How to Craft Brush in Minecraft
The Brush is used in archaeology to extract items from suspicious sand and suspicious gravel found in trail ruins, desert temples and ocean ruins.
Overview
The Brush is used in archaeology to extract items from suspicious sand and suspicious gravel found in trail ruins, desert temples and ocean ruins. Brush uses a shaped recipe, meaning the ingredients must sit in the exact pattern shown in the grid above; placing them in the wrong cells will not produce the item. A Crafting Table gives you the full 3x3 grid, which you need for any recipe larger than 2x2. You can craft one from four planks, and most bases keep one near the furnaces.
The recipe was added in Minecraft 1.20 and still works the same way in version 1.21. Each craft yields a single Brush.
The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with feather (kill chickens or parrots), copper ingot (smelt copper ore), and stick (craft from planks). If any of those are not already in your stores, gather them first, because the craft itself takes only a moment once everything is in the grid. With the ingredients on hand and a Crafting Table placed, Brush is one of the quicker things to add to your inventory.
Crafting Recipe
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To make Brush you will gather Feather (kill chickens or parrots), Copper Ingot (smelt copper ore), and Stick (craft from planks). Lining these up before you open the Crafting Table saves a trip back to storage, especially if you plan to craft several at once.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Open your Crafting Table to access the 3x3 crafting grid.
- Arrange the ingredients in the crafting grid following the pattern shown above.
- Place Feather in: row 1, column 2.
- Place Copper Ingot in: row 2, column 2.
- Place Stick in: row 3, column 2.
- Collect your Brush from the output slot.
Tips & Notes
- If the output slot stays empty, double-check the pattern against the grid above; a shaped recipe fails silently when even one ingredient is in the wrong cell.
Uses for Brush
- Brushing suspicious sand and gravel for archaeology loot
How Brush Fits Your World
Tools determine how fast you gather and what blocks you can mine at all: a pickaxe of the right tier is required to mine higher ores, since mining diamond ore needs at least an iron pickaxe and ancient debris needs a diamond one. Every tool also carries a durability bar that ticks down with use, so enchantments like Unbreaking and Mending dramatically extend how long it lasts before it breaks. For Brush specifically, that means it is most valuable for brushing suspicious sand and gravel for archaeology loot.
View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Brush on the Astroworld Items Database.