Overview
Cake with Magenta Candle is one of the 17 variants of Cake with Candle: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the Cake with Candle page.
Cake with Magenta Candle is a building block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. It cannot be obtained in Survival — it exists for Creative mode and commands. A hardness of 0.5 means it is one of the quicker blocks to clear.
No specific tool is required to collect it. Instead of dropping itself it yields Magenta Candle. It offers almost no protection from explosions (0.5 blast resistance).
No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
About the magenta set
Properties
With 0.5 blast resistance Cake with Magenta Candle goes down to any nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Broken normally it drops Magenta Candle rather than itself; Silk Touch is what returns the block, and Fortune raises the ordinary drop instead.
- Hardness
- 0.5
- Blast resistance
- 0.5
- Light level
- 0
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Any
Drops
Cake with Magenta Candle drops Magenta Candle.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Cake with Magenta Candle in Minecraft?
Cake with Magenta Candle generates naturally in the world; breaking it yields Magenta Candle.
What tool do you need to break Cake with Magenta Candle?
No specific tool is required — Cake with Magenta Candle can be broken by hand.
Is Cake with Magenta Candle blast resistant?
Cake with Magenta Candle has a blast resistance of 0.5, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
The rest of the set
Cake with Magenta Candle is one of 17. Every other member behaves the same way:
