Netherrack

Transparency	No
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	2
Tool
Renewable	No Yes^{[Pocket Edition only]}
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No (burns indefinitely when manually ignited, top side only)
Experience	Smelted: 0.1
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 87 hex: 57 bin: 1010111
Name	netherrack

Netherrack is a rock-like block found in the Nether.

Obtaining[edit | edit source]

Netherrack can only be collected with a pickaxe.

Netherrack makes up most of the Nether's terrain.

Netherrack generates as part of nether portals spawned floating.^{[Pocket Edition only]}

Endermen can pick up netherrack, and will drop the block they are holding if killed.

When netherrack's top is lit on fire, the fire will burn indefinitely.

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Nether Brick (item)	Netherrack + Any fuel

Alpha
1.2.0				Added netherrack, originally called "bloodstone", and referred to by Notch at one point as "netherstone"^[1]
Official release
1.0.0			Beta 1.9-pre5	Netherrack's texture was slightly changed.
1.5			13w01a	Netherrack can now be smelted into a Nether Brick item, which are used to craft a Nether Brick block, just like clay can become normal bricks
1.5			13w02a	Netherrack now uses the hellrock.png texture in texture packs.
1.8			14w27b	Netherrack's texture is now randomly rotated depending on position.
1.10			16w20a	Endermen can now pick up netherrack.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.6.0				Added netherrack, which now generates as the main block of the Nether reactor instead of obsidian.
0.7.1				Netherrack is now flammable.
0.12.1				The Nether reactor has been removed and replaced with the actual Nether, and this is the way to get netherrack now.
0.15.0			build 1	Endermen can now pick up netherrack.
Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Added netherrack.
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13	Endermen can now pick up netherrack.

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