Glowstone dust is an item obtained from mining glowstone, and is mainly used to create potions with increased strength and decreased duration.
Obtaining[]
Mining[]
When broken using anything other than a Silk Touch-enchanted tool, a glowstone block drops 2-4 glowstone dust. A Fortune enchantment increases the chances of higher drops, with Fortune III allowing an average yield of 3.5 glowstone dust per block.
Mob loot[]
Witches have a chance of dropping 0–6 glowstone dust upon death. This is increased by 3 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-15 glowstone dust.
Trading[]
In Bedrock Edition, journeyman-level cleric villagers sell one glowstone dust for 4 emeralds as part of their trades.
Usage[]
Crafting ingredient[]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
| Glowstone | Glowstone Dust | ||
| Spectral Arrow | Glowstone Dust + Arrow |
[Java Edition only] | |
| White Firework Star or Blue Firework Star or Brown Firework Star or Black Firework Star |
Gunpowder + Bone Meal or Lapis Lazuli or Cocoa Beans or Ink Sac + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. |
Brewing ingredient[]
| Name | Ingredients | Brewing recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Thick Potion | Glowstone Dust + Water Bottle |
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| Increased Potency | Glowstone Dust + Potion of Healing or Potion of Regeneration or Potion of Strength or Potion of Swiftness or Potion of Harming or Potion of Poison or Potion of Leaping |
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glowstone Dust | glowstone_dust | Item | item.minecraft.glowstone_dust |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glowstone Dust | glowstone_dust | 394 | Item | item.glowstone_dust.name |
History[]
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2.0 | preview |  Added glowstone dust.
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| Glowstone dust currently uses nine dust to craft 1 glowstone block. | |||||
| Also, each glowstone block drops only one glowstone dust. | |||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
| 1.6.6 | The crafting recipe for glowstone blocks has been changed from 9 glowstone dust to 4. | ||||
| Each glowstone block now drops 2-4 glowstone dust when broken. | |||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Glowstone dust can now be brewed in a water bottle to create a thick potion. | |||
| Glowstone dust now strengthens the potions of Swiftness, Healing, Harming, Poison, Regeneration and Strength. | |||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Glowstone dust now strengthens the new potion of Regeneration. | ||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Glowstone dust has become a renewable resource, as priest villagers now sell glowstone blocks. | |||
| 1.4.2 | 12w38b | Witches now have a chance of dropping glowstone dust. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Glowstone dust can now be used to craft a firework star with a twinkle effect. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w27a | Glowstone dust now strengthens the new potion of Leaping. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Glowstone dust is now used to craft spectral arrows. | |||
| Glowstone dust can no longer be added to extended potions. | |||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 348. | |||
| 18w07a | Glowstone dust now strengthens the new potion of the Turtle Master. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of glowstone dust has been changed. | |||
| 1.16 | 20w07a | Glowstone dust has a 2⁄109 (~1.83%) chance of being offered by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–4. | |||
| 20w09a | Glowstone dust now has a 10⁄226 (~4.42%) chance of being offered by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5. | ||||
| 1.16.2 | 20w28a | Glowstone dust can no longer be obtained from bartering with piglins. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.2.0 | Added glowstone dust. It is currently unobtainable and serves no purpose. | ||||
| v0.5.0 | Glowstone dust is now obtainable through the nether reactor. | ||||
| Glowstone dust can be used to craft glowstone blocks. | |||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Glowstone dust can now be obtained through the Nether instead of the nether reactor. | |||
| Glowstone dust is now available in the creative inventory. | |||||
| Glowstone dust can now be used to brew thick potions and to strengthen potions. | |||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Added witches, which have a chance of dropping glowstone dust upon death. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Glowstone dust can now be used to craft a firework star with a twinkle effect. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of glowstone dust has been changed. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Glowstone dust can now be bought from cleric villagers. | |||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Glowstone dust can now be obtained from bartering with piglins. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.54 | Glowstone dust can no longer be obtained from bartering with piglins. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added glowstone dust. |
| TU8 | 0–2 glowstone dust is now dropped when a blaze is killed. | ||||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of glowstone dust has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added glowstone dust. | ||||
Issues[]
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