Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli
Rarity	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

This article is about the item. For the ore, see Lapis Lazuli Ore. For the mineral block, see Lapis Lazuli Block.

Lapis lazuli is a mineral required to enchant items in an enchanting table.

Obtaining

Mining

When mined with a stone pickaxe or better, lapis lazuli ore drops 4–9 lapis lazuli. With the Fortune III enchantment, a single block has a chance of dropping up to 36 items.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Block of Lapis Lazuli	9

Smelting

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Lapis Lazuli	Lapis Lazuli Ore or Deepslate Lapis Lazuli Ore + Any fuel	0.2

Villager gifts

In Java Edition, cleric villagers give players lapis lazuli if they have the Hero of the Village effect.

Trading

Apprentice-level cleric villagers sell one lapis lazuli for an emerald as part of their trades.

In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders may sell 3 lapis lazuli for an emerald.

Chest loot

See also: Lapis Lazuli Ore § Natural generation

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Lapis Lazuli	Mineshaft	Chest	4–9	14.5%
	Shipwreck	Treasure chest	1–10	61.5%
	Village	Temple chest	1–4	25.4%
Bedrock Edition
Lapis Lazuli	Mineshaft	Chest	4–9	14.5%
	Shipwreck	Treasure chest	1–10	61.5%
	Village	Temple chest	1–4	25.4%

Usage

Enchanting

1–3 pieces of lapis lazuli are required to use an enchanting table to enchant an item. More specifically, the enchanting table UI shows 3 options (see Enchanting mechanics for details): the first, second, and third options cost 1, 2, and 3 lapis lazuli, respectively.

Crafting ingredient

Lapis lazuli can be used to make blocks of lapis lazuli and blue dye. In Bedrock Edition, it can also be used directly as a substitute for blue dye.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Block of Lapis Lazuli	Lapis Lazuli
Blue Balloon	Latex + Lapis Lazuli + Helium + Lead		‌
Blue Bed	Any Bed + Lapis Lazuli		‌
Blue Carpet	White Carpet + Lapis Lazuli		‌
Blue Concrete Powder	Lapis Lazuli + Sand + Gravel	8	‌
Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli
Blue Firework Star	Gunpowder + Lapis Lazuli + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond		‌ Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients.
Blue Firework Star	Blue Firework Star + Lapis Lazuli		‌ Adds a "fade to color" effect to the firework star, overwriting any existing fades. Up to eight dyes can be added.
Blue Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Lapis Lazuli + Luminol		‌
Blue Shulker Box	Any Shulker Box + Lapis Lazuli		‌
Blue Stained Glass	Glass + Lapis Lazuli	8	‌
Blue Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Lapis Lazuli	8	‌
Blue Terracotta	Terracotta + Lapis Lazuli	8	‌
Blue Wool	Any Wool + Lapis Lazuli		‌
Cyan Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Green Dye	2	‌
Light Blue Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Bone Meal or White Dye	2	‌
Magenta Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye + Pink Dye	3	‌
Magenta Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye + Bone Meal or White Dye	4	‌
Purple Dye	Lapis Lazuli + Red Dye	2	‌

In Bedrock Edition, lapis lazuli can be also used in banner patterns:

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Blue Banner pattern	Lapis Lazuli + Banner
Blue Banner image	Lapis Lazuli + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple

Loom ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Loom recipe	Description
Blue Banner pattern	White Banner + Lapis Lazuli		Field masoned banner and bordure indented banner don't require banner patterns.‌ Lapis Lazuli can be used as a dye.‌ Note: The loom is using the Java Edition interface.
Blue Banner image	White Banner + Lapis Lazuli + Banner Pattern		Exceptions: Field masoned and bordure indented banner patterns.‌ Lapis Lazuli can be used as a dye.‌ Note: The loom is using the Java Edition interface.

Dye

In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, lapis lazuli can be:

• Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of blue wool.
• Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
• Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
• Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta and shulker boxes.
• Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
• Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
• Used to add patterns to banners.
• Used to dye shulkers in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
• Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs.

Smithing ingredient

Ingredients	Smithing recipe	Description
Any Armor Trim + Any Armor Piece + Lapis Lazuli	Upgrade Gear	All armor types can be used in this recipe, a netherite chestplate is shown as an example.

Trim color palette

The following color palette is shown on the designs on trimmed armor:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Lapis Lazuli	lapis_lazuli	Item	item.minecraft.lapis_lazuli

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Lapis Lazuli	lapis_lazuli	dye / 4	414	Item	item.dye.blue.name

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Enchanter	Enchant an item at an Enchanting Table	Diamonds!	Insert an item in an enchanting table, then apply an enchantment.	story/enchant_item

History

Java Edition Beta
1.2					Added lapis lazuli.
1.2_02					Lapis lazuli ore can now be found at bedrock level and now drops 4–8 lapis lazuli per block mined (increased from 1) on singleplayer only. However, servers have not been affected yet.
1.8		Pre-release			Lapis lazuli can now be found in mineshaft chests.
Java Edition
1.4.2		12w34a			Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye leather armor and wolf collars.
1.4.6		12w49a			Lapis lazuli can now be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star.
1.6.1		13w19a			Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue stained clay.
1.7.2		13w41a			Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue stained glass.
1.8		14w02a			Enchanting now requires lapis lazuli. Different enchantments require different amounts of levels and different amounts of levels now require different amounts of lapis lazuli (between 1-3).
					Cleric villagers now sell 1–2 lapis lazuli for 1 emerald, making it a renewable resource.
		14w30a			Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye banners.
1.9		15w44a			The average yield of lapis lazuli in mineshaft chests has been decreased.
1.11		16w39a			Added the ability to dye shulker boxes.
1.12		17w06a			Can now be used to craft blue concrete powder.
		17w15a			Added the ability to dye beds.
1.13		17w47a			The different data values for the dye ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351.
		18w11a			Lapis lazuli now generates in shipwreck chests.
1.14		18w43a			Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue dye.
					Lapis lazuli can no longer be used as a dye.
					All of the dye-related functions and crafting recipes of lapis lazuli (except lapis lazuli blocks) have been transferred to blue dye.
					The texture of lapis lazuli has been changed.
		18w50a			Lapis lazuli can now be found in chests in village temples.
		19w13a			Cleric villagers now give lapis lazuli to players under the Hero of the Village effect.
1.17		21w08a			Lapis lazuli can now drop and be smelted from deepslate lapis lazuli ore.
1.20 (Experimental)		23w04a			Lapis lazuli can now be used as an armor trim material.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.0					Added lapis lazuli.
v0.3.2					Lapis lazuli can now be crafted into lapis lazuli blocks, and vice versa.
v0.12.1		build 1			Lapis lazuli is now required for enchanting.
v0.14.0		build 1			Lapis lazuli can now be found inside minecart with chests in mineshafts.
					Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye water in cauldrons.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4		alpha 1.0.4.0			Cleric villagers now sell 1–2 lapis lazuli for 1 emerald.
					Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye shulker shells.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye shulker boxes and beds.
					Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue concrete powder.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye banners, firework stars and glass.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Lapis lazuli can now be found in shipwreck treasure chests.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.10			Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue dyes.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Lapis lazuli are now sold by wandering traders.
					The texture of lapis lazuli has been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Lapis lazuli can now be found in desert village temple chests.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Cleric villagers now sell one lapis lazuli for one emerald.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.56			The ID of lapis lazuli has been changed from dye/4 to lapis_lazuli.
1.17.0		beta 1.16.230.52			Lapis lazuli can now drop and be smelted from deepslate lapis lazuli ore.
1.19.80		beta 1.19.80.21			Lapis lazuli can now be used as an armor trim material.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added lapis lazuli.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Lapis lazuli can now be used in enchanting.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of lapis lazuli has been changed.

Issues

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Trivia

• In real life, lapis lazuli is a blue gem that can be ground and processed into ultramarine pigment. Lapis lazuli pigment has been famously used in the production of illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, and cave paintings. See the Wikipedia article for more information.
• Lapis lazuli is the only ore that can be used as a dye‌ or making a dye.
• It is the only item that can be put in the second slot of an enchantment table.

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