If you place a beacon down and start building blocks of minerals for the base under it it will work fine. However, if it is a block of redstone it will not be counted and the beacon will not work. Since blocks of redstone are mineral blocks this is a bug.
MC-9034
Block of Redstone not counted as block for Beacon
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