Chiseled Quartz Block — Minecraft block

Overview

Minecraft classifies Chiseled Quartz Block as a Nether block. Chiseled Quartz Block is made at a crafting table. Hardness 0.8 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed.

Mine it with a wooden pickaxe or better, or you get no drop at all. Broken correctly, it drops itself. It offers almost no protection from explosions (0.8 blast resistance).

A full stack holds 64. It is crafted from Quartz Slab. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Block of Quartz gives one of these.

The one thing it makes is Quartz Stairs.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 0.8, Chiseled Quartz Block takes 4 seconds to punch out and 0.15 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

You are looking at 0.2 seconds on iron and 0.15 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.

The block still breaks with a weaker tool, but below wooden it yields nothing at all — the time is spent and the drop is lost, which is the single most common way players waste a vein.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	4 s	4 s	4 s
Wooden	0.6 s	0.1 s	instant
Stone	0.3 s	0.1 s	instant
Iron	0.2 s	0.1 s	instant
Diamond	0.15 s	0.1 s	instant
Netherite	0.15 s	0.1 s	instant
Golden	0.1 s	0.1 s	instant

Properties

With 0.8 blast resistance Chiseled Quartz Block goes down to any nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. A pickaxe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag.

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Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe