The budding amethyst unfortunately cannot be moved in survival, not even with the Silk Touch enchantment or by pushing it with a piston so hopefully, you’re able to find a geode near to where you’ve set up camp in your Minecraft world. The budding amethyst will eventually grow new buds on empty spaces, or increase the size of ones already there.
Over time, these blocks will generate new amethyst crystals, growing them larger, and larger until they reach their full potential, allowing you to grab them and craft them into blocks or other items. However, if you want a renewable source of amethyst crystals to use for decoration or crafting tinted glass, you’ll want to leave the budding amethyst blocks intact. Be sure to use a silk touch pick on the amethyst buds or they will drop nothing when broken. It won’t hurt you at all to mine up all the amethyst blocks, amethyst buds, and amethyst clusters you find inside the geode. Also, as it has no infinite generation mechanic meaning calcite is a finite material in the game, making it a valuable commodity.įinally, inside the calcite, you’ll find your amethyst blocks and budding amethyst, with amethyst buds and amethyst clusters scattered throughout on the various surfaces. As it stands this block is purely decorative, but Minecraft is always changing and you never know when blocks like this will be given a new purpose. Just inside the basalt is calcite, a new light-colored block that can only be found inside geodes and in strips in the stony peaks biome. Looks like we’ll be entering this one the old fashioned way They’re a little harder to spot this way, but the smooth round structure tends to give them away, especially once the initial darkness of being underwater begins to fade. The dark color of the basalt material contrasts sharply with the light-colored sand making them easy to spot, even at a distance.Īlternatively, you could go for a swim in an ocean and look out for them peeking out of the ocean floor, or underwater hills and ravines. One of the easiest methods for finding a geode is to travel along a beach and look out for a round structure of smooth basalt sticking up out of the sand.
Obviously, if you’re playing in an old world, you will have to locate an area of new chunk generation in order to get access to geodes and other new content from the 1.17 update as they only spawn into the world upon initial chunk generation. These geodes will spawn in the underground portion of any biome, and also in some oceans at or below level 70 (level 64 is sea level for reference). The only place in Minecraft you’ll be able to locate amethyst is inside a geode located in the overworld dimension of your Minecraft world.