Purple Glazed Terracotta — Minecraft block

Overview

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

Purple Glazed Terracotta is a coloured block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. Its hardness of 1.4 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. With a blast resistance of only 1.4 it will not survive an explosion. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.

Put Purple Terracotta in a furnace and this is what comes out. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

About the purple set

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 1.4, Purple Glazed Terracotta takes 7 seconds to punch out and 0.25 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

You are looking at 0.35 seconds on iron and 0.3 on diamond — the iron 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.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 2.5 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	7 s	7 s	7 s
Wooden	1.1 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Stone	0.55 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.35 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	0.1 s	0.1 s

Properties

Blast resistance on Purple Glazed Terracotta is 1.4, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. 64 fit in a slot — a 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.

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Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe