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Shulker Box
Transparent |
Yes |
---|---|
Luminance |
0 |
Blast resistance |
30 |
Hardness |
2 |
Tool | |
Renewable |
No |
Stackable |
No |
Flammable |
No |
Catches fire from lava |
No |
Drops |
Itself |
Block entity ID |
See § Data values |
Data values |
See § Data values |
Namespaced ID |
See § Data values |
A shulker box is a block that can store and transport items.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Breaking[edit]
Shulker Boxes can be mined with any tool or by hand, but using a pickaxe is the quickest method.
Block | Shulker Box | |
---|---|---|
Hardness | 2 | |
Tool | ||
Breaking time[note 1] | ||
Hand | 3 | |
Wooden | 1.5 | |
Stone | 0.75 | |
Iron | 0.5 | |
Diamond | 0.4 | |
Golden | 0.25 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds. For more information, see Haste § Instant mining.
Crafting[edit]
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Shulker Box | Shulker Shell + Chest |
||
Shulker Box | Any Shulker Box + Matching Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. |
Creative[edit]
When instantly mined in Creative mode, shulker boxes drop as an item if there are items stored within, unless /gamerule doTileDrops
is set to "false".
Usage[edit]
A shulker box has 27 inventory slots, the same as a chest.
Shulker boxes are portable chests: they keep their items when broken, which can be retrieved when placed again. This is different from other containers, which drop their contained items as item entities when broken. A shulker box drops itself as an item if pushed by pistons or destroyed by an explosion. When a shulker box with items inside is held or in a container's inventory, the items are listed as properties.
A shulker box's item can be fed or removed by a hopper.
Shulker boxes can be stored in all containers except for other shulker boxes.
When placed on a wall or ceiling, shulker boxes face and open sideways or upside-down, respectively. 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. A shulker box can also be placed using dispensers.
Shulker boxes, unlike chests, cannot be opened with a transparent block above them if the block's hitbox intersects the shulker box's when it is open. This way, a shulker box can be opened with an upside-down slab or an upper trapdoor on top of it.
By default, the GUI of a shulker box is labeled "Shulker Box", which can be changed by naming it in an anvil or by changing the CustomName
tag using the /data
command.
Undyeing[edit]
Dyed shulker boxes can be undyed using a cauldron.[Java and Legacy Console editions only] To do this, use a dyed shulker box on a cauldron that has water in it. This causes the cauldron's water level to decrease by 1, and the shulker box loses its dye color.
Sounds[edit]
Sound | Subtitle | Namespaced ID | Subtitle ID | Source | Pitch | Volume | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block breaking | block.stone.hit
|
subtitles.block.generic.hit
|
Blocks | 0.5 | 0.25 | 16 | |
Block broken | block.stone.break
|
subtitles.block.generic.break
|
Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Block placed | block.stone.place
|
subtitles.block.generic.place
|
Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Footsteps | block.stone.step
|
subtitles.block.generic.footsteps
|
Blocks | 1.0 | 0.15 | 16 | |
No subtitle | block.stone.fall
|
(Plays when fallen on from a height) | Blocks | 0.75 | 0.5 | 16 | |
Shulker closes | block.shulker_box.close
|
subtitles.block.shulker_box.close
|
? | ? | ? | 16 | |
Shulker opens | block.shulker_box.open
|
subtitles.block.shulker_box.open
|
? | ? | ? | 16 |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Shulker Box | Namespaced ID |
---|---|
Undyed | shulker_box
|
White | white_shulker_box
|
Orange | orange_shulker_box
|
Magenta | magenta_shulker_box
|
Light blue | light_blue_shulker_box
|
Yellow | yellow_shulker_box
|
Lime | lime_shulker_box
|
Pink | pink_shulker_box
|
Gray | gray_shulker_box
|
Light gray | light_gray_shulker_box
|
Cyan | cyan_shulker_box
|
Purple | purple_shulker_box
|
Blue | blue_shulker_box
|
Brown | brown_shulker_box
|
Green | green_shulker_box
|
Red | red_shulker_box
|
Black | black_shulker_box
|
Block entity | shulker_box
|
Shulker Box | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID |
---|---|---|
Undyed | undyed_shulker_box
|
205 |
Dyed | shulker_box
|
218 |
Block entity | ShulkerBox
|
- |
Block data[edit]
In Bedrock Edition, dyed shulker boxes use the following data values:
DV | Description | |
---|---|---|
0 | White Shulker Box | |
1 | Orange Shulker Box | |
2 | Magenta Shulker Box | |
3 | Light Blue Shulker Box | |
4 | Yellow Shulker Box | |
5 | Lime Shulker Box | |
6 | Pink Shulker Box | |
7 | Gray Shulker Box | |
8 | Light Gray Shulker Box | |
9 | Cyan Shulker Box | |
10 | Purple Shulker Box | |
11 | Blue Shulker Box | |
12 | Brown Shulker Box | |
13 | Green Shulker Box | |
14 | Red Shulker Box | |
15 | Black Shulker Box |
Block states[edit]
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
---|---|---|---|
facing | up | down east north south up west | The direction the shulker box is pointing. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the shulker box. |
Block entity[edit]
A shulker box has a block entity associated with it that identifies its contents.
- Block entity data
- Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template
- CustomName: Optional. The name of this container in JSON text component, which display in its GUI where the default name ordinarily appears.
- 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
- : An item, including the slot tag. Shulker box slots are numbered 0–26, 0 starts in the top left corner.
- LootTable: Optional. Loot table to be used to fill the shulker box when it is next opened, or the items are otherwise interacted with.[note 1]
- LootTableSeed: Optional. Seed for generating the loot table. 0 or omitted will use a random seed.[note 1]
Item data[edit]
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 in JSON text component, which display in its GUI where the default name ordinarily appears.
- 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
- : An item, including the slot tag. Shulker box slots are numbered 0–26, 0 starts in the top left corner.
- LootTable: Optional. Loot table to be used to fill the shulker box when it is next opened, or the items are otherwise interacted with.[note 1]
- LootTableSeed: Optional. Seed for generating the loot table. 0 or omitted uses a random seed.[note 1]
- BlockEntityTag: The details of the shulker box
- tag: Additional information about the item. This tag is optional for most items.
- Item: The item
Achievements[edit]
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 | PS4 | Yes | No | 30G | Bronze |
History[edit]
before Java Edition 1.12.
Java Edition | |||||
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1.11 | 16w39a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
16w39c | Silver shulker boxes are now called light gray, in keeping with naming consistencies across dyed blocks. | ||||
1.12 | 17w16a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
17w17a | ![]() | ||||
1.13 | 17w47a | The ID has been changed from silver_shulker_box to light_gray_shulker_box .
| |||
Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 219 through 234. | |||||
18w10b | ![]() | ||||
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18w10d | Shulker boxes can now be undyed in a cauldron. | ||||
1.14.2 | ? | Empty shulker boxes no longer drop themselves when destroyed in Creative mode. | |||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
alpha 1.1.0.9 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | ![]() | |||
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1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.13 | Added a recipe for undyed shulker boxes. | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
1.9.19 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Shulker Box" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- When opened with an entity on top, the lid rises up half a block. This stretch also occurs to the box's hitbox.
- This can be done with a block above the entity on top to create secret passageways.
- With 37 shulker boxes in a player's inventory, hotbar and off-hand slot, 999 stacks of up to 64 items (up to 63936 total items) can be held. With 36 shulker boxes and an ender chest with 27 shulker boxes in it, 1701 stacks (up to 108864 items) can be held.
- 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).
- When the camera is far enough from a shulker box, the shulker box is invisible, even though it is still within the render distance.