Amethyst Shard

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An amethyst shard is a crystal obtained from mining a fully grown amethyst cluster. They can also be found in chests in ancient cities and trial chambers.

Obtaining[edit | edit source]

Mining[edit | edit source]

An amethyst cluster, mined using a pickaxe without Silk Touch or Fortune enchantments, drops 4 amethyst shards. When mined using any other tool, item, or mechanism (such as explosions or pistons) it drops 2 shards. The maximum amount of amethyst shards dropped can be increased with Fortune. Fortune I gives a ¹⁄₃ chance for 8 shards, averaging 5.33 shards; Fortune II gives a 25% chance (each) to give 8 or 12 shards, averaging 7 shards; and Fortune III gives a 20% chance (each) to give 8, 12, or 16 shards, averaging 8.8 shards.

If an amethyst cluster in any of its growth stages is mined using a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch, it drops itself rather than amethyst shards.

Generated loot[edit | edit source]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Amethyst Shard	Ancient City	Chest	1–15	23.2% { "item": "Amethyst Shard", "stacksize": "1–15", "chance": 0.23238142813184637, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }
	Trial Chambers	Intersection chest	8–20	39.7% { "item": "Amethyst Shard", "stacksize": "8–20", "chance": 0.39719773101739475, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Intersection chest" }

Usage[edit | edit source]

Crafting ingredient[edit | edit source]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Block of Amethyst	Amethyst Shard
Calibrated Sculk Sensor	Amethyst Shard + Sculk Sensor
Spyglass	Amethyst Shard + Copper Ingot
Tinted Glass	Amethyst Shard + Glass	2

Smithing ingredient[edit | edit source]

Ingredients	Smithing recipe	Description
Any Armor Trim + Any Armor Piece + Amethyst Shard		All armor types can be used in this recipe; a netherite chestplate is shown as an example.

Trim color palette

The following color palette is shown on the designs on trimmed armor:

Allay duplication[edit | edit source]

If an amethyst shard is given to an allay that is currently dancing to an active jukebox, the allay emits heart particles, consumes the amethyst shard, and duplicates into another allay. After this, there is a 5 minute cooldown until either allay can be duplicated again.

Sounds[edit | edit source]

Java Edition

Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Amethyst chimes	Friendly Creatures	When an amethyst shard duplicates an allay	block.amethyst_block.chime	subtitles.block.amethyst_block.chime​	0.4	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When an amethyst shard duplicates an allay	chime.amethyst_block	1.0	0.5-1.7

Data values[edit | edit source]

ID[edit | edit source]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Amethyst Shard	amethyst_shard	Item	item.minecraft.amethyst_shard

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Amethyst Shard	amethyst_shard	625	Item	item.amethyst_shard.name

History[edit | edit source]

October 3, 2020							Amethyst shards are mentioned, but not shown at Minecraft Live 2020.
Java Edition
1.17			20w45a				Added amethyst shards.
			20w46a				The texture for amethyst shards has changed.
1.19			22w13a				Amethyst shards can now be found in ancient city chests.
1.19.1			22w24a				Amethyst shards can now be used to duplicate allays.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w04a				Amethyst shards can now be used as an armor trim material.
1.20			23w12a				Amethyst shards can now be used to craft calibrated sculk sensors.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Amethyst shards can now be found in trial chambers in decorated pots and intersection chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.0 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.17.0.50				Added amethyst shards behind the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle.
1.17.0			beta 1.17.0.52				Amethyst shards are now available without enabling Experimental Gameplay.
1.19.0			beta 1.19.0.26				Amethyst shards can now be found in ancient city chests.
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.22				Amethyst shards can now be used to duplicate allays.
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.80.21				Amethyst shards can now be used as an armor trim material.
			Preview 1.19.80.22				Amethyst shards can now be used to craft calibrated sculk sensors.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Amethyst shards can now be found in trial chambers in intersection chests.

Issues[edit | edit source]

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

Trivia[edit | edit source]

• Although in real life amethyst is a variety of quartz like nether quartz, the two resources are not interchangeable.

External links[edit | edit source]

• Taking Inventory: Amethyst Shard – Minecraft.net on May 20, 2021

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