Brown Dye
Brown Dye



| Rarity tier | Common | 
|---|---|
| Renewable | Yes | 
| Stackable | Yes (64) | 
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Brown dye is one of the sixteen available dyes. It can be crafted from cocoa beans.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | 
|---|---|
| Cocoa Beans | 
Trading
Wandering traders have a chance to trade 3 brown dyes for 1 emerald.
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, shulker boxes, candles, and harnesses.
- 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 + + Helium + Lead |  | |
| Brown Bed | Any Bed + | A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Brown Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye | ||
| Brown Candle | Candle + | ||
| Brown Carpet | Any Carpet + |  | |
| Brown Carpet | White Carpet + |  | |
| Brown Concrete Powder | + Sand + Gravel | Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Brown Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Extra ingredients (optional) | 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 + Matching Dye + Luminol |  | |
| Brown Harness | Any Harness + Matching Dye | ||
| Dyed Shulker Box | Any Shulker Box + Matching Dye | The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Brown Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + | ||
| Brown Stained Glass | Glass + | ||
| Stained Terracotta | Terracotta + | ||
| Brown Wool | Any Wool + | ||
| Brown Banner pattern | + Banner | ||
| Brown Banner image | + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple | 
Loom ingredient
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||
|  Expert Shepherd | 9% | 17% | 12 ×  |  Emerald | 
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key | 
|---|---|---|---|
|  Brown Dye | brown_dye | Item | item | 
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  Brown Dye | brown_dye | dye / 17 | 398 | Item | item | 
Gallery
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			 Cocoa Beans Cocoa Beans
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			 Brown Dye Brown Dye
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			 Brown Harness Brown Harness
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			 Brown Shulker Box Brown Shulker Box
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			 Brown Banner Brown Banner
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			 Brown Wool Brown Wool
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			 Brown Terracotta Brown Terracotta
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			 Brown Glass Brown Glass
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			 Brown Glass Pane Brown Glass Pane
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			 Brown Carpet Brown Carpet
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			 Brown Concrete Brown Concrete
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			 Brown Concrete Powder Brown Concrete Powder
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			 Brown Bundle Brown Bundle
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			 Brown Candle Brown Candle
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			 Brown Bed Brown Bed
History
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The specific instructions are: Item textures and possibly more information from a development video on twitter by bartek.
The specific instructions are: Item textures and possibly more information from a development video on twitter by bartek.
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  Added brown dye, prior to this update cocoa beans were used as the brown variant of dye. | |||||
| 18w44a | Brown dye now can change the text color on signs to brown. | ||||||
| Brown dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||||
| 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. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 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, cocoa beans continues to be usable as dye. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Brown dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.21.110 | Preview 1.21.110.20 |  The texture of brown dye has been changed. | |||||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||||
| 1.83 |  Added brown dye. | ||||||
Data history
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of brown dye has been changed from dye/17tobrown_dye. | |||||
Issues
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