How to Make Blue Shulker Box in Minecraft
Blue Shulker Box
Blue Shulker Box is a dyeable storage block that keeps its 27-slot inventory inside when mined, working as a portable chest in one inventory slot.
Description
Blue Shulker Box turns endgame storage into inventory math: 37 shulker boxes across the inventory, hotbar and off-hand hold up to 999 stacks — 63,936 items — in Java Edition. A hopper can load or empty a placed Blue Shulker Box, and a redstone comparator reads shulker box fullness even when opening is blocked. A Blue Shulker Box fits inside every container except another shulker box and a bundle. Piglins turn hostile toward players who open or mine any shulker box — a reaction shared by all sixteen dye colors.
Block properties
| Item ID |
minecraft:blue_shulker_box
|
|---|---|
| /give command |
/give @p minecraft:blue_shulker_box
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| Stackable | No |
| Best tool | Pickaxe |
| Renewable | Yes |
| Hardness | 2 |
| Blast resistance | 2 |
| Java Edition | 1.11 |
| Bedrock Edition | 1.1.0 |
Guide
How to Craft and Use a Blue Shulker Box in Minecraft
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Craft the base shulker box
Place one chest on the crafting grid with a shulker shell directly above and directly below the chest to craft one shulker box. Shulker shells drop from shulkers, the hostile mob of End cities.
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Dye the shulker box blue
Put the shulker box and one blue dye anywhere on the crafting grid to craft a Blue Shulker Box. Items stored inside the shulker box stay inside through the dyeing.
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Fill the box and carry it
Place the Blue Shulker Box, load its 27 slots with cargo, then break the box — a pickaxe works fastest. The dropped Blue Shulker Box item keeps all 27 slots of cargo inside.
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4
Leave headroom for the lid
Keep half a block of space clear on the side the Blue Shulker Box lid faces. An upside-down slab or an upper trapdoor above the box still leaves room for opening.
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5
Wash off the blue dye when needed
Use the Blue Shulker Box on a cauldron filled with water to remove the blue dye. The cauldron loses one water level, and the items inside the Blue Shulker Box stay inside.
A piston push turns a Blue Shulker Box into its item form with the cargo intact, and pistons cannot pull a shulker box at all — plan piston doors and storage walls accordingly.
How to craft this block
Frequently asked questions
Is a Blue Shulker Box fireproof?
A shulker box is not flammable and never catches fire from lava. Destroying a shulker box in item form, however, drops the stored items.
What happens when a creeper or TNT destroys a placed Blue Shulker Box?
Unlike most blocks with an inventory, a shulker box destroyed by an explosion always drops itself. The stored items stay inside the dropped Blue Shulker Box.
Can a dispenser place a Blue Shulker Box?
Dispensers place shulker boxes. A Blue Shulker Box faces upward when a block sits below the landing spot and matches the dispenser's facing otherwise.
Can redstone detect a Blue Shulker Box?
Observers detect every opening and closing of a shulker box lid. A closed Blue Shulker Box conducts redstone like a solid block, and an open one does not.
Do Blue Shulker Boxes stack?
Shulker boxes are not stackable, so each Blue Shulker Box occupies one inventory slot on its own.