Polished Blackstone Button — Minecraft block

Overview

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Polished Blackstone Button is a Nether block. Polished Blackstone Button is made at a crafting table. A hardness of 0.5 means it is one of the quicker blocks to clear.

No specific tool is required to collect it. Broken correctly, it drops itself. Because it is transparent it does not block light.

A blast resistance of 0.5 means a single creeper will clear it away. It stacks to 64. You make it with Polished Blackstone.

No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

How long it takes to break

Polished Blackstone Button sits at hardness 0.5: 0.75 seconds per block with your fists, 0.1 with the correct netherite tool.

You are looking at 0.15 seconds on iron and 0.1 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.

There is no tier requirement to worry about. Any tool, or none, returns the drop; the numbers below just say how fast.

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 Polished Blackstone Button is 0.5, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It lets light pass and gives off no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. A pickaxe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Any