Purple Concrete Powder — Minecraft block

Overview

Purple Concrete Powder is one of the 16 variants of White Concrete Powder: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the White Concrete Powder page.

Purple Concrete Powder is a coloured block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. Purple Concrete Powder 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. It offers almost no protection from explosions (0.5 blast resistance).

A full stack holds 64. It is crafted from Purple Dye, Sand, and Gravel. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

About the purple set

How long it takes to break

Purple Concrete Powder 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.

Nothing here needs a minimum tier: whatever you swing, the block still drops, and the only difference is how long it takes.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 2 times the unenchanted rate.

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

Purple Concrete Powder has a blast resistance of 0.5, so any explosion nearby destroys it. It blocks light completely and emits no light of its own. A single slot takes 64, the usual full stack. The fastest tool for it is a shovel; 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: Any