How do you get Brown Dye in Minecraft?

Brown Dye is crafted from Cocoa Beans at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

What is Brown Dye used for?

Brown Dye is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Brown Concrete Powder and Brown Stained Glass.

How many Brown Dye can you stack?

64 Brown Dye fill one slot, and filling it costs 64 Cocoa Beans: 64 crafts. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once. A double chest of Brown Dye comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

When was Brown Dye added to Minecraft?

Brown Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

MiscellaneousCraftable

Brown Dye

Brown Dye is a brown dye used to color wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, concrete powder, candles, banners and more. It is made from cocoa beans.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Brown Dye at a glance

Minecraft files Brown Dye under Miscellaneous: an item you get from crafting from flowers/materials. Stack Brown Dye 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest.

Brown Dye additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Brown Concrete Powder and Brown Stained Glass. It sits between Brick and Bucket in Miscellaneous, number 18 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Cocoa Beans
Brown Dye
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Brown Dye has the grid for Brown Dye

Used to craft

Follow Brown Dye forward and you land on 2 recipes: 2 in Utility Blocks, the rest spread over that one category, Brown Concrete Powder through Brown Stained Glass. Each link below opens that recipe with Brown Dye in the grid.

How to obtain

Crafting from flowers/materials

Notes

Crafting from a single flower/material yields 1 dye.

Frequently asked questions about Brown Dye

How do you get Brown Dye in Minecraft?
Brown Dye is crafted from Cocoa Beans at a Crafting Table, in a single step.
What is Brown Dye used for?
Brown Dye is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Brown Concrete Powder and Brown Stained Glass.
How many Brown Dye can you stack?
64 Brown Dye fill one slot, and filling it costs 64 Cocoa Beans: 64 crafts. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once. A double chest of Brown Dye comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.
When was Brown Dye added to Minecraft?
Brown Dye was added in the 1.0 full release.

Building with it

Cocoa beans give brown dye, and cocoa grows on the side of jungle logs. That single source makes brown one of the easiest colours to farm at scale, since a jungle wall of cocoa pods regrows continuously with no replanting at all.

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