Brush

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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.

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.

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.

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.

A brush can be combined with another brush in an anvil, preserving the enchantments of both.

A brush can receive the following enchantments:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Issues relating to "Brush" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• During animatics for the Trails & Tales trailer, Ari can be seen holding what appears to be the original design of the brush.^[1][2]

• 👁 Teaser of Alex holding a brush
  
  Teaser of Alex holding a brush

• 👁 Ari using a brush
  
  Ari using a brush
• 👁 Ari building a sandcastle with a brush.
  
  Ari building a sandcastle with a brush.
• 👁 Tutorial for crafting a brush in Timeless Trails
  
  Tutorial for crafting a brush in Timeless Trails
• 👁 Sticker of a brush from 15 Year Journey
  
  Sticker of a brush from 15 Year Journey

• "Taking Inventory: Brush" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 6, 2023.