Brown Dye

Brown Dye

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

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:

• 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

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Brown Balloon	Latex + Brown Dye + Helium + Lead		‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Brown Bed	Any Bed + Brown Dye		A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes.‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Brown Bed	White Bed + Brown Dye		White beds can be re-dyed using dyes.‌[Java Edition only]
Brown Candle	Candle + Brown Dye
Brown Carpet	White Carpet + Brown Dye	8
Brown Concrete Powder	Brown Dye + Sand + Gravel	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 and Education editions 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 contents.
Brown Stained Glass	Glass + Brown Dye	8
Brown Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Brown Dye	8
Brown Terracotta	Terracotta + Brown Dye	8
Brown Wool	Any Wool + Brown Dye		‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Brown Wool	White Wool + Brown Dye		‌[Java Edition only]
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

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: Globe banner pattern;‌[Java Edition only] 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 ²⁄₇ chance to buy 12 brown dye for an emerald.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Form	Translation key
Brown Dye	brown_dye	Item	item.minecraft.brown_dye

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Alias ID (BE)	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Brown Dye	brown_dye	dye / 17	351	Item	item.dye.brown_new.name

History

Java Edition
1.14		18w43a			Added brown dye.
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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