Description
A magenta shulker box is a portable storage container with a bright magenta shell that helps players organise and transport items. Shulker boxes keep their contents when broken which makes them excellent for moving large volumes of materials between bases or for carrying specialised kits on long journeys. The magenta colour is useful for quickly identifying the box contents by colour coding which is handy for teams and for players managing many different item sets. Shulker boxes can be placed inside chests to save space and to build compact storage systems. They also fit in shulker box based storage rooms where colour helps sorting and retrieval. Crafting a shulker box requires shulker shells which drop from shulkers in end city structures so obtaining them requires exploration and combat which makes shulker boxes a valuable early end game tool. Because the contents remain when the box is broken you can move entire storage units without needing to unload chests item by item. This portability is transformational for trading, for building and for logistics in survival play.
What is Magenta Shulker Box?
A magenta shulker box is a coloured version of a shulker box which is a storage item that retains its inventory when broken. It opens like a small chest and gives portable storage that can be carried easily. Colouring a shulker box helps with quick sorting and with keeping inventories organised.
Where to find Magenta Shulker Box
Shulker boxes do not generate naturally in the over world. You get shulker shells by defeating shulkers in end city structures and then combine them with a chest to craft shulker boxes. The dyed variants are made by applying dyes to the crafted shulker box which means coloured boxes are player created items found in builds and in player inventories.
How to get Magenta Shulker Box
Kill shulkers in end city structures to obtain shulker shells. Combine two shells with a chest at a crafting table to make a shulker box and then dye it magenta using the available crafting methods. Use silk touch to move a shulker box without breaking it or break it to pick it up and carry it with contents safe inside.
Release Information
First introduced: Shulker boxes were added to improve portable storage and dyed variants were introduced later
Give Command
/give @p minecraft:magenta_shulker_box 64
How to use Magenta Shulker Box
Use magenta shulker boxes to create portable kits, to organise your storage and to transport items between locations. Label boxes by colour and stack them in chests for efficient long term storage. Pack multiple boxes with categories like building blocks tools and food and take them on expeditions to avoid repeated trips. They are perfect for moving bases and for setting up trade loads and for large building projects where you need many materials in one trip.
Recipes for Magenta Shulker Box
Shapeless Crafting Items can be placed in any arrangement in a crafting table
Any Shulker Box
Magenta Dye
Magenta Shulker Box