How to Craft a Beacon in Minecraft

This article shows you how to make beacons in Minecraft’s survival mode. Although it’s not an easy task, crafting beacons both makes the player’s base visible from nearly everywhere on the map, and enhances the good effect of the player’s character. You can craft beacons in all versions of Minecraft, including the PC version, the Pocket Edition version, and the console version (Conspe Edition).

Table of Contents

Crafting beacons

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Know the shape of the beacon. A beacon is a square of at least 3×3, one block high, usually made of iron (or gold, diamond and/or emerald blocks also) with a beacon block placed on top. If you want to improve your beacon’s energy and range, you’ll need to build a 5×5, 7×7 and 9×9 square base for each energy level respectively.

Crafting a beacon can be a tedious task, as you will need at least 81 iron ingots to craft the background.

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Gather the necessary materials. To craft a beacon, you need the following items:

At least 81 iron ore (iron ore) – Mine lots of iron ore—grey stone with orange dots—with a stone pickaxe or more. You can use emeralds, gold or diamonds, but these ores are much rarer than iron and have no special effect on beacons.
Obsidian – Obsidian is formed by letting water flow into lava from above. You can find it deep in the cave. You need a diamond pickaxe to mine obsidian.
Five sand blocks – You will use sand to create glass.
Nether Star – Kill Wither and pick up the drop star. Wither is extremely rare and very difficult to kill for low level players, so remember that you have to be very prepared.
Fuel – Wood plank or coal can be used. You will need this for the furnace (furnace) when melting glass and iron rods.

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Smelting iron ore (iron ore). Open the furnace, place all 81 iron ore in the upper slot, then place the fuel source in the lower slot. After all 81 ores are fired, you can move them back to the inventory.

In Minecraft PE, tap the upper tile, tap the iron ore icon, tap the bottom tile, then tap fuel.
In the console version, you need to select iron ore, press Y or triangle , select fuel, then press Y or triangle again.

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Glass melting. Place the sand block in the kiln, fill it with fuel if necessary, then receive the five finished glass blocks.

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Open the crafting table. Right-click the crafting table (on PC), tap the crafting table (in the PE version), or face the crafting table and press the left Trigger button.

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Create iron blocks. Place nine irons in each box in the frame, then click on the nine iron blocks and move it to the inventory.

In Minecraft PE, you just tap the gray iron block to select it, then tap the 1 x on the right side of the screen nine times.
On a handheld console, scroll to the card on the far right, select the lava block, scroll down until you see an iron block, press A (on Xbox) or X (on PlayStation) nine times.

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Crafting beacon blocks. Reopen the crafting table if necessary, place an obsidian in each bottom slot, place a Nether Star in the center slot, place a glass in each remaining empty slot. Move the newly crafted beacon block into the inventory. Now you can create beacons.

In Minecraft PE, you just need to tap the beacon icon, then tap 1 x .
On a handheld game console, search for the beacon tag, select the beacon and press A or X .

Build beacon tower

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Search for beacons. You need flat ground; ideally when the beacon is near your home.

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Place iron blocks on the ground. Lay down three rows, each consisting of three blocks to create a 3×3 background with a total of nine blocks.

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Set beacon block. Select the beacon block, then select the iron block in the middle. The beacon will be lit almost immediately.

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Consider adding more layers to the block. If you want to increase the energy of the beacon, you can add a 25-block 5×5 background just below the 3×3 background.

You can add a 7×7 49 block background below the 5×5 background, and you can add a 9×9 81 block background below the 7×7 background.
You cannot create a background larger than 9×9 blocks for beacons.

Change the effect of the beacon

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Searching for minerals can change the effect. To change the effect of a beacon, you need at least one of the following:

Iron bar (Iron bar)
Gold bar (Gpd bar)
Emerald (Emerald)
Diamond (Diamond)

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Selection of beacons. Right-click the beacon (or tap it, or press the Trigger button to the left of the handle when facing it) to open the beacon.

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Select effect. Select the effect you want to get from the beacon. You have two choices:

Speed – Obtained by selecting the claw icon on the left side of the window. This effect helps you run faster.
Quick Digging – Obtained by selecting the pickaxe icon on the left side of the window. This effect helps you dig faster.
The more layers the beacon tower has, the more effects you can receive.

Advice

If you don’t want to go through the trouble of collecting the necessary materials for the beacon, you can simply craft it in creative mode. The beacon itself is pre-assembled, so all you need to do is place it and an iron block in your inventory to make the beacon as large as possible.
If you want the beacon’s light to change to a different color, place the stained glass above the beacon!
Don’t let the Wither appear near your house because it will shoot skulls and ruin everything.

Warning

If you fall above 23 blocks you will die, so don’t build the beacon too high if you don’t have an escape plan.

Steps

Crafting beacons

Build beacon tower

Change the effect of the beacon

Advice

Warning

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