Brown Dye
Minecraft Wiki article. Categories: Renewable_resources, Stackable_resources, Upcoming, Pages_needing_images, Items, Dyes
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Brown dye is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Cocoa Beans |
Trading
Wandering traders have a chance to trade 3 brown dyes for an emerald.
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | Price multiplier | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||||||
| Ordinary | 7% | 7% | 3 × | 12 | — | — | ||
Mob loot
In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 8.5% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 3 brown dyes when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an 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 + Brown Dye + Helium + Lead |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Brown Bed | Any Bed + Brown Dye |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Brown Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| Brown Candle | Candle + Brown Dye |
||
| Brown Carpet | Any Carpet + Brown Dye |
[Java Edition only] | |
| Brown Carpet | White Carpet + Brown Dye |
[Bedrock Edition only] | |
| Brown Concrete Powder | Brown Dye + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Brown Cushion | Any Cushion + Brown Dye |
[upcoming: Third Drop 2026] | |
| Brown Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Extra ingredients (optional) |
More dyes (up to a total of eight) can be added for a mixed color. 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 |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] | |
| Brown Harness | Any Harness + Matching Dye |
||
| Dyed Shulker Box | Any Shulker Box + Matching Dye |
When you dye the shulker box, it retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its contents. | |
| Brown Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + Brown Dye |
||
| Brown Stained Glass | Glass + Brown Dye |
||
| Brown Terracotta | Terracotta + Brown Dye |
||
| Brown Wool | Any Wool + Brown Dye |
||
| Brown Wool Slab | Any Wool Slab + Brown Dye |
[upcoming: Third Drop 2026] | |
| Brown Wool Stairs | Any Wool Stairs + Brown Dye |
[upcoming: Third Drop 2026] | |
| Firework Star | Matching Firework Star + Brown Dye |
Adds a "fade to color" effect to the firework star, overwriting any existing fades. Up to eight dyes can be added. | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brown Banner pattern | White Banner + Brown Dye |
|
| Brown Banner image | White Banner + Brown Dye + Banner Pattern |
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | Price multiplier | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||||||
| 9% | 17% | 12 × | 16 | 30 | 0.05 | |||
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
brown_dye | Item | dyes |
item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
brown_dye | dye / 17 | 398 | Item | item |
History
The specific instructions are: Item textures and possibly more information from a development video on twitter by bartek.
Java Edition
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 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 be used to craft newly added brown candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Brown dye can no longer be used to craft brown candles. | ||||||
| pre1 | Brown dye can once again be used to craft brown candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Brown dye now can change the text color on hanging signs to brown. | |||||
| 1.20.5 | 24w09a | Brown dye can now be used to dye wolf armor. | |||||
| 1.21.2 | 24w38a | Brown dye can now be used to dye bundles. | |||||
| 1.21.6 | 25w15a | Added harnesses, which can be dyed using brown dye. | |||||
| 1.21.9 | 25w31a | ||||||
| 26.1 | snap5 | Brown dye is now included in the item tag dyes. | |||||
Bedrock Edition
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | ||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Brown dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | |||||
| 1.20.30 | Preview 1.20.20.21 | Wandering traders now sell brown dye instead of cocoa beans. | |||||
| 1.21.111 | Preview 1.21.110.20 | ||||||
PlayStation 4 Edition
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.83 | |||||||
Data history
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | 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. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Gallery
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Cocoa Beans
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Brown Dye
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Brown Harness
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Brown Shulker Box
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Brown Banner
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Brown Wool
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Brown Terracotta
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Brown Glass
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Brown Glass Pane
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Brown Carpet
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Brown Concrete
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Brown Concrete Powder
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Brown Bundle
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Brown Candle
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Brown Bed
Navigation
Sources
- Brown Dye — Minecraft Wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, revision 3715118.
