Green Terracotta — Minecraft block

Overview

Green Terracotta is one of the 17 variants of Terracotta: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the Terracotta page.

Minecraft classifies Green Terracotta as a coloured block. Green Terracotta has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 1.25 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.

It needs at least a wooden pickaxe to drop anything; a weaker tool destroys it for nothing. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A full stack holds 64.

It is crafted from Terracotta and Green Dye. It goes into exactly one recipe: Green Glazed Terracotta.

About the green set

How long it takes to break

Green Terracotta sits at hardness 1.25: 6.3 seconds per block with your fists, 0.25 with the correct netherite tool.

You are looking at 0.35 seconds on iron and 0.25 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.

It will break below wooden, and you will get nothing for it. That combination of time spent and drop lost is the classic mining mistake.

Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 2.5 times faster than an unenchanted one.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	6.3 s	6.3 s	6.3 s
Wooden	0.95 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Stone	0.5 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.35 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Diamond	0.25 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Netherite	0.25 s	0.1 s	0.1 s
Golden	0.2 s	0.1 s	instant

Properties

With 4.2 blast resistance Green Terracotta usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard 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