Description
Cyan Shulker Box is an incredibly valuable storage container in Minecraft that combines the functionality of a chest with the portability of a regular inventory item, making it one of the most sought after storage solutions for advanced players. This remarkable block can store up to 27 stacks of items while maintaining its inventory contents even when broken and moved to different locations. The cyan colored exterior provides an attractive blue green appearance that stands out beautifully in organized storage rooms and base designs. Unlike traditional chests, shulker boxes retain all stored items when broken, allowing players to transport entire inventories of materials across vast distances without losing any contents. This unique property makes them invaluable for construction projects, mining expeditions, and exploration ventures where carrying capacity becomes a limiting factor. The crafting process requires defeating Shulkers in End Cities, making these boxes a late game reward that requires significant preparation and skill to obtain. Each shulker box functions as an independent storage unit that can be placed, accessed, broken, and relocated without affecting other storage systems. The cyan color coding allows players to create organized storage systems where different colored boxes contain specific types of items or materials for easy identification. Professional builders often use shulker boxes to transport massive quantities of building materials to remote construction sites, enabling complex projects that would otherwise require countless trips for material transport. The durability and blast resistance provide protection for valuable stored items, making them suitable for use in dangerous environments or areas prone to explosions. The compact storage density allows players to create warehouse style storage facilities that can hold thousands of items in relatively small spaces, revolutionizing how advanced players manage their resources and inventory systems.
What is Cyan Shulker Box?
Cyan Shulker Box is a portable storage container that maintains its inventory contents when broken and moved, offering unprecedented flexibility in Minecraft storage and transportation systems. This block represents the pinnacle of storage technology, combining the capacity of a chest with the mobility of a regular item. The cyan coloring provides visual distinction in organized storage systems where multiple colored boxes serve different purposes. Unlike any other storage block in the game, shulker boxes preserve their entire inventory when broken, allowing players to pick them up complete with all stored items intact. This revolutionary feature transforms how players approach resource management, construction logistics, and inventory organization. The block functions identically to a chest when placed and accessed, providing the familiar interface for storing and retrieving items. The portability aspect makes it invaluable for players who frequently travel between different bases, construction sites, or exploration areas. Each box essentially serves as a portable warehouse that can be carried in a single inventory slot while containing up to 27 stacks of various materials. The cyan variant specifically offers a beautiful blue green color that works well in organized storage rooms and color coded filing systems. The rarity of these boxes, due to their End City acquisition requirements, makes them precious resources that experienced players guard carefully. The storage density improvement over traditional methods allows for much more efficient space utilization in bases and storage facilities. The durability ensures that valuable stored contents remain protected even in challenging survival situations.
Where to find Cyan Shulker Box
Cyan Shulker Boxes are not naturally generated in any biomes, structures, or dimensions throughout the Minecraft world, making them exclusively craftable items that require specific rare materials obtained from End dimension exploration. The creation process depends entirely on acquiring Shulker Shells, which can only be obtained by defeating Shulker mobs found exclusively in End Cities located in the outer End islands beyond the main End island where the Ender Dragon resides. Players must first defeat the Ender Dragon to gain access to the End Gateway portals that lead to the outer End islands where End Cities generate. These cities contain Shulker mobs that guard the structures and drop Shulker Shells when defeated, typically yielding zero to two shells per Shulker depending on looting enchantments applied to weapons. The End Cities themselves are rare structures that require significant exploration to locate, as they generate sporadically throughout the outer End islands with no guaranteed placement patterns. Once players obtain sufficient Shulker Shells, they must return to areas with crafting tables to combine the shells with regular chests and cyan dye to create the finished shulker boxes. The cyan dye component can be acquired through various overworld methods including flower collection, dye crafting combinations, or villager trading. Some players establish End City raiding expeditions specifically to gather multiple Shulker Shells for creating numerous shulker boxes in different colors. The dangerous nature of End exploration requires advanced equipment, food supplies, and building materials for safe navigation of the void filled End dimension. Alternative acquisition methods are extremely limited, with some rare instances of shulker boxes appearing as loot in certain modded environments or custom maps, though these are not part of standard Minecraft gameplay.
How to get Cyan Shulker Box
Obtaining Cyan Shulker Boxes requires completing several challenging prerequisites including defeating the Ender Dragon, exploring End Cities, gathering Shulker Shells, and crafting the final product using specific materials. The journey begins with preparing for End dimension travel by gathering Ender Pearls and Blaze Powder to craft Eyes of Ender for locating and activating End Portals in strongholds. Once in the End dimension, players must defeat the Ender Dragon using appropriate weapons, armor, and strategies to gain access to End Gateway portals that appear after the dragon's defeat. These gateways transport players to outer End islands where End Cities generate, requiring careful navigation and bridge building across void gaps to reach the structures safely. End Cities contain Shulker mobs that must be defeated to obtain Shulker Shells, with each Shulker potentially dropping zero to two shells depending on weapon enchantments and luck factors. Players typically need to explore multiple End Cities to gather sufficient shells for crafting multiple shulker boxes. The crafting recipe requires two Shulker Shells and one regular chest arranged in a vertical pattern within a crafting table interface. To create the cyan variant specifically, players must also craft or obtain cyan dye through various methods including combining blue and green dyes or finding cyan colored flowers in appropriate biomes. The chest component can be crafted from wooden planks using standard crafting recipes available throughout the game. Advanced players often plan End City raiding expeditions carefully, bringing building materials for bridges, food for sustenance, and equipment for extended exploration sessions. The entire process from initial preparation to final crafted cyan shulker box represents one of the most complex acquisition chains in Minecraft, requiring mastery of multiple game systems and significant time investment to complete successfully.
Release Information
First introduced: Released in Minecraft 1.11 The Exploration Update on November 14, 2016
Give Command
/give @p minecraft:cyan_shulker_box
How to use Cyan Shulker Box
Cyan Shulker Boxes function as portable storage containers that can be placed, accessed, filled with items, broken while retaining contents, and moved to new locations without losing any stored materials. Players place the box using standard block placement mechanics by right clicking while holding the shulker box selected from their inventory or hotbar. Once placed, right clicking on the box opens a chest like interface with 27 storage slots that can hold various items and materials up to their maximum stack sizes. The revolutionary feature of shulker boxes becomes apparent when breaking them, as players can use any pickaxe to break the box and it will drop as a single item that retains all stored contents within its internal inventory. This allows for unprecedented mobility in storage systems, enabling players to transport entire chest loads of materials in a single inventory slot. The cyan color coding helps organize storage systems where different colored boxes contain specific categories of items such as building materials, tools, food, or rare resources. Players often create mobile bases using shulker boxes, carrying their entire storage system to new locations for construction projects or exploration ventures. The boxes can be stacked in regular chests or other storage containers, creating nested storage systems with enormous capacity potential. Advanced players use shulker boxes for sorting systems, automatic farms, and redstone contraptions that require portable storage components. The durability ensures stored items remain protected even if the box is accidentally broken by explosions or other hazards. Naming shulker boxes using anvils and name tags creates custom labels that appear when hovering over the box, improving organization in complex storage systems. The boxes work underwater and in all dimensions, making them versatile tools for any environment or situation players encounter during their adventures.
Recipes for Cyan Shulker Box
Shapeless Crafting Items can be placed in any arrangement in a crafting table
Any Shulker Box
Cyan Dye
Cyan Shulker Box