Overview
Cake with Gray Candle is one of the 17 variants of Cake with Candle: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the Cake with Candle page.
Cake with Gray Candle counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This is a Creative-mode block; Survival players will never hold one. It breaks almost instantly, with a hardness of just 0.5.
You can break it by hand without losing the drop. Breaking it produces Gray Candle. With a blast resistance of only 0.5 it will not survive an explosion.
Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
About the gray set
Properties
With 0.5 blast resistance Cake with Gray Candle goes down to any nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Broken normally it drops Gray Candle rather than itself; Silk Touch is what returns the block, and Fortune raises the ordinary drop instead.
- Hardness
- 0.5
- Blast resistance
- 0.5
- Light level
- 0
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Any
Drops
Cake with Gray Candle drops Gray Candle.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Cake with Gray Candle in Minecraft?
Cake with Gray Candle generates naturally in the world; breaking it yields Gray Candle.
What tool do you need to break Cake with Gray Candle?
No specific tool is required — Cake with Gray Candle can be broken by hand.
Is Cake with Gray Candle blast resistant?
Cake with Gray Candle has a blast resistance of 0.5, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
The rest of the set
Cake with Gray Candle is one of 17. Every other member behaves the same way:
Cake with Black Candle
Cake with Blue Candle
Cake with Brown Candle
Cake with Candle
Cake with Cyan Candle
Cake with Green Candle
Cake with Light Blue Candle
Cake with Light Gray Candle
Cake with Lime Candle
Cake with Magenta Candle
Cake with Orange Candle
Cake with Pink Candle
Cake with Purple Candle
Cake with Red Candle
Cake with White Candle
Cake with Yellow Candle