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They are also surprisingly complex, with many variations.

How Do You Use Firework Rockets?

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Lastly, it’s possible for you to use them to assist your Elytra flights by using them midair.

What Are Firework Stars?

Firework Stars are an optional ingredient in Firework Rockets, but in most use cases, these are necessary.

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Depending on the ingredients used to make a Firework Star, the look and sound of each vary greatly.

How Do You Make Firework Rockets?

Firework Rockets are not found in the world, meaning you have to make them yourself.

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You get much less (only two additional ingredients) without one.

For the best results, simplyuse three gunpowder (the default amount +2) for maximum flight time.

Combat

The coolest use of the Firework Rocket is in combat.

A cliff overlooking the sea, where there is a pink building on the left in the distance. Three redstone repeaters and separate lines of redstone dust are lit bright red, and three trails of white smoke lead away from them into three star-shaped explosions colored red, white, and blue in Minecraft.

In Java Edition, the rockets explode instantly when impacting an entity.

In Bedrock, they pass straight through.

Also, shooting rockets deals more durability damage to your crossbow, three damage to the arrows.

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How Do You Make Firework Stars?

Color And Fade

When making a Firework Star, you could use up to eight different dyes.

A freshly-launched rocket, flying upward away from where it was place, leaving behind a trail of white smoke.

By default, the firework pattern is a small ball shape.

You canadd both items to get both effects.

Glowstone is more common but is only found in the Nether.

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Where Do You Get Paper?

Paper can be found inVillages with Cartographers, Shipwrecks, and Strongholds.

They can be found on blocks adjacent to bodies of water.

The crafting table menu with a bunch of possible Firework Rocket crafting recipes in red, and one highlighted with its parameters in a tooltip. On the right is the crafting grid with a single paper and gunpowder in it, which produces three basic Firework Rockets in Minecraft.

Where Do You Get Gunpowder?

If you have the know-how,the Creeper and Witch are both farmable.

Where Do You Get Dye?

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Dyes can be found in a few different ways, including trades with the Wandering Trader.

Green, Light Green, and Brown are notable exceptions, since their ingredientsare only found in specific biomes.

Doing so will yield the same amount of the combined color that went into making it.

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All flowers can be used to produce a dye, with one flower used per unit of dye.

Generally, the color of the flower will be the color of the dye.

The Crafting Table Menu with the search bar filled in with the query ‘Firework Star’. Below, a selection of available Firework Stars, with red ones being uncraftable from lack of ingredients. On the right is the crafting grid and the player’s inventory, which is filled with dyes, gunpowder, and other firework ingredients in Minecraft.

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A glittering, golden explosion in the night sky in Minecraft.

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