Overview
Minecraft classifies Polished Blackstone Bricks as a Nether block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Polished Blackstone Bricks. Its hardness of 1.5 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 Polished Blackstone. You can also cut it from Blackstone on a stonecutter. It is an ingredient in 4 recipes, among them Polished Blackstone Brick Slab, Polished Blackstone Brick Stairs, Polished Blackstone Brick Wall and 1 more.
How long it takes to break
Polished Blackstone Bricks has a hardness of 1.5. By hand that is 7.5 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.25 seconds.
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.
Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2.5 times faster than the plain tool.
| 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
Polished Blackstone Bricks has a blast resistance of 6, so a nearby explosion will usually destroy it. It blocks light completely and emits no light of its own. 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.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Polished Blackstone Bricks ×4
Stonecutter
Polished Blackstone Bricks
Stonecutter
Polished Blackstone Bricks
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Polished Blackstone Bricks drops itself.
Used to craft
Polished Blackstone Bricks is an ingredient in 4 recipes, producing Polished Blackstone Brick Slab, Polished Blackstone Brick Stairs, Polished Blackstone Brick Wall, and Cracked Polished Blackstone Bricks.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Polished Blackstone Bricks in Minecraft?
Polished Blackstone Bricks is crafted from Polished Blackstone.
What tool do you need to break Polished Blackstone Bricks?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Polished Blackstone Bricks blast resistant?
Polished Blackstone Bricks has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Polished Blackstone Bricks fit in one stack?
Polished Blackstone Bricks stacks to 64, so a single double chest holds 3,456 of them.
How long does Polished Blackstone Bricks take to break?
0.25 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 7.5 seconds bare-handed.
