Concrete

Concrete

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	1.8
Hardness	1.8
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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        "White Concrete",
        "Light Gray Concrete",
        "Gray Concrete",
        "Black Concrete",
        "Brown Concrete",
        "Red Concrete",
        "Orange Concrete",
        "Yellow Concrete",
        "Lime Concrete",
        "Green Concrete",
        "Cyan Concrete",
        "Light Blue Concrete",
        "Blue Concrete",
        "Purple Concrete",
        "Magenta Concrete",
        "Pink Concrete"
    ],
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        "White Concrete.png",
        "Light Gray Concrete.png",
        "Gray Concrete.png",
        "Black Concrete.png",
        "Brown Concrete.png",
        "Red Concrete.png",
        "Orange Concrete.png",
        "Yellow Concrete.png",
        "Lime Concrete.png",
        "Green Concrete.png",
        "Cyan Concrete.png",
        "Light Blue Concrete.png",
        "Blue Concrete.png",
        "Purple Concrete.png",
        "Magenta Concrete.png",
        "Pink Concrete.png"
    ]
}

Concrete is a block created when concrete powder touches water. It comes in the sixteen dye colors.

Obtaining

Breaking

Concrete requires a pickaxe to be mined. When mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Block
Hardness	1.8
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	9
Wooden	1.35
Stone	0.7
Copper ​	0.55
Iron	0.45
Diamond	0.35
Netherite	0.3
Golden	0.25
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Red and white concrete can be found in trial chambers throughout many various murals in an atrium.

Post-generation

Concrete is formed when concrete powder comes into contact with a block of water (source block, flowing or waterlogged). If next to a waterlogged block, it must be adjacent to the sides where water can flow out from, such as the open sides of stairs, but not the back side of stairs or any sides of waterlogged leaves.

Renewability

Concrete is renewable as all of the crafting ingredients of concrete powder are renewable. However, without glitches, sand is only renewably obtained through the wandering trader, which spawns infrequently and only allows a limited number of trades per spawn, making it impractical to obtain it (and by extension, concrete) through only renewable means.

Usage

The bright and solid colors of concrete make it useful for decoration. It has more pronounced colors than terracotta, and unlike wool, is not flammable.

As a building material, its hardness is slightly higher than stone, but its blast resistance is significantly lower.^[1]

Note blocks

Concrete can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
White Concrete	white_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.white_concrete
Orange Concrete	orange_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.orange_concrete
Magenta Concrete	magenta_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.magenta_concrete
Light Blue Concrete	light_blue_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.light_blue_concrete
Yellow Concrete	yellow_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.yellow_concrete
Lime Concrete	lime_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.lime_concrete
Pink Concrete	pink_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.pink_concrete
Gray Concrete	gray_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.gray_concrete
Light Gray Concrete	light_gray_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.light_gray_concrete
Cyan Concrete	cyan_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.cyan_concrete
Purple Concrete	purple_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.purple_concrete
Blue Concrete	blue_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.blue_concrete
Brown Concrete	brown_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.brown_concrete
Green Concrete	green_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.green_concrete
Red Concrete	red_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.red_concrete
Black Concrete	black_concrete	Block & Item	block.minecraft.black_concrete

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
White Concrete	white_concrete	concrete / 0	236	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.concrete.white.name
Orange Concrete	orange_concrete	concrete / 1	883	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -628)	tile.concrete.orange.name
Magenta Concrete	magenta_concrete	concrete / 2	884	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -629)	tile.concrete.magenta.name
Light Blue Concrete	light_blue_concrete	concrete / 3	885	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -630)	tile.concrete.lightBlue.name
Yellow Concrete	yellow_concrete	concrete / 4	886	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -631)	tile.concrete.yellow.name
Lime Concrete	lime_concrete	concrete / 5	887	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -632)	tile.concrete.lime.name
Pink Concrete	pink_concrete	concrete / 6	888	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -633)	tile.concrete.pink.name
Gray Concrete	gray_concrete	concrete / 7	889	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -634)	tile.concrete.gray.name
Light Gray Concrete	light_gray_concrete	concrete / 8	890	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -635)	tile.concrete.silver.name
Cyan Concrete	cyan_concrete	concrete / 9	891	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -636)	tile.concrete.cyan.name
Purple Concrete	purple_concrete	concrete / 10	892	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -637)	tile.concrete.purple.name
Blue Concrete	blue_concrete	concrete / 11	893	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -638)	tile.concrete.blue.name
Brown Concrete	brown_concrete	concrete / 12	894	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -639)	tile.concrete.brown.name
Green Concrete	green_concrete	concrete / 13	895	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -640)	tile.concrete.green.name
Red Concrete	red_concrete	concrete / 14	896	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -641)	tile.concrete.red.name
Black Concrete	black_concrete	concrete / 15	897	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -642)	tile.concrete.black.name

History

Java Edition
1.12			January 27, 2017				Jeb tweets a teaser image of a new brightly-colored solid block, shown along with the new wool palette colors.
			January 27, 2017				Jeb states that this is actually a new block, clearing popular rumors that the hardened clay texture was being changed.
			February 2, 2017				Jeb tweeted a video (archived) that showed concrete powder turning into a non-falling block when in water. This "wet" form of the block is concrete, though they were not confirmed to be the same at the time.
							Jeb later added that 16 different colors are available.[2]
			17w06a				Added concrete blocks.
1.13			17w47a				Lava now turns concrete powder into concrete when coming into contact with said block, instead of converting concrete powder only when it fell into the lava's source block.[3]
1.16			20w07a				As piglins offer gravel in bartering, concrete has become a renewable resource.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w13a				Red and white concrete now generate in atriums in trial chambers.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Added concrete blocks.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				As piglins offer gravel in bartering, concrete has become a renewable resource.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Added concrete blocks.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19							Added concrete blocks.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Concrete" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• In real life, a 1-cubic-meter concrete block (the size of a Minecraft block) is practically blast-proof, while the blast resistance of concrete in Minecraft is quite low.
• Also in real life, concrete is made of Portland cement, apart from sand, gravel, and water. Cement serves as a binding material, that binds sand and gravel together. In Minecraft, dye is used instead of cement. It is possible that cement is made at the same time from sand and gravel, if the gravel contains limestone, because limestone and sand are real life ingredients for cement.
• A black concrete block is considered the blackest block in Minecraft.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  The first image of concrete, tweeted by Jens Bergensten, comparing it to the new wool palette.
• 
  A square of black concrete.

In other media

• 
  Kai, Makena, and Steve building with red concrete.
• 
  Makena places black concrete.
• 
  Several concrete blocks used in the shape of the Microsoft logo, used for the 15th anniversary of Minecraft; referred to as a "small company."^[4]

References

External links

• "Block of the Week: Concrete" – Minecraft.net, March 9, 2018.

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