Concrete Powder

Concrete Powder

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.5
Hardness	0.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	16 colors  8 SNOW  22 COLOR_LIGHT_GRAY  21 COLOR_GRAY  29 COLOR_BLACK  26 COLOR_BROWN  28 COLOR_RED  15 COLOR_ORANGE  18 COLOR_YELLOW  19 COLOR_LIGHT_GREEN  27 COLOR_GREEN  23 COLOR_CYAN  17 COLOR_LIGHT_BLUE  25 COLOR_BLUE  24 COLOR_PURPLE  16 COLOR_MAGENTA  20 COLOR_PINK
Note block instrument	Snare Drum
Sulfur cube archetype	Regular

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        "Gray Concrete Powder",
        "Black Concrete Powder",
        "Brown Concrete Powder",
        "Red Concrete Powder",
        "Orange Concrete Powder",
        "Yellow Concrete Powder",
        "Lime Concrete Powder",
        "Green Concrete Powder",
        "Cyan Concrete Powder",
        "Light Blue Concrete Powder",
        "Blue Concrete Powder",
        "Purple Concrete Powder",
        "Magenta Concrete Powder",
        "Pink Concrete Powder"
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        "Blue Concrete Powder.png",
        "Purple Concrete Powder.png",
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Concrete powder is a gravity-affected block that is converted to concrete when touching water. It comes in the sixteen dye colors.

Obtaining

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 (sec)
Default	0.75
Wooden	0.4
Stone	0.2
Copper	0.15
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.1
Netherite	0.1
Golden	0.1
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Crafting

The crafting recipe is shapeless; the order of ingredients does not matter.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Matching Dye + Sand + Gravel	8888888888888888	Red sand cannot be used in place of sand.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Bone Meal or  Lapis Lazuli or  Cocoa Beans or  Ink Sac + Sand + Gravel	8888	‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]

Renewability

Concrete powder is renewable as all of its crafting ingredients are themselves renewable. However, without glitches, sand is renewably obtained only through the wandering trader, which spawns infrequently and allows a limited number of trades per spawn. Therefore, concrete powder is more easily obtained by simply harvesting naturally-occurring sand.

Usage

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

Concrete powder falls when there is a non-solid block beneath it.

Creating concrete

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, placed next to, or fall into flowing water, a water source block, or a waterlogged block‌^{[Java Edition only]}. If placed next to a waterlogged block, it must be adjacent to the sides where water can flow out from, such as the open sides of stairs, but not the back side of stairs or any sides of waterlogged leaves. It does not solidify in midair falling past water. If it lands next to water, 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

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e sand sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.sand.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.sand.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.sand.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.sand.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.sand.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e sand sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.sand	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.sand	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.sand	​ ?	0.23	0.5
	​ ?	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.sand	​ ?	0.4	1.0
	​ ?	Players	Walking on the block	step.sand	​ ?	0.15	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.sand	​ ?	0.05	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.sand	​ ?	0.14	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed in water	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
White Concrete Powder	white_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.white_concrete_powder
Orange Concrete Powder	orange_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.orange_concrete_powder
Magenta Concrete Powder	magenta_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.magenta_concrete_powder
Light Blue Concrete Powder	light_blue_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.light_blue_concrete_powder
Yellow Concrete Powder	yellow_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.yellow_concrete_powder
Lime Concrete Powder	lime_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.lime_concrete_powder
Pink Concrete Powder	pink_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.pink_concrete_powder
Gray Concrete Powder	gray_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.gray_concrete_powder
Light Gray Concrete Powder	light_gray_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.light_gray_concrete_powder
Cyan Concrete Powder	cyan_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.cyan_concrete_powder
Purple Concrete Powder	purple_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.purple_concrete_powder
Blue Concrete Powder	blue_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.blue_concrete_powder
Brown Concrete Powder	brown_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.brown_concrete_powder
Green Concrete Powder	green_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.green_concrete_powder
Red Concrete Powder	red_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.red_concrete_powder
Black Concrete Powder	black_concrete_powder	Block & Item	concrete_powder	block.minecraft.black_concrete_powder

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
White Concrete Powder	white_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 0 concretepowder / 0	237	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.concretePowder.white.name
Orange Concrete Powder	orange_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 1 concretepowder / 1	964	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -709)	tile.concretePowder.orange.name
Magenta Concrete Powder	magenta_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 2 concretepowder / 2	965	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -710)	tile.concretePowder.magenta.name
Light Blue Concrete Powder	light_blue_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 3 concretepowder / 3	966	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -711)	tile.concretePowder.lightBlue.name
Yellow Concrete Powder	yellow_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 4 concretepowder / 4	967	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -712)	tile.concretePowder.yellow.name
Lime Concrete Powder	lime_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 5 concretepowder / 5	968	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -713)	tile.concretePowder.lime.name
Pink Concrete Powder	pink_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 6 concretepowder / 6	969	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -714)	tile.concretePowder.pink.name
Gray Concrete Powder	gray_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 7 concretepowder / 7	970	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -715)	tile.concretePowder.gray.name
Light Gray Concrete Powder	light_gray_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 8 concretepowder / 8	971	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -716)	tile.concretePowder.silver.name
Cyan Concrete Powder	cyan_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 9 concretepowder / 9	972	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -717)	tile.concretePowder.cyan.name
Purple Concrete Powder	purple_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 10 concretepowder / 10	973	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -718)	tile.concretePowder.purple.name
Blue Concrete Powder	blue_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 11 concretepowder / 11	974	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -719)	tile.concretePowder.blue.name
Brown Concrete Powder	brown_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 12 concretepowder / 12	975	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -720)	tile.concretePowder.brown.name
Green Concrete Powder	green_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 13 concretepowder / 13	976	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -721)	tile.concretePowder.green.name
Red Concrete Powder	red_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 14 concretepowder / 14	977	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -722)	tile.concretePowder.red.name
Black Concrete Powder	black_concrete_powder	concrete_powder / 15 concretepowder / 15	978	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -723)	tile.concretePowder.black.name

Falling block entity

Falling Block

Hitbox size	Height: 0.98 blocks Width: 0.98 blocks

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• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Dynamic block entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] BlockState: The falling block represented by this entity.
    • Block state see Template:Nbt inherit/block state/template
  • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] TileEntityData: Optional. The tags of the block entity for this block.
    • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template
  • [Byte] CancelDrop: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the block should be destroyed instead of placed after landing on a solid block. When true, the block is not dropped as an item, even if the DropItem tag is set to true. However, if the entity is deleted due to its Time value being too high, this tag is ignored and an item is dropped depending on the DropItem tag. CancelDrop defaults to 1 for falling suspicious sand and suspicious gravel, and 0 for the other vanilla falling blocks and any summoned falling block.
  • [Byte] 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.
  • [Float] FallHurtAmount: Multiplied by the FallDistance to calculate the amount of damage to inflict. By default this value is 2HP for anvils, and 6HP for pointed dripstone.
  • [Int] FallHurtMax: The maximum hit points of damage to inflict on entities that intersect this falling block. For vanilla falling blocks, always 40HP × 20.
  • [Byte] HurtEntities: 1 or 0 (true/false) – true if the block should hurt entities it falls on. Defaults to 1 for anvils and pointed dripstone and to 0 for the other vanilla falling blocks and any summoned falling block.
  • [Int] Time: The number of ticks the entity has existed. When Time goes above 600, or above 100 while the block is at Y=-64 or is outside building height, the entity is deleted.

History

Tweet

February 02, 2017							Jeb tweeted a video (archived) of a mysterious pink gravity-obeying block transforming into a solid gravity-defying block on contact with water.
							Jeb later added that it is to come in 16 different colors.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.12			17w06a				Added concrete powder.
			pre1				Concrete powder now converts to concrete when replacing a lava source.
1.13			17w47a				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.
1.13.1			18w30a				Lava no longer converts concrete powder.
1.16			20w07a				As piglins offer gravel in bartering, concrete powder has become a renewable resource.
26.2			snap1				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb concrete powder, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Added concrete powder.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				As piglins offer gravel in bartering, concrete powder has become a renewable resource.
26.20 Experiment Drop 2 of 2026			Preview 26.20.23				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb every color of concrete powder, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.
26.30			Preview 26.30.20				Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Added concrete powder.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19							Added concrete powder.

Data history

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				The different block states for the concrete_powder ID have been split up into their own IDs.
							Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 252.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.18.30			beta 1.18.30.26				Concrete powder's ID is changed to concrete_powder.
							Before this version, Its ID was concretepowder while its direct item form's ID was concrete_powder.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.30.20				The different block states for the concrete_powder ID have been split up into their own IDs.

Issues

Issues relating to "Concrete Powder" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

External links

• Block of the Month: Concrete Powder- Minecraft.net on January 12, 2024