Talk:Beacon

Pyramids are the structures required to activate beacons. Move Here The more levels a pyramid has, the more powers will be available to choose from, and the wider its affected vicinity will be... ...There are four possible pyramid heights. If the pyramid is damaged so that the beacon is deactivated, it will "remember" the powers it was set for, and will reactivate once the pyramid is repaired...

There are four possible pyramid heights. can we move this sentence to the place I marked? I'm not sure if this sentence is meant to be related to the explanation of the "memory" of the beacon that is immediately to follow, so I think I should ask before I make the move. JackAlpha26 (talk) 12:13, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

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You should add an image of a Netherite Pyramid Seaskalley (talk) 22:30, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

I"m not sure that I understand this section. Currently it reads like this:

"The beacon forms a squared affected area around itself, the size of which depends on the pyramid size. The affected area extends range blocks (see the table below) from the beacon block horizontally and downward and range + 256 blocks above, except on console, where its vertical range is the same as its horizontal range."

I understand it to mean something like this:

"The affect of the beacon will be experienced by players within range of the beacon. This range varies depending on the size of the pyramid, see table below. The range of the largest pyramid extends 50 blocks to the north, 50 blocks to the south, 50 blocks to the east and 50 blocks to the west. The affected area forms the shape of a square (rather than a circle, like some other affects in the game). The range of the affect also extends 50 blocks downward, and 256 blocks upward, except on console where the affect extends only 50 blocks upward."

Do I understand correctly? I had to read it several times to figure it out. --Howarthe (talk) 00:27, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

It sounds like you understand it correctly yes. jjlr (talk) 01:06, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

What are the units in the little table? Blocks? Chunks? Ticks? Seconds? Minutes? Hours? Please clarify. Martinthurn (talk) 04:46, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

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This part: "It is also possible to combine two different primary powers (both level I) by selecting a primary power then clicking the level II button and then clicking another primary power before clicking Done. Only one of the two powers will show up in the menu, but both will still be active.[Java Edition only]" Sounds like a bug, and I can not replicate. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 50.96.195.213 (talk) at 17:54, 17 September 2018 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Technical explanation (Java Edition): a beacon has two effect slots but the second slot become only available at full height, which can then be filled with Regeneration I or another instance of the selected primary power. The latter gets summed up with the first slot to level 2. But you can still change the primary slot to another effect so that the two effect slots have not the same power anymore but two different ones.

So there is a green check and a red X button when interacting with the beacon, but I don't know exactly what the X button does, what does it do? 99.225.26.102 18:13, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

it gives u the item back and closes the interface ~2026-SculkSandDeepslate9120 (talk) 13:36, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

There might be an error in the formula for the color mixing in beacons. (It says 1/{2^{n+1}} instead of 1/{2^n}). Can I ask what the source of the formula was? ConstantDerivative (talk) 09:46, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

There are two items in the infobox. I'm assuming one is java and one is bedrock. Hovering over the the items shows that java is rare and bedrock is common, but it only says it's rare in the rarity section. Should it be changed to say rare in java and common in bedrock?

SquebbyNICO (talk) 16:16, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Seems to be a cylinder of radius 11+(10*level) centered on the northwest corner of the beacon block. Sightnado ( talk | contribs ) 18:12, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

"Vec" has already been used in the formula but there is a display bug. 240E:39C:701:BD31:30A3:C054:3CEA:62AF 18:47, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

The issue is that on the wiki "transparency" is used as a catch-all term for multiple properties, due to how they were all somewhat related to each other in past versions (but aren't now). Unfortunately documentation of these properties is a bit lacking, and the "transparency" entry in block infoboxes certainly doesn't help. Redstone blocks are opaque in rendering, have various properties common to opaque solid blocks, they block light, but are non-conductive (hence the "partial" transparency, which is just unhelpful). Beacon beams do not check for "transparent" blocks, but rather for blocks that let light pass through (as well as bedrock as a hardcoded expection). This is why beams can go through blocks like composters (they let light through despite being visually opaque), but are blocked by tinted glass (visually translucent but it blocks light).--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 23:20, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

I've changed the wording a bit to avoid using the very vague "transparent", so I'll mark this as resolved. Still, it's something that needs to be improved wiki-wide.--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 23:28, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

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 Fixed. The information is kept though until Java Edition 26.2 actually releases. ‑‑MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 09:08, 14 June 2026 (UTC)