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How to Craft Brown Stained Glass in Minecraft

Brown Stained Glass in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Colored transparent windows. Minecraft has used the name Brown Stained Glass since 1.7.2.

Brown Stained Glass costs you 8 Glass and 1 Brown Dye, put together at a Crafting Table. The top row is three Glass, the middle row two Glass in the left and right columns and a Brown Dye in the middle column, and the bottom row three Glass. Done once, that is 8 Brown Stained Glass.

Brown Stained Glass Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Brown Stained Glass is minecraft:brown_stained_glass. In commands the namespace may be left off, so brown_stained_glass works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p brown_stained_glass
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p brown_stained_glass 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve brown_stained_glass 1

Cheats have to be on for Brown Stained Glass to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Brown Stained Glass is a colored transparent block for windows and decoration. Brown Stained Glass uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Brown Stained Glass since 1.7.2, the oldest release whose language file lists it. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.14. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the brown stained glass, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with glass (smelt sand) and brown dye (craft from various materials).

Stack Maths

Per craft 8 glass buy 8 brown stained glass; per stack 64 buys 64. On top of that: 8 brown dye. It divides evenly, no glass left over.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Glass8xSmelt sand
Brown DyeBrown DyeBrown Dye1xCraft from various materials

For Brown Stained Glass: 8x Glass (smelt sand) and Brown Dye (craft from various materials), brought to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

Brown Dye, then Glass, then the Brown Stained Glass. All in: 8 Sand and 1 Cocoa beans.

  1. 1
    Cocoa beansCocoa beansBrown DyeBrown DyeBrown Dye
  2. 2
    88GlassFurnace, repeat 8x
  3. 3
    Brown Stained Glassthis page

Gather this first

8SandCocoa beansCocoa beansCocoa beans

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    8x Glass

  2. 2

    Brown DyeBrown DyeBrown Dye

  3. 3

    8x Brown Stained Glass

Minecraft crafting recipe for Brown Stained Glass: 8 x Glass, 1 x Brown Dye in a crafting table, making 8 Brown Stained Glass.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 8x Glass and 1x Brown Dye before you open the Crafting Table. Glass: smelt sand.
  • You get 8 Brown Stained Glass per craft, so divide whatever you need by 8 to know how many times to repeat it.

Uses for Brown Stained Glass

  • Colored transparent windows
  • Decorative building

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Brown Stained Glass on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Brown Stained Glass in Minecraft?
8 Glass and 1 Brown Dye at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for Brown Stained Glass. Copy the grid above cell for cell, and one craft produces 8 Brown Stained Glass.
What do you need to make Brown Stained Glass from scratch?
Counting all the way down, Brown Stained Glass comes to 8 Sand and 1 Cocoa beans, spread over 3 crafts.
Where do you find the materials for Brown Stained Glass?
The parts of Brown Stained Glass do not all come from one place. Glass: smelt sand. Brown Dye: craft from various materials.
What should I craft first for Brown Stained Glass?
For Brown Stained Glass, start with a Brown Dye: 1 Cocoa beans gives you 1 Brown Dye. After that the order is Glass, and then the Brown Stained Glass itself.
How much Brown Stained Glass do you get from one craft?
The Brown Stained Glass recipe makes 8 Brown Stained Glass in a single craft.
Can you farm everything you need for Brown Stained Glass?
Brown Stained Glass needs nothing you have to go find: glass from sand and brown dye from cocoa beans. Set those up once and you can keep making brown stained glass.
What is the item ID for Brown Stained Glass in Minecraft?
The Brown Stained Glass item ID is minecraft:brown_stained_glass, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write brown_stained_glass on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Brown Stained Glass?
The command for Brown Stained Glass is /give @p brown_stained_glass. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p brown_stained_glass 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Brown Stained Glass recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on Brown Stained Glass: both want 8 Glass and 1 Brown Dye at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give 8 at a time.
How many crafting steps does Brown Stained Glass take?
Brown Stained Glass takes 3 crafts once you count the parts: Brown Dye and Glass, and then the Brown Stained Glass. The chain section above walks through them in order.
What version of Minecraft added Brown Stained Glass?
The name Brown Stained Glass goes back to Minecraft 1.7.2, and no older release we can read uses it. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. Today the game builds it from 8 Glass and 1 Brown Dye, as shown above.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
8 Glass and 1 Brown Dye in, 8 Brown Stained Glass out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.7.2 uses this name and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed
Walked forward through 50 Java releases from 1.13 onwards; 1.14 is the last one that altered it.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 8 Brown Stained Glass per craft against the stack size.

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