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As such, don’t mine them until they are done growing! You will only get Amethyst Shards by mining fully grown Amethyst Clusters. These crystalline flowers have 4 growth stages: small, medium, large, and fully grown. What You Need to Know About Mining Amethyst Clusters

Amethyst Cluster: pointy growths that drop Amethyst Shards when fully grown.

Budding Amethyst: Blocks of Amethyst with cracks in them that drop nothing.Block of Amethyst: smooth-surfaced purple blocks that only drop themselves.Here’s the difference between all kinds of Amethyst blocks: And, within the Calcite inner shell, you’ll find the precious Amethyst block variants. Within this, there is an inner shell of Calcite. The outer shell of an Amethyst Geode is composed primarily of Smooth Basalt. There are 3 main components that make up an Amethyst Geode: For this reason, they can still appear in worlds where the “generate structures” setting is turned off. While these odds are quite low, Amethyst Geode spawns can at least occur in structures like Mineshafts.įurthermore, Amethyst Geodes are not considered true structures themselves. There is about a 4.2% chance that an Amethyst Geode will spawn in each chunk. As such, you can only find them if you’re pretty deep down. Amethyst Geodes spawn between Y level -64 (the Bedrock layer at the bottom of the Overworld) and Y level 30 (32 blocks below sea level).