Lapis Lazuli

Lapis lazuli is a primary color dye obtained by mining lapis lazuli ore with a stone pickaxe or better. Similar to coal, redstone and diamond, lapis lazuli can be used immediately without the need for smelting.

Uses

 * Can be combined with wool to make blue wool.
 * Can be applied to sheep, which will yield 1-3 blocks of blue wool when sheared.
 * A lapis lazuli block can be formed by filling a crafting grid with 9 dye pieces.

Smelting
Redundant: When mined Lapis Lazuli ore produces 4-8 Lapis Lazuli dyes.

Rarity and location
Lapis lazuli has a similar rarity to diamond, but is found in less predictable ranges of layers, thus making it harder to find in predictable patterns. This fosters a belief among some players that lapis lazuli is rarer than diamond. But, due to the fact that destroying a Lapis block with a pickaxe drops multiple lapis dyes, only the ore is as rare as diamond, not lapis itself.

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 obtainable through mining.
 * In 1.2.5, when the pick block key was broken, if you used it on lapis luzuli ore you would get an inc sac, unlike if you tried on diamond, coal, redstone, gold, or iron. This is because lapis is a dye, and is part of a data value with the Ink Sac as the base. This was fixed when the pick block key was.

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