How to Find Amethyst in Minecraft

When the first part of the Minecraft 1.17 Cave & Cliff update came out, everyone was worried because Minecraft finally has its first Cave update after many years! With lots of new content, Amethyst is the one that draws a lot of attention in the update due to its appearance and usage.

Let us guide you in this article on how to find Amethyst in Minecraft and everything related to it!

Two steps to find Amethyst in Minecraft

Amethyst Sliver is a beautiful purple crystal that can only be obtained by breaking Amethyst Cluster Blocks. In general, you need to find an amethyst geode spawn underground. They blend into the caves and surroundings and are usually circular in shape.

#1 How to Find the Amethyst Geode in Minecraft

The Amethyst Geode can only spawn in the Y layer between -64 and 30, which means you’ll have to dig pretty deep into the ground. Regardless of the biomes, the geode always contains 3 layers in order: smooth basalt, calcite and amethyst block or budding amethyst. So if you’re mining and you see smooth basalt in the overworld, it’s the Amethyst Geode!

Sometimes the geode doesn’t lay out caves or canyons inside, so you’ll have to mine randomly. But more often than not, the amethyst geode will expose at least one side of the surrounding surface. So if you’re in a big cave, turn on the brightness control and take a look around. You can see something shiny as diamonds!

Once you find the geode, you need to harvest the amethyst. Each amethyst block in the inner layer has an 8.3% chance to spawn as a budding amethyst block instead. This special block can nourish and grow the amethyst. Therefore, the only way to grow and harvest the Amethyst is through this block.

#2 Harvest the amethyst

Pay attention to the budding amethyst block, you will see some amethyst buds and amethyst shards growing out of it. In advance, Amethyst grows in 4 stages and only drops Amethyst Shards in stage 4.

However, you can still break the Amethyst at levels 1-3 (at levels 1-3 they are called an Amethyst Bud), but they don’t drop anything unless you use a Silk Touch pickaxe. This way you can plant them on the amethyst budding block or decorate your house with them.

Using a pickaxe to break an Amethyst Cluster (Amethyst in Stage 4) will drop 4 Amethyst Shards. And with other methods like using a plunger it only drops 2 shards. With Fortune Enchantment, you can get up to 16 Amethyst Shards for each broken Amethyst Cluster.

frequently asked Questions

What is the easiest way to find Amethyst in Minecraft?

The easiest way to find Amethyst in Minecraft is to dig deep underground. Try to sprint and quickly look around for purple particles until you come across some large deepslate caves. This is the amethyst geode!

Can you grow Amethyst in Minecraft?

You can grow amethyst by waiting for the budding amethyst block to grow the amethyst bud, or by manually planting the amethyst bud on either side of the bud block. However, you can’t break the burgeoning amethyst block and bring it home to the farm since it doesn’t drop anything. You can only get the Budding Amethyst block in creative mode.

Can you grind amethyst from bone meal?

You can’t grind amethyst from bone meal in Minecraft yet. But hopefully Mojang will add this feature to the game in the future.

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