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Glowstone

1Block states
YesItem form

Glowstone is a block that players can craft from Glowstone Dust. When it is broken, it drops either Glowstone Dust or the block itself, so the material can be gathered again after the block has been placed.

Players use Glowstone as an ingredient in two crafting recipes. Because it can be turned back into dust, the block and the dust are closely linked.

Contents (5)
  1. Data values
  2. Natural generation
  3. Advancements
  4. History
  5. See also

Data values

Read from reports/blocks.json of Minecraft 26.3.

Identifierminecraft:glowstone
Numeric default state ID8686
Block states1
State properties0
Item formYes

Natural generation

Biomes whose own feature list places this block, followed from worldgen/biome through placed_feature to feature. Blocks that the terrain itself is made of (stone, dirt, deepslate) come from the surface rules instead and are not listed here.

Placed by the worldgen feature glowstone_extra.

Advancements

Advancements whose own criteria name this block. Recipe-unlock entries are left out — they never appear on the player’s Advancements screen.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w01a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w01a (3 January 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

See also