Concrete

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^[A]
Default	9
Wooden	1.35
Stone	0.7
Iron	0.45
Diamond	0.35
Netherite	0.3
Golden	0.25

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Natural generation[]

Red and cyan concrete can be found in trail ruins.

Post-generation[]

ConcretePowderUsage — Concrete powder becoming solid concrete 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). 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, 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:

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
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.stone.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.stone.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

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
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.stone`	0.12	1.0
Players	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`	`-628`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.orange.name`
Magenta Concrete	`magenta_concrete`	`concrete / 2`	`-629`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.magenta.name`
Light Blue Concrete	`light_blue_concrete`	`concrete / 3`	`-630`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.lightBlue.name`
Yellow Concrete	`yellow_concrete`	`concrete / 4`	`-631`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.yellow.name`
Lime Concrete	`lime_concrete`	`concrete / 5`	`-632`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.lime.name`
Pink Concrete	`pink_concrete`	`concrete / 6`	`-633`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.pink.name`
Gray Concrete	`gray_concrete`	`concrete / 7`	`-634`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.gray.name`
Light Gray Concrete	`light_gray_concrete`	`concrete / 8`	`-635`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.silver.name`
Cyan Concrete	`cyan_concrete`	`concrete / 9`	`-636`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.cyan.name`
Purple Concrete	`purple_concrete`	`concrete / 10`	`-637`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.purple.name`
Blue Concrete	`blue_concrete`	`concrete / 11`	`-638`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.blue.name`
Brown Concrete	`brown_concrete`	`concrete / 12`	`-639`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.brown.name`
Green Concrete	`green_concrete`	`concrete / 13`	`-640`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.green.name`
Red Concrete	`red_concrete`	`concrete / 14`	`-641`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.red.name`
Black Concrete	`black_concrete`	`concrete / 15`	`-642`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.concrete.black.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Available with /give command.
↑ ^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[]

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.
		February 2, 2017			Jeb later added that 16 different colors are available.^[2]
		17w06a			Added concrete blocks.
1.13		17w47a			The different block states for the `concrete` ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
					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]
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 251.
1.16		20w07a			As piglins offer gravel in bartering, concrete has become a renewable resource.
1.20		23w12a			Red and cyan concrete can now be found in trail ruins.
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.
1.20.10		beta 1.20.10.20			The different block states for the `concrete` ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
Legacy Console Edition
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Added concrete blocks.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added concrete blocks.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Concrete" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues 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, and might be why it's blast resistance in Minecraft is so low. Cement serves as a binding material, that binds sand and gravel together. It may also be 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.