Block of Lapis Lazuli — Minecraft block

Overview

Block of Lapis Lazuli counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Block of Lapis Lazuli. Its hardness of 3 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.

Anything below a stone pickaxe breaks it without leaving a drop. It drops as the same block you mined. It stacks to 64.

You make it with Lapis Lazuli. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

How long it takes to break

Block of Lapis Lazuli sits at hardness 3: 15 seconds per block with your fists, 0.5 with the correct netherite tool.

Iron manages 0.75 seconds and diamond 0.6, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

The block still breaks with a weaker tool, but below stone 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 contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 3.3 times faster than the plain tool.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	15 s	15 s	15 s
Wooden *	7.5 s	1.3 s	0.55 s
Stone	1.2 s	0.35 s	0.15 s
Iron	0.75 s	0.3 s	0.15 s
Diamond	0.6 s	0.25 s	0.15 s
Netherite	0.5 s	0.25 s	0.15 s
Golden *	1.3 s	0.7 s	0.4 s

Properties

Block of Lapis Lazuli has a blast resistance of 3, so a nearby explosion will usually destroy it. It blocks light completely and emits no light of its own. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal 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.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Stone Pickaxe