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Stone in Minecraft | MinecraftBible

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

What is Stone?

Stone 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. Stone does not emit light. Stone filters 15 levels of light passing through it, which is why it blocks skylight below it.

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

How to mine Stone

Stone 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×.

Stone drops

When broken, Stone drops:

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

What Stone is used to craft

Stone appears as an ingredient in 9 known Minecraft recipes:

Block tags & properties

  • Opaque
  • Requires Tool
  • Crafting Material
  • Silk Touch Sensitive

Stone technical properties

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

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

Stone natural generation

  • Generates in biomes / dimensions: Overworld
  • World features & structures: Ore (feature)

Technical properties

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

Overview

Stone is the primary underground fill block — the substrate for all ore veins and the block that becomes Cobblestone when mined without Silk Touch. Requires a Wooden Pickaxe or better. Drops Cobblestone by default; drops Stone with Silk Touch.

Prerequisites and materials

  • Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Stone with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
  • Expect to collect Stone (silk touch required), Cobblestone (only without silk touch) once it breaks.
  • Cobblestone can be smelted back into Stone (1 XP per smelt).

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. With the correct tool this takes about 2.25s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 7.5s.
  2. Stone generates naturally from Y 63 down to bedrock in most overworld biomes.
  3. Mining without Silk Touch yields Cobblestone; Silk Touch preserves Stone.
  4. Stone is the input for Stonecutter recipes to produce Slabs, Stairs, Walls, and Buttons at 1:1 ratio.
  5. Stone can be Fortune-mined — but Fortune has no effect since it drops Cobblestone (with Silk Touch: 1 Stone always).
  6. Stone is the substrate for coal, iron, copper, gold, redstone, lapis, diamond, and emerald ore generation.
  7. Stone can be pushed and pulled by pistons.
  8. Zombie-Piglin variant is Zombie-Nautilus (nope) — Stone has no mob interactions.

Pro tips

  • Use /give @p minecraft:stone 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 Stone?

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 Stone drop when mined?

Breaking Stone drops Stone (silk touch required), Cobblestone (only without silk touch).

How hard is Stone to mine?

Stone 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).

What is Stone used to craft?

Stone is used as an ingredient in 9 other recipes.

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Stone?

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

How do I get Stone directly?

Enchant a pickaxe with Silk Touch and mine Stone. Alternatively, smelt Cobblestone in a Furnace to convert.

Can I use Stone in Stonecutter recipes?

Yes — Stone in a Stonecutter produces Stone Slab, Stone Stairs, and Stone Bricks (via smelting or another Stonecutter pass) at 1:1 conversion.

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