Shulker Shell

Items

Shulker Shell — item.

Obtaining

Shulker shells come from shulkers in End cities. The shulker entity loot table rolls one shell with a 50% base chance; Looting raises it by 6.25 percentage points per level, reaching 68.75% at Looting III. A shell supply can become renewable when shulkers duplicate during projectile hits.

The table makes one independent roll for one shell. A shulker that is open and hit by another shulker bullet may teleport and create a new shulker; the duplication check becomes less likely as more shulkers are already nearby, so crowded farms should leave room around the target.

Data: Obtaining
SourceShulker in an End city
Base chance50%
Looting I chance56.25%
Later Looting bonus+6.25 percentage points per level
Looting III chance68.75%
Stack size64
Loot table rolls1 roll, maximum 1 shell
Renewable triggerShulker bullet hits an open shulker
Nearby-shulker scan8-block radius, up to 5 counted

Usage

The shell is a portable-storage ingredient rather than a placeable block. Two shells surround a chest to create a shulker box, which keeps its inventory while being moved and exposes 27 storage slots.

The result is useful precisely because the box can be broken and carried without emptying it. The shell itself has no placement interaction, so it belongs in the item side of the reference rather than in the block catalog.

Data: Usage
Main useShulker box
Input2 shells and 1 chest
PlaceableNo
Storage result27 slots that keep contents when moved

Crafting ingredient

Place one shell above and one below a chest in the three-row recipe. The result is one shulker box.

Data: Crafting ingredient
Top1 shulker shell
Middle1 chest
Bottom1 shulker shell
Output1 shulker box

Data values

The item uses the `minecraft:shulker_shell` identifier and stacks to 64. Its only vanilla crafting role is the shell pair in the shulker-box recipe.

Data: Data values
Identifierminecraft:shulker_shell
VersionMinecraft 26.2
Item modelassets/minecraft/models/item/shulker_shell.json
Stack size64
RoleShulker box ingredient
Source lootentities/shulker
Maximum Looting III chance68.75%
Renewable sourceShulker duplication in End combat
Entity loot rolls1
Duplication conditionOpen shulker hit by a shulker bullet

History

Shulker shells were introduced with End-city exploration and later became renewable after shulker duplication was added. Their recipe role has remained the two-shell input for a shulker box.

Data: History
1.11Shulker shells added with End cities
1.17Shulker duplication made shells renewable
CurrentTwo shells plus one chest craft one portable shulker box
  1. 26.2Item facts were published from the verified snapshot.Provenance: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5

References

The page is based on the local shulker loot table, the shaped shulker-box recipe, and the Java shulker projectile-duplication code.

Data: References
Validated DeepMine snapshotValidated DeepMine snapshot
Snapshot ID918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Digest7989ed188ea975fa108c3e5fa55bb88ef648d55e8d677639b4d14585179d0f88
Entity lootdata/minecraft/loot_table/entities/shulker.json
Crafting recipedata/minecraft/recipe/shulker_box.json
Duplication logicnet/minecraft/world/entity/monster/Shulker.java
Item registrationnet/minecraft/world/item/Items.java
Storage block ownernet/minecraft/world/level/block/ShulkerBoxBlock.java

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Data and provenance

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Data source7989ed188ea975fa108c3e5fa55bb88ef648d55e8d677639b4d14585179d0f88

Provenance and publication

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Entity identifier
minecraft:shulker_shell
Digest
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