Concrete Powder

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	2.5
Tool
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Itself
Data values	dec: 237 hex: ED bin: 11101101
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

This article is about concrete prior to the addition of water. For the concrete block itself, see Concrete.

	“	The recipe above will actually yield concrete powder - a substance that falls like sand and has the blast resistance of a damp napkin. To turn it into concrete you’ll need to add an extra ingredient - water. As soon as a concrete powder block touches water, it’ll harden immediately into full concrete. Magic! No wait, the other thing - science!	„
		— Tom Stone^[1]

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

Obtaining[edit]

Crafting[edit]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Matching Dye + Sand + Gravel	8888888888888888

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]}
Hand	0.75
Wooden	0.4
Stone	0.2
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.1
Golden	0.1

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds. For more information, see Haste § Instant mining.

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 will fall when there is a non-solid block beneath it. If it falls on a player or mob, the player or mob will suffocate.

Creating concrete[edit]

If a concrete powder block comes into contact with water or lava,^[2] it will solidify into a block of concrete. Specifically, the block has to be placed into, next to, or fall into flowing water/lava or a water/lava source block. It will not solidify in midair falling past water/lava. If it lands next to water/lava, it will solidify only after a block update. Rain or splash water bottles also have no effect on concrete powder. Concrete powder in item form will also not become concrete. Concrete powder placed directly at water will make the placement sound of concrete.

Sounds[edit]

Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
Block breaking	`block.sand.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	Blocks	0.5	0.25	16
Block broken	`block.sand.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
Block placed	`block.sand.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
Footsteps	`block.sand.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	Blocks	1.0	0.15	16
No subtitle	`block.sand.fall`	(Plays when fallen on from a height)	Blocks	0.75	0.5	16

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Concrete Powder	`concretepowder`	237

Block data[edit]

falling_block entity[edit]

Falling Block

Internal ID	JE: 21 BE: 66
Network ID	JE: 70
Namespaced ID	falling_block

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 doesn't have an item form with the same ID as the block won't 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. For vanilla falling_block, 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 will come in 16 different colors.^[3]
		17w06a			Added concrete powder.
1.13		17w47a			The different block states for the `concrete_powder` ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
					Lava will now turn concrete powder into concrete when coming into contact with said block, instead of only converting concrete powder when it fell into the lava's source block.^[4]
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 252.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added concrete powder.
Legacy Console Edition
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	Patch s3	Added concrete powder.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added concrete powder.