How to Easily Find and Use Shulker Shells in Minecraft

What Do You Need to Get Shulker Shells in Minecraft?

Before we start on how to get shulker shells in Minecraft, there are some requirements you first need to fulfill. They may be some of the hardest ones since you'll have to ultimately defeat the end-game boss of the game! But if you're ready for the challenge, here are all the requirements for getting shulker shells in Minecraft:

• Get Eyes of Ender to find and activate the End Portal to beat the Ender Dragon 
• Collect a minimum of 2 Ender Pearls that drop by beating an Enderman
• Get some solid blocks like dirt for support in traveling the End dimension

If you craft an Eye of Ender and throw it, it will go in the direction where the End Portal is located. After you find the portal, you'll need to activate it by placing 12 more Eyes of Ender in it. When you get in the portal and beat the Ender Dragon, once you return back to the End dimension again, at the outskirts of the island there will be little End city portals from which you can go in and out of using Ender Pearls.

Besides these minimum requirements, you should also get a powerful diamond sword, armor, and a bow that'll ultimately help you in defeating Endermen and the Ender Dragon to get Minecraft shulker shells. Some of the best armor enchantments might make some of the hard stuff easier too!

How to Get Shulker Shells in Minecraft

After you're done with the requirements, you'll be ready to get yourself a shulker shell or two! So as this Minecraft tutorial explains, here's a step-by-step guide on how to find shulker shells in Minecraft:

1. Get yourself to the End dimension and find an End city portal
2. Throw an Ender Pearl in the portal
3. Find an End city that looks like a very tall house
4. Defeat a shulker that usually spawns in and around entrances of End city houses

It's a bit hard to defeat a shulker in survival mode since their attacks make you levitate high above! And if that effect runs out, you'll quickly die when you drop to the ground.

Another thing to keep in mind when you're trying to acquire shulker shells is that a shulker can also teleport around the End city when you attack it. So try to quickly beat it up because sometimes they tend to teleport in hard-to-reach spaces making it impossible to defeat it and get a shulker shell.

When you beat up a shulker, you can only get a single shulker shell in Minecraft Java edition, and 0-4 shulker shells in Bedrock edition. And in Java, there's also a 50% chance for a shulker shell to drop. So you can increase your chances of getting a shulker shell with Looting III which is one of the best sword enchantments in Minecraft!

How to Use Shulker Shells in Minecraft

Currently, shulker shells can be only used to craft one thing, and that's to make shulker boxes! Minecraft shulker boxes are one of the best methods to easily store lots of items and carry them with you. You can easily craft a shulker box by placing two shulker shells in the middle top and bottom boxes of a crafting table alongside a chest in the middle.

A shulker box in Minecraft functions like a chest, but when you break a chest it will drop the items contained in it. However, the shulker box won't drop the items and still have them inside if it's broken.

That's why you should get any shulker shell you can find. Because for example if you want to make a new base with the best storage room ideas and transport lots of items, crafting and using shulker boxes will help you out tremendously.

And if you want to know what items in which shulker boxes you've placed, they can easily be colored using color dyes! There are many color variations of shulker boxes you can make. But crafting a black shulker box is probably the best color variation I'd recommend!

That wraps it for everything you need to know on how to get and use shulker shells. Minecraft has many interesting items like the shulker shell. Although it's only used to make a shulker box in Minecraft for item carrying and transportation, you can also craft an ender chest which will help you carry your most important items!