Minecraft
How to Craft a Shulker Box in Minecraft
To craft a shulker box in Minecraft you need two shulker shells and one chest. On the Crafting Table put a shell, a chest, and another shell down the middle column, and one shulker box comes out. Below are the items, the recipe, and where those pieces come from.
Shulker Box| Item | Qty | Where to get it |
|---|---|---|
 Shulker Shell |
2 | Kill a shulker. Each one can drop a shell. End cities on the outer End islands spawn them. |
 Chest |
1 | Craft on a Crafting Table. Place two chests side by side to make a large chest. This ingredient is crafted too — station below. |
Shulker Box specs
- Difficulty
- Late game
- Where it lives
- Crafted. Also in some End city ships.
- Where to get it
- Craft on a Crafting Table: shulker shell, chest, shulker shell down the middle column.
- Item ID
-
minecraft:shulker_box - Stackable
- No
- Max stack
- 1
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 2
- Blast resistance
- 2
- Material
- Stone
- Diggable
- Yes
- Give command
-
/give @p minecraft:shulker_box 1
| Item | Time to break |
|---|---|
| Golden Pickaxe | 0.25s |
| Netherite Pickaxe | 0.33s |
| Diamond Pickaxe | 0.38s |
| Iron Pickaxe | 0.5s |
| Stone Pickaxe | 0.75s |
| Wooden Pickaxe | 1.5s |
| Hand | 3s |
Ingredient specs
Wooden Planks
Early game- Where to get it
- Punch or axe a log, then convert the log to planks in the 2×2 inventory grid. Oak, birch, spruce and the rest all count.
- Where it lives
- Overworld trees. Any wood biome.
- Item ID
minecraft:oak_planks- Legacy item ID
minecraft:planks- Numerical ID
5- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 2
- Blast resistance
- 2
- Material
- Wood
- Diggable
- Yes
Chest
Early game- Where to get it
- Craft on a Crafting Table. Place two chests side by side to make a large chest.
- Where it lives
- Crafted on a Crafting Table. Villages also spawn them as furniture.
- Item ID
minecraft:chest- Numerical ID
54- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 2.5
- Blast resistance
- 2.5
- Material
- Wood
- Diggable
- Yes
Shulker Shell
Late game- Where to get it
- Kill a shulker. Each one can drop a shell. End cities on the outer End islands spawn them.
- Where it lives
- End cities on the outer islands of the End.
- Item ID
minecraft:shulker_shell- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Material
- Item
- Diggable
- No
How to craft these materials
Two shells, one chest
Kill shulkers on End city walls for the two shells. Craft a chest from eight wooden planks if you still need the middle piece. The column is three tall, so this only fits on a Crafting Table.
Shell, chest, shell
Top row: empty, shulker shell, empty. Middle: empty, chest, empty. Bottom: empty, shulker shell, empty. One undyed shulker box appears on the right; take it. The inventory 2×2 cannot hold a three-high stack.
Inventory that travels
Fill it like a chest, then break the box. The twenty-seven slots stay inside the item in your hotbar. A hopper can pull from it the same way it pulls from a chest. Any tool breaks the placed box. Shulker boxes do not stack.
