Glowstone
| Transparency |
Yes |
|---|---|
| Luminance |
15 |
| Blast resistance |
1.5 |
| Tool |
Any tool |
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Flammable |
No |
| Drops |
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| Data value |
dec: 89 hex: 59 bin: 1011001 |
| Name |
glowstone |
This article is about the block. For the dust, see Glowstone Dust. |
“ | Glowstone was added to Minecraft on 30 October 2010 in the Halloween Update - which also added Jack o’Lanterns, clocks and fishing. It occurs naturally in the Nether, generating on the underside of netherack, but if you’re having trouble finding it then clerics in Minecraft villages will sometimes sell small amounts in exchange for emeralds. | „ |
| — Duncan Geere[1] |
Glowstone is a light-emitting block that appears in the Nether.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Unless broken with a tool that is enchanted with Silk Touch or Fortune, a glowstone block drops 2–4 glowstone dust. If 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[note 1] | ||
| Hand | 0.45 | |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.
Natural generation[edit]
Glowstone only occurs naturally in the Nether, where it generates in coral-like clusters on the undersides of netherrack.
Crafting[edit]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Glowstone Dust |
Trading[edit]
Villager clerics will sell 1-3 glowstone for an emerald as a third tier trade.
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 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, will 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Redstone Lamp | Redstone Dust + Glowstone |
Video[edit]
History[edit]
| Alpha | ||||||
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| v1.2.0-preview | Glowstone was shown to drop itself when mined. | |||||
| v1.2.0 |  Glowstone has been added. |
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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. | ||||||
| Material type began as "glass". | ||||||
| Beta | ||||||
| 1.6.6 | Crafting recipe has been changed to 2×2 glowstone dust. | |||||
| Drop rate of glowstone dust from mined glowstone has now been increased to 2–4. | ||||||
| The material type of glowstone has been 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 will now require an iron pickaxe or higher. | |||||
| Official release | ||||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 | The glowstone's texture has been changed, removing the border on the outside. |
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| RC1 | The material type of glowstone has now been changed once again to "glass". | |||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w06a | Redstone can now be placed on glowstone. Redstone wire can now only transmit upwards through it. | ||||
| 12w07a | Glowstone is now used to craft redstone lamps. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Priest villagers will now sell 2–3 glowstone for 1 emerald. | ||||
| 12w22a | Inventory sprites for blocks have been flipped from left to right, changing to . |
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| 1.5 | 13w02a | In texture packs, glowstone will 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 been changed: cleric villagers will now sell 1–3 glowstone for 1 emerald. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 89. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | ||||||
| 0.5.0 | Glowstone added. | |||||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | Smooth lighting has now been removed from glowstone. | ||||
| 0.13.0 | build 1 | Glowstone is now used to craft redstone lamps. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | ||||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Patch s1 | Glowstone was added. | |
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).
- When glowstone is placed 9 or more blocks above ground level (out of its lighting range), the glowstone will actually cast a shadow, despite being a light-emitting block.
Gallery[edit]
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The melting pattern of glowstone.
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Purchasing glowstone from a cleric villager.
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A diode made using glowstone.
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An example of the new glowstone redstone results.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Block of the Week: Glowstone" – Minecraft.net, April 20, 2018
- ↑ MC-3667
