Lapis Lazuli

Lapis lazuli is a primary color dye obtained by mining lapis lazuli ore. Similar to coal, emerald, redstone and diamond, lapis lazuli can be used immediately without the need for smelting. It is used to create the lapis lazuli block. In 1.8 Lapis Lazuli will be used in enchanting.

Obtaining
When mined with a stone pickaxe or better, a block of lapis lazuli ore will drop 4–8 pieces of lapis lazuli.

Smelting
Note that this is both inefficient and wasteful, as a Silk Touch-enchanted pickaxe is needed to collect the ore block, and when mined Lapis Lazuli ore produces 4-8 Lapis Lazuli items, rather than just one by smelting.

Trivia

 * In real life, lapis lazuli is a medium hard stone used for making jewelry and as a pigment.
 * Lapis lazuli dye was going to be a crafting ingredient for the block Crying Obsidian, but neither the block nor the recipe were ever added.
 * Lapis lazuli is the only dye that can be crafted into a block.
 * Using a Fortune III pickaxe, it is possible to get half a stack of lapis lazuli from one ore block, giving it the highest maximum yield with Fortune.

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