Concrete Powder

Concrete Powder

Transparency	No
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	2.5
Tool
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Drops	Itself
Data values	JE: dec: 252 hex: FC bin: 11111100 BE: dec: 237 hex: ED bin: 11101101
Name	concrete_powder[until 1.13] $color_concrete_powder[upcoming 1.13]

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

Concrete powder is a solid block which comes in the 16 regular dye colors. Like sand, gravel, dragon eggs and anvils, concrete powder is affected by gravity.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Sand + Gravel + Matching Dye	8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Breaking

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

Usage

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

If a concrete powder block comes into contact with water or lava, 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.

Data values

Block state

See also: Block states

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

^{[until 1.13]}

falling_block entity

Falling Block

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

See also: Chunk format § Dynamic tiles and Tutorials/Falling blocks

• 
  Dynamic block entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • 
     Tile (deprecated): The Block ID. Not limited to only sand, gravel, concrete powder, dragon eggs, or anvils. Although deprecated, this value is always present.
  • 
     TileID: The Block ID, as above, but now supporting the 1-4095 range. Only prior to 1.8.
  • 
     Block: The Block ID using the alphabetical ID format: minecraft:stone. Only in and after 1.8.
  • 
     TileEntityData: Optional. The tags of the block entity for this block.
  • 
     Data: The data value for the block.
  • 
     Time: The number of ticks the entity has existed. If set to 0, the moment it ticks to 1, it will vanish 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 will instead be deleted, and the entity will continue 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 number of hitpoints 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

Official release
1.12			February 02, 2017		Jens Bergensten tweeted a video of a mysterious pink gravity-obeying block transforming into a solid gravity-defying block on contact with water.
					He later added that it will come in 16 different colors.
			17w06a		Added concrete powder.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.13			17w47a		The different block states for the concrete_powder ID have 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.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Added concrete powder.
Legacy Console Edition
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	Patch s3	Added concrete powder.

Issues

Issues relating to "Concrete Powder" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

References

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