Polished Tuff Wall — Minecraft block

Overview

Minecraft classifies Polished Tuff Wall as a stone-family block. Polished Tuff 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 Tuff. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Polished Tuff, 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 Tuff 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.

A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under wooden returns nothing — you spend the time and lose the drop, which is how most veins get wasted.

Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 2.5 times faster than an unenchanted one.

* 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

Blast resistance on Polished Tuff Wall is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

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Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe