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Glowstone Dust
| Type |
Raw materials |
|---|---|
| Rarity |
Common |
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Data value |
dec: 348 hex: 15C bin: 101011100 |
| Namespaced ID |
glowstone_dust |
This article is about the dust. For the block, see Glowstone.Glowstone dust is an item used to craft glowstone, create thick potions, and create potions with increased strength and decreased duration.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Glowstone[edit]
When broken using anything other than a Silk Touch-enchanted tool, a glowstone block drops 2-4 glowstone dust. A Fortune enchantment increases the chances of higher drops to 4 pieces of glowstone dust per block.
Witches[edit]
Witches have a chance of dropping 0–6 glowstone dust upon death. This is increased by 3 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-15 glowstone dust.
Blazes[edit]
In the Legacy Console Edition, a blaze drops 0-2 glowstone dust upon death. This makes glowstone a renewable resource in the Legacy Console Editions despite the lack of glowstone clusters due to small worlds.
Trading[edit]
Journeyman-level cleric villagers sell one glowstone dust for 4 emeralds as part of their trades.[Bedrock Edition only]
Usage[edit]
Crafting ingredient[edit]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
| Glowstone | Glowstone Dust | ||
| Spectral Arrow | Glowstone Dust + Arrow |
[Java Edition only] |
Brewing ingredient[edit]
| Name | Ingredients | Brewing recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Thick Potion | Glowstone Dust + Water Bottle |
|
| Increased Potency | Glowstone Dust + Potion of Healing or Potion of Regeneration or Potion of Strength or Potion of Swiftness or Potion of Harming or Potion of Poison or Potion of Leaping |
History[edit]
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2.0 | ? |  Glowstone dust introduced. It originally used nine dust to craft 1 glowstone block. | |||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
| 1.6.6 | The crafting recipe for glowstone blocks is now changed from nine units of glowstone dust to four. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Glowstone dust can now be brewed in a water bottle to create a thick potion. | |||
| It now strengthens the potions of Swiftness, Healing, Harming, Poison, Regeneration and Strength. | |||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Glowstone dust now strengthens the new potion of Regeneration. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w38b | Witches now have a chance of dropping glowstone dust. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Glowstone dust can now be used to craft a firework star with a twinkle effect. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w27a | It now strengthens the new potion of Leaping. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Glowstone dust is now used to craft spectral arrows. | |||
| Glowstone can no longer be added to extended potions. | |||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 348. | |||
| 18w07a | Glowstone dust now strengthens the new potion of the Turtle Master. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  Changed the texture of glowstone dust. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.5.0 | Added glowstone dust, obtainable through the nether reactor. | ||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Glowstone dust can now be obtained through the Nether. | |||
| Glowstone dust is now available in the creative inventory. | |||||
| Glowstone dust can now be used to brew thick potions and to strengthen potions. | |||||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Added witches, which have a chance of dropping glowstone dust upon death. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Glowstone dust can now be used to craft a firework star with a twinkle effect. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Changed the texture of glowstone dust. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Glowstone dust can now be bought from cleric villagers. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added glowstone dust. | |
| TU8 | 0–2 glowstone dust is dropped when a blaze is killed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added glowstone dust. | ||||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Glowstone Dust" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[edit]
Two units of glowstone dust, dropped on Netherrack.
