How To Make A Spyglass In Minecraft

Items You Need to Make a Spyglass

The only way to obtain the spyglass in Minecraft is to craft it. So, the resources you’ll need are:

1 Amethyst Shard 2 Copper Ingots Crafting Table

Amethyst shards are items you get by mining fully grown amethyst clusters with a non-silk touch pickaxe. These blocks generate on top of budding amethyst, blocks you only find inside amethyst geodes. If you’re wondering what geodes are, we have got a dedicated amethyst guide explaining everything you need to know about these magical purple blocks and items.
Copper ingots are items you can acquire by smelting raw copper inside a furnace or blast furnace. Raw copper is a drop from copper ores in your world. Our separate guides on ore distribution and copper blocks and items should help you obtain copper ingots. Finally, you’ll need a crafting table. This is a simple block you can craft with planks. It offers a 3×3 crafting grid, which is necessary for the spyglass crafting recipe.

Minecraft Spyglass: Crafting Recipe

After you obtain these simple resources, you can make a spyglass. Follow the steps below and you won’t have any issues.

Place the crafting table in your world and right-click it or use the secondary action button to open its interface. Then, place the amethyst shard in any slot in the upper row.

After that, you’ll want to fill the slots in the middle and bottom rows right below the amethyst shard with copper ingots. And that’s it. You’ll see a spyglass item appear in the result slot on the right. To craft it, you can just hover over it and click.

Alternatively, you can use a crafter block in Minecraft 1.21. It will function similarly to the crafting table, but you do need to power it for it to spit out the spyglass item.

How to Use a Spyglass in Minecraft

When you craft the spyglass, you can start zooming in Minecraft. To do that, simply have it selected and hold the right-click or use button. At first, you will see the animation start to play by creating a square vignette on your screen. This effect is similar to the carved pumpkin vignette, but not at all that annoying.
You can easily disable it by pressing F1, which will remove all the UI from your screen. The spyglass will pretty quickly zoom in on whatever you are looking at.
Essentially what this item does is change your FOV (field of view). It will decrease your FOV to one-tenth of the value you have in the settings. So, if you’re playing with the default FOV, which is 70 on Java and 60 on Bedrock, your zoomed-in FOV will be 7 and 6, respectively.
This means that you won’t be able to see things that you cannot already see. So, if a mob just got out of render distance, you won’t be able to see it even if you use the spyglass. In addition, while using the spyglass you are slowed down a bit, so be careful when you use it. If, for some reason, you keep using the spyglass for a whole minute continuously, its interface will be closed automatically. Spyglass is necessary for completing three different advancements, which require you to look at a parrot, ghast, and the Ender Dragon through the spyglass.
And just like that, you now know all the basics of a spyglass in Minecraft. Zooming with the spyglass is not as convenient as it is in OptiFine, but it is a vanilla-friendly feature that’s fairly intuitive. With that, what are you planning to do with the spyglass? Are you advancement-hunting or want to play around with this fun item? Share your answers in the comments below!