Lapis Lazuli

**Lapis lazuli** is a mineral required to enchant items in an enchanting table.

## Obtaining

### Mining

When mined with a stone pickaxe or better, lapis lazuli ore drops 4–9 lapis lazuli. With the Fortune III enchantment, a single block has a chance of dropping up to 36 items.

### Smelting

Deepslate Lapis Lazuli Ore +
Any fuel

### Villager gifts

In *Java Edition*, cleric villagers give players lapis lazuli if they have the Hero of the Village effect.

### Trading

Apprentice-level cleric villagers sell one lapis lazuli for an emerald as part of their trades.

In *Bedrock Edition*, wandering traders may sell 3 lapis lazuli for an emerald.

### Chest loot

See also: Lapis Lazuli Ore § Natural generation

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## Usage

### Enchanting

1–3 pieces of lapis lazuli are required to use an enchanting table to enchant an item. More specifically, the enchanting table UI shows 3 options (see Enchanting mechanics for details): the first, second, and third options cost 1, 2, and 3 lapis lazuli, respectively.

### Crafting ingredient

Lapis lazuli can be used to make blocks of lapis lazuli and blue dye. In *Bedrock Edition*, it can also be used directly as a substitute for blue dye.

In *Bedrock Edition*, lapis lazuli can be also used in banner patterns:

Banner
Banner +
Vines or
Bricks or
Creeper Head or
Wither Skeleton Skull or
Oxeye Daisy or
Enchanted Golden Apple

### Loom ingredient

**Lapis Lazuli**
Lapis Lazuli can be used as a dye.‌[*Bedrock Edition only*]
 Blue Banner image
**Lapis Lazuli** +
Banner Pattern
1. Field masoned and bordure indented banner patterns.‌[*Bedrock Edition only*]

Lapis Lazuli can be used as a dye.‌[*Bedrock Edition only*]
*Note: The loom is using the Java Edition interface.*

### Dye

In *Bedrock Edition* and *Minecraft Education*, lapis lazuli can be:

* Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of blue wool.
* Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
* Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
* Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta and shulker boxes.
* Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
* Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
* Used to add patterns to banners.
* Used to dye shulkers in *Bedrock Edition* and *Minecraft Education*.
* Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in *Bedrock Edition* and *Minecraft Education*.
* Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
* Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in *Bedrock Edition* and *Minecraft Education*.
* Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs.

### Smithing ingredient

Any Armor Piece +
Lapis Lazuli
a netherite chestplate is shown as an example.

Trim color palette
The following color palette is shown on the designs on trimmed armor:

## Data values

### ID

*Java Edition*:

*Bedrock Edition*:

## Issues

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## Trivia

* In real life, lapis lazuli is a blue gem that can be ground and processed into ultramarine pigment. Lapis lazuli pigment has been famously used in the production of illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, and cave paintings. See the Wikipedia article for more information.
* Lapis lazuli is the only ore that can be used as a dye‌[*BE only*] or making a dye.
* It is the only item that can be put in the second slot of an enchantment table.