How do I get a beacon to work in Minecraft?

In Minecraft, beacons are one of the many mechanisms that you can make. A beacon can give you status effects such as Haste, Regeneration, Resistance, Speed or Strength.

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To activate a Beacon, you must place it on top of a Pyramid. The Pyramid must be built from Iron, Gold, Diamond, Netherite, or Emerald blocks. You can use a mixture of these if you don’t have enough of a single type of block. You must make the Pyramid with between one and four layers.

How To Activate A BEACON In Minecraft

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Once the beacon is emitting a beam, it can then be fed one iron ingot, gold ingot, emerald, diamond, or netherite ingot to select the status effects given to players within range of the beacon. This is done through the beacons GUI, displayed by pressing use while looking at the beacon block. It doesnt matter which of the items is fed into the beacon.

In the GUI, the player places the item to be fed in the empty slot and clicks an effect from the “Primary Power” section on the left. If the beacon is sitting on a 4-level pyramid, the “Secondary Power” section on the right also becomes active. The player can then choose either to turn on the Regeneration power in addition to the Primary Power or to raise the primary power to Level II. The user clicks the “Done” button (green checkmark), the item is consumed, and the power(s) become activated. To change the beacons powers, this process must be followed again, consuming another ingot or gem.

If the pyramid is broken, effects deactivate or weaken, or the beacon deactivates entirely depending on the level of the pyramid that is no longer complete. Upon restoration of the pyramid, the originally selected power returns without the need to spend another item.

The five Primary Powers are:

Speed I: Increased movement speed.

Haste I: Increased mining and attack speed.

Resistance I: Decreased nearly all incoming damage (2-level pyramid required).

Jump Boost I: Increased jumping distance and height (2-level pyramid required).

Strength I: Increased melee damage (3-level pyramid required).

The Secondary Powers available with a 4-level pyramid are:

Regeneration I: Regenerates health.

Increasing the Primary Power to level II.

It is also possible to combine two different primary Level I powers:

select a primary power in the left panel

select the Level II option in the right panel

select the second desired power back in the left panel

Only one of the two powers appear to be selected, although both effects are active.‌[Java Edition only]

Every four seconds, the selected powers are applied with a duration of 9 seconds, plus 2 seconds per pyramid level, to all players in range. Thus, when powers are changed or a player travels outside the area-of-effect, the powers persist for 5–9 seconds, or 13-17 seconds with a full pyramid.

The beacon affects an area in the shape of a square column, which reaches downward and out to each side at a range determined by the size of the pyramid base (see table below), and upward a distance of that range + 384 blocks.

The distance from the player to the beacon block does not affect the intensity of the status effect.

Pyramid size	Effect range (blocks)	Effect duration (seconds)
1 level	20	11
2 levels	30	13
3 levels	40	15
4 levels	50	17

The materials you’ll need to craft a beacon in ‘Minecraft’

Like most items in “Minecraft,” to make a beacon, youll need to gather materials from across the world. Luckily, two of these items can probably be found close to home. The last, however, will take some work.

Where to find a Beacon in Creative Mode

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