Shulker Box

Shulker Box

Type	Block Entity
Requirements	None
Physics	No
Transparency	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	30
Hardness	6
Tool
Renewable	No
Stackable	No
Flammable	No
Drops	Itself
Block entity id	shulker_box
Data values	JE: dec: 219 hex: DB bin: 11011011 through dec: 234 hex: EA bin: 11101010 BE: dec: 218 hex: DA bin: 11011010
Name	JE: $color_shulker_box BE: shulker_box

This article is about the storage block. For the hostile End city mob, see Shulker. For the item that drops from the mob, see Shulker Shell.

A shulker box is a block that can store and transport items.

Obtaining

Breaking

Shulker Boxes can be mined with any tool or by hand, but using a pickaxe is the quickest method.

Block	Shulker Box
Hardness	6
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	9
Wooden	4.5
Stone	2.25
Iron	1.5
Diamond	1.15
Golden	0.75

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Shulker Box	Shulker Shell + Chest
Shulker Box	Any Shulker Box + Matching Dye

Creative

When instantly mined in Creative mode, shulker boxes will drop as an item if there are items stored within.

Usage

Unlike other storage units, such as chests, shulker boxes keep their items when broken, which can be retrieved when placed again. Shulker boxes will drop as an item if pushed by pistons, and can be placed using dispensers. When holding a shulker box with items inside, the items will be listed as properties.

Items inside the shulker box are listed below the block type properties.

Shulker boxes can be stored in other containers, though they cannot be stored in other shulker boxes.

A shulker box has 27 inventory slots, the same number as a chest.

By default, the GUI of a shulker box is labeled "Shulker Box", but this name can be customized by naming it in an anvil before placing it, or by changing the CustomName tag using the /blockdata command.

When placed on a wall or ceiling, shulker boxes will face and open sideways/upside-down.

Shulker boxes cannot be opened if a solid opaque block is on their top surface, similar to a chest. For example, if a shulker box is facing upside-down and a solid opaque block is below it, the shulker box cannot be opened until the block is removed.

Undyeing

Dyed shulker boxes can be undyed using a cauldron.^{[upcoming 1.13]} To do this, use a dyed shulker box on a cauldron that has water in it. This will cause the cauldron's water level to decrease by 1, and the shulker box will turn into an undyed one.

Data values

Block state

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
facing	north south east west up down	The direction the shulker box is pointing. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the shulker box.

Block entity

See also: Block entity format

A shulker box has a block entity associated with it that identifies its contents. The block's block entity ID is shulker_box.

• 
  Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template
  • 
     CustomName: Optional. The name of this container, which will display in its GUI where the default name ordinarily is.
  • 
     Lock: Optional. When not blank, prevents the container from being opened unless the opener is holding an item whose name matches this string.
  • 
     Items: List of items in the container.
    • 
      : An item, including the slot tag. Shulker box slots are numbered 0–26, 0 starts in the top left corner.
      • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     LootTable: Optional. Loot table to be used to fill the shulker box when it is next opened, or the items are otherwise interacted with.
  • 
     LootTableSeed: Optional. Seed for generating the loot table. 0 or omitted will use a random seed.

Item data

Shulker boxes, as items, use an NBT tag BlockEntityTag to indicate the contents and details of the box when it is placed.

The following NBT structure is provided to show how the BlockEntityTag tag is organized, and is not comprehensive above the tag tag. The full NBT for an item can be found here.

• 
  Entity data
  • 
     Item: The item
    • 
       tag: Additional information about the item. This tag is optional for most items.
      • 
         BlockEntityTag: The details of the shulker box
        • 
           CustomName: Optional. The name of this container, which will display in its GUI where the default name ordinarily is.
        • 
           Lock: Optional. When not blank, prevents the container from being opened unless the opener is holding an item whose name matches this string.
        • 
           Items: List of items in the container.
          • 
            : An item, including the slot tag. Shulker box slots are numbered 0–26, 0 starts in the top left corner.
            • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
        • 
           LootTable: Optional. Loot table to be used to fill the shulker box when it is next opened, or the items are otherwise interacted with.
        • 
           LootTableSeed: Optional. Seed for generating the loot table. 0 or omitted will use a random seed.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Organizational Wizard	Name a Shulker Box with an Anvil		No	No	Yes	No	30G	—

History

Shulker box colors
before 1.12

Official release
1.11			16w39a		Shulker boxes added.
			16w39c		Silver shulker boxes are now called light gray, in keeping with naming consistencies across dyed blocks.
1.12			17w16a		Recolored shulker boxes (see old colors in the corner.).
			17w17a		Reverted color of purple shulker boxes.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.13			17w47a		The ID has been changed from silver_shulker_box to light_gray_shulker_box.
			18w10a		Added a neutral shulker box.
					Changed the purple shulker box texture to the one used in 17w16a.
			18w10d		Shulker boxes can now be undyed in a cauldron.
Pocket Edition
1.1			alpha 1.1.0.0		Added shulker boxes.
			alpha 1.1.0.9		Updated color palette for shulker boxes.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			beta 1.2.0.2		Added a default shulker box.
					Changed the purple shulker box color to the new palette.
Legacy Console Edition
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	Patch s3	Added shulker boxes.

Issues

Issues relating to "Shulker Box" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• When opened with an entity on top, they will rise up half a block. This stretch also occurs to the box's hitbox.
• When destroyed by an explosion, the block will always drop as an item.
• With 36 shulker boxes in your inventory and hotbar, 972 stacks of up to 64 items (up to 62208 total items) can be held. With 35 shulker boxes and an ender chest with 27 shulker boxes in it, 1674 (107136) can be held, or with one fewer box for a Silk Touch pick, 1647 (105408).
  • With strength value 5 llamas, each caravan of 10 llamas with inventories full of shulker boxes can carry up to 4050 stacks (up to 259200 items).

Blocks

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