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Glowstone Dust
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.
Trading[edit]
Trading[edit]
Journeyman-level cleric villagers sell one glowstone dust[Bedrock Edition only]/one glowstone block[Java Edition only] for 4 emeralds as part of their trades.
Bartering[edit]
Piglins may barter 5–12 glowstone dust when given a gold ingot[until JE 1.16.2].
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] | |
| White Firework Star or Blue Firework Star or Brown Firework Star or Black Firework Star |
Gunpowder + Bone Meal or Lapis Lazuli or Cocoa Beans or Ink Sac + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] 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. |
Brewing ingredient[edit]
| Name | Ingredients | Brewing recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Thick Potion | Glowstone Dust + Water Bottle |
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| 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 |
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Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Name | Namespaced ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Glowstone Dust | glowstone_dust | item.minecraft.glowstone_dust |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glowstone Dust | glowstone_dust | 348 | item.glowstone_dust.name |
History[edit]
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2.0 | ? |  Added glowstone dust.
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| Glowstone dust currently uses nine dust to craft 1 glowstone block. | |||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
| 1.6.6 | The crafting recipe for glowstone blocks has now been changed from nine units of glowstone dust to four. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Glowstone dust can now be brewed in a water bottle to create a thick potion. | |||
| Glowstone dust 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 | Glowstone dust now strengthens the new potion of Leaping. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Glowstone dust is now used to craft spectral arrows. | |||
| Glowstone dust 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 |  The texture of glowstone dust has now been changed. | |||
| 1.16 | 20w07a | Glowstone dust has a 2⁄109 (~1.83%) chance of being offered by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–4. | |||
| 20w09a | Glowstone dust now has a 10⁄226 (~4.42%) chance of being offered by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5. | ||||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.16.2 | 20w28a | Glowstone dust can no longer be obtained from bartering with piglins. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.5.0 | Added glowstone dust.
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| Glowstone dust is currently 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 | The texture of glowstone dust has now been changed. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Glowstone dust can now be bought from cleric villagers. | |||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Glowstone dust can now be obtained from bartering with piglins. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added glowstone dust. |
| TU8 | 0–2 glowstone dust is now dropped when a blaze is killed. | ||||
| 1.90 | The texture of glowstone dust has now been changed. | ||||
| 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.
