Amethyst Cluster

"Amethyst Bud" redirects here. For the block that grows amethyst buds, see Budding Amethyst. For other uses, see Amethyst.

Amethyst Cluster
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	1.5
Hardness	1.5
Luminous	Small: Yes (1) Medium: Yes (2) Large: Yes (4) Cluster: Yes (5)
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Amethyst buds are the first three stages of growth of amethyst clusters, which grow on budding amethyst.

Amethyst clusters are the fourth and final growth stage of amethyst buds, which drop amethyst shards when mined.

Obtaining

Breaking

The amethyst cluster block itself in any of its growth stages (rather than its amethyst shard drops) can be obtained by mining it with any tool with the Silk Touch enchantment.

When mined without Silk Touch or broken by being pushed off an attached block by a piston or sticky piston, only fully grown amethyst clusters drop amethyst shards, while amethyst buds drop nothing. Breaking an amethyst cluster with a pickaxe drops 4 shards while any other method of breaking it yields 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). These are the same percentage increases as ores (except redstone ore and ancient debris).

Block	Amethyst Bud Amethyst Cluster
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	2.25
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2

Natural generation

Amethyst buds and clusters generate naturally as part of amethyst geodes, on exposed faces of budding amethysts.

Post-generation

Every time a budding amethyst block receives a random tick, there is a 20% chance for a small amethyst bud to generate on any of its sides, as long as the block being replaced with the small amethyst bud is air or a water source block.

Usage

Growing into amethyst clusters

An amethyst bud placed on a budding amethyst (rather than any other block) regardless whether it was placed by the player or spawned by the budding amethyst itself grows over time, going through three growth stages – small, medium, and large – before reaching its 4th and final growth stage as an amethyst cluster, which drops amethyst shards when mined.

In Java Edition, the below logic can be applied:

1. Per Random Tick, updates will occur to any given block in the loaded chunk every 68.27 seconds on average if the chunk center is within 128 blocks of a player's location.
2. Each random tick assigned to the Budding Amethyst block has a 20% chance of creating a new amethyst bud or incrementing the growth stage on one randomly-selected side of the six-sided block.
3. There are 4 growth stages.

As such, the math can be applied if a player is within random tick range as:

(68.27 seconds average for random ticks) x (20% chance of growth for any given single side) x (6 sides) x (4 growth stages) = 68.27 x 5 x 6 x 4 = 8192.4 seconds average, also 2 hours 16 minutes 32.4 seconds, also 6.827 in-game days.

Decoration

They can also be placed on certain other types blocks for decoration. Most blocks have not yet been tested, but it seems that they can be placed only on full blocks, or those sides of blocks that form a full surface. They can be placed on the bottom of stairs (or top of upside down stairs), but not on their side, or top. And they can not be placed on any type of fences.

Light

Small, medium and large amethyst buds give off a light level of 1, 2 and 4 respectively, while amethyst clusters give off a light level of 5.

Sound

Uniquely among other blocks an amethyst cluster in all its growth stages makes a quiet overlay sound when generally interacted with as well as its block breaking sound when hit with a projectile.

Sounds

Generic

Cluster

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Large bud

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Medium bud

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Small bud

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Unique

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Amethyst chimes	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.amethyst_block.chime	subtitles.block.amethyst_block.chime	0.26-0.2768	0.5-1.784	16
	Amethyst chimes	Blocks	When a projectile collides with the block	block.amethyst_block.chime	subtitles.block.amethyst_block.chime	0.2	0.5-1.7	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	When a projectile collides with the block	block.amethyst_block.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.2	0.5-1.7	16

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Small Amethyst Bud	small_amethyst_bud	Block & Item	block.minecraft.small_amethyst_bud
Medium Amethyst Bud	medium_amethyst_bud	Block & Item	block.minecraft.medium_amethyst_bud
Large Amethyst Bud	large_amethyst_bud	Block & Item	block.minecraft.large_amethyst_bud
Amethyst Cluster	amethyst_cluster	Block & Item	block.minecraft.amethyst_cluster

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Small Amethyst Bud	small_amethyst_bud	587	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.small_amethyst_bud.name
Medium Amethyst Bud	medium_amethyst_bud	586	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.medium_amethyst_bud.name
Large Amethyst Bud	large_amethyst_bud	585	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.large_amethyst_bud.name
Amethyst Cluster	amethyst_cluster	584	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.amethyst_cluster.name

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	up	down east north south up west	The direction the amethyst is facing, determined by its anchoring.
waterlogged	false	true false	Whether or not the amethyst is located inside of water.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
facing_direction (Deprecated)	Not Supported	0	0 1 2 3 4 5	Unsupported	The direction the amethyst is facing. 0: down 1: up 2: north 3: south 4: west 5: east
minecraft:block_face	Not Supported	up	down east north south up west	Unsupported	The direction the amethyst is facing, determined by its anchoring.

History

For a more in-depth breakdown of changes to textures and models, including a set of renders for each state combination, see /Asset history

May 21, 2009					Notch mentioned crystal blocks as a potential block type that can be found in the underground.
October 3, 2020					Amethyst clusters are shown at Minecraft Live 2020.
October 20, 2020					Cory Scheviak reveals small and medium amethyst buds on Twitter.
Java Edition
1.17		20w45a			Added amethyst buds and amethyst clusters.
		20w46a			Amethyst buds can now be obtained with Silk Touch.
		21w11a			Breaking amethyst clusters by hand, with a piston, or by other means now drops 2 amethyst shards instead of the 4 that it does when broken with a pickaxe.
					Previously, only an iron pickaxe or higher could cause 4 amethyst shards to drop, and other means dropped nothing.
		21w17a			Removed unused 'lit' blockstate.
?					Some amethyst bud items now have dedicated item textures, which appear moved up a few pixels compared to the block textures.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.0		beta 1.17.0.50			Added amethyst buds and amethyst clusters.
		beta 1.17.0.52			Amethyst buds and amethyst clusters are no longer available only in experimental gameplay.
1.20.30		beta 1.20.20.20			Now uses the minecraft:block_face block state instead of facing_direction.

Issues

Issues relating to "Amethyst Cluster", "Amethyst Bud", or "Amethyst Crystal" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  Amethyst buds cannot grow on its own, but it grows when its neighboring budding amethysts receive random ticks.

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  The first image of amethyst buds.