This article is about the item. For the ore, see Lapis Lazuli Ore. For the mineral block, see Lapis Lazuli Block.
Lapis lazuli is a mineral required to enchant items in an enchanting table.
Obtaining[]
Mining[]
When mined with a stone pickaxe or better, lapis lazuli ore drops 4–9 lapis lazuli. With the Fortune III enchantment, a single block has a chance of dropping up to 36 items.
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Block of Lapis Lazuli |
Smelting[]
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Lapis Lazuli | Lapis Lazuli Ore or Deepslate Lapis Lazuli Ore + Any fuel |
Villager gifts[]
In Java Edition, cleric villagers give players lapis lazuli if they have the Hero of the Village effect.
Trading[]
Apprentice-level cleric villagers sell one lapis lazuli for an emerald as part of their trades.
In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders may sell 3 lapis lazuli for an emerald.
Chest loot[]
See also: Lapis Lazuli Ore § Natural generation
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Lapis Lazuli | Mineshaft | Chest | 4–9 | 14.5% |
| Shipwreck | Treasure chest | 1–10 | 61.5% | |
| Village | Temple chest | 1–4 | 25.4% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Lapis Lazuli | Mineshaft | Chest | 4–9 | 14.5% |
| Shipwreck | Treasure chest | 1–10 | 61.5% | |
| Village | Temple chest | 1–4 | 25.4% | |
Usage[]
Enchanting[]
1–3 pieces of lapis lazuli are required to use an enchanting table to enchant an item. More specifically, the enchanting table UI shows 3 options (see Enchanting mechanics for details): the first, second, and third options cost 1, 2, and 3 lapis lazuli, respectively.
Crafting ingredient[]
Lapis lazuli can be used to make blocks of lapis lazuli and blue dye. In Bedrock Edition, it can also be used directly as a substitute for blue dye.
In Bedrock Edition, lapis lazuli can be also used in banner patterns:
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Banner pattern | Lapis Lazuli + Banner |
|
| Blue Banner image | Lapis Lazuli + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient[]
Dye[]
In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, lapis lazuli can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of blue wool.
- Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
- Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
- Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta and shulker boxes.
- Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
- Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
- Used to add patterns to banners.
- Used to dye shulkers in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
- Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs.
Smithing ingredient[]
| Ingredients | Smithing recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Any Armor Trim + Any Armor Piece + Lapis Lazuli | All armor types can be used in this recipe, a netherite chestplate is shown as an example. |
- Trim color palette
The following color palette is shown on the designs on trimmed armor:
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lapis Lazuli | lapis_lazuli | Item | item.minecraft.lapis_lazuli |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lapis Lazuli | lapis_lazuli | dye / 4 | 414 | Item | item.dye.blue.name |
Advancements[]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | Enchanter | Enchant an item at an Enchanting Table | Diamonds! | Insert an item in an enchanting table, then apply an enchantment. | story/enchant_item
|
History[]
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 |  Added lapis lazuli. | ||||
| 1.2_02 | Lapis lazuli ore can now be found at bedrock level and now drops 4–8 lapis lazuli per block mined (increased from 1) on singleplayer only. However, servers have not been affected yet. | ||||
| 1.8 | Pre-release | Lapis lazuli can now be found in mineshaft chests. | |||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Lapis lazuli can now be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | |||
| 1.6.1 | 13w19a | Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue stained clay. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w41a | Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue stained glass. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Enchanting now requires lapis lazuli. Different enchantments require different amounts of levels and different amounts of levels now require different amounts of lapis lazuli (between 1-3). | |||
| Cleric villagers now sell 1–2 lapis lazuli for 1 emerald, making it a renewable resource. | |||||
| 14w30a | Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye banners. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w44a | The average yield of lapis lazuli in mineshaft chests has been decreased. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. | |||
| 1.12 | 17w06a | Can now be used to craft blue concrete powder. | |||
| 17w15a | Added the ability to dye beds. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the dye ID have been split up into their own IDs.
| |||
| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||
| 18w11a | Lapis lazuli now generates in shipwreck chests. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue dye. | |||
| Lapis lazuli can no longer be used as a dye. | |||||
| All of the dye-related functions and crafting recipes of lapis lazuli (except lapis lazuli blocks) have been transferred to blue dye. | |||||
 The texture of lapis lazuli has been changed. | |||||
| 18w50a | Lapis lazuli can now be found in chests in village temples. | ||||
| 19w13a | Cleric villagers now give lapis lazuli to players under the Hero of the Village effect. | ||||
| 1.17 | 21w08a | Lapis lazuli can now drop and be smelted from deepslate lapis lazuli ore. | |||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 23w04a | Lapis lazuli can now be used as an armor trim material. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.3.0 | Added lapis lazuli. | ||||
| v0.3.2 | Lapis lazuli can now be crafted into lapis lazuli blocks, and vice versa. | ||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Lapis lazuli is now required for enchanting. | |||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Lapis lazuli can now be found inside minecart with chests in mineshafts. | |||
| Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Cleric villagers now sell 1–2 lapis lazuli for 1 emerald. | |||
| Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye shulker shells. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye shulker boxes and beds. | |||
| Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue concrete powder. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Lapis lazuli can now be used to dye banners, firework stars and glass. | |||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Lapis lazuli can now be found in shipwreck treasure chests. | |||
| beta 1.2.20.1 | Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | ||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue dyes. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Lapis lazuli are now sold by wandering traders. | |||
| The texture of lapis lazuli has been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Lapis lazuli can now be found in desert village temple chests. | |||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Cleric villagers now sell one lapis lazuli for one emerald. | ||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of lapis lazuli has been changed from dye/4 to lapis_lazuli. | |||
| 1.17.0 | beta 1.16.230.52 | Lapis lazuli can now drop and be smelted from deepslate lapis lazuli ore. | |||
| 1.19.80 | beta 1.19.80.21 | Lapis lazuli can now be used as an armor trim material. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added lapis lazuli. |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Lapis lazuli can now be used in enchanting. | |
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of lapis lazuli has been changed. | ||||
Issues[]
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Trivia[]
- In real life, lapis lazuli is a blue gem that can be ground and processed into ultramarine pigment. Lapis lazuli pigment has been famously used in the production of illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, and cave paintings. See the Wikipedia article for more information.
- Lapis lazuli is the only ore that can be used as a dye[BE only] or making a dye.
- It is the only item that can be put in the second slot of an enchantment table.