A shelf is a decorative block added in The Copper Age. It can hold and display up to three stacks of items, similar to the item frame.
Obtaining[]
Breaking[]
Shelves can be broken by hand, but using any axe can break it faster.
| Block | Shelf | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | ? | |
| Tool | ||
| Breaking time[A] | ||
| Default | ? | |
| Wooden | ? | |
| Stone | ? | |
| Iron | ? | |
| Diamond | ? | |
| Netherite | ? | |
| Golden | ? | |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Crafting[]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Shelf | Matching Stripped Log or Block of Stripped Bamboo or Matching Stripped Stem |
Usage[]
Holding and display items[]
Shelves can hold and display up to 3 item stacks, similar to the item frame.
Interacting by Redstone[]
Shelves can be powered by redstone, in which an item can be swapped in the player's main hand.
- Interacting with a single powered shelf causes the first 3 rightmost slots on the hotbar to be swapped.
- Interacting with two connected powered shelves causes the 6 rightmost slots on the hotbar to be swapped.
- Interacting with three connected powered shelves causes all 9 slots on the hotbar to be swapped.
As a fuel[]
Like any wood-related blocks (with the exception of nether wood), shelves can be used as a fuel in the furnace.
A single shelf is able to smelt 1½ items. This means a full stack (64) of shelf can smelt 96 items.
History[]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.21.9 | 25w31a | Added shelves. | |||
| Shelved items now sit in the middle. | |||||
| 25w32a | Shelved items and/or blocks now sit nearer. | ||||
| 25w33a | Now sits in the middle again, with adjustments to sizes to fit in a shelf. | ||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.21.110 | beta 1.21.110.20 | Added shelves. | |||
| beta 1.21.110.22 | Hoppers and droppers now add or remove items to and from shelves. | ||||
| Are now waterloggable. | |||||
| Powered shelves now connects each other even they are using different wood. | |||||
| beta 1.21.110.23 | Decreased the size of shelved items. | ||||
| Shelved items and/or blocks now sit nearer. | |||||
| beta 1.21.110.24 | Changed the shelf block model to match with Java Edition. | ||||
| beta 1.21.110.25 | Now produces stripped log particles when breaking them. | ||||
| Shelved items will now render in the middle. | |||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.21.120 | beta 1.21.120.20 | Now emits vibration when adding or removing redstone power to and from shelves. | |||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Shelf" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- Shelves are first appeared in A Minecraft Movie as part of "Steve's Secret Stash!".
- The breaking/placing and stepping sounds for cherry, bamboo, and nether wood shelves uses wood sound type.[1]
- It was later replaced with a chiseled bookshelf sound type.
Gallery[]
Renders[]
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Oak Shelf -
Spruce Shelf -
Birch Shelf -
Jungle Shelf -
Acacia Shelf
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Dark Oak Shelf
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Mangrove Shelf
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Cherry Shelf
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Pale Oak Shelf
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Bamboo Shelf
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Warped Shelf
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Crimson Shelf
Other[]
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Five shelves (2 warped and acacia shelves and a pale oak shelf) containing various items.
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A white casket built out of pale oak shelves and pale oak trapdoor.
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Ditto, but with a villager lying in a bed and half of a coffin is open. This references to a traditional funeral wake of a deceased person.
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Six copper golem statues (all of which are in star pose) carrying a coffin containing a dried ghast, which references to a coffin dance. Notice the coffin is built out of spruce shelves and spruce trapdoor.
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From left to right: Oak Shelf, Spruce Shelf, Birch Shelf, Jungle Shelf, Acacia Shelf, Dark Oak Shelf, Mangrove Shelf, Pale Oak Shelf, Cherry Shelf, Bamboo Shelf, Crimson Shelf, Warped Shelf
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