Concrete Powder

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.5
Hardness	0.5
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Concrete powder is a solid block that comes in the 16 regular dye colors. Like sand, gravel, anvils, and the dragon egg, concrete powder obeys the law of gravity.

Obtaining[edit]

Breaking[edit]

Concrete powder can be mined with any tool or by hand, but using a shovel is the quickest method.

Block	Concrete Powder
Hardness	0.5
Tool
Breaking time^{[note 1]}
Default	0.75
Wooden	0.4
Stone	0.25
Iron	0.25
Diamond	0.25
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.25

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Crafting[edit]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Matching Dye + Sand + Gravel	8888888888888888

Usage[edit]

Normal sand falls through the water, while one of the pink concrete powder blocks solidifies on immediate contact with the water.

Concrete powder falls when there is a non-solid block beneath it. If it falls on a player or mob, the player or mob suffocates when the falling block entity becomes solid.

Creating concrete[edit]

If a concrete powder block comes into contact with water, it solidifies into a block of concrete. Specifically, the block has to be placed into, next to, or fall into flowing water or a water source block. It does not solidify in midair falling past water. If it lands next to water/lava, it solidifies only after a block update. Rain or splash water bottles also have no effect on concrete powder. Concrete powder in item form also does not become concrete. Concrete powder placed directly at water makes the placement sound of concrete.

Sounds[edit]

This page would benefit from the addition of more sounds.

Please remove this notice once you've added suitable sounds to the article. The specific instructions are: Stone placement sound, used when placed at water in java edition

Java Edition:

Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	`block.sand.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.sand.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	`block.sand.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	`block.sand.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	`block.sand.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Breaking the block	`dig.sand`	?	0.8
?	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.sand`	?	?
?	Mining the block	`hit.sand`	?	0.5
?	Jumping from the block	`jump.sand`	?	?
?	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.sand`	?	?
?	Walking on the block	`step.sand`	?	?
?	Placing the block	`use.sand`	?	0.8

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
White Concrete Powder	`white_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.white_concrete_powder`
Orange Concrete Powder	`orange_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.orange_concrete_powder`
Magenta Concrete Powder	`magenta_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.magenta_concrete_powder`
Light Blue Concrete Powder	`light_blue_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.light_blue_concrete_powder`
Yellow Concrete Powder	`yellow_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.yellow_concrete_powder`
Lime Concrete Powder	`lime_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.lime_concrete_powder`
Pink Concrete Powder	`pink_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.pink_concrete_powder`
Gray Concrete Powder	`gray_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.gray_concrete_powder`
Light Gray Concrete Powder	`light_gray_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.light_gray_concrete_powder`
Cyan Concrete Powder	`cyan_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.cyan_concrete_powder`
Purple Concrete Powder	`purple_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.purple_concrete_powder`
Blue Concrete Powder	`blue_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.blue_concrete_powder`
Brown Concrete Powder	`brown_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.brown_concrete_powder`
Green Concrete Powder	`green_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.green_concrete_powder`
Red Concrete Powder	`red_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.red_concrete_powder`
Black Concrete Powder	`black_concrete_powder`	`block.minecraft.black_concrete_powder`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Concrete Powder	`concretePowder`	`237`	`tile.concretePowder.black.name` `tile.concretePowder.red.name` `tile.concretePowder.green.name` `tile.concretePowder.brown.name` `tile.concretePowder.blue.name` `tile.concretePowder.cyan.name` `tile.concretePowder.silver.name` `tile.concretePowder.gray.name` `tile.concretePowder.pink.name` `tile.concretePowder.lime.name` `tile.concretePowder.yellow.name` `tile.concretePowder.lightBlue.name` `tile.concretePowder.magenta.name` `tile.concretePowder.orange.name` `tile.concretePowder.white.name`

Block data[edit]

In Bedrock Edition, concrete powder uses the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	White Concrete Powder
	1	Orange Concrete Powder
	2	Magenta Concrete Powder
	3	Light Blue Concrete Powder
	4	Yellow Concrete Powder
	5	Lime Concrete Powder
	6	Pink Concrete Powder
	7	Gray Concrete Powder
	8	Light Gray Concrete Powder
	9	Cyan Concrete Powder
	10	Purple Concrete Powder
	11	Blue Concrete Powder
	12	Brown Concrete Powder
	13	Green Concrete Powder
	14	Red Concrete Powder
	15	Black Concrete Powder

Block states[edit]

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
color	`white`	`white`
		`orange`
		`magenta`
		`light_blue`
		`yellow`
		`lime`
		`pink`
		`gray`
		`silver`	'silver' refers to Light Gray.
		`cyan`
		`purple`
		`blue`
		`brown`
		`green`
		`red`
		`black`

Falling block entity[edit]

Falling Block

Hitbox size	Height: 0.98 Blocks Width: 0.98 Blocks

Dynamic block entity data
- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- TileEntityData: Optional. The tags of the block entity for this block.
- BlockState: The falling block represented by this entity.
  - Name: The namespaced ID of the block.
  - Properties: Optional. The block states of the block.
    - Name: The block state name and its value.
- Time: The number of ticks the entity has existed. If set to 0, the moment it ticks to 1, it vanishes if the block at its location has a different ID than the entity's TileID. If the block at its location has the same ID as its TileID when Time ticks from 0 to 1, the block is deleted, and the entity continues to fall, having overwritten it. When Time goes above 600, or above 100 while the block is below Y=0, the entity is deleted.
- DropItem: 1 or 0 (true/false) – true if the block should drop as an item when it breaks. Any block that does not have an item form with the same ID as the block does not drop even if this is set.
- HurtEntities: 1 or 0 (true/false) – true if the block should hurt entities it falls on.
- FallHurtMax: The maximum hit points of damage to inflict on entities that intersect this falling_block . For vanilla falling_block, always 40 × 20.
- FallHurtAmount: Multiplied by the FallDistance to calculate the amount of damage to inflict. By default this value is always 2.

History[edit]

Java Edition
1.12		February 02, 2017			Jeb tweeted a video of a mysterious pink gravity-obeying block transforming into a solid gravity-defying block on contact with water.
		February 02, 2017			Jeb later added that it is to come in 16 different colors.^[1]
		17w06a			Added concrete powder.
1.13		17w47a			The different block states for the `concrete_powder` ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					Lava now turns concrete powder into concrete when coming into contact with said block, instead of converting concrete powder only when it fell into the lava's source block.^[2]
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 252.
?					Lava no longer converts concrete powder.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added concrete powder.
Legacy Console Edition
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Added concrete powder.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added concrete powder.