Tutorial:Amethyst farming

Amethyst farming is the renewable way of obtaining amethyst shards, as well as small, medium, large amethyst buds and amethyst clusters. Amethyst shards are used to craft amethyst blocks for decoration, tinted glass (useful for mob farms), spyglasses, and to breed allays.

Manual farming amethyst is much more efficient than automatic, unlike with most farmable items. 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. 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. You can use a nether portal system to enter and exit the area.

This method is the most simple of all. You need to make a few floors using the blocks, and make each one accessible by using ladders. 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. Make sure to light up each floor to prevent mobs.