How to Craft Spyglass in Minecraft
The Spyglass zooms in when used, allowing you to see distant terrain and mobs. It narrows your field of view to a small square.
Overview
The Spyglass zooms in when used, allowing you to see distant terrain and mobs. It narrows your field of view to a small square. Spyglass uses a shaped recipe, meaning the ingredients must sit in the exact pattern shown in the grid above; placing them in the wrong cells will not produce the item. A Crafting Table gives you the full 3x3 grid, which you need for any recipe larger than 2x2. You can craft one from four planks, and most bases keep one near the furnaces.
The recipe was added in Minecraft 1.17 and still works the same way in version 1.21. Each craft yields a single Spyglass.
The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with amethyst shard (mine amethyst clusters in geodes) and copper ingot (smelt copper ore). If any of those are not already in your stores, gather them first, because the craft itself takes only a moment once everything is in the grid. With the ingredients on hand and a Crafting Table placed, Spyglass is one of the quicker things to add to your inventory.
Crafting Recipe
SpyglassMaterials Needed
To make Spyglass you will gather Amethyst Shard (mine amethyst clusters in geodes) and 2x Copper Ingot (smelt copper ore). Lining these up before you open the Crafting Table saves a trip back to storage, especially if you plan to craft several at once.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Open your Crafting Table to access the 3x3 crafting grid.
- Arrange the ingredients in the crafting grid following the pattern shown above.
- Place Amethyst Shard in: row 1, column 2.
- Place Copper Ingot in: row 2, column 2; row 3, column 2.
- Collect your Spyglass from the output slot.
Tips & Notes
- If the output slot stays empty, double-check the pattern against the grid above; a shaped recipe fails silently when even one ingredient is in the wrong cell.
Uses for Spyglass
- Zooming in to view distant areas
How Spyglass Fits Your World
Tools determine how fast you gather and what blocks you can mine at all: a pickaxe of the right tier is required to mine higher ores, since mining diamond ore needs at least an iron pickaxe and ancient debris needs a diamond one. Every tool also carries a durability bar that ticks down with use, so enchantments like Unbreaking and Mending dramatically extend how long it lasts before it breaks. For Spyglass specifically, that means it is most valuable for zooming in to view distant areas.
View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Spyglass on the Astroworld Items Database.