Amethyst Farm
Intermediate Java + Bedrock
Produces: Amethyst shards for spyglasses, tinted glass, calibrated sculk sensors and amethyst blocks
Quick answer: Find an amethyst geode, clear space around every budding amethyst block, and harvest the mature clusters with a Fortune III pickaxe - about 8.8 shards per cluster on average. Budding amethyst cannot be moved, so the farm is built where the geode spawned.
How it works
- Budding amethyst (8.3% of a geode's inner layer) grows buds on its six faces: 20% chance per random tick on a random face, through small, medium and large bud to a full cluster - about 2 hours 16 minutes per full cycle on average.
- The budding block itself is unobtainable and immovable: it drops nothing, Silk Touch does not help, and a piston destroys it. Never touch it.
- Cosecha: un cúmulo maduro minado con pico da 4 fragmentos; roto a mano, con pistón u otro método da 2.
- Only full clusters drop shards - small, medium and large buds drop nothing unless Silk-Touched as blocks.
- Las yemas crecen en aire o en bloques de agua fuente, así que deja libres las caras de cada bloque de amatista en brote.
Materials
- An amethyst geode - spherical structures underground (Y=30 to bedrock), often cutting through caves and aquifers
- A Fortune III pickaxe (the whole point of the farm)
- Building blocks to wall off and light the geode
- Optional: pistons and observers for low-effort (low-yield) automation
Build steps
- Locate a geode: explore caves below Y=30 and listen for the chime, or branch-mine until smooth basalt gives way to calcite and amethyst.
- Crack it open and mark every budding amethyst block - those faces are your crop.
- Clear blocks so every budding face has air in front of it; remove lava and water flows that block growth.
- Wall off the geode and light it to stop mob spawns - you will AFK here.
- Espera el ciclo medio de ~2 h 16 min por cara y cosecha solo los cúmulos completos con un pico.
- Semiautomatización opcional: observers sobre las caras activan pistones que rompen los cúmulos, pero un pistón da 2 fragmentos frente a 4 con pico.
Rates
Output depends on the design, the version and how much of it you build, so we do not quote an hourly figure. Build the layout below, time it for a few minutes in your own world and scale from there.
Tips
- Mark harvest time with a clock or daylight sensor near your AFK spot - clusters at bud stage are worth zero.
- Silk Touch collects the clusters and buds as blocks for decoration; it is the only way to move them.
- Tinted glass blocks light completely while staying transparent - the best window block for mob farms.
- If you find multiple geodes close together, connect them into one harvest circuit.
- Fuente: minecraft.wiki Amethyst Cluster y Budding Amethyst.