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Lapis lazuli is a primary color dye and an enchanting item.
Obtaining
Mining
When mined with a stone pickaxe or better, a block of lapis lazuli ore will drop 4–8 pieces of lapis lazuli. With the Fortune III enchantment, a single block has a chance of dropping up to 32 pieces.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Lapis Lazuli Block |
Smelting
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Lapis Lazuli Ore + Any fuel |
Trading
Cleric villagers sell 1–2 lapis lazuli for an emerald as part of their second tier of trades.
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
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.
Enchanting
1–3 pieces of lapis lazuli are used to enchant items in an enchantment table.
Crafting ingredient
Data values
Lapis lazuli has the ID name minecraft:dye, with a data value of 4.
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Video
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History
| beta | |||||
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| 1.2 | Added lapis lazuli. | ||||
| 1.2_02 | Lapis lazuli ore can be found at bedrock level and now it drops 4–8 lapis lazuli per block mined (increased from 1) on single player only (Minecraft beta servers have not been affected yet). | ||||
| 1.8 | Lapis lazuli can be found in mineshaft chests. | ||||
| release | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Lapis lazuli can be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | |||
| 1.6.1 | 13w19a | Stained clay can now be crafted. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | With the addition of new flowers, many secondary and tertiary dyes are now primary dyes. | |||
| 13w41a | Stained glass can now be crafted. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Enchanting requires lapis lazuli, different enchantments that requires different amount of levels requires 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 | Added banners which can be dyed. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w44a | Decreased average yield from mineshaft chests. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added lapis lazuli. | |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Lapis is now used in enchanting. | |
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.4.0 | Added lapis lazuli. | ||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Lapis lazuli is now used in enchanting. | |||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Lapis lazuli can now be found inside minecart with chest in abandoned mineshaft. | |||
| Lapis lazuli can be used to color water in cauldron. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.4 | build 1 | Cleric villagers now sell 1–2 lapis lazuli for 1 emerald. | |||
| Lapis lazuli can be used to dye shulker shell | |||||
| 1.1 | build 1 | Lapis lazuli can be used to dye shulker box and bed. | |||
| Lapis lazuli is now used to craft blue concrete powder. | |||||
Issues
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Trivia
- In real life, lapis lazuli is a medium hard stone used for making jewelry and as a pigment.