Budding Amethyst

This article is about the unobtainable block that grows amethyst buds. For the block that grows to become an amethyst cluster, see Amethyst Bud. For the block crafted from amethyst shards, see Block of Amethyst. For other uses, see Amethyst.

Budding Amethyst
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	1.5
Hardness	1.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	Partial (blocks light)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Budding amethyst is a fragile block found in amethyst geodes that grows amethyst clusters over time. It cannot be obtained as an item or moved by a piston, necessitating that it be returned to in order to harvest more clusters from it.

Obtaining

Budding amethysts can only be obtained via using redstone update suppressor machines and can be broken with Silk Touch pickaxe.

Breaking

Budding amethyst cannot be obtained when mined, even using a tool enchanted with Silk Touch. It breaks immediately if pushed by a piston or sticky piston, and cannot be pulled by sticky pistons.

Block	Budding Amethyst
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	7.5
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2

Natural generation

Budding amethyst generates naturally as part of amethyst geodes replacing some blocks of amethyst in the innermost layer of the geode.

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.

Sound

Uniquely among other blocks a budding amethyst makes a quiet overlay sound when generally interacted with as well as its block breaking sound when hit with a projectile.

Sounds

Generic

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	Block tags	Translation key
Budding Amethyst	budding_amethyst	Block & Item	crystal_sound_blocks mineable/pickaxe	block.minecraft.budding_amethyst

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Budding Amethyst	budding_amethyst	583	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.budding_amethyst.name

History

May 21, 2009					Notch mentioned crystal blocks as a potential block type that can be found in the underground.
October 3, 2020					Amethyst-related blocks are mentioned at Minecraft Live 2020. It was mentioned that, like with spawners, blocks that generate amethysts would not be movable by survival means, forcing players to build farms in situ for these resources.
October 6, 2020					Cory Scheviak tweeted a screenshot where budding amethyst was seen, unnamed at the moment.
Java Edition
1.17		20w45a			Added budding amethyst.
		20w46a			The texture of budding amethyst has been changed.
		20w48a			The texture of budding amethyst has been changed again.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.0		beta 1.17.0.50			Added budding amethyst.
		beta 1.17.0.52			Budding amethyst are no longer available only in experimental gameplay.

Trivia

• JAPPA has said the reasoning for the 'x' pattern on the block is because "the plane-crystals grow out of it".
• According to Agnes Larsson, budding amethyst cannot be obtained without commands in Survival mode because the developers wanted to encourage players to return to the same amethyst geode repeatedly, rather than mining away the budding amethyst and farming it at their home similar to the spawner.
• According to Cory Scheviak, budding amethysts were inspired by atium from the fantasy novel series Mistborn.

Issues

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