Glowstone
Transparent |
Yes |
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Luminance |
Yes (15) |
Blast resistance |
1.5 |
Tool |
Any tool |
Renewable |
Yes |
Stackable |
Yes (64) |
Flammable |
No |
Catches fire from lava |
No |
Drops |
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Data value |
dec: 89 hex: 59 bin: 1011001 |
Namespaced ID |
glowstone |
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— Duncan Geere[1] |
Glowstone is a light-emitting block acquired from trading and that appears in the Nether.
Contents
Occurrence[edit]
Natural generation[edit]

Glowstone occurs naturally only in the Nether, where it generates in coral-like clusters on the undersides of netherrack.
Obtaining[edit]
Unless broken with a tool that is enchanted with Silk Touch or Fortune, a glowstone block drops 2–4 glowstone dust. If a tool with Silk Touch is used, the block drops itself, and if a tool with Fortune is used, it has a higher chance of dropping a large amount of glowstone dust—but never more than 4.
Block | Glowstone | |
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Hardness | 0.3 | |
Breaking time | ||
Hand | 0.45 |
Crafting[edit]
Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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Glowstone Dust |
Trading[edit]
Journeyman-level Cleric villagers sell one glowstone for four emeralds.[Java Edition only]
Wandering traders sell glowstone for 2 emeralds.
Usage[edit]
Light source[edit]
Glowstone blocks emit a light level of 15, the brightest possible light level in the game. They emit the same amount of light as lanterns, sea lanterns, jack o'lanterns, redstone lamps, conduits and beacons
In redstone circuits[edit]
When placing redstone on a glowstone block, being a transparent block, signals can pass from one block to another diagonally. Redstone wire, even though it may appear to connect up the side of a glowstone block and to the wire portion on top, does not send a redstone signal down the glowstone block. This makes glowstone effective for vertical diodes, logic gate designs, and space-efficient instant vertical redstone.
Note that upside-down slabs can be used for the same purpose, and are easier to obtain.
Crafting ingredient[edit]
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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Redstone Lamp | Redstone Dust + Glowstone |
Note blocks[edit]
Glowstone can be placed under note blocks to produce pling sounds.[JE & BE only]
Sounds[edit]
Sound | Subtitle | Namespaced ID | Subtitle ID | Source | Pitch | Volume | Attenuation distance |
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Block breaking | block.glass.hit
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subtitles.block.generic.hit
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Blocks | 0.5 | 0.25 | 16 | |
Block broken | block.glass.break
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subtitles.block.generic.break
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Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Block placed | block.glass.place
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subtitles.block.generic.place
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Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Footsteps | block.glass.step
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subtitles.block.generic.footsteps
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Blocks | 1.0 | 0.15 | 16 | |
No subtitle | block.glass.fall
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(Plays when fallen on from a height) | Blocks | 0.75 | 0.5 | 16 |
History[edit]
Java Edition Alpha | |||||||||
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v1.2.0 | preview | ![]() | |||||||
Glowstone is shown to drop itself when mined. | |||||||||
? | The crafting recipe for glowstone is 3×3 glowstone dust.
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The drop rate of glowstone dust from mined glowstone is 1. | |||||||||
The material type of glowstone is currently "glass". | |||||||||
Java Edition Beta | |||||||||
1.6.6 | The crafting recipe of glowstone has changed to 2×2 glowstone dust. | ||||||||
The drop rate of glowstone dust from mined glowstone has increased to 2–4. | |||||||||
The material type of glowstone has changed to "stone", meaning a pickaxe is now needed to drop items and block dependent blocks can now be placed on the block. | |||||||||
1.7.3 | Harvesting glowstone now requires an iron pickaxe or higher. | ||||||||
Java Edition | |||||||||
1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 | ![]() | |||||||
RC1 | The material type of glowstone has changed once again to "glass". | ||||||||
1.2.1 | 12w06a | Redstone can now be placed on glowstone. Redstone wire can now transmit only upward through it. | |||||||
12w07a | Glowstone is now used to craft redstone lamps. | ||||||||
1.3.1 | 12w21a | Priest villagers now sell 2–3 glowstone for 1 emerald. | |||||||
12w22a | Inventory sprites for blocks have now been flipped from left to right, changing to ![]() | ||||||||
1.5 | 13w02a | In texture packs, glowstone now use /textures/blocks/lightgem.png. | |||||||
1.7.2 | 13w41a | Glowstone can now no longer be used to see through blocks. | |||||||
1.8 | 14w02a | Trading has changed: cleric villagers now sell 1–3 glowstone for 1 emerald. | |||||||
1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 89. | |||||||
1.14 | 18w43a | ![]() | |||||||
18w47a | ![]() | ||||||||
19w09a | Glowstone now makes a "pling" sound when placed under a note block. | ||||||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||||
0.5.0 | ![]() | ||||||||
0.9.0 | build 1 | Smooth lighting has removed from glowstone. | |||||||
0.12.1 | build 1 | Glowstone can now be obtained by breaking it using the Silk Touch enchantment. | |||||||
0.13.0 | build 1 | Glowstone is now used to craft redstone lamps. | |||||||
Pocket Edition | |||||||||
1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Glowstone is now sold by cleric villagers. | |||||||
Bedrock Edition | |||||||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Glowstone is now sold by the new wandering trader. | |||||||
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1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has changed, cleric villagers no longer sell glowstone. | |||||||
1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.9 | Glowstone now causes a note block to make a "pling" sound when placed under it. | |||||||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||||||
TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() | ||||
PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||||||
1.90 | ![]() | ||||||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||||
0.1.0 | ![]() |
Trivia[edit]
- Since glowstone blocks become block entities when moved by pistons, this momentarily stops them from giving off light. This will not be fixed.[2]
- Rarely, glowstone can be found touching the ground if the ceiling it was generated on was extremely low (2-3 blocks of clearance).
- Glowstone, though being transparent, causes the sky light to count down as if it hit a non-transparent block, whilst still letting through this light.
Gallery[edit]
Purchasing glowstone from a cleric villager.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Block of the Week: Glowstone" – Minecraft.net, April 20, 2018
- ↑ MC-3667