Light Blue Glazed Terracotta — Minecraft block

Overview

Light Blue Glazed Terracotta is one of the 16 variants of White Glazed Terracotta: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the White Glazed Terracotta page.

Light Blue Glazed Terracotta is a coloured block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. At a hardness of 1.4 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 blast resistance of 1.4 means a single creeper will clear it away. It stacks to 64.

A furnace turns Light Blue Terracotta into it. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

About the light blue set

How long it takes to break

Light Blue Glazed Terracotta has a hardness of 1.4. By hand that is 7 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.25 seconds.

Iron takes 0.35 seconds against diamond's 0.3, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to iron.

A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under wooden returns nothing — you spend the time and lose the drop, which is how most veins get wasted.

Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2.5 times faster than the plain tool.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	7 s	7 s	7 s
Wooden	1.1 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Stone	0.55 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.35 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Diamond	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Netherite	0.25 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Golden	0.2 s	0.1 s	0.1 s

Properties

Blast resistance on Light Blue Glazed Terracotta is 1.4, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. 64 fit in a slot — a full stack. 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.

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Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe