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Shulker Shell

Shulker shells are items dropped by shulkers that are used solely to craft shulker boxes.

In Bedrock Edition, shulkers drop 0-1 shulker shells. The maximum can be increased by 1 per level of Looting, which is 0-4 shells with Looting III.

In Java Edition, shulkers have a 50% chance of dropping a shulker shell when killed. This is increased by 6.25% per level of Looting, for a maximum of 68.75% with Looting III.

Source: Minecraft Wiki cacheUpdated: 2026-02-28 Open Original

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Shulker Shell

Java 1.21.4
Typeitem
Stack64
Durability-
Sections1
Canonical IDitem:shulker_shell
Minecraft IDminecraft:shulker_shell
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displayNameShulker Shell
nameshulker_shell
id1216
stackSize64