How to Make and Use a Conduit Minecraft in 2025 and Everything About Conduit

Ollie Mattison

May 27, 2025• Proven solutions

Have you ever tried building an underwater house in Minecraft but struggled to make it work? It can be really hard—underwater, it’s dark, you can’t breathe, and mining is slower because of the cold water. All of this used to make underwater building nearly impossible. But that changed with the Aquatic update, which introduced the conduit.

A conduit gives you special powers underwater. It lets you breathe, see clearly, mine faster, and even keeps hostile mobs away. With a conduit, you can live and build underwater without worry—just like a fish! But how do you use a conduit, and where can you find one? Keep reading to find out.

How to make a conduit Minecraft?

Now that you know how powerful a conduit is, you’re probably wondering how to get one. You can craft a conduit using a crafting table, but first, you need two rare items: 8 Nautilus Shells and 1 Heart of the Sea.

Nautilus Shells are easier to find—you can get them by fishing, trading with wandering traders, or defeating drowned mobs. The harder part is finding the Heart of the Sea, which only appears in buried treasure chests underground.

Once you have all the items, open your crafting table. Place the Heart of the Sea in the center and surround it with the 8 Nautilus Shells. That’s it—you’ve made a conduit! Now it’s ready to be activated.

How to Use a Conduit in Minecraft

To use it, you can't just place it in the water and wait for it to be activated automatically. To activate the conduit, you have to place it into a frame. For that, you have to create a frame using Prismarine. The power and the range of the conduit depend upon the frame you place it in. For better results, you have to make a good and large frame for the conduit. 

To start building the frame for conduit, find a suitable location underwater. Decide the location by keeping in mind the effect and range of the conduit to utilize the power of the conduit fully. Once you have successfully selected the location to build the conduit on, proceed with building the frame. 

1. Create the base for the frame with the help of 9 Prismarine blocks in the form of a Plus "+" sign. Different types of Prismarine blocks are used in this example to help you understand it better, but it is not necessary. You can simply use one type of block as well.

2. At each end of the "+" sign, build a pillar for 4 blocks. But it can be extended to the limit of 42 blocks. For every 7 blocks of Prismarine, the range of conduit increases by 16 blocks.

3. Join the pillars from above to close the frame to just the base of the frame. It will require you 5 blocks to join the pillars.

4. Now close the sides of the frame by joining them at the intersection with the help of three blocks on all of the four sides. 

5. Finally, we have to place the conduit in the center of the frame. To do that, first of all, we have to add a temporary block at the base of the frame, so that the conduit should be placed at the center. After placing a block in the frame at the base, place the conduit on it. After that remove the block. Congratulations! The conduit is successfully activated. 

Now all the players that come near the conduit will be given the special conduit power status effect. But it is important to be near the conduit in order to have this special status. It will provide you with this special power under a radius of 32 to 96 blocks, depending upon the frame you have built. You can set up as many conduit frames as you want underwater to have an unlimited range of conduit power. 

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Conclusion

After learning how to use a conduit in Minecraft, you build it anywhere underwater and get advantages of this conduit. It will kill all the mobs that try to come near it and let you live underwater without any damage or fear of your health being damaged. Now you can have a full vision underwater, no matter how deep you dive in the water. So now you can start building your houses and have a new underwater life with conduit Minecraft. 

Ollie Mattison

Ollie Mattison is a writer and a lover of all things video.

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