How do you get Amethyst Shard in Minecraft?

Amethyst Shard is obtained through mining. It is not craftable, but it is an ingredient in 1 recipe.

Where do you find Amethyst Shard in chests?

Amethyst Shard is chest loot in trial chamber intersection chests (about 40%, 8 to 20 at a time) and ancient city chests (about 24%, 1 to 15 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

What is Amethyst Shard used for?

Amethyst Shard is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Spyglass.

How many Amethyst Shard can you stack?

Amethyst Shard at 64 a slot, and Spyglass takes 1 per craft, so a full slot is 64 Spyglass with nothing left over. A double chest of Amethyst Shard comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

When was Amethyst Shard added to Minecraft?

Amethyst Shard was added in version 1.17.

Miscellaneous

Amethyst Shard

A crystalline item dropped by breaking amethyst clusters, used to craft tinted glass, spyglasses and amethyst blocks. It is found in amethyst geodes underground.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Amethyst Shard at a glance

Amethyst Shard, an item out of mining, sits under Miscellaneous. A single slot takes 64 Amethyst Shard, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Amethyst Shard additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Spyglass. Of the 2 kinds of generated chest that can hold Amethyst Shard, trial chamber intersection chests are the best bet at about 40% per chest. It opens the Miscellaneous list, Armor Stand follows it, 147 entries in all.

Used to craft

Only Spyglass uses Amethyst Shard as an ingredient, so this list runs to a single link. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Amethyst Shard.

Spyglass

How to obtain

Mining

Notes

Used with glass to craft Tinted Glass and with copper ingots to craft a Spyglass.

Frequently asked questions about Amethyst Shard

How do you get Amethyst Shard in Minecraft?
Amethyst Shard is obtained through mining. It is not craftable, but it is an ingredient in 1 recipe.
Where do you find Amethyst Shard in chests?
Amethyst Shard is chest loot in trial chamber intersection chests (about 40%, 8 to 20 at a time) and ancient city chests (about 24%, 1 to 15 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.
What is Amethyst Shard used for?
Amethyst Shard is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Spyglass.
How many Amethyst Shard can you stack?
Amethyst Shard at 64 a slot, and Spyglass takes 1 per craft, so a full slot is 64 Spyglass with nothing left over. A double chest of Amethyst Shard comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.
When was Amethyst Shard added to Minecraft?
Amethyst Shard was added in version 1.17.

Building with it

Amethyst clusters drop four shards each, and the buds regrow on budding amethyst, which makes shards fully renewable from a single geode. Spyglasses, tinted glass and the calibrated sculk sensor all need them, and four shards make an amethyst block.

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