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

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Cocoa Beans

Usage[]

Like all other dyes, brown dye can be:

Crafting ingredient[]

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
Brown Balloon Latex +
Brown Dye +
Helium +
Lead

[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Balloon Latex +
Brown Dye +
Helium +
Lead

Brown Bed Any Bed +
Brown Dye


A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.
Brown Bed Any Bed +
Brown Dye


Brown Candle Candle +
Brown Dye


Brown Carpet Any Carpet +
Brown Dye


Brown Carpet Any Carpet +
Brown Dye


Brown Concrete Powder Sand +
Gravel +
Brown Dye
Brown Concrete Powder Brown Dye +
Sand +
Gravel
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.[1]
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
Brown Stained Glass Glass +
Brown Dye
Brown Stained Glass Pane Glass Pane +
Brown Dye
Brown Stained Glass Pane Glass Pane +
Brown Dye
Brown Terracotta Terracotta +
Brown Dye
Brown Terracotta Terracotta +
Brown Dye
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
Enchanted Golden Apple

Loom ingredient[]

Name Ingredients Loom recipe Description
Brown Banner pattern White Banner +
Brown Dye

Field masoned banner and bordure indented banner don't require banner patterns.‌[Java Edition only]
Brown Banner image White Banner +
Brown Dye +
Banner Pattern

Exceptions:
  1. Field masoned and bordure indented banner patterns.‌[Bedrock Edition only]

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 27 chance to buy 12 brown dye for an emerald.‌[Java Edition only]

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormTranslation key
Brown Dyebrown_dyeItemitem.minecraft.brown_dye

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierAlias ID Numeric ID FormTranslation key
Brown Dyebrown_dyedye / 17398Itemitem.dye.brown_new.name

History[]

Jigsaw Block (top texture) JE2 BE2
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Instructions: Item textures and more from a development video on twitter by bartek.
Java Edition
1.1418w43aBrown Dye JE1 BE1 Added brown dye.
18w44aBrown dye now can change the text color on signs to brown.
19w05aAdded the wandering trader, which sell brown dyes.
19w11aBrown dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers.
1.1720w45aBrown dye can now used to craft newly added brown candles.
21w19aBrown dye can no longer used to craft brown candles.
Pre-release 1Brown dye can once again used to craft brown candles.
1.20
(Experimental)
22w42aBrown dye now can change the text color on hanging signs to brown.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0beta 1.8.0.10Brown Dye JE1 BE1 Added brown dye.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.4Brown dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers.
1.16.100beta 1.16.100.56The ID of brown dye has been changed from dye/17 to brown_dye.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.83Brown Dye JE1 BE1 Added brown dye.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Brown Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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