Polished Blackstone Brick Wall

Overview

Minecraft classifies Polished Blackstone Brick Wall as a Nether block. Polished Blackstone Brick Wall is made at a crafting table. Hardness 1.5 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed.

Mine it with a wooden pickaxe or better, or you get no drop at all. Broken correctly, it drops itself. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.

The recipe calls for Polished Blackstone Bricks. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Blackstone, with nothing wasted. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 1.5, Polished Blackstone Brick Wall takes 7.5 seconds to punch out and 0.25 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

You are looking at 0.4 seconds on iron and 0.3 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.

Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 2.5 times the unenchanted rate.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	7.5 s	7.5 s	7.5 s
Wooden	1.2 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Stone	0.6 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.4 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	0.15 s	0.1 s

Properties

With 6 blast resistance Polished Blackstone Brick Wall usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. 64 fit in a slot — a full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe