Nether Star icon PNG
The Nether Star icon exactly as it appears in Minecraft 26.3, as a transparent PNG. The original texture is 16×16 pixels, and here you can scale it up without it going blurry.
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Open in the icon editorNether star: how to get one and what it is for
The Nether star only drops from the Wither when it dies, and the Wither does not spawn on its own: you summon it with four blocks of soul sand in a T shape and three wither skeleton skulls on top. So every star costs you a boss fight.
It is used in a single recipe, but a sought-after one: the beacon, made from a Nether star, five glass and three obsidian. Placed on a pyramid of iron, gold, emerald, diamond or netherite blocks, it gives effects like Speed or Haste to anyone nearby.
It glints like an enchanted item and is immune to explosions, which matters because the Wither explodes when it spawns and when it dies. Cacti, fire, lava and the void still destroy it.
In Bedrock, a star lying on the ground never despawns. In Java, the one the Wither drops lasts 10 minutes on the ground, twice as long as any other item.
Sources: minecraft.wiki/Nether Star
How to get Nether Star
Recipe and drops taken from the Minecraft 26.3 data pack.
What you make with Nether Star
It goes in as an ingredient in these recipes.
- Beacon
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