Overview
Granite is a stone-family block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Granite. Its hardness of 1.5 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
Anything below a wooden pickaxe breaks it without leaving a drop. It drops as the same block you mined. It stacks to 64.
You make it with Diorite and Nether Quartz. 6 recipes call for it, including Granite Slab, Granite Stairs, Granite Wall and 3 more.
About the granite set
How long it takes to break
Granite sits at hardness 1.5: 7.5 seconds per block with your fists, 0.25 with the correct netherite tool.
Iron manages 0.4 seconds and diamond 0.3, which makes diamond the tier that changes how this block feels.
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 2.5 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand * | 7.5 s | 7.5 s | 7.5 s |
| Wooden | 1.2 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Stone | 0.6 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Iron | 0.4 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Diamond | 0.3 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Netherite | 0.25 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Golden | 0.2 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
Properties
Blast resistance on Granite is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. It does not renew, so the world's supply is fixed. A pickaxe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
- Renewable
- No
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Shapeless recipe
Granite
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Granite drops itself.
Used to craft
Granite is an ingredient in 6 recipes, producing Granite Slab, Granite Stairs, Granite Wall, Polished Granite, Polished Granite Slab, and Polished Granite Stairs.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Granite in Minecraft?
Granite is crafted from Diorite and Nether Quartz.
What tool do you need to break Granite?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Granite blast resistant?
Granite has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Granite fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Granite.
Is Granite renewable?
No. The Granite a world generates is all there is; anything you spend is gone permanently.
How long does Granite take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.25 seconds; by hand it takes 7.5 seconds.
