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How to Make Beacon in Minecraft
Top row: Glass, Glass, Glass. Middle row: Glass, Nether Star, Glass. Bottom row: Obsidian, Obsidian, Obsidian.
What you need
- Glass×5
- Nether Star×1
- Obsidian×3
Worth knowing
- 5 glass, 1 nether star (dropped by the wither) and 3 obsidian.
- Must be plain glass — stained glass and tinted glass are rejected by the recipe.
- Needs a pyramid of iron, gold, emerald, diamond or netherite blocks under it and clear sky above to activate.
Related tool and guide
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Where to get the ingredients
Glass is smelted too — here is how.
More utility recipes
Utility blocks are the ones you end up placing in every base you build. Practise the grids in Craft Master. Icons from Saturation++ (Apache-2.0).