Black Concrete Powder — Minecraft block

Overview

Black Concrete Powder is one of the 16 variants of White Concrete Powder: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the White Concrete Powder page.

Minecraft classifies Black Concrete Powder as a coloured block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Black Concrete Powder. It breaks almost instantly, with a hardness of just 0.5.

You can break it by hand without losing the drop. It drops as the same block you mined. With a blast resistance of only 0.5 it will not survive an explosion.

Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. The recipe calls for Black Dye, Sand, and Gravel. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

About the black set

How long it takes to break

Black Concrete Powder sits at hardness 0.5: 0.75 seconds per block with your fists, 0.1 with the correct netherite tool.

You are looking at 0.15 seconds on iron and 0.1 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.

No particular tool tier is required: any tool, or none at all, still yields the drop, so the table below is about speed rather than about whether you get anything.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 2 times the unenchanted rate.

Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand	0.75 s	0.75 s	0.75 s
Wooden	0.4 s	0.1 s	instant
Stone	0.2 s	0.1 s	instant
Iron	0.15 s	instant	instant
Diamond	0.1 s	instant	instant
Netherite	0.1 s	instant	instant
Golden	0.1 s	instant	instant

Properties

Blast resistance on Black Concrete Powder is 0.5, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. The fastest tool for it is a shovel; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Any