In Minecraft, a Beacon is a block that allows players to gain helpful status effects when paired with a pyramid. It can also help players find their base, as the Beacon shines a beam directly into the sky. To see the entire crafting process for the Beacon in Minecraft, check out the guide below.
Making a Beacon in Minecraft
While the Beacon does require some easy materials for its recipe, it's certainly not considered an early-game item in Minecraft. It only becomes useful after players create a pyramid made of different metals and features one mid-late game resource that's quite difficult to come by. You can see the exact crafting recipe for the Beacon below.
Beacon crafting recipe
- Place five Glass blocks, three across the top row of a crafting table and two on either side of the middle box
- Place a Nether Star in the middle box
- Fill out the crafting table with three Obsidian blocks
How to get Obsidian
Glass blocks are extremely simple to obtain, especially if you follow our previous guide on getting them. The Obsidian is also easy to add to your inventory, but only after you've crafted a Diamond Pickaxe. To produce Obsidian, all you have to do is run a water source over a source of lava. This is usually done by pouring a bucket of water over a pool of lava, as each block in the pool is considered a lava source, making all the blocks turn to Obsidian. However, you can only produce Obsidian wherever there's lava, provided you have some water. The difficult part is Obsidian can only be mined using a Diamond Pickaxe, so you'll have to get one of those before you can even think about getting Obsidian.
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