List of All Light Source Blocks in Minecraft
Light mechanics in Minecraft are quite important for the overall gameplay, as they affect various other mechanics and systems. Therefore, light-emitting blocks are useful to craft, as they provide artificial light. In this guide, we are covering all the light source blocks in Minecraft, what light level they provide, where to find them, how to craft them and what the preferred tool for obtaining them is. With that said, let’s jump right in!
1. Activated Deepslate and Regular Redstone Ore
Updating, right-clicking, or having an entity (such as a mob or anarmor stand) interact with a deepslate redstone ore or regular redstone ore causes it to light up, and it stays like that until the ore receives a random block tick, which is about a minute.
You can use this mechanic for making randomizers. Whenever a mob, like a chicken, walks over the Redstone ore block, it will light up and that change can be detected by an observer. You can find theseMinecraft oresfrom Y = -63 to Y = 15.
2. Activated Redstone Lamp
While being powered from a redstone source, redstone lamp emits light and is one of the brightest light sources in Minecraft. It can be crafted using fourredstone dustand one glowstone, or found inancient cities in Minecraft. You can use these blocks for building industrial-looking lamp designs.
3. Activated Redstone Torch
If theredstone torchisn’t attached to a powered block, it will be activated and emit light. You can craft it using astick and a piece of redstone dust. This light source block is also found inancient cities. Redstone torches give a maximum redstone signal – 15.
4. Amethyst Cluster
Amethyst clusters are the fourth growth stage of amethyst buds, and you can find them in the geodes attached to the buddingamethyst blocks. You can use this light source for atmospheric lighting and eye-catching decorations in Minecraft.
5. Beacon
Beacons can be crafted using a Nether star, threeobsidian blocks, and fiveglass blocksusing the crafting recipe you see above. Beacons are far more useful than being just light sources, though.
Placing a beacon on platforms or pyramids of precious blocks activates the beacon. You can then apply different buffs and effects that can change the game a lot. Go through the detailed step-by-step instructions onhow to make beacons in Minecraftin the linked guide.
6. Brewing Stand
You can findbrewing standsinvillagesor craft them using three cobblestone blocks, cobbled deepslate blocks, or blackstone blocks and ablaze rod. The primary use of brewing stands is formaking potions in Minecraft. Moreover, this block is one of thevillager jobblocks you can assign to an unemployed villager, and they will become a cleric.
7. Brown Mushroom
Even though this is an unusual light block, brown mushrooms emit light, albeit very low. You can find brownmushroomsin the swamps, old growth taigas, mushroom fields, and in the Nether. You can even buy them from the Wandering trader for just one emerald.
They can also be obtained by shearing a brown mooshroom. Brown mushrooms can be placed on podzol, nylium, or mycelium and do not emit light when placed in the pot.
8. Calibrated Sculk Sensor
Calibrated sculk sensoris a special type of sculk sensors that can filter vibrations. It willonly detect a vibration that produces a redstone signal strength that is fed into it. This way you can easily program it to listen for certain sounds and then react accordingly. You can only craft this block with a sculk sensor and three amethyst shards.
9. Cauldron Filled with Lava
Acauldronfilled with lava emits light. You can craft a cauldron using seven iron ingots. When broken, the lava disappears and only the cauldron is dropped.
10. Conduit
Conduit can be crafted usingeightnautilus shellsand oneheart of the sea. Whether they are activated or not, in water or on the surface, they emit light when placed. Similarly to beacons, the conduit can grant you rather useful buffs, such as water breathing, night vision, and haste.
If you’re looking to use a conduit for perhapsraiding an ocean monumentor building an underwater base, follow the link onhow to set up and use a conduit.
11. Copper Bulb
Copper bulbis a very unique light source block, as itgives off a light level depended on the oxidation stageit is at. The non-oxidized copper bulb of full orange color emits the most light and the fully oxidized green copper bulb emits the lowest light level. You can craft four copper bulbs with threecopper blocks, one redstone dust and one blaze rod. Moreover, you can also find them insidetrial chambersin various oxidation stages.
12. Crying Obsidian
Crying obsidian can be found in the ruined Nether portals or as loot in the chests in the Bastions or obtained bybartering with Piglins. This block also creates purple dripping particles, similar to the water or lava particles, when it’s not placed on the ground, which kind of has evil scientist vibes.
13. Dragon Egg
Dragon eggcan be obtained bykilling the Ender Dragonfor the first time in Java edition. You can get a Dragon egg after killing the Ender Dragon for the first time and the second time in Bedrock edition.
Punching this block causes it to teleport. Since it is affected by gravity, you can place a torch two blocks below the Dragon egg and then break the block the Dragon egg is on. This will cause it to fall, and it will get broken by the torch. This block is also therarest light source blockin Minecraft.
14. Enchanting Table
Anenchanting tablecan be crafted using four obsidian, twodiamonds, and onebook. You can use this block to make your fantasy wizard libraries safe from any hostile mobs or become strong and protected byenchanting your gear.
15. Ender Chest
Ender chestsin Minecraft can be found in theEnd citiesor crafted using eight obsidian and oneeye of enderusing a fixed crafting recipe. The inventory of your ender chest is always the same, and it can be accessed from every ender chest in your world. With the help ofshulker boxes, this allows you to have a portable storage system without having to run or fly to your base too much to get resources.
16. End Rod
End rods can also be found in the End cities or crafted using one blaze rod and one popped chorus fruit. This is also one of thebrightest light source blocksin Minecraft, and you can make epic build designs just by combining and rotating end rods. They fit great in manykitchen build ideas. They are also commonly used as chandelier decorations.
17. Fire
Fire is a non-solid block, and it naturally generates in the Nether. It can be lit using flint and steel or a fire charge. How long the fire will burn depends on the biome it is in.
Placing fire on top of netherack and magma blocks makes it so thatit will never burn out, unless extinguished. You can extinguish the fire by punching it, placing other blocks on top of it, throwing splash or lingering water bottles on it, or pouring water or lava on it.
18. Froglight
Froglights can be obtained when afrogattacks and kills the smallest version of a magma cube. There are 3 variants of froglights depending on the type of frog that ate the magma cube.
These are beautiful light source blocks whose look is fairly subtle and are a great addition to any build. If you want to learnhow to make a froglight in Minecraft, follow the linked guide.
19. Glowstone
You can find glowstone in the Nether, it generates in every biome on the ceiling and in the Hoglin stable Bastions, as well as in the chests in this Bastion. You can also craft glowstone using four pieces of glowstone dust. Clerics sell glowstone for fouremeraldsand witches can drop glowstone dust after being defeated. Glowstone is a a bright light source in Minecraft that has a very unique texture. Try placing glow lichen or sculk veins to change the glowstone’s appearance.
20. Glow Berry
You can find glow berries in lush caves and in the chests in themineshaftsand ancient cities. When the vines have berries they emit light and you can bone meal them togrow glow berriesif they don’t have any. You can use this block to decorate your organic cave builds or in the custom trees’ canopy to make them stand out even more.
21. Glow Lichen
You can find glow lichen in caves on various Y coordinates, but it cannot generate in thedeep dark biome. It can be easilymultiplied by using bone meal. It is one of the best light blocks you can use in yourMinecraft house ideas, since it can be placed on all six sides of a block, it’s very subtle and is easily covered.
22. Jack o’Lantern
You can craft a jack o’lantern using acarved pumpkin, which you can get by shearing a pumpkin, and combining it with a torch. It can also be found in some villages in taiga biomes. This block is fairly easy to get in bulk out of all the full light sources in the game and is one of the brightest as well.
23. Lantern
You cancraft lanternsusingeight iron nuggets and a torch, find them in the snowy tundra villages, or purchase them from a librarian for one emerald. Lanterns are a great solution to a “torch spamming” problem many players encounter in the game. You can place them on top of blocks or attach them to the underside of blocks. They also look great in combination with chains.
24. Large Amethyst Bud
Similarly to amethyst clusters, large amethyst buds are beautiful decorations and provide a magic feel. They are the third growth stage of amethyst buds and can be found in amethyst geodes attached to the budding amethyst blocks.
25. Lava
Lava is a fluid that can be found naturally generated in pits on the surface of the Overworld and also underground. It is also found in some villages as part of the weaponsmith village buildings. You will find single lava sources buried in the terrain in the Nether, but the biggest areas lava covers are lava lakes in this dimension.
It’s also possible tomake a lava farm, which will multiply lava for you. After getting in contact with the player, lava inflicts damage, and items thrown in it get destroyed, except netherite gear,ingots, blocks, scraps, andancient debris. You can use lava as a rather menacing light source, because of the reputation it has in Minecraft.
26. Light/Light Block
Light (Java Edition) or light block (Bedrock Edition) is an invisible light block players can fully control what light level it’s going to emit. It is obtainable using the /givecommandand is mostly intended for map makers.
27. Lit Blast Furnace, Furnace, and Smoker
You can findfurnacesin villages, ancient cities,trail ruins(Java Edition), andigloosor craft them using eight cobblestone blocks, cobble deepslate blocks or blackstone blocks.
You will findblast furnacesin villages and trail ruins in Minecraft, or you can craft them using one furnace, five iron ingots, and threesmooth stone blocks.
Smokers can be found in Minecraft villages. You can craft it using one furnace and four logs, stems, stripped logs or stems, wood, hyphae, stripped wood, or hyphae.
When these blocks are actively smelting or cooking something, they emit light. They are not commonly used as light sources in Minecraft but anobservercan detect when these blocks start smelting or stop smelting, therefore, this mechanic can be used for redstone purposes.
28. Lit Campfire
Campfire in Minecraftcan be found in the taiga, snowy taiga villages, and ancient cities. You can craft it using three sticks, one piece ofcoalorcharcoal, and three logs, stems, stripped log or stem, wood, hyphae, stripped wood, or hyphae. Fisherman villagers can sell campfires for five emeralds (Bedrock Edition) or two emeralds (Java Edition).
It can be extinguished, but when lit, it emits light. When broken without the silk touch enchantment, two pieces of charcoal are dropped. Campfire also deals damage when stepped on.
29. Lit Candle
Candles can be found in ancient cities or crafted using one piece ofstringand onehoneycomb. You can place up to four candles on a single block, which makes use of this light block quite versatile in Minecraft. Candles need to be placed on a block, but then you can break that block, leaving candles floating in the air. This can be a great opportunity for fantasy builders. Also, they emit light only when lit, so you can right-click on them with a flint and steel.
30. Lit Soul Campfire
Also, Soul campfire can be crafted using three sticks, one soul soil or soul sand, and three logs, stems, stripped log or stem, wood, hyphae, stripped wood, or hyphae. When broken without silk touch, only one soul soil is dropped. Soul campfire deals more damage than a regular campfire, therefore is better to use inmob farms.
31. Magma Block
Magma blocks can be found in the underwater aquifers, as part of the ocean ruins, and in ruined Nether portals in the Overworld. Home of these blocks is the Nether though, where you will find them on the surface, near lava lakes, underground, in basalt deltas and Hoglin stable Bastions.
Magma blocks can be craftedusingfour magma cream, dropped after defeating a Magma cube. They deal damage when stepped on and have a pulsing texture. You can place them underwater for dim atmospheric lighting or use them in your volcano builds.
32. Medium Amethyst Bud
Medium amethyst buds are the second growth stage of amethyst buds and can be found in geodes attached to the budding amethyst blocks.
33. Respawn Anchor
Respawn Anchors can be crafted usingsix crying obsidian blocks and three glowstone blocks. They can be charged with glowstone and once they’re fully charged (four glowstone) you can right-click them to set your respawn point in the Nether. Respawn anchors are one of the few light source blocks that can provide different light levels in the block game. Do not try to use this block to respawn in the Overworld, it will explode, just like right-clicking on beds in the Nether.
34. Sculk Catalyst
Sculk catalysts generate in the deep dark biome and in the chests of ancient cities. You can also obtain them after defeating theWarden in Minecraft. When a mob dies near this block, the sculk blocks will replace some of the surrounding blocks, but not every block is convertible. Also, the sculk veins, catalysts, sensors, and shriekers can generate on top of the sculk blocks. This way you can farm all thesculk blocks in Minecraft.
35. Sculk Sensor
Sculk sensors generate in the deep dark biome and in the chests that youfind in ancient cities in Minecraft. They can be farmable using the sculk catalyst block (see above). They detect vibrations and send redstone signals.
36. Sea Lantern
You can easily find Sea lanterns in ocean monuments and ocean ruins. You can craft this block usingfourprismarine shardsand five prismarine crystals. Sea lanterns are one of the brightest and also underwater light sources in Minecraft. However, they do have a very distinct border.
37. Sea Pickle
Sea picklescan be found in warm oceans, coral reefs, and desert villages as decoration. Wandering traders have a chance to sell sea pickles for two emeralds. They are underwater light source blocks that emit light when waterlogged.
They, just like candles, provide different light levels depending on how many there are in a cluster. You can use bone meal on a sea pickle underwater and on top of the living coral block to multiply it.
38. Shroomlight
You can find shroomlight blocks as a part of the Nether trees/huge fungi. You can bone meal the crimson and warped fungus to grow these trees and therefore get shroomlights. This light source block is rather beautiful and frequently used, although it’s not easy to get in bulk.
39. Small Amethyst Bud
Small amethyst buds are the first growth stage of amethyst buds and can be found in the geodes attached to the budding amethyst blocks.
40. Soul Fire
Soul fire is a turquoise fire that you can make using a flint and steel or a fire charge on the soul sand or soul soil. It can befound in soul sand valleysin the Nether andancient cities. It’s dimmer than the regular fire and more dangerous.
41. Soul Lantern
You can find soul lanterns in ancient cities or craft them using one soul torch and eight iron nuggets. They are a dim but also very cool light source block in Minecraft that has great application in ancient city lighting.
42. Soul Torch
Soul torch can be crafted with one stick, one coal or charcoal, and soul soil or soul sand or it can be found in the chests in the ancient cities. They are quite similar to the soul lanterns but do not have a hitbox.
43. Torch
You can findtorchesin the mineshafts, villages,strongholds, basements of igloos,woodland mansions, pillager outposts, in the End after defeating an Ender Dragon as part of the exit portal and in the ancient cities. They also appear in the chests in the mineshafts and villages. You can craft them using a stick and a piece of coal or charcoal.
Torches are a very commonly used early game light source since they are so easy to obtain. They don’t have a hitbox so you can place them on the ground in one-wide-block tunnels without issues. Players also use them to mark the corridors of the cave passages they’ve explored.
And that was the extensive and detailed guide about all Minecraft’s light source blocks. As you can see, there are various full and non-full light blocks that you can match with any build style and theme. So, go through the list again and find your pick.
The rarest light source block is the Dragon egg since you can have only one in Java Edition and only two in Bedrock Edition.
The only survival-obtainable block that emits light level of 8 is a copper bulb that oxidized two times.
Redstone blocks and redstone dust do not emit light.
Radojka Travar
I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.
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