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Crimson Nylium in Minecraft | MinecraftBible

Crimson Nylium is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4 that requires Wooden Pickaxe or better to mine, dropping Crimson Nylium.

What is Crimson Nylium?

Crimson Nylium is a Minecraft block classified under the mineable/pickaxe material group. It has a hardness of 0.4 and a blast resistance of 0.4. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot. It is a solid, opaque block. Crimson Nylium does not emit light. Crimson Nylium filters 15 levels of light passing through it, which is why it blocks skylight below it.

Namespaced identifier: minecraft:crimson_nylium. Command: /give @p minecraft:crimson_nylium 1.

How to mine Crimson Nylium

Crimson Nylium requires one of the following tools to drop its item — mining with a lower tier or by hand destroys it:

Break times (unenchanted, no Haste or Mining Fatigue):

  • With the correct tool: approximately 0.6 seconds
  • By hand (no tool): approximately 2 seconds

Using an Efficiency-enchanted tool, Haste beacons, or a Diamond/Netherite tier drastically reduces these times. Water and being airborne slow mining by 5×.

Crimson Nylium drops

When broken, Crimson Nylium drops:

Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.

Block tags & properties

  • Opaque
  • Requires Tool
  • Silk Touch Sensitive

Crimson Nylium technical properties

  • Flammable: No
  • Burns from lava: No
  • Renewable: Yes
  • Emits light: No (luminance 0)

Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Crimson Nylium (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:crimson_nylium
  • Material family: mineable/pickaxe
  • Hardness: 0.4
  • Blast resistance: 0.4
  • Stack size: 64
  • Transparent: No
  • Blocks light: 15
  • Emits light: 0
  • Diggable: Yes
  • Craftable: No
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:crimson_nylium 1

Overview

Crimson Nylium is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers mining requirements, real drop data, and crafting relevance.

Prerequisites and materials

  • Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Crimson Nylium with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
  • Expect to collect Crimson Nylium (silk touch required), Netherrack (only without silk touch) once it breaks.

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Crimson Nylium with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
  2. Expect to collect Crimson Nylium (silk touch required), Netherrack (only without silk touch) once it breaks.
  3. With the correct tool this takes about 0.6s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 2s.

Pro tips

  • Use /give @p minecraft:crimson_nylium 1 in creative mode to prototype builds before committing resources.
  • Carry a spare tool of the correct tier - breaking with the wrong one wastes the drop.
  • Use a Silk Touch tool if you want the block itself instead of its normal drop.

Difficulty and time commitment

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Estimated time per run: 1-5 min

Frequently Asked Questions

What tool do I need to mine Crimson Nylium?

You need one of: Wooden Pickaxe, Stone Pickaxe, Golden Pickaxe, Iron Pickaxe, Diamond Pickaxe, Netherite Pickaxe. Mining with a lower tier tool (or by hand) will break the block without dropping its item.

What does Crimson Nylium drop when mined?

Breaking Crimson Nylium drops Crimson Nylium (silk touch required), Netherrack (only without silk touch).

How hard is Crimson Nylium to mine?

Crimson Nylium has a hardness value of 0.4. That works out to roughly 0.6s with the correct tool or 2s by hand (unenchanted, no Haste/Mining Fatigue).

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Crimson Nylium?

The namespaced ID is minecraft:crimson_nylium, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.

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