Concrete

For other uses, see Concrete (disambiguation).
Concrete

White Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Light Gray Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Gray Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Black Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Brown Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Red Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Orange Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Yellow Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Lime Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Green Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Cyan Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Light Blue Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Blue Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Purple Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Magenta Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Pink Concrete.png: Infobox image for Minecraftblock Concrete

Invicon White Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for White Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: White ConcreteInvicon Light Gray Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Light Gray Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Light Gray ConcreteInvicon Gray Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Gray Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Gray ConcreteInvicon Black Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Black Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Black ConcreteInvicon Brown Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Brown Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Brown ConcreteInvicon Red Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Red Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Red ConcreteInvicon Orange Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Orange Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Orange ConcreteInvicon Yellow Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Yellow Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Yellow ConcreteInvicon Lime Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Lime Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Lime ConcreteInvicon Green Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Green Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Green ConcreteInvicon Cyan Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Cyan Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Cyan ConcreteInvicon Light Blue Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Light Blue Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Light Blue ConcreteInvicon Blue Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Blue Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Blue ConcreteInvicon Purple Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Purple Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Purple ConcreteInvicon Magenta Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Magenta Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Magenta ConcreteInvicon Pink Concrete.png: Inventory sprite for Pink Concrete in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Pink 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

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 Concrete
Hardness 1.8
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default 9
ItemSprite wooden-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for wooden-pickaxe in MinecraftWooden 1.35
ItemSprite stone-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for stone-pickaxe in MinecraftStone 0.7
ItemSprite copper-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for copper-pickaxe in MinecraftCopper 0.55
ItemSprite iron-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for iron-pickaxe in MinecraftIron 0.45
ItemSprite diamond-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for diamond-pickaxe in MinecraftDiamond 0.35
ItemSprite netherite-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for netherite-pickaxe in MinecraftNetherite 0.3
ItemSprite golden-pickaxe.png: Sprite image for golden-pickaxe in MinecraftGolden 0.25
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
  1. These durations ignore any other influential factors (e.g., Mining Fatigue) and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Natural generation

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

Post-generation

Concrete powder becoming solid concrete on contact with water. Notice the sand block falls through the water, while the concrete powder instantly solidifies on contact with water. (Click for bigger image)

Concrete is formed when concrete powder comes into contact with a block of water (source block, flowing or waterlogged‌‌[Java Edition only]). 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 renewably obtained only through the wandering trader, which spawns infrequently and allows a limited number of trades per spawn, making it impractical to obtain sand (and by extension, concrete) through renewable means.

Usage

The bright and solid colors of concrete make it useful for decoration. It has more pronounced colors than stained 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:

BlockSprite stone.png: Sprite image for stone in Minecraft stone sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.stone.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break1.00.816
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedblock.stone.placesubtitles.block.generic.place1.00.816
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.stone.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit0.250.516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.stone.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall0.50.7516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.stone.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.151.016

Bedrock Edition:

BlockSprite stone.png: Sprite image for stone in Minecraft stone sound type
SoundClosed captions
[upcoming: BE 26.0]
SourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation key
[upcoming: BE 26.0]
VolumePitch
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokendig.stonesubtitles.block.generic.break1.00.8-1.0
​Block brokenBlocksWhen the block is placeddig.stonesubtitles.block.generic.break1.00.8-1.0
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenhit.stonesubtitles.block.generic.hit0.370.5
​FootstepsPlayersFalling on the block with fall damagefall.stonesubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.41.0
​FootstepsPlayersWalking on the blockstep.stonesubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.31.0
​FootstepsBlocksJumping from the blockjump.stonesubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.121.0
​FootstepsBlocksFalling on the block without fall damageland.stonesubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.221.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierForm Translation key
BlockSprite white-concrete.png: Sprite image for white-concrete in Minecraft White Concretewhite_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.white_concrete
BlockSprite orange-concrete.png: Sprite image for orange-concrete in Minecraft Orange Concreteorange_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.orange_concrete
BlockSprite magenta-concrete.png: Sprite image for magenta-concrete in Minecraft Magenta Concretemagenta_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.magenta_concrete
BlockSprite light-blue-concrete.png: Sprite image for light-blue-concrete in Minecraft Light Blue Concretelight_blue_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.light_blue_concrete
BlockSprite yellow-concrete.png: Sprite image for yellow-concrete in Minecraft Yellow Concreteyellow_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.yellow_concrete
BlockSprite lime-concrete.png: Sprite image for lime-concrete in Minecraft Lime Concretelime_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.lime_concrete
BlockSprite pink-concrete.png: Sprite image for pink-concrete in Minecraft Pink Concretepink_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.pink_concrete
BlockSprite gray-concrete.png: Sprite image for gray-concrete in Minecraft Gray Concretegray_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.gray_concrete
BlockSprite light-gray-concrete.png: Sprite image for light-gray-concrete in Minecraft Light Gray Concretelight_gray_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.light_gray_concrete
BlockSprite cyan-concrete.png: Sprite image for cyan-concrete in Minecraft Cyan Concretecyan_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.cyan_concrete
BlockSprite purple-concrete.png: Sprite image for purple-concrete in Minecraft Purple Concretepurple_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.purple_concrete
BlockSprite blue-concrete.png: Sprite image for blue-concrete in Minecraft Blue Concreteblue_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.blue_concrete
BlockSprite brown-concrete.png: Sprite image for brown-concrete in Minecraft Brown Concretebrown_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.brown_concrete
BlockSprite green-concrete.png: Sprite image for green-concrete in Minecraft Green Concretegreen_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.green_concrete
BlockSprite red-concrete.png: Sprite image for red-concrete in Minecraft Red Concretered_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.red_concrete
BlockSprite black-concrete.png: Sprite image for black-concrete in Minecraft Black Concreteblack_concreteBlock & Item block.minecraft.black_concrete

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierAlias ID Numeric ID FormItem ID[i 1] Translation key
BlockSprite white-concrete.png: Sprite image for white-concrete in Minecraft White Concretewhite_concreteconcrete / 0236Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
tile.concrete.white.name
BlockSprite orange-concrete.png: Sprite image for orange-concrete in Minecraft Orange Concreteorange_concreteconcrete / 1883Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -628)
tile.concrete.orange.name
BlockSprite magenta-concrete.png: Sprite image for magenta-concrete in Minecraft Magenta Concretemagenta_concreteconcrete / 2884Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -629)
tile.concrete.magenta.name
BlockSprite light-blue-concrete.png: Sprite image for light-blue-concrete in Minecraft Light Blue Concretelight_blue_concreteconcrete / 3885Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -630)
tile.concrete.lightBlue.name
BlockSprite yellow-concrete.png: Sprite image for yellow-concrete in Minecraft Yellow Concreteyellow_concreteconcrete / 4886Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -631)
tile.concrete.yellow.name
BlockSprite lime-concrete.png: Sprite image for lime-concrete in Minecraft Lime Concretelime_concreteconcrete / 5887Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -632)
tile.concrete.lime.name
BlockSprite pink-concrete.png: Sprite image for pink-concrete in Minecraft Pink Concretepink_concreteconcrete / 6888Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -633)
tile.concrete.pink.name
BlockSprite gray-concrete.png: Sprite image for gray-concrete in Minecraft Gray Concretegray_concreteconcrete / 7889Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -634)
tile.concrete.gray.name
BlockSprite light-gray-concrete.png: Sprite image for light-gray-concrete in Minecraft Light Gray Concretelight_gray_concreteconcrete / 8890Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -635)
tile.concrete.silver.name
BlockSprite cyan-concrete.png: Sprite image for cyan-concrete in Minecraft Cyan Concretecyan_concreteconcrete / 9891Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -636)
tile.concrete.cyan.name
BlockSprite purple-concrete.png: Sprite image for purple-concrete in Minecraft Purple Concretepurple_concreteconcrete / 10892Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -637)
tile.concrete.purple.name
BlockSprite blue-concrete.png: Sprite image for blue-concrete in Minecraft Blue Concreteblue_concreteconcrete / 11893Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -638)
tile.concrete.blue.name
BlockSprite brown-concrete.png: Sprite image for brown-concrete in Minecraft Brown Concretebrown_concreteconcrete / 12894Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -639)
tile.concrete.brown.name
BlockSprite green-concrete.png: Sprite image for green-concrete in Minecraft Green Concretegreen_concreteconcrete / 13895Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -640)
tile.concrete.green.name
BlockSprite red-concrete.png: Sprite image for red-concrete in Minecraft Red Concretered_concreteconcrete / 14896Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -641)
tile.concrete.red.name
BlockSprite black-concrete.png: Sprite image for black-concrete in Minecraft Black Concreteblack_concreteconcrete / 15897Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -642)
tile.concrete.black.name
  1. ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Available with /give command.
  3. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

History

Teaser

January 27, 2017Jeb tweets a teaser image of a new brightly-colored solid block, shown along with the new wool palette colors.
January 27, 2017Jeb states that this is actually a new block, clearing popular rumors that the hardened clay texture was being changed.
February 2, 2017Jeb 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]

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.1217w06a Added concrete blocks.
1.1317w47aLava 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]
1.1620w07aAs piglins offer gravel in bartering, concrete has become a renewable resource.
1.20.5
Experiment
Update 1.21
24w13aRed and white concrete now generate in atriums in trial chambers.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0 Added concrete blocks.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.0beta 1.16.0.57As piglins offer gravel in bartering, concrete has become a renewable resource.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU53CU431.491.501.49Patch 231.0.3 Added concrete blocks.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19 Added concrete blocks.

Data history

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.1317w47aThe different block states for the concrete ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 251.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.20.10Preview 1.20.10.20The different block states for the concrete ID have now been split up into their own IDs.

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.
  • A black concrete block is considered the darkest block in Minecraft.

Gallery

Screenshots

In other media

References

  1. MC-199580 — Blocks added in 1.12 have oddly low blast resistances — resolved as "Works As Intended".
  2. "It comes in 16 different colors"@jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), February 2, 2017
  3. MC-118153
  4. https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/15th-anniversary

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