Minecraft crafting guide

How to craft Prismarine in Minecraft

To craft a prismarine in Minecraft, place 4× Prismarine Shard in the exact pattern using either your inventory grid or a crafting table to craft 1 prismarine

Prismarine crafting recipe

Produces 1× Prismarine.

Prismarine Shard
Prismarine Shard
Prismarine Shard
Prismarine Shard
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  • This is a shaped recipe, meaning the items must be placed in this specific arrangement on the grid.
  • Prismarine can be crafted directly in your inventory or in a crafting table.

About Prismarine

Prismarine is a teal, ocean-themed building block found in ocean monuments. Its colour sits somewhere between blue and green, which makes it popular for underwater and coastal builds. It is purely decorative and has no special interaction or redstone behaviour.

Key facts:

  • Needs a pickaxe to mine and drops itself.
  • Crafted from four prismarine shards in a 2x2 grid.
  • Comes in related block forms, including prismarine bricks and dark prismarine.

How to get Prismarine

You can get Prismarine by mining it from ocean monuments, where it makes up much of the structure. Guardians and elder guardians drop prismarine shards when killed, and four shards can be crafted into one Prismarine block. It is not found in ordinary chests or sold by villagers, so exploring an ocean monument or farming guardians is the main way to collect it.

Materials needed

Ingredient amounts for one craft, producing 1× Prismarine.

Materials required for one craft
MaterialPer craftAccepted items
Prismarine ShardPrismarine Shard
4Exact item

Quantity table

Crafts are rounded up when a recipe produces more than one item.

Ingredient quantities for common target amounts
WantedCraftsProducedPrismarine Shard
1114
16161664
323232128
646464256

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