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Brown Bed

Brown Bed is a brown bed that lets a player sleep through the night and sets their respawn point. It explodes if used in the Nether or the End.

Stack Size

1

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.12

Item ID

brown_bed

Brown Bed at a glance

Crafting gives you Brown Bed, a block filed under Utility Blocks. It claims a slot each, so nine hotbar slots hold nine and a double chest of 54 slots takes 54.

Brown Bed owes its colour to brown dye. Cocoa beans gives one. Brown Bed has a hardness of 0.2. Mining Brown Bed and blowing it up both run into 0.2. It sits between Brown Banner and Brown Carpet in Utility Blocks, number 64 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Brown WoolBrown Wool
Brown WoolBrown Wool
Brown WoolBrown Wool
Brown BedBrown Bed

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Notes

Requires 3 matching-color wool and 3 planks (any wood). Colored beds were added in 1.12; before that only the default (white) bed existed.

Frequently asked questions about Brown Bed

  1. Brown Wool, Planks going into Brown Bed, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Brown Bed in Minecraft?

    Brown Bed is crafted from Brown Wool and Planks at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

  2. How long does Brown Bed take to break?

    What Brown Bed comes down to is 0.2 against a tool on it and 0.2 against a blast. Identical values are the game's way of saying Brown Bed was not designed to stop anything hitting it. You will not find Brown Bed under pickaxe, axe, shovel or hoe, since it carrys no tool tag. Java 26.2 lists Brown Bed exactly this way, which is how it is printed here.

  3. Brown Bed coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.12

    When was Brown Bed added to Minecraft?

    Brown Bed was added in version 1.12.

  4. One Brown Bed, the whole of what a single inventory slot holds

    How many Brown Bed can you stack?

    One Brown Bed per slot, since Brown Bed does not stack, and every one then costs 3 Brown Wool and 3 Planks. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 36 of them, one apiece.

  5. The brown dye that goes into Brown Bed, beside Brown Bed itself

    What dye does Brown Bed need?

    Brown dye is what Brown Bed needs. Cocoa beans gives one for Brown Bed.

  6. Brown Bed on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Brown Bed used for?

    Brown Bed is a brown bed that lets a player sleep through the night and sets their respawn point. It explodes if used in the Nether or the End.

Building with it

A Brown Bed takes three brown wool, and brown dye comes only from cocoa beans, which ties the colour to jungle trees. It is the bed that blends into a wooden cabin instead of competing with it, and it carries the same spawn-setting behaviour as the other sixteen.