Crimson Roots — Minecraft block

Overview

Crimson Roots is a Nether block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. It is gathered by mining rather than crafted. With a hardness of 0 it gives way immediately under almost any tool.

Any tool works, and so do bare hands. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. It is transparent, which matters when you are managing light levels.

With a blast resistance of only 0 it will not survive an explosion. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

About the crimson set

Crimson is not wood at all — it is fungus, harvested from the huge crimson fungi that grow on nylium in the crimson forest — and that biology gives the whole set its defining property: crimson blocks are completely fireproof. They will not burn, fire will not spread across them, and lava will not set them alight, which makes crimson and warped the only sensible building materials anywhere near lava or in the Nether generally. The set covers planks, stairs, slabs, fences, gates, doors, trapdoors, signs, hanging signs, buttons and pressure plates, but there is no crimson boat, because a stem is not a log. Crimson stems strip with an axe like a log and the planks are a deep maroon-red found nowhere else. Bone meal on crimson nylium grows a new huge fungus instantly, so the set is fully renewable from one nylium block.

Properties

Crimson Roots resists blasts at 0, which is not enough to survive anything explosive nearby. Light passes through it, and it emits none of its own. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Any