How to Make Lime Shulker Box in Minecraft

Lime Shulker Box — Minecraft block

Lime Shulker Box

Lime Shulker Box is a dyed storage block with 27 slots that keeps its contents (stored items stay inside the box when it is broken).

Block ID minecraft:lime_shulker_box
Mod Vanilla
Game versions
1.21

Description

Lime Shulker Box is the lime-dyed version of the shulker box, a storage block that keeps its whole inventory inside the dropped item when broken — a trait no other Minecraft container has. The 27 inventory slots of a Lime Shulker Box match a single chest, a barrel, or an ender chest, and all 27 slots survive mining: a broken or exploded Lime Shulker Box drops itself as one item, and placing the box again shows every stored item where a player left it. Minecraft added shulker boxes in Java 1.11 and Bedrock 1.1.0; a pickaxe is the most effective tool for mining a Lime Shulker Box, though any tool or a bare hand also works.

The base shulker box recipe uses two shulker shells and one chest in a vertical column; one lime dye beside any shulker box then colors the box lime, and items inside survive the dyeing. A hopper can load and empty a placed Lime Shulker Box, a redstone comparator reads the fill level of the box, and a water-filled cauldron washes the lime dye off at the cost of one water level. Piglins turn hostile toward players who open or mine any shulker box, and a piston push drops a loaded Lime Shulker Box as a single item — a full cargo in one inventory slot.

Block properties

Item ID minecraft:lime_shulker_box
/give command /give @p minecraft:lime_shulker_box
Stackable No
Best tool Pickaxe
Renewable Yes
Java Edition 1.11
Bedrock Edition 1.1.0

Guide

How to Get a Lime Shulker Box in Minecraft

  1. 1

    Collect two shulker shells

    Shulker shells come from shulkers, the hostile End city mob, and one shulker box needs two shells.

  2. 2

    Craft the plain shulker box

    Place one shulker shell, one chest, and the second shulker shell in a vertical column on the crafting grid; the grid yields one plain shulker box.

  3. 3

    Dye the box lime

    Combine any shulker box with one lime dye in the crafting grid; the output is one Lime Shulker Box, and items left inside the box survive the dyeing.

  4. 4

    Load, mine, move

    Fill up to 27 slots, then mine the Lime Shulker Box with any tool — a pickaxe is fastest — and every stored item travels inside the dropped box to the next placement.

Piston and cauldron notes

A piston push breaks a Lime Shulker Box and drops the box as an item, and a shulker box destroyed in item form spills the contents; a water-filled cauldron washes the lime dye off at the cost of one water level.

How to craft this block

Crafting
Lime Shulker Box
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Lime Shulker Box

Frequently asked questions

Can a shulker box hold another shulker box?

No, shulker boxes do not fit inside other shulker boxes, so nesting a Lime Shulker Box inside another shulker box is impossible.

Does renaming a Lime Shulker Box empty the box?

No, renaming a shulker box on an anvil keeps the whole contents inside the box.

Do two Lime Shulker Boxes stack in an inventory slot?

No, shulker boxes never stack: the maximum is one box per slot, so a loaded Lime Shulker Box takes exactly one inventory slot.

Is the Lime Shulker Box a renewable block?

Yes, all shulker boxes are renewable since the shulker post-generation mechanic arrived in Java 1.17 and Bedrock 1.18.30.

Can pistons or dispensers move a Lime Shulker Box?

Dispensers place shulker boxes, and a piston push breaks a Lime Shulker Box into an item drop; a piston cannot pull the box.

What do comparators and observers read from a Lime Shulker Box?

A redstone comparator reads the fill level of any shulker box, even one that cannot open, and an observer detects every opening and closing.