How to make a Prismarine Shard in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft a prismarine shard with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, a prismarine shard is an item that you can not make with a crafting table or furnace. Instead, you need to find and gather this item in the game.

Let's explore how to add a prismarine shard to your inventory.

Supported Platforms

A prismarine shard is available in the following versions of Minecraft:

Platform	Supported (Version)
PC/Mac	Yes
Pocket Edition	No
PS3	No
PS4	No
Xbox 360	No
Xbox One	No
Windows 10	No

Find and Kill a Guardian

You get a prismarine shard in Minecraft by killing a guardian, so you need to find a guardian to kill.

Guardians will spawn in or around the Guardian Temple in the ocean.

If you are having trouble finding a guardian, you can summon a guardian using a cheat.

Once you find a guardian, you need to attack it. When you attack the guardian, it will turn pink as it takes damage.

Continue to chase and attack the guardian. They are very quick and will swim away fast. Once you have killed the guardian, it may drop a prismarine shard and/or prismarine crystals. Sometimes, a guardian will not drop anything. If this happens, just find and kill another guardian.

Make sure you pick up the prismarine shards and prismarine crystals before they disappear.

These are useful items and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.

Item ID and Name

When you start using game commands such as /give or /summon, you will need to know the Minecraft item ID and name for a particular block. These values will be used in your game commands.

In Minecraft, a prismarine shard has the following item ID, type, and name values:

Item	Platform	Name	ID	Type
	PC/Mac	Prismarine Shard (minecraft:prismarine_shard)	409

Definitions

Item is the image of the item in Minecraft.
Platform is the platform that applies.
Name is the string value for the block.
ID is the numeric value for the block.
Type identifies the variation of the block if more than one type exists for that Item ID.
(Note: Type is sometimes referred to as damage value or data value.)

See a complete list of Minecraft IDs that is interactive and searchable.