Gray Concrete Powder — Minecraft block

Overview

Gray 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.

Gray Concrete Powder is a coloured block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. Gray Concrete Powder is made at a crafting table. A hardness of 0.5 means it is one of the quicker blocks to clear.

No specific tool is required to collect it. Broken correctly, it drops itself. It offers almost no protection from explosions (0.5 blast resistance).

A full stack holds 64. It is crafted from Gray Dye, Sand, and Gravel. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

About the gray set

How long it takes to break

Hardness 0.5 puts Gray Concrete Powder at 0.75 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.1 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

Iron takes 0.15 seconds against diamond's 0.1, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to diamond.

No particular tool tier is required: any tool, or none at all, still yields the drop, so the table below is about speed rather than about whether you get anything.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 2 times the unenchanted rate.

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

Gray Concrete Powder resists blasts at 0.5, which is not enough to survive anything explosive nearby. Light does not pass through it, and it emits none of its own. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. The block is tagged for shovels, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Any