Overview
Gray Shulker Box is one of the 17 variants of Shulker Box: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the Shulker Box page.
Gray Shulker Box counts as a storage block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Gray Shulker Box. Its hardness of 2 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. It is transparent, which matters when you are managing light levels. With a blast resistance of only 2 it will not survive an explosion.
It is unstackable. The recipe calls for White Shulker Box and Gray Dye. It is not used in any crafting recipe.
About the gray set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 2, Gray Shulker Box takes 3 seconds to punch out and 0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
Iron takes 0.5 seconds against diamond's 0.4, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to iron.
The drop does not depend on the tool — bare hands work as well as anything — so the table below is purely about speed.
Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 3.5 times faster than the plain tool.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 3 s | 3 s | 3 s |
| Wooden | 1.5 s | 0.25 s | 0.15 s |
| Stone | 0.75 s | 0.25 s | 0.1 s |
| Iron | 0.5 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Diamond | 0.4 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Netherite | 0.35 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Golden | 0.25 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
Properties
Blast resistance on Gray Shulker Box is 2, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It lets light pass and gives off no light. 1 fit in a slot, and it will not stack at all. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.
- Transparent
- Yes
- Required tool
- Any
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Shapeless recipe
Gray Shulker Box
Drops
Mined with any, Gray Shulker Box drops itself.
Guides and tools that cover this
Frequently asked questions
How do you get Gray Shulker Box in Minecraft?
Gray Shulker Box is crafted from White Shulker Box and Gray Dye.
What tool do you need to break Gray Shulker Box?
No specific tool is required — Gray Shulker Box can be broken by hand.
Is Gray Shulker Box blast resistant?
Gray Shulker Box has a blast resistance of 2, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Gray Shulker Box fit in one stack?
It does not stack — every Gray Shulker Box needs its own inventory slot, which is worth planning around before a long trip.
How long does Gray Shulker Box take to break?
0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 3 seconds bare-handed.
The rest of the set
Gray Shulker Box is one of 17. Every other member behaves the same way:
