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Prismarine Crystals
Miscellaneous

Prismarine Crystals

A glowing item dropped by guardians and elder guardians, used together with prismarine shards to craft sea lanterns. It also drops from ocean monument loot.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

1.8

Item ID

prismarine_crystals

Prismarine Crystals at a glance

Miscellaneous hold Prismarine Crystals: items out of mining. A slot of Prismarine Crystals holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

Prismarine Crystals additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Sea Lantern. Generated chests only ever hold Prismarine Crystals in one place: buried treasure (about 53%, 1 to 5 at a time). They sits between Pottery Sherd and Prismarine Shard in Miscellaneous, number 99 of 147 there.

Used to craft

Sea Lantern is the one recipe that asks for Prismarine Crystals, and the link below opens that grid. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Prismarine Crystals.

How to obtain

  • Mining

Mobs that drop it

You can get Prismarine Crystals off 2 mobs, and the richest of them give 1 per kill. Looting on Elder Guardian pays 1 more Prismarine Crystals a level, 1 becoming 4.

Notes

Combined with Prismarine Shards in a ring to craft a Sea Lantern. Dropped by guardians.

Frequently asked questions about Prismarine Crystals

  1. Mining leading to Prismarine Crystals, the way this answer says Prismarine Crystals arrives

    How do you get Prismarine Crystals in Minecraft?

    Prismarine Crystals is obtained through mining. There is no recipe for Prismarine Crystals, but 1 recipe asks for them.

  2. Prismarine Crystals coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.8

    When was Prismarine Crystals added to Minecraft?

    Prismarine Crystals was added in version 1.8.

  3. A chest beside Prismarine Crystals, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Prismarine Crystals in chests?

    Prismarine Crystals is chest loot in one place and one only: buried treasure (about 53%, 1 to 5 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

  4. 64 Prismarine Crystals drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Prismarine Crystals can you stack?

    Prismarine Crystals at 64 a slot, and Sea Lantern takes 5 per craft, so a full slot is 12 Sea Lantern with nothing left over. A shulker box of Prismarine Crystals comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

  5. Prismarine Crystals turning into Sea Lantern, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Prismarine Crystals used for?

    Prismarine Crystals is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Sea Lantern.

  6. Several Prismarine Crystals at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Prismarine Crystals?

    You can get Prismarine Crystals off 2 mobs, and the richest of them give 1 per kill. Looting on Elder Guardian pays 1 more Prismarine Crystals a level, 1 becoming 4.

Building with it

Prismarine crystals come from guardians and from breaking sea lanterns, and they are what makes a sea lantern rather than plain prismarine. Five crystals and four shards give one lantern, so lighting an underwater build is a matter of how many guardians you have met.

Related Astroworld Resources

Elder Guardian drops Prismarine Crystals

The Elder Guardian page on Astroworld Mobs, where Prismarine Crystals is listed as a drop

Guardian drops Prismarine Crystals

The Guardian page on Astroworld Mobs, where Prismarine Crystals is listed as a drop

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