'Minecraft' Spyglass Recipe Guide: Where to Find Amethyst Geodes, How to Craft Spyglass The "Minecraft" Spyglass recipe requires you to have Amethyst shards. Here's how you can mine for the material! Photo : Joe Raedle/Getty Images A beautiful mining resource has been added to the "Minecraft" universe: Amethysts! You need to search for Amethyst Geodes to mine some Amethyst shards, blocks, budding blocks and clusters. You could can use these Amethyst shards to create your Spyglass! Amethyst Geodes are easy to find if you know where to look for them. Finding one should give you a lot of resources in one mining.