How To Get Froglights In Minecraft: A Quick Guide

Minecraft is full of secrets. There are so many items and blocks that are hidden for you to discover. For example, the Beacon is a structure you can only build with tons of blocks of a rare material like Gold or Diamond.

One such rare item is the Froglight. Froglights are multi-colored light sources that stand out from many of the game’s more traditional ones. This guide will cover everything you need to know about the light emitting blocks, including how to get them, how to change their colors, and what they can do.

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What Are Froglight Blocks In Minecraft?

A Froglight Block is a bright, glowing block that comes in purple (pearlescent), yellow (Ochre), and green (Verdant) color schemes. The Froglight textures seem to replicate a paper lantern material, in a way.

This block emits the highest light level possible in Minecraft, 15. It’s a great alternative to Glowstone or other light sources if you’re looking for some variety.

These light emitting blocks come in a variety of colors. They have a smooth texture, and a 15 light bits default value.

Also, Froglights can melt nearby snow within three blocks of their placement, and can melt ice within four blocks of their placement.

The color of a Froglight depends on the Frog type. Three Froglights for three Frog variants.

It’s not a flammable block, either, making it great to have around lava or other fire sources. This is related to how you acquire the block.

You can also have Froglights oriented vertically or horizontally.

Obtaining breaking Froglights drops the block in its direct form, as the Wiki page on the block states. The broken block will appear in your inventory afterward, and doesn’t require any special tools.

The "being broken" block will generate break subtitles or hit subtitles in the game's code. This, of course, is only at the "being broken" step of the block steps.

It also makes the default fall damage block sound, much like other blocks in the game. The “broken break” sound effect.

Blocks are no longer randomly rotated in Minecraft, so if you want the block facing a certain way, you need to make sure its “description axis” is facing the right way in the game’s code, which is displayed in the x, y, and z values.

For example, the block metadata bits default value is y, which means it’s oriented vertically. Or you can apply some of the game’s more extreme metadata variants by orienting it east-west or north-south, which is the x and the z axis, respectively.

How To Get Froglights In Minecraft

The block’s direct item form is acquired in a way you’d never guess by yourself. You can’t craft them, after all.

You can only acquire Froglights when a Frog eats the smallest version of the Magma Cube enemy.

What is a Magma Cube?

As you may know, the Magma Cube is a splitting mob similar to the traditional Slime, except you can only find it in the Nether, rather than in the Overworld like its green counterpart.

These organic substances spawn naturally all over the Nether. They will chase and attack you on sight.

This image is taken from Java Edition, but they're just as scary in Bedrock Edition and even the discontinued Pocket Edition.

Defeating them requires multiple hits, as each hit will break the Magma Cube into smaller Magma Cubes. However, they aren’t hurt from fall damage nor fire/lava, so a Fire Aspect Sword is useless, here.

Once the Magma Cube is in its smallest form, a Frog can eat it, which will produce a Froglight.

But what is a Minecraft Frog in the first place?

What is a Frog in Minecraft?

Introduced in the Wild Update, Frogs spawn naturally in Mangrove Swamp biomes. Before this update, you could only find Frogs by enabling experimental gameplay.

Frogs also come in multiple variants if you place them using a spawner egg, though spawn eggs aren’t available in Survival Mode. Their colors will vary based on warm biomes, cold biomes, and temperate biomes:

Warm Frogs

Warm Frogs take on a white-ish color, and appear when spawned in areas like the Savanna biome, the Desert biome, or its natural Swamp variation biomes.

Cold Frogs

Cold Frogs are the color of your typical green Frog, and only appear when spawned in colder biomes like the Snowy Plains or the Grove.

Temperate Frogs

Temperate Frogs are the default value of Frog color — an Orangish color. You can spawn these Frogs in your more general biomes like the Plains or the Forest.

Now, it’s time to put this info together for your personal savegame files.

How to Get a Frog to Eat a Small Magma Cube

Small Magma Cubes are the same size as Small Slimes, but the problem: Small Magma Cubes are only available in the Nether. This means you either need to bring a Frog through a Nether Portal, or bring a Small Magma Cube out to the Overworld.

Fortunately, Small Magma Cubes can exist in the Overworld without burning, just as the Frog can exist in the Nether without burning.

However, of these two methods, one is easier.

Sure, you can have a Small Magma Cube chase you through the Nether and into a Nether portal, but then you risk it running rampant in your main area. Instead, it’s easier to bring a Frog into the Nether — you can bring them around with a Lead, after all.

Lead a Frog around by "using" the Lead on it.

You can craft a Lead by organizing five String in a Crafting Table as follows:

Combine the items like this to craft a Lead.

With a Lead (and a Sword) in hand, head to the Nether through a portal.

Once there, you’ll want to build a safe base out of Cobblestone. Cobblestone is immune to Ghast explosions, after all.

From there, hook your Frog up to a Fence to keep it safe, and head out to find a Magma Cube.

Fences are the assigned tool for placing your Leads.

Now, hit the Cube over and over again until it’s the smallest size. Then, have it chase you to your base.

This is around the size you want your Cubes.

Once it follows you inside, the Frog should automatically eat it without much trouble. Just make sure to bring the Cube close enough for your Frog to reach.

Your Frog will glare at the Cube until it's close enough to eat. They fully eat Magma cubes, so you can simply add it to your inventory. Acquire as many as you need.

Once your Frog eats the Cube, a colored Froglight will drop based on the animal’s color.

One of three variants of Froglight will drop, depending on your Frog's color. These are tiny drops, so make sure not to miss them!

Congratulations! You’ve successfully created a Froglight. Now, with this hidden fact in your Minecraft repetiore, why not impress your friends with this rare light block?

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Max Moeller

Max is a freelance writer with a love for gaming and technology. He’s always looking for the next big game to play and tinkers with tech in his remaining free time.