How To Make Brown Dye In Minecraft Without Cocoa Beans

In Minecraft, you can make brown dye without cocoa beans by mixing other items such as colors. While you can convert the texture of cocoa beans into new items to make brown dye, you can directly mix colors such as black and blue dye to make a brown dye.

You can make brown dye without cocoa beans. You can do this by changing the texture of cocoa beans and converting them into a new item.

Now you can use this item to make your brown dye. You can also make brown dye by mixing different dyes in Minecraft, such as black and blue dye or orange and blue dye.

New Combinations for the Brown Dye without using cocoa beans

In version 1.14 of Minecraft, you can create new dyes such as brown, blue, black, and white dyes.

The reason for creating brown dye is to make the dyed brown so much easier to make for you or other players who can’t find Jungle Biomes or cocoa beans.

Colour recipes for making brown dye without cocoa beans

Black Dye + Orange Dye = Brown Dye

Black Dye + Red Dye + Yellow Dye = Brown Dye

Blue Dye + Orange Dye = Brown Dye

Yellow Dye + Purple Dye = Brown Dye

Red Dye + Green Dye = Brown Dye

Finding Dyes in Minecraft

Here are some hints to get you started with finding additional dyes for mixing colors.

  • For Green Dye, you can cook cactus and lime green is made by adding white to green.
  • Cyan is found in a flower only found in swamps.
  • Pink is made by adding white to red or finding a certain flower.
  • Orange is found by adding yellow and red or an orange flower.
  • White is found by defeating a certain white hostile mob.
  • Brown is found in the form of cocoa beans, only found in the jungle.
  • Black is found in the form of Squid Ink only found in a squid in the water.

How can I use brown dye in Minecraft?

1. To dye glass, wool, leather, and beds

The primary purpose of a dye is to add color to an item or a thing. Brown dye adds brown color to your tools and weapons. You can paint the wool of your sheep, cats, and wolves with brown dye.

A brown dye is helpful to add brown color to your leather armor. You can also stain your beds brown in Minecraft gameplay. There are many other things that you can paint with this dye such as glass, terracotta, and leather tools.

2. To dye the collars of domesticated cats

You can also use brown dye to paint the collars of domesticated cats. You can’t dye the collars of un-domesticated cats with brown dye. Similarly, you can stain the wolf and sheep wool with this dye. 

3. To make different patterns for banners

Like black and white dye, you can use brown dye to make banners on a loom. You can also add different patterns to your banners. Banners are essential when it comes to highlighting a specific thing. A brown dye is also one of the primary dyes in Minecraft. 

4. To make fireworks

The brown dye allows you to make fireworks. You will be able to make them by using gunpowder. This dye will recolor or paint your fireworks stars too. To make fireworks, you will need brown dye, a crafting table, and gunpowder. 

5. To craft balloons

You can color different items with brown dye. Crafting balloons with brown dye will make various brown balloons in your stock available. You can use these balloons to decorate your house or your Minecraft world. 

6. To make concrete powder.

Moreover, brown dye allows you to craft white concrete powder. It would also help you to make a lighthouse in Minecraft. Crafting brown concrete powder in Minecraft requires one brown dye, four blocks of sand, and four blocks of gravel in your inventory slot. 

7. To make decorations

You can use brown dye to decorate your walls and houses. You can use it for other decorative purposes. 

How to Get Dyes in Minecraft?

You can make most dyes in the game by using flowers. Almost all dyes are available in flower fields.

Minecraft uses seven primary colors to make different shades of dye. There are five colors that can be made through flowers. These are; black, red, yellow, blue, and white.

However, you cannot find brown or green dye in flowers.

To turn a flower into dye simply place it in your crafting menu. The dye you end up with will be the color of the flower. By combining other dyes, you can make the remaining dyes. For example, red and blue dyes can be combined to make purple dye.

Pink tulips can be used to make pink dye, and purple and pink can be combined to make magenta. You can obtain black dye by hunting down squids to obtain ink sacs or by using wither roses for a more expensive option.

It is necessary to find cocoa beans grown in jungles in order to obtain brown dye. Finally, to get green dye, you will need to smelt cactus.

It is likely that you have already noticed that each dye recipe yields two dyes for use. It ensures that the different shades of dye do not consume the base ingredients. In the end, you will have the same amount of dye.

How to Use Dyes in Minecraft

Dyes are interchangeable in these recipes; simply swap out the dyes used in the example with the color of dye you want to use. To manufacture stained terracotta, the color terracotta is obtained by smelting clay bricks. Smelt this terracotta to create glazed terracotta with a variety of patterned shapes.

You can also stain glass to construct stained glass panels or simply add color to your windows.

You can color firework stars to explode into a specific color, color shulker boxes to color code your sorting, and make colored concrete powder to form a smooth block that is fully a specific colour.

Finally, you can dye wool to make a distinct color bed. If you want to change the color of an existing bed simply place the bed alongside the color of the dye you want the bed to be.

How to make lime green dye in Minecraft

Lime dye is a dye that is typically used to color wool. Lime dye, like other dyes, cannot be obtained straight from an item, but may be created by combining bonemeal and green dye, or obtained by smelting sea pickles in a furnace. Wandering Traders will also exchange lime dye for an emerald.

Mixing Colors in Minecraft

Whether you mix colors in survival or creative, you will need the three main colors red, yellow, and blue. So you need to collect your crafting adventure by collecting these dyes.

Here is a table of how to mix colors for your designed color.

Color of DyeHow to Obtain
White DyeBone Meal or Lily of the Valley
Light Gray DyeAzure Bluet, Oxeye Daisy, White Tulip, or combining White Dye with Gray Dye
Gray DyeCombining Black Dye/Ink Sac with Bone Meal/White Dye
Black DyeInk Sacs or Wither Rose
Brown DyeCocoa Beans
Red DyePoppy, Rose Bush, Red Tulip, or Beetroot
Orange DyeOrange Tulip or combining Red Dye and Yellow Dye
Yellow DyeDandelions or Sunflowers
Lime DyeCombining Green Dye and White Dye or smelting Sea Pickles
Green DyeSmelting Cactus
Cyan DyeCombining Green Dye and Lapis Lazuli/Blue Dye
Light Blue DyeCombining Lapis Lazuli/Blue Dye with Bone Meal/White Dye
Blue DyeLapis Lazuli
Purple DyeCombining Red Dye with Lapis Lazuli/Blue Dye
Magenta DyeLilac, Allium, or combining Purple Dye and Pink Dye
Pink DyePeony, Pink Tulip, or combining Red Dye and White Dye

How do you make Grey color in Minecraft?

You can make grey dye by combining one Bone Meal and an Ink Sac on a crafting table. As with all other dyes, this dye can be used to re-colour Sheep. This is useful if one wants a steady supply of a specific color of wool because sheep will regrow their wool after being sheared.

How to use dye in Minecraft

1. Place the Cauldron.

2. Using the bucket, grab some water and fill the cauldron.

3. Add the selected color of dye to the cauldron.

4. Select the item that is to be dyed and add it to the cauldron.

How do you make concrete Minecraft?

To make concrete Minecraft, go to your crafting menu and combine one white dye, four gravel blocks, and four sand blocks. This will create a block of white concrete powder you can now access in the inventory. Place the powder next to a water source to transform it into concrete.

How to make a carpet in Minecraft

To make a carpet in Minecraft, open your crafting table containing the 3×3 grid. Place two types of wool beside each other in the second row. Now simply click and drag the carpet into your inventory. To make a colored variant, use wool of the color of your choice.

In Minecraft, if you want to make a red carpet, you’ll need 2 Red Wool, 1 Red Dye, and 8 White Carpets.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Can you mix colors in Minecraft?

Yes, you can mix colors in Minecraft. You will need the three main colors red, yellow and blue. Begin your crafting adventure by collecting these dyes.

Which flower gives purple dye in Minecraft?

You can craft purple dye with rose red and lapis lazuli. Also, Purple Dye is a secondary dye color created by combining one Red Dye and one Blue Dye in the crafting interface. Wandering Traders will sell purple dye in exchange for Emeralds.

How do you make a red rose in Minecraft? 

Rose-red can now be obtained by putting a poppy, red tulip, or rose bush flowers in the crafting grid. Red mushrooms can no longer be smelted to obtain rose red.

How do you get lime in Minecraft?

Lime dye is a quasi-primary dye obtained by combining one green dye and one white dye in a crafting square, or by smelting a sea pickle.

Can you dye leaves in Minecraft?

Leaf blocks placed by a player should still change with the season, so players can customize trees and other foliage around their base, or make color-changing decorations.

How rare is Lily of the Valley Minecraft? 

Minecraft’s Lily of the Valley is a semi-rare flower as it only spawns in the Flower Forest biome. It also has a small chance of generating by using Bonemeal in the grass or dirt of the Flower Forest.

How do you dye glass in Minecraft?

Stained glass is made by placing 8 glasses on a crafting table with any color of dye in the center. It is used primarily as decoration.

What is the Rarest Dye in Minecraft?

Besides the primary colors, most of the dyes are relatively simple to obtain. The rarest to find would be brown or magenta as cocoa beans can only be found in deserts or through trade. The magenta dye takes the most steps to complete.

How many dyes are in Minecraft?

Dyes are a set of 16 items used to change the colour of wool, terracotta, certain mobs, the patterns on banners, shulker boxes, glass, concrete powder, candles, beds, firework stars, and text on signs.

What flowers make grey dye in Minecraft? 

Azure bluet, oxeye daisy, and white tulip all produce light grey dye when a single flower is placed anywhere in the crafting grid. Another way is to place 2 bonemeal and 1 ink sac (from killing squids) in the grid, yielding 3 dyes. Finally, the grey dye can be crafted with bonemeal to produce 2 light grey dyes.

How do you get black dye in Minecraft without squid?

A black dye can be obtained using an Ink Sac or a Wither Rose, both of which result in one black dye.

How do you make dark blue dye in Minecraft?

You can make blue dye in Minecraft by using cornflowers or lapis lazuli. To craft one, you will need a crafting grid of 3×3. You have to put a cornflower or a lapis lazuli in the first block of your crafting grid. It will ultimately help you to turn your material into a blue dye.

How do you make sea pickles in Minecraft?

Sea pickle colonies generate on the bottom of warm oceans and are found on top of coral blocks in coral reefs. Each chunk has a 16 chance to generate sea pickle colonies. They can be found in groups of 1 up to 4. Sea pickles may also be found in desert village houses as decorative blocks that resemble pottery.

Can you grow sea pickles in Minecraft?

This is the most straightforward method, requiring plenty of bone meal and a nearby coral reef. Simply apply the bone meal to the coral blocks and nearby sea pickles as much as possible. This will cause large clusters of sea pickles to grow wherever bone meal is applied until it reaches maximum capacity.

 Now it’s your turn

Although brown dye is the rarest dye in Minecraft, It’s easy to make brown dye without using cocoa butter. You can mix various colors to obtain a brown dye.

You can dye various items with your brown dye such as glass, wool, sheep, and beds, and even decorate with it.

What is your favorite dye combination in making brown dye?

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