Light Gray Concrete Powder — Minecraft block

Overview

Light 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.

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Light Gray Concrete Powder is a coloured block. Light Gray Concrete Powder has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. With a hardness of 0.5 it gives way immediately under almost any tool.

Any tool works, and so do bare hands. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A blast resistance of 0.5 means a single creeper will clear it away.

It stacks to 64. You make it with Light Gray Dye, Sand, and Gravel. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

About the light gray set

How long it takes to break

Light Gray Concrete Powder has a hardness of 0.5. By hand that is 0.75 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.1 seconds.

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.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 2 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

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

Blast resistance on Light Gray Concrete Powder is 0.5, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual 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