Brown Concrete Powder — Minecraft block

Overview

Brown 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 Brown Concrete Powder as a coloured block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Brown 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 Brown Dye, Sand, and Gravel. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

About the brown set

How long it takes to break

Brown Concrete Powder has a hardness of 0.5. By hand that is 0.75 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.1 seconds.

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

There is no tier requirement to worry about. Any tool, or none, returns the drop; the numbers below just say how fast.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 2 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

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

With 0.5 blast resistance Brown Concrete Powder goes down to any nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual 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