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How to Craft Conduit in Minecraft

Conduit in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Conduit Power effect: water breathing, night vision and haste underwater.

Bring 8 Nautilus Shells and 1 Heart of the Sea to a Crafting Table and you have a Conduit. The top row is three Nautilus Shells, the middle row two Nautilus Shells in the left and right columns and a Heart of the Sea in the middle column, and the bottom row three Nautilus Shells. Expect 1 Conduit from every craft.

Conduit Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Conduit is minecraft:conduit. In commands the namespace may be left off, so conduit works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p conduit
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p conduit 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve conduit 1

Cheats have to be on for Conduit to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Conduits grant the Conduit Power effect when activated with a prismarine frame underwater, providing water breathing, night vision and haste. Conduit uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

How far back this one goes cannot be read out of the files: Minecraft 1.13 renamed hundreds of items and every recipe file with them, and the conduit was one of them, so the trail stops there.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with nautilus shell (fishing, drowned drops, or trading) and heart of the sea (found in buried treasure chests).

Counting The Stack

Stack sum: 64 over 8 is 8 crafts, times 1 is 8 conduits. Bring 8 heart of the seas along for the ride. Craft 8 empties the box exactly.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Nautilus ShellNautilus ShellNautilus Shell8xFishing, drowned drops, or trading
Heart of the SeaHeart of the SeaHeart of the Sea1xFound in buried treasure chests

Gather 8x Nautilus Shell (fishing, drowned drops, or trading) and Heart of the Sea (found in buried treasure chests), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Nautilus ShellNautilus Shell8x Nautilus Shell

  2. 2

    Heart of the SeaHeart of the SeaHeart of the Sea

  3. 3

    Conduit

Minecraft crafting recipe for Conduit: 8 x Nautilus Shell, 1 x Heart of the Sea in a crafting table, making 1 Conduit.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 8x Nautilus Shell and 1x Heart of the Sea before you open the Crafting Table. Nautilus Shell: fishing, drowned drops, or trading.

Uses for Conduit

  • Conduit Power effect: water breathing, night vision and haste underwater
  • Attacks hostile mobs near it

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Conduit on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Conduit in Minecraft?
To craft a Conduit you need 8 Nautilus Shells and 1 Heart of the Sea at a Crafting Table. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces one Conduit.
Can you craft a Conduit without a crafting table?
You need a table for a Conduit. It is laid out as eight Nautilus Shells and a single Heart of the Sea in the centre cell, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Conduit?
Here is where each part of a Conduit comes from. Nautilus Shell: fishing, drowned drops, or trading. Heart of the Sea: found in buried treasure chests.
How many Conduits do you get from one craft?
The Conduit recipe makes one Conduit per craft.
What is the item ID for Conduit in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Conduit goes by minecraft:conduit; conduit without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Conduit?
The command for Conduit is /give @p conduit. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p conduit 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Conduit recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Conduit recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Conduit from 8 Nautilus Shells and 1 Heart of the Sea at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, one at a time.
Which material does a Conduit need the most of?
A Conduit needs more Nautilus Shell than anything else: 8 Nautilus Shells out of 9 items in total. Gather that first and the rest of the recipe follows easily.
How do you unlock the Conduit recipe in the recipe book?
The Conduit recipe appears in your recipe book as soon as you pick up Heart Of The Sea or Nautilus Shell in Java Edition, whichever you come across first. The book lists only what you have triggered, so the craft works before that if you already know the grid.
What version of Minecraft added the Conduit?
The conduit has carried this name since Minecraft 1.13, the release that renamed hundreds of items at once, and the files cannot say how much older than that it is: anything earlier is the same thing filed under a different name. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
8 Nautilus Shells and 1 Heart of the Sea in, 1 Conduit out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
The trail stops at Minecraft Java 1.13, where hundreds of items were renamed at once. Older releases call this something else entirely. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Conduit per craft against the stack size.

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