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Beacon
A beacon is a block that can be placed in view of the sky, on top of a pyramid made of valuable mineral blocks, to activate it. Once active, it projects a beam upward and can be set to provide constant status effects to all players in a radius around it. A beacon's range and available effects depend on the size of its pyramid base, between one and four layers.
A beacon can be mined successfully by hand or with any tool. When destroyed by an explosion, the block always drops as an item.
When "activated", beacon blocks provide two unique functions:
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Beacon
Canonical IDitem:beacon
Minecraft IDminecraft:beacon
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displayNameBeacon
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