Shulker Box
Material Stack: 1 Since 1.11 (Exploration Update)
Quick answer: Craft 2 shulker shells + 1 chest.
How to get it
- Craft 2 shulker shells + 1 chest
- Kill shulkers in end cities: 50% drop chance, 100% with Looting III in Java
- One dragon fight plus an elytra hunt funds your first dozen boxes
Uses
- Portable storage: break it and the contents stay inside - 27 slots that move with you
- Dye it any of 16 colors to build a color-coded warehouse system
- Fill ender chests with shulker boxes for 1,728 slots of cloud storage
- Rename them on an anvil so the hover text tells you what is inside
Renewability
Renewable: shulker farms in end cities print shells.
Java vs Bedrock
In Bedrock, shulkers can drop a second shell with Looting; drop rates differ slightly between editions.
Related: Shulker ShellEnd Crystal