Infested Stone — Minecraft block

Overview

Infested Stone is one of the 3 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Stone is the same shape in a different material.

Minecraft classifies Infested Stone as a stone-family block. Hardness 0.75 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed. No specific tool is required to collect it.

With a blast resistance of only 0.75 it will not survive an explosion. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

About the stone set

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 0.75, Infested Stone takes 1.2 seconds to punch out and 0.15 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

Iron manages 0.2 seconds and diamond 0.15, which makes diamond the tier that changes how this block feels.

The drop does not depend on the tool — bare hands work as well as anything — so the table below is purely about speed.

Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 3 times faster than the plain tool.

Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand	1.2 s	1.2 s	1.2 s
Wooden	0.6 s	0.1 s	instant
Stone	0.3 s	0.1 s	instant
Iron	0.2 s	0.1 s	instant
Diamond	0.15 s	0.1 s	instant
Netherite	0.15 s	0.1 s	instant
Golden	0.1 s	0.1 s	instant

Properties

Blast resistance on Infested Stone is 0.75, so any explosion nearby takes 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. The fastest tool for it is a pickaxe; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Any
Renewable: No