Overview
Polished Basalt counts as a Nether block in Minecraft 1.21.4. You craft Polished Basalt rather than find it ready-made. Its hardness of 1.25 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
Anything below a wooden pickaxe breaks it without leaving a drop. It drops as the same block you mined. It stacks to 64.
You make it with Basalt. You can also cut it from Basalt on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.
Properties
- Stack size
- 64
- Hardness
- 1.25
- Blast resistance
- 4.2
- Light level
- 0
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Polished Basalt ×4
Stonecutter
Polished Basalt
Drops
Frequently asked questions
How do you get Polished Basalt in Minecraft?
Polished Basalt is crafted from Basalt.
What tool do you need to break Polished Basalt?
You need at least Wooden Pickaxe. A weaker tool destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Polished Basalt blast resistant?
Polished Basalt has a blast resistance of 4.2, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
