Prismarine

Prismarine is a stone-like material that only appears underwater in ocean monuments. This block has several variants, including prismarine bricks and dark prismarine. It makes up a large portion of the monuments.

World Generation
Prismarine naturally spawns in ocean monuments. Deconstructing the monument yields a lot of prismarine, but is non-renewable and takes a long time.

Crafting
Prismarine can be crafted with 4 prismarine shards in the inventory crafting grid or crafting table. This method requires a large quantity of shards, but is renewable, and the demand can be easily met with a guardian farm.

Trivia

 * The name "prismarine" was created by Reddit user AjaxGb during a naming contest, where Jeb was looking for a name for the block.
 * Its name is composed of prism, referencing how a glass prism creates rainbows out of white light, and marine, since it is an underwater block.
 * Prismarine appears similar in color and texture to the real-world microcline.
 * The cracks in prismarine slowly change color between brown, blue, gray and purple.
 * If the prismarine texture is applied to a block in a resource pack in 1.7, or a version below 1.7 (with the texture animation MCMETA file), the texture won't have the fade effect when changing different colors.
 * The full animation for the prismarine texture takes 5 minutes and 30 seconds to complete.