gunpowder + Brown Dye + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond | Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Brown Dye + Luminol | [Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Shulker Box or Any Shulker Box + Brown Dye | The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
Glass + Brown Dye |
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Glass Pane + Brown Dye |
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Terracotta + Brown Dye |
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White Wool + Brown Dye | [Java Edition only] | |
Any Wool + Brown Dye | [Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
Brown Dye + Banner | ||
Brown Dye + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient[]
Trading[]
Apprentice-level Shepherd villagers have a 20% chance to buy 12 brown dye for an emerald.[Bedrock Edition only]
Expert-level Shepherd villagers have a 2⁄7 chance to buy 12 brown dye for an emerald.[Java Edition only]
Data values[]
ID[]
Java Edition:
Brown Dye | brown_dye | Item | item.minecraft.brown_dye |
Bedrock Edition:
Brown Dye | brown_dye | dye / 17 | 398 | Item | item.dye.brown_new.name |
History[]
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Instructions: item textures and more from a development video on twitter by bartek
Brown dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. |
The ID of brown dye has been changed from dye/17 to brown_dye. |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Brown Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Is there any other way to make brown dye in Minecraft?
In the crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3x3 crafting grid. To make brown dye, place 1 cocoa beans in the 3x3 crafting grid.
How do you make brown wool?
To make brown wool, place 1 wool and 1 brown dye in the 3x3 crafting grid. When making brown wool, it is important that the wool and brown dye are placed in the exact pattern as the image below. In the first row, there should be 1 brown dye in the first box and 1 wool in the second box.