Block of Raw Gold — Minecraft block

Overview

Block of Raw Gold is a stone-family block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. Block of Raw Gold is made at a crafting table. Expect to wait: its hardness of 5 is well above average.

Mine it with an iron 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 Raw Gold. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

Block of Raw Gold sits at hardness 5: 25 seconds per block with your fists, 0.85 with the correct netherite tool.

An iron tool takes 1.3 seconds and a diamond one 0.95, so the jump that actually matters for this block is the one to diamond.

A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under iron 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 3.4 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	25 s	25 s	25 s
Wooden *	13 s	2.1 s	0.9 s
Stone *	6.3 s	1.8 s	0.85 s
Iron	1.3 s	0.5 s	0.25 s
Diamond	0.95 s	0.45 s	0.25 s
Netherite	0.85 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Golden *	2.1 s	1.2 s	0.7 s

Properties

Block of Raw Gold 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. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal 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: Iron Pickaxe