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Polished Blackstone Bricks in Minecraft | MinecraftBible

Polished Blackstone Bricks is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4 that requires Wooden Pickaxe or better to mine, dropping Polished Blackstone Bricks.

What is Polished Blackstone Bricks?

Polished Blackstone Bricks is a Minecraft block classified under the mineable/pickaxe material group. It has a hardness of 1.5 and a blast resistance of 6. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot. It is a solid, opaque block. Polished Blackstone Bricks does not emit light. Polished Blackstone Bricks filters 15 levels of light passing through it, which is why it blocks skylight below it.

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

How to mine Polished Blackstone Bricks

Polished Blackstone Bricks 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 2.25 seconds
  • By hand (no tool): approximately 7.5 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×.

Polished Blackstone Bricks drops

When broken, Polished Blackstone Bricks drops:

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

What Polished Blackstone Bricks is used to craft

Polished Blackstone Bricks appears as an ingredient in 4 known Minecraft recipes:

Block tags & properties

  • Opaque
  • Requires Tool
  • Craftable
  • Crafting Material

Polished Blackstone Bricks technical properties

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

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

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:polished_blackstone_bricks
  • Material family: mineable/pickaxe
  • Hardness: 1.5
  • Blast resistance: 6
  • Stack size: 64
  • Transparent: No
  • Blocks light: 15
  • Emits light: 0
  • Diggable: Yes
  • Craftable: Yes
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:polished_blackstone_bricks 1

Overview

Polished Blackstone Bricks 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 Polished Blackstone Bricks with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
  • Expect to collect Polished Blackstone Bricks once it breaks.

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Polished Blackstone Bricks with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
  2. Expect to collect Polished Blackstone Bricks once it breaks.
  3. With the correct tool this takes about 2.25s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 7.5s.

Pro tips

  • Use /give @p minecraft:polished_blackstone_bricks 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.

Difficulty and time commitment

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What tool do I need to mine Polished Blackstone Bricks?

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 Polished Blackstone Bricks drop when mined?

Breaking Polished Blackstone Bricks drops Polished Blackstone Bricks.

How hard is Polished Blackstone Bricks to mine?

Polished Blackstone Bricks has a hardness value of 1.5. That works out to roughly 2.25s with the correct tool or 7.5s by hand (unenchanted, no Haste/Mining Fatigue).

Can I craft Polished Blackstone Bricks?

Yes - this page lists 2 known crafting recipes for Polished Blackstone Bricks.

What is Polished Blackstone Bricks used to craft?

Polished Blackstone Bricks is used as an ingredient in 4 other recipes.

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Polished Blackstone Bricks?

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

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