Shelf

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 "Jungle Shelf.png",
 "Acacia Shelf.png",
 "Dark Oak Shelf.png",
 "Mangrove Shelf.png",
 "Poplar Shelf.png",
 "Cherry Shelf.png",
 "Pale Oak Shelf.png",
 "Bamboo Shelf.png",
 "Crimson Shelf.png",
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 "Mangrove Shelf",
 "Poplar Shelf",
 "Cherry Shelf",
 "Pale Oak Shelf",
 "Bamboo Shelf",
 "Crimson Shelf",
 "Warped Shelf",
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 "Jungle Shelf BE",
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A shelf is a block that can store and display up to three stacks of items. Using an item slot exchanges its contents with the player's hotbar. Powering a shelf combines its three slots together and makes using it swap everything at once.

Two or three adjacent shelves can merge their slots together if all are powered, which allows for swapping six or nine items at a time, respectively.

Shelves can be broken by hand, but using an axe is the fastest.

In Java Edition, shelves cannot be moved by pistons.

A shelf can store up to 3 item stacks. Each slot of the shelf can store a full stack of any stackable item, or just one of a non-stackable item. The number of items in the stack is not displayed. The shelf displays all items it contains in front of it, similar to an item frame. Interacting with any of the 3 slots swaps the player's main hand item with the content of that slot if it is not powered by redstone.

While a shelf is powered by redstone, its front texture changes to show its powered state; when placed next to each other, up to three powered shelves can connect together. Powered shelves prioritize connecting to other shelves on the left.

Powered shelves can be used to quickly swap the contents of a player's hotbar, similar to the Saved Hotbars‌^{[JE only]} function in Creative mode.

• Interacting with a single powered shelf swaps all its contents with the 3 rightmost slots in the hotbar.
• Interacting with two connected shelves swaps their contents with the 6 rightmost slots in the hotbar.
• Interacting with three connected shelves swaps their contents with all 9 slots of the hotbar.

It does not matter which of the connected shelves the player interacts with.

in Bedrock Edition, the shelf only activates on the Input/Consume redstone tick (C-tick).

Shelves can also act as power sources for redstone comparators depending on what slots contain an item.

• An item in the left slot will emit a redstone power of 1.
• An item in the middle slot will emit a redstone power of 2.
• An item in the right slot will emit a redstone power of 4.

If multiple slots contain an item, the comparator will output the total, up to a maximum power of 7 if all slots are filled.

Shelves can be filled automatically by using either hoppers or droppers. Hoppers can also remove items from a shelf when placed underneath.

Items from a shelf are added and removed from left to right and will stack stackable items into one slot until that slot is full.

Overworld shelves can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per shelf.

Nether shelves cannot be used as a fuel in furnaces.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Despite shelves using the chiseled_bookshelf sound type for its generic sounds, in Java Edition, the following resource locations also exist: block.shelf.break, block.shelf.place, block.shelf.hit, block.shelf.fall, and block.shelf.step.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Shelves have block entities associated with them that hold additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Issues relating to "Shelf" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 👁 Oak shelf
  
  Oak shelf
• 👁 Birch shelf
  
  Birch shelf
• 👁 Spruce shelf
  
  Spruce shelf
• 👁 Jungle shelf
  
  Jungle shelf
• 👁 Acacia shelf
  
  Acacia shelf
• 👁 Dark Oak shelf
  
  Dark Oak shelf
• 👁 Mangrove shelf
  
  Mangrove shelf
• 👁 Cherry shelf
  
  Cherry shelf
• 👁 Pale Oak shelf
  
  Pale Oak shelf
• 👁 Bamboo shelf
  
  Bamboo shelf
• 👁 Crimson shelf
  
  Crimson shelf
• 👁 Warped shelf
  
  Warped shelf

• 👁 Several shelf variations with copper golem statues.
  
  Several shelf variations with copper golem statues.
• 👁 Shelves with the copper chest and copper armor.
  
  Shelves with the copper chest and copper armor.
• 👁 Shelves with copper chest
  
  Shelves with copper chest
• 👁 Shelves in the copper room.
  
  Shelves in the copper room.
• 👁 A shelf being used in a machine.
  
  A shelf being used in a machine.
• 👁 A wall covered in shelves.
  
  A wall covered in shelves.
• 👁 Efe using mangrove shelves.
  
  Efe using mangrove shelves.
• 👁 Birch, mangrove, cherry, and oak shelves.
  
  Birch, mangrove, cherry, and oak shelves.
• 👁 Shelves in an NPC classroom
  
  Shelves in an NPC classroom

• 👁 A shelf above Steve's bed on the first day of school.
  
  A shelf above Steve's bed on the first day of school.
• 👁 Shelves in A Minecraft Movie.
  
  Shelves in A Minecraft Movie.
• 👁 Image
  

• 👁 Image
  Item Frame
• 👁 Image
  Bookshelf
• 👁 Image
  Chiseled Bookshelf