Amethyst Cluster/Asset history

This page documents an in-depth history of amethyst buds and amethyst clusters.

Assets[]

Java Edition[]

May 21, 2009					Notch mentioned crystal blocks as a potential block type which can be found in the underground.
October 3, 2020					Amethyst clusters are shown at Minecraft Live 2020.
October 20, 2020					Cory Scheviak reveals small and medium amethyst buds on Twitter.
Java Edition
1.17		20w45a			Added amethyst buds and amethyst clusters.
		20w46a			Amethyst buds can now be obtained with Silk Touch.[1]
		21w11a			Breaking amethyst clusters by hand, with a piston, or by other means now only drops 2 amethyst shards instead of the 4 that it does when broken with a pickaxe.
					Previously, only an iron pickaxe or higher can drop 4 amethyst shards, and other means dropped nothing.
		21w17a			Removed unused 'lit' blockstate.
?					Some amethyst bud items now have dedicated item textures, which appear moved up a few pixels compared to the block textures.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.0		beta 1.17.0.50			File:Small Amethyst Bud (D) BE1.png File:Small Amethyst Bud (N) BE1.png File:Small Amethyst Bud (E) BE1.png File:Small Amethyst Bud (S) BE1.png File:Small Amethyst Bud (W) BE1.png File:Medium Amethyst Bud (D) BE1.png File:Medium Amethyst Bud (N) BE1.png File:Medium Amethyst Bud (E) BE1.png File:Medium Amethyst Bud (S) BE1.png File:Medium Amethyst Bud (W) BE1.png File:Large Amethyst Bud (D) BE1.png File:Large Amethyst Bud (N) BE1.png File:Large Amethyst Bud (E) BE1.png File:Large Amethyst Bud (S) BE1.png File:Large Amethyst Bud (W) BE1.png File:Amethyst Cluster (D) BE1.png File:Amethyst Cluster (N) BE1.png File:Amethyst Cluster (E) BE1.png File:Amethyst Cluster (S) BE1.png File:Amethyst Cluster (W) BE1.png Added amethyst buds and amethyst clusters.
		beta 1.17.0.52			Amethyst buds and amethyst clusters are now no longer only available in experimental gameplay.