
Some conduits and enough prismarine to make all of max-level.Some water buckets or several stacks of ice.This will not disrupt the growth of amethyst, since amethyst buds and clusters can be waterlogged and grow in water source blocks and are not affected by it. This method works best in an amethyst geode which is under an ocean, because you will do much less mining, clearing out and placing all the water, but this is an extremely easy and efficient method that can also work in an underground geode if you are willing to do all the tedious work required. Then you will need to be able to access all the budding amethyst using scaffolding, but make sure that the scaffolding is not obstructing any sides of the budding amethyst. You need to make a few floors using the blocks, and make each one accessible by using ladders. You can use a nether portal system to enter and exit the area. Please note that for all these methods you will need to dig out all the blocks within a certain radius of the geode that is not a budding amethyst block, including calcite, smooth basalt and stone, as well as blocking off all caves. However, just going to each bud and mining it is fairly tedious, so here are a few methods that will help you in your Minecraft world.
#WHERE TO FIND AMETHYST IN MINECRAFT MANUAL#
Manual farming amethyst is much more efficient than automatic, unlike with most farmable items. Amethyst geodes are normally in fairly remote locations, especially if you are playing on a world you created before 1.17, so it is recommended you locate a geode near a farm you AFK at since the growth is restricted by the 128 block range from the player imposed by random ticks.
#WHERE TO FIND AMETHYST IN MINECRAFT FREE#
A block of budding amethyst has a 20% chance every random game tick to produce a small amethyst bud if there is a free slot on a side, however amethyst buds themselves take about 7 Minecraft days to mature, though this can be longer or shorter due to the nature of random number generation in the Random Ticks and the Chance to Grow.It can only generate in amethyst geodes, so if you want to farm them, you need to find an amethyst geode, and turn that area into the farm. Budding amethyst blocks itself are non-obtainable blocks, like monster spawners, which means that they won't drop if you mine them, no matter what tool and which enchantments you use.Budding amethyst blocks can produce new amethyst shards, but can only do so if a side is unobstructed and does not have any pending amethyst buds growing, and, like most blocks, it has 6 sides. All the stages of amethyst buds and clusters will only grow and mature to the next stage if planted on a budding amethyst block.

That means that unlike many farmable mobs, items and blocks, farming amethyst manually can yield more amethyst than if you farm it automatically. Amethyst clusters will only drop 2 shards if harvested by a piston, however if you harvest it with a Fortune 3 pickaxe it can give you either 8, 12 or 16 shards per cluster mined.
