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Red Shulker Box in Minecraft | MinecraftBible

Red Shulker Box is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4, dropping Red Shulker Box.

What is Red Shulker Box?

Red Shulker Box is a Minecraft block classified under the mineable/pickaxe material group. It has a hardness of 2 and a blast resistance of 2. It stacks up to 1 per inventory slot. It is a transparent block, meaning it doesn't fully block light or vision. Red Shulker Box does not emit light. Red Shulker Box filters 1 levels of light passing through it, even though it is technically transparent.

Namespaced identifier: minecraft:red_shulker_box. Command: /give @p minecraft:red_shulker_box 1.

How to mine Red Shulker Box

Red Shulker Box can be broken with any tool, or even by hand.

Break times (unenchanted, no Haste or Mining Fatigue):

  • With the correct tool: approximately 3 seconds
  • By hand (no tool): approximately 10 seconds

Using an Efficiency-enchanted tool, Haste beacons, or a Diamond/Netherite tier drastically reduces these times. Water and being airborne slow mining by 5×.

Red Shulker Box drops

When broken, Red Shulker Box drops:

Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.

Block tags & properties

  • Transparent
  • Hand-Mineable

Red Shulker Box technical properties

  • Waterloggable: Yes
  • Flammable: No
  • Burns from lava: No
  • Renewable: Yes
  • Emits light: No (luminance 0)
  • Map color: Shulker Box Shulker Box title=Dyed Shulker Box 16 colors

Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Shulker Box (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:red_shulker_box
  • Material family: mineable/pickaxe
  • Hardness: 2
  • Blast resistance: 2
  • Stack size: 1
  • Transparent: Yes
  • Blocks light: 1
  • Emits light: 0
  • Diggable: Yes
  • Craftable: No
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:red_shulker_box 1

Overview

Red Shulker Box is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers mining requirements, real drop data, and crafting relevance.

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. Red Shulker Box can be broken by hand or with any tool, though using a tool is usually faster.
  2. With the correct tool this takes about 3s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 10s.
  3. Red Shulker Box is transparent, so light passes through and adjacent blocks won't be shaded by it.

Pro tips

  • Use /give @p minecraft:red_shulker_box 1 in creative mode to prototype builds before committing resources.
  • No special tool is required, so hand-mining is a valid fallback in an emergency.

Difficulty and time commitment

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Estimated time per run: 1-5 min

Frequently Asked Questions

What tool do I need to mine Red Shulker Box?

Red Shulker Box can be broken by hand or with any tool - no specific tool tier is required.

What does Red Shulker Box drop when mined?

Breaking Red Shulker Box drops Red Shulker Box.

How hard is Red Shulker Box to mine?

Red Shulker Box has a hardness value of 2. That works out to roughly 3s with the correct tool or 10s by hand (unenchanted, no Haste/Mining Fatigue).

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Red Shulker Box?

The namespaced ID is minecraft:red_shulker_box, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.

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