Diorite

Diorite is a block of igneous rock, found in large pockets in the ground.

Polished diorite is the polished version of diorite.

Obtaining[]

Natural generation[]

Diorite can generate in the Overworld in the form of ore blobs.

In Bedrock Edition, Diorite attempts to generate in two batches in all biomes in the Overworld. The first batch generate 2 times per chunk in blobs of size 0-864, from elevations 0 to 60. The second batch has ¹⁄₆ chance to generate blobs of size 0-864, from elevation 64 to 128. In Bedrock Edition, diorite can replace stone, andesite, granite, polished andesite‌, polished diorite‌, and polished granite‌. In Java Edition, diorite can replace stone, andesite, granite, tuff, and deepslate.

Diorite generates in weaponsmith houses, tannery houses, and mason houses in snowy tundra villages.

In Bedrock Edition, diorite generates in coral reefs, replacing some blocks of coral crust.

Polished diorite also generates in warm underwater ruins.

Breaking[]

Diorite can be mined using any pickaxe. If broken without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Block	Diorite Polished Diorite
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default	7.5
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2

Crafting[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Diorite	Cobblestone + Nether Quartz	2
Polished Diorite	Diorite	4

Stonecutting[]

Name	Ingredients	Cutting recipe
Polished Diorite	Diorite

Trading[]

Journeyman-level stone mason villagers have a ²⁄₇ chance to sell 4 polished diorite for an emerald.

Usage[]

Diorite is currently used only for decoration. It has the same blast resistance as stone, meaning it can be used as a substitute for stone when building.

Crafting ingredient[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Andesite	Diorite + Cobblestone	2
Diorite Slab or Polished Diorite Slab	Diorite or Polished Diorite	66
Diorite Stairs or Polished Diorite Stairs	Diorite or Polished Diorite	44
Diorite Wall	Diorite	6
Granite	Diorite + Nether Quartz
Stonecutter	Iron Ingot + Diorite or Polished Diorite		Can use stone and its three other variants interchangeably.‌[Bedrock Edition only]

Stonecutting[]

Name	Ingredients	Cutting recipe
Diorite Slab or Diorite Stairs or Diorite Wall or Polished Diorite or Polished Diorite Slab or Polished Diorite Stairs	Diorite	22
Polished Diorite Slab or Polished Diorite Stairs	Polished Diorite	2

Trading[]

Journeyman-level stone mason villagers have a ²⁄₇ chance to buy 16 diorite for an emerald.

Note Blocks[]

Diorite and polished diorite can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

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
	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

Bedrock Edition:

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
	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	Block tags	Translation key
Diorite	diorite	Block & Item	base_stone_overworld dripstone_replaceable_blocks lush_ground_replaceable moss_replaceable mineable/pickaxe stone_ore_replaceables	block.minecraft.diorite
Polished Diorite	polished_diorite	Block & Item	mineable/pickaxe	block.minecraft.polished_diorite

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Diorite	stone	1	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.stone.diorite.name tile.stone.dioriteSmooth.name

Block states[]

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
stone_type	0x1 0x2 0x4	stone	stone	0	Stone
			granite	1	Granite
			granite_smooth	2	Polished Granite
			diorite	3	Diorite
			diorite_smooth	4	Polished Diorite
			andesite	5	Andesite
			andesite_smooth	6	Polished Andesite

History[]

Java Edition
1.8		14w02a			Added diorite and polished diorite.
		14w33a			Diorite and polished diorite can no longer be used to craft stone slabs.
1.13		18w09a			Polished diorite now generates in underwater ruins.
July 11, 2018					Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of an updated diorite texture.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of diorite has been changed.
		18w44a			The texture of diorite has been changed. Small adjustments have been made to diorite's texture.
					The texture of polished diorite has been changed.
		19w08a			The texture of diorite has been changed, once again.
		19w11a			Diorite is now bought by villagers of the new mason profession.
					Polished diorite is now sold by villagers of the new mason profession, and thus have become renewable.
1.16		20w07a			As piglins may now barter gold ingots for quartz (one of the crafting ingredients for diorite, alongside cobblestone) and cobblestone and gold ingots both being renewable sources), unpolished diorite is now also renewable.
1.17		21w06a			The height limit was expanded down to Y=-64. Diorites are temporary generating from Y=-64 instead of Y=0.
		21w07a			Diorite blobs are now larger and more spherical, but less common.
					Diorite is no longer able to generate below Y=0.
		21w15a			The changes to diorite generation in the 1.17 snapshots have been reverted, but they can be re-enabled with the Caves & Cliffs Prototype Data Pack.
1.18		Experimental Snapshot 1			Diorite once again generates how it did in the 1.17 snapshots without the use of a data pack.
		experimental snapshot 4			Diorite blobs are less likely to generate on the surface.
					Strips of diorite sometimes generate in stone shores.
		21w37a			Strips of diorite no longer generate in stone shores.[1]
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0		build 1			Added diorite and polished diorite.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Polished diorite can now be found in igloo basements under carpets.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Diorite can now generate as part of coral reefs.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Polished diorite now generates in underwater ruins.
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.0			Diorite can now be used to craft diorite stairs, slabs and walls.
					Polished diorite can now be used to craft polished diorite stairs and slabs.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of diorite and polished diorite have been changed.
					Diorite now generates in the brand new snowy tundra villages.
					Diorite can now be sold to stone mason villagers.
					Polished diorite can now be obtained from trading with stone mason villagers.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Trading has been changed, stone mason villagers now have a 1⁄3 chance to buy 16 diorite and 1⁄3 chance to sell 14 polished diorite for an emerald.
		beta 1.11.0.5			The texture of diorite has been changed, again.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.3			Trading has been changed, once again. Apprentice-level stone mason villagers now have a 25% chance to sell 4 polished diorite.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Diorite trades changed to match Java edition.
1.17.0		beta 1.16.230.56			If the Caves & Cliffs experimental gameplay toggle is enabled, diorite blobs are now larger and more spherical, but less common.
		?			Diorite blobs are now unintentionally larger regardless of experimental gameplay.[2]
1.17.2					The size of diorite blobs has been corrected.
1.18.0		beta 1.18.0.20			Removed “Caves and Cliffs” experimental toggle. New diorire generation are now available through normal gameplay.
					Diorite blobs are now expected to be less likely to generate on the surface, but they generate in a wrong way.
		beta 1.18.0.21			Now diorite blobs generate as expected.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added diorite and polished diorite.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The textures of diorite and polished diorite have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added diorite and polished diorite.

Data history[]

Java Edition
1.8		14w10a			Stone with numerical metadata variants 7 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model rather than appearing identical to stone.
		14w25a			Stone and its variants are now defined via block states rather than by numerical metadata. Prior to this version, the numerical metadata variants of stone were as follows: DV Description 0 Stone 1 Granite 2 Polished Granite 3 Diorite 4 Polished Diorite 5 Andesite 6 Polished Andesite 7-15 Inaccessible "boring" variants of stone
		14w26a			Stone with metadata values 7 through 15 have now been completely removed from the game.
1.13		17w47a			The different block states for the stone ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 1 and had data values of 3 and 4.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Diorite" or "Polished Diorite" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• In the real world, diorite comes from underground magma chambers that turned cold. Diorite usually has a salt & pepper appearance.
  • Andesite is diorite's above-ground equivalent: The two rocks come from the same kind of magma, but andesite forms in lava flows. Its fast cooling is what makes it look smoother than diorite.
  • Granite is another magma chamber rock, but it's made of more quartz crystals. That is why in Minecraft, granite can be crafted by combining diorite and nether quartz.
• In the real world, diorite is an extremely hard rock and is difficult to carve and work with.
• In Minecraft: Story Mode, Reuben's grave on Episode 4 is made out of diorite and a new stair variant of it which cannot be found in Minecraft until the Village & Pillage update, which was announced roughly 3 years after Episode 4. It is unknown whether diorite slabs are present.

Gallery[]

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  Naturally generated diorite in a forest.

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  Naturally generated diorite and other counterparts in a cave.

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  Naturally generated diorite and other counterparts in a mountain.

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  A burning skull made of diorite.

Java Edition[]

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  Polished diorite as seen in the "Bountiful Update" screenshot released by Mojang

See also[]

• Andesite
• Granite
• Stone

References[]

External Links[]

• Block of the Week: Diorite – Minecraft.net on April 13, 2018