Brown Dye

Brown dye is a primary color dye derived from cocoa beans.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

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 Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
• Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs.

Crafting ingredient[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Brown Balloon	Latex + Brown Dye + Helium + Lead
Brown Balloon	Latex + Brown Dye + Helium + Lead		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Bed	Any Bed + Brown Dye
Brown Bed	Any Bed + Brown Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.
Brown Candle	Candle + Brown Dye
Brown Carpet	Any Carpet + Brown Dye
Brown Carpet	Any Carpet + Brown Dye
Brown Concrete Powder	Brown Dye + Sand + Gravel	8	Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.[1]
Brown Concrete Powder	Sand + Gravel + Brown Dye	8
Brown Firework Star	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.
Brown Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Brown Dye + Luminol		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Shulker Box	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.
Brown Stained Glass	Glass + Brown Dye	8
Brown Stained Glass	Glass + Brown Dye	8
Brown Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Brown Dye	8
Brown Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Brown Dye	8
Brown Terracotta	Terracotta + Brown Dye	8
Brown Terracotta	Terracotta + Brown Dye	8
Brown Wool	Any Wool + Brown Dye
Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Brown Dye + Luminol
Wool	Any Wool + Brown Dye
Brown Banner pattern	Brown Dye + Banner
Brown Banner image	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:

Bedrock Edition:

History[]

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Instructions: Item textures and more from a development video on twitter by bartek.

Java Edition
1.14		18w43a			Added brown dye.
		18w44a			Brown dye now can change the text color on signs to brown.
		19w05a			Added the wandering trader, which sell brown dyes.
		19w11a			Brown dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers.
1.17		20w45a			Brown dye can now used to craft newly added brown candles.
		21w19a			Brown dye can no longer used to craft brown candles.
		Pre-release 1			Brown dye can once again used to craft brown candles.
1.20 (Experimental)		22w42a			Brown dye now can change the text color on hanging signs to brown.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.10			Added brown dye.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Brown dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.56			The ID of brown dye has been changed from dye/17 to brown_dye.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.83					Added brown dye.

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