Brush
| Rarity tier | Common |
|---|---|
| Item description[BE only] | Excavate & brush |
| Durability | JE: 64 BE: 65 |
| Renewable | Yes |
| Stackable | No |
A brush is a tool used in archaeology to excavate suspicious sand and suspicious gravel for different items. Brushes also can be used on armadillos to get armadillo scutes.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Feather + Copper Ingot + Stick |
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Usage
Brushing
Using the brush on any block (apart from suspicious blocks) displays a brushing animation, slowing down the player and creating breaking particles, but not actually damaging the block or brush.
Suspicious blocks
Main articles: Suspicious Sand and Suspicious Gravel
When continuously brushing suspicious sand or suspicious gravel, an item dependent on the structure's loot table slowly emerges from it until it drops out, and the block turns into regular sand or regular gravel, depleting 1 durability point on the brush. It takes 96 game ticks (4.8 seconds) to brush a single suspicious block.
If the player stops brushing a suspicious block, the block remains in its half-excavated state for a few seconds, before gradually returning to its unexcavated state one stage at a time.
Armadillos
When using the brush on an armadillo, it drops a single armadillo scute. Brushing an armadillo removes 16 points of durability from the brush. A brush with full durability and no enchantments can brush an armadillo four times in Java Edition or five times in Bedrock Edition before breaking.
Repairing
Combining
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Damaged Brush |  |
The durability of the two brushes is added together, plus an extra 3 points of durability. |
| Ingredients | Grinding recipe | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Damaged Brush | |
The durability of the two brushes is added together, plus an extra 3 points of durability. |
Anvil repair
Main article: Anvil mechanics § Unit repair
A brush can be combined with another brush in an anvil, preserving the enchantments of both.
Enchantments
A brush can receive the following enchantments:
| Name | Description | Max Level | Method | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unbreaking | Grants a chance to negate durability consumption. | III |  Anvil
|
5 |
| Mending | Repairs the brush when obtaining experience. | I | Anvil
|
2 |
| Curse of Vanishing | The brush vanishes on death, not dropping as an item. | I | Anvil
|
1 |
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Brushing Sand | Blocks | While a brush is brushing suspicious sand | item | subtitles | 0.6 | 0.6 | 16 | |
| Brushing Gravel | Blocks | While a brush is brushing suspicious gravel | item | subtitles | 0.6 | 0.6 | 16 | |
| Brushing | Blocks | While a brush is brushing any other block | item | subtitles | 0.6 | 0.6 | 16 | |
| Brushing Sand completed | Players[sound 1] | When a brush finishes brushing suspicious sand | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Brushing Gravel completed | Players[sound 1] | When a brush finishes brushing suspicious gravel | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Sounds | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| ? | Players | While a brush is brushing suspicious sand | brush | ? | 1.0 | 0.8–1.0 | |
| ? | Players | While a brush is brushing suspicious gravel | brush | ? | 1.0 | 0.8–1.0 | |
| ? | Players | While a brush is brushing any other block | brush | ? | 1.0 | 0.8–1.0 | |
| ? | Players | When a brush finishes brushing suspicious sand | brush_completed | ? | 1.0 | 0.8–1.0 | |
| ? | Players | When a brush finishes brushing suspicious gravel | brush_completed | ? | 1.0 | 0.8–1.0 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
 Brush | brush | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brush | brush | 684 | Item | item |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Respecting the Remnants | Brush a Suspicious block to obtain a Pottery Sherd | Brush either suspicious sand or suspicious gravel and have any pottery sherd in the inventory. These two events can happen separately from one another. |
 | Isn't It Scute? | Get Armadillo Scutes from an Armadillo using a Brush | Use a brush on an armadillo. |
History
Development
| October 3, 2020 |   Brushes were announced at Minecraft Live 2020 with two variants. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 10, 2023 |  Sofia Dankis posted an article about upcoming archaeology features, including brushes. | ||||||
| June 4, 2023 |  Changed the brush's item texture. | ||||||
Java Edition
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.19.4 Experiment | 23w07a | Added brushes with an updated texture behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
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The crafting recipe was originally three string and two sticks.
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| pre1 | The crafting recipe for brushes has been changed:
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| 1.20 | 23w12a | Brushes are now available without using the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack. | |||||
| Brushes can now brush suspicious gravel. | |||||||
| 23w14a | The brushing sound of brush is now controlled by the "Blocks" sound slider instead of the "Players" sound slider. | ||||||
| 23w17a | The player now gets the advancement "Respecting the Remnants" when they use a brush on a suspicious sand or suspicious gravel to obtain a pottery sherd. | ||||||
| 1.20.5 | 23w51a | Brushes can be now used to brush armadillos. | |||||
Bedrock Edition
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.19.70 Experiment | Preview 1.19.70.23 | Added brushes behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
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| The crafting recipe is originally three string and two sticks.
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| 1.19.80 Experiment | Preview 1.19.80.20 | The crafting recipe for brushes has been changed:
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| 1.20.0 | Preview 1.20.0.20 | Brushes can now be enchanted with Mending, Unbreaking, and Curse of Vanishing. | |||||
| Added new sounds for brushing a block other than suspicious sand or suspicious gravel. | |||||||
| Preview 1.20.0.21 | Brushes are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle. | ||||||
| 1.20.60 Experiment | Preview 1.20.60.23 | Brushes can be now used to brush armadillos. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Brush" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Trivia
- During animatics for the Trails & Tales trailer, Ari can be seen holding what appears to be the original design of the brush.[1][2]
Gallery
Mojang images
In other media
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Ari using a brush -
Ari building a sandcastle with a brush. -
Tutorial for crafting a brush in Timeless Trails -
Sticker of a brush from 15 Year Journey
External links
- "Taking Inventory: Brush" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 6, 2023.
References
- ↑ "Working with the annual #Minecraft vanilla trailer, we made all of the key decisions during the #animatic phase, giving us more time to focus on polishing the look and #animation after each shot got approved." – @Brikk_Animation on X (formerly Twitter), August 7, 2023
- ↑ "During the scene down the archeology dig site, the sun's direction became substantially important for dictating the design and camera angles. Apart from wanting our main character, Ari, to be nicely lit in each shot, we also learned that Skeletons and Zombies apparently turn ablaze when in direct sunlight. IF they are not wearing a helmet. And Husks won’t spawn underground." – @brikktv on Instagram, August 11, 2023
