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This article is about the physical blocks found in Minecraft. For other uses, see Block (disambiguation).
"Tile" redirects here. For the block crafted from Deepslate, see Deepslate Tiles.
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Some of the most common blocks in Minecraft, clockwise from the left: stone, sand, dirt, and grass.

Blocks are the basic units of structure in Minecraft that make up the game's world. Many blocks can be collected and placed anywhere, as well as be used as helpful resources.

Behavior

A variety of different blocks occurring in an underwater coral reef; sand can be seen lining the ground, cut sandstone in underwater ruin structures and various forms of coral.

Blocks are arranged in a 3-dimensional grid of 1-cubic-meter cells, although some blocks appear to occupy a partial cell; these include slabs, snow layers, ladders, vines, stairs, turtle eggs, and sea pickles, among others.

Collectively, blocks and fluids make up the in-game environment, and most can be harvested and utilized in various fashions. Some blocks, such as dirt and sandstone, are opaque and occupy their entire cubic meter, while others, such as glass and flowers, are transparent or non-solid. Explosions destroy some blocks more easily than they destroy others, while some are virtually immune to explosions. They can still be theoreticlly exploded.

Air is a special block that acts as a substitute for the absence of blocks. It has two variants: cave air and void air.‌[Java Edition only]

Some blocks, such as sea lanterns and glowstone, emit light, the amount of which varies widely; see this table of light values for further information. Opaque blocks completely block light, while transparent blocks have no effect on light, block the light, or merely weaken it.

Almost all blocks ignore gravity, except for sand, red sand, gravel, anvils of all damage levels, dragon eggs, all colors of concrete powder, scaffolding, snow layers‌[BE only], pointed dripstone, suspicious sand, and suspicious gravel. These turn into entities when their support is removed.

When broken, blocks emit sounds and particles associated with themselves, except in the following cases:

  • If the block is affected by gravity and falls into an invalid space (If the block is gravity based and drops onto a torch, for example).[1]
  • Anvils that are destroyed by running out of durability or falling. Only particles are missing.[2]
  • If the block can be washed away and is washed away by a flowing fluid.[3]
  • If the block can be replaced by other blocks and is replaced.[4]
  • If the block is one of a few blocks such as rails or redstone wire, supported by another block and its supporting block is removed.[5]
  • If the block is leaves and decays.[6]

Block height

Most solid blocks are 1 meter high (3.28084... feet or 1250381 feet), but several blocks have non-standard block heights, such as slabs.

A player can automatically step up from a lower to a higher height if the difference is at most 0.6 (35) of a block or 1.9685... feet (250127 feet).

Textures

The textures on the faces of most blocks are 16×16 pixels. Exceptions include candles, sculk sensors, etc. Most blocks are proportionately one cubic meter by default, but their shape can be changed using models.

Most blocks have static textures, but these blocks are animated: water, lava, nether portal, end portal, end gateway, prismarine (slab; stairs; wall), sea lantern, magma block, seagrass, kelp, fire, lantern, lit campfire and their soul variants, lit blast furnace, heat block[BE & edu only], stems, hyphae, lit smoker, stonecutter, sculk, sculk shrieker, sculk sensor, calibrated sculk sensor, sculk vein, and command block.

Players can change their textures by changing their files in-game. The following explains how. In the menu, go to "Options", then select the "Resource Pack" option. Two panels appear: "Available" and "Selected" (the Default resource pack should be under "Selected").

  • If there is any resource pack under "Available", drag it into "Selected", then click "Done". The resource pack should be active in a few moments.
  • If there is none, click "Open Pack Folder". This redirects you to the game directory. If you have a file or folder containing the resource pack, move it here. Go back to the game, exit the menu, and then enter to the "Resource Pack" option again. Your file should now be there. Drag it as described in the first point above.

Using resource packs, the player can change the textures and resolution of blocks, including whether their texture is animated. They can also change the shapes of blocks using models and the size of blocks to any size with equal width and height, though sizes that are a power of two tend to work better.

List of blocks

Technical blocks

Technical blocks serve various purposes during events within the game, or use a separate name spaced ID in order to avoid unnecessary combinations of block states. In Java Edition technical blocks do not exist as items, while in Bedrock Edition they may be obtained using inventory editors or add-ons.

Education Edition Exclusive

These blocks can be accessed only in Minecraft Education and in Bedrock Edition when education options are enabled (Elements are not listed here). In Bedrock Edition, boards, posters, and slates can be obtained only through inventory editors.

Removed blocks

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Outright removed blocks

These blocks were removed from the game entirely.

Removed through substitution

These blocks were "retconned" into other blocks through a major simultaneous name and texture change.

Non-standard metadata variants

Some blocks and states of blocks were distinguished via numerical metadata in previous versions of the game. Having metadata values outside of the accepted range could produce unintended results for some block IDs.

Joke blocks

These blocks only exist in April Fools' Day joke versions of the game.

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History

Block additions and removals

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Unique blocks are defined as having unique namespaced IDs in current versions of Java Edition, excluding obvious technical variants such as potted plants and wall attachments of blocks, but including the rose. Unintentional metadata variants are also not included.

[hide]Java Edition pre-Classic
rd-131655Added air (which was the absence of a block instead of an actual block), stone, and grass blocks.
rd-20090515Added dirt, oak planks, and cobblestone.
rd-161348Added oak saplings.
[hide]Java Edition Classic
0.0.12aAdded bedrock, water, and lava.
0.0.14aAdded sand, gravel, coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, oak logs, and oak leaves.
0.0.19aAdded sponges and glass.
0.0.20aAdded 16 cloth colors (white, light gray, dark gray, red, orange, yellow, chartreuse, green, spring green, cyan, capri, ultramarine, violet, purple, magenta, and rose), blocks of gold, dandelions, roses, red mushrooms, and brown mushrooms.
0.26 SURVIVAL TESTAdded smooth stone slabs, blocks of iron, TNT, mossy cobblestone, bricks, and bookshelves.
0.28Added obsidian.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.3120091223-1457Added torches.
20100109-1939Added fire.
20100114Added the water spawner.
20100122-2251Added the lava spawner.
20100124-2119Added chests.
20100128-2200Added diamond ore, blocks of diamond, and gears.
20100130Added crafting tables.
20100206-2034Added farmland and wheat crops.
20100219Added furnaces and their lit variants.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100607Added ladders, oak signs, and oak doors.
20100618Added rails.
20100624Removed all colored cloth types from the game, although white still exists.
20100625-1917Added monster spawners.
Removed the water and lava spawner blocks.
20100629Added oak stairs and cobblestone stairs.
[hide]Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1Added redstone ore, redstone wire, redstone torches, oak pressure plates, stone pressure plates, stone buttons, levers, and iron doors.
Removed gears.
v1.0.4Added snow and ice.
v1.0.5Added snow blocks.
v1.0.6Added cactus.
v1.0.11Added clay and sugar cane.
v1.0.14Added jukeboxes.
v1.0.17Added oak fences.
v1.2.0previewAdded netherrack, soul sand, glowstone, carved pumpkins, jack o'lanterns, and nether portal blocks.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.2Added 15 new colors of wool (light gray, gray, black, brown, red, orange, yellow, lime, green, cyan, light blue, blue, purple, magenta, pink), cake, dispensers, lapis lazuli ore, blocks of lapis lazuli, note blocks, sandstone, birch logs, birch leaves, spruce logs, and spruce leaves.
1.3Added cobblestone slabs, petrified oak slabs, seamless stone slabs, sandstone slabs, smooth stone, red beds, and redstone repeaters.
1.4Added locked chests.
1.5Added birch saplings, spruce saplings, powered rails, detector rails, and cobwebs.
1.6Test Build 3Added dead bushes, shrubs, short grass, ferns, and oak trapdoors.
1.7Added pistons and sticky pistons.
1.8Pre-releaseAdded stone bricks, cracked stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, infested stone, infested cobblestone, infested stone bricks, brick slabs, stone brick slabs, brick stairs, stone brick stairs, glass panes, iron bars, oak fence gates, vines, mushroom stems, red mushroom blocks, brown mushroom blocks, pumpkin stems, melon stems, and melons.
[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 PrereleaseAdded nether bricks, nether brick stairs, nether brick fences, nether wart, mycelium, and lily pads.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3Added brewing stands, enchanting tables, end portal frames, end portal blocks, and properly added cauldrons.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4Added end stone.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6Added the dragon egg.
1.2.112w03aAdded jungle logs and jungle leaves.
12w04aAdded jungle saplings.
12w07aAdded redstone lamps.
1.2Added chiseled stone bricks.
1.2.4releaseAdded birch planks, spruce planks, jungle planks, cut sandstone, and chiseled sandstone.
1.3.112w17aAdded oak slabs, birch slabs, spruce slabs, and jungle slabs.
12w19aAdded cocoa.
12w21aAdded emerald ore, ender chests, and sandstone stairs.
12w22aAdded tripwire, tripwire hooks, and blocks of emerald.
12w25aAdded birch stairs, spruce stairs, and jungle stairs.
12w30dAdded oak wood, birch wood, spruce wood, and jungle wood.
1.4.212w32aAdded beacons and command blocks.
12w34aAdded carrots, potatoes, flower pots, oak buttons, cobblestone walls, and mossy cobblestone walls.
12w36aAdded creeper heads, player heads, skeleton skulls, wither skeleton skulls, and zombie heads.
12w41aAdded anvils, chipped anvils, and damaged anvils.
1.4.612w49aAdded nether brick slabs.
1.513w01aAdded nether quartz ore, blocks of redstone, daylight detectors, hoppers, redstone comparators, trapped chests, light weighted pressure plates, and heavy weighted pressure plates.
13w02aAdded activator rails, blocks of quartz, chiseled quartz blocks, quartz pillars, quartz slabs, and quartz stairs.
Removed smooth stone.
13w03aAdded droppers.
13w04aAdded smooth sandstone and smooth quartz blocks.
Reimplemented smooth stone.
1.6.113w16aAdded carpets in the 16 dye colors and hay bales.
13w17aAdded terracotta.
13w18aAdded blocks of coal.
13w19aAdded stained terracotta in 16 colors.
1.7.213w36aAdded alliums, azure bluets, blue orchids, lilacs, oxeye daisies, peonies, rose bushes, sunflowers, orange tulips, pink tulips, red tulips, white tulips, tall grass, large ferns, packed ice, podzol, "grassless" dirt, infested cracked stone bricks, infested mossy stone bricks, and infested chiseled stone bricks.
13w39aAdded red sand.
13w41aAdded 16 colors each of stained glass and stained glass panes.
Removed locked chests.
13w43aAdded acacia logs, acacia wood, acacia leaves, acacia saplings, dark oak logs, dark oak wood, dark oak leaves, and dark oak saplings.
1.7Added acacia planks, acacia stairs, acacia slabs, dark oak planks, dark oak stairs, and dark oak slabs.
1.814w02aAdded granite, polished granite, diorite, polished diorite, andesite, polished andesite, and slime blocks.
14w05aAdded barriers.
14w07aAdded iron trapdoors.
14w25aAdded prismarine, prismarine bricks, dark prismarine, sea lanterns, coarse dirt, and wet sponges.
Removed "grassless" dirt.
14w30aAdded 16 banner colors.
14w32aAdded red sandstone, cut red sandstone, chiseled red sandstone, smooth red sandstone, red sandstone slabs, and red sandstone stairs.
14w32bAdded birch fences, spruce fences, jungle fences, acacia fences, dark oak fences, birch fence gates, spruce fence gates, jungle fence gates, acacia fence gates, and dark oak fence gates.
14w32dAdded birch doors, spruce doors, jungle doors, acacia doors, and dark oak doors.
1.915w31aAdded beetroots, chorus plants, chorus flowers, dragon heads, end gateway blocks, end rods, end stone bricks, dirt paths, purpur blocks, purpur pillars, purpur slabs, purpur stairs, and structure blocks.
15w34aAdded chain and repeating command blocks.
15w42aAdded frosted ice.
1.1016w20aAdded bone blocks, magma blocks, nether wart blocks, red nether bricks, and structure voids.
1.1116w39aAdded observers and 16 types of shulker boxes.
1.1217w06aAdded concrete, concrete powder, and glazed terracotta (there are 16 different blocks for all of these).
17w15aAdded colored beds (all of the 15 variants).
1.1317w47aAdded pumpkins; added buttons, pressure plates, and trapdoors for all wood types.
Removed shrubs
18w07aAdded stripped logs, bubble columns, kelp, seagrass, tall seagrass, dried kelp blocks, prismarine stairs, prismarine slabs, and turtle eggs.
18w09aAdded 5 types of coral blocks and a dead variant.
18w10aAdded coral plants.
18w10bAdded five types of dead coral blocks and an undyed shulker box.
Removed the dead coral block introduced in 18w09a.
18w11aAdded coral fans.
18w14bAdded sea pickles.
18w15aAdded blue ice and the conduit.
pre2Added stripped wood.
pre8Added dead coral fans.
1.13.118w32aAdded dead coral plants.
1.1418w43aAdded bamboo, cornflowers, wither roses, lily of the valley, loom, signs for all wood types, 14 new types of slabs and stairs, and 12 new types of walls.
18w44aAdded barrels, bells, blast furnaces, smokers, cartography tables, fletching tables, smithing tables, stonecutters, grindstones and lecterns.
18w45aAdded scaffolding.
18w46aAdded lanterns and jigsaw blocks.
18w49aAdded sweet berry bushes.
19w02aAdded campfires.
19w03aAdded composters.
19w12aAdded cut sandstone slabs and cut red sandstone slabs.
1.1519w34aAdded bee nests and beehives.
19w41aAdded honey blocks and honeycomb blocks.
1.1620w06aAdded ancient debris, basalt, blocks of netherite; crimson and warped stems, stripped stems, planks, signs, slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, buttons, doors, trapdoors, fungi, nylium, crimson roots, warped roots; nether sprouts, shroomlights, soul fire, soul lanterns, soul torches, soul soil, warped wart blocks, and weeping vines.
20w09aAdded crying obsidian and targets block.
20w10aAdded crimson and warped hyphae, as well as their stripped variants.
20w11aAdded nether gold ore and twisting vines.
20w12aAdded polished basalt and respawn anchors.
20w13aAdded lodestones.
20w15aAdded blackstone, polished blackstone and polished blackstone bricks, each with slab, stairs, and wall variants; polished blackstone buttons and polished blackstone pressure plates; chiseled nether bricks, chiseled polished blackstone, cracked nether bricks, cracked polished blackstone bricks, gilded blackstone, quartz bricks, and soul campfires.
20w16aAdded chains.
1.1720w45aAdded copper blocks, cut copper, cut copper slabs, cut copper stairs with their weathered and waxed variants; added amethyst buds (small, medium, and large), amethyst clusters, blocks of amethyst, budding amethyst, calcite, copper ore, lightning rods, tinted glass, tuff, and 17 candle variants.
20w46aAdded powder snow.
20w48aAdded dripstone blocks and pointed dripstone.
20w49aAdded sculk sensors.
21w03aAdded glow lichen.
21w05aAdded azaleas, flowering azaleas, azalea leaves, flowering azalea leaves, cave vines, small dripleafs, big dripleafs, hanging roots, rooted dirt, moss blocks, moss carpets, and spore blossoms.
21w07aAdded deepslate, polished deepslate, chiseled deepslate, deepslate bricks, and deepslate tiles with their slab, stairs, and wall variants.
21w08aAdded cobbled deepslate with its slab, stairs, and wall variant; added diamond, gold, iron, lapis lazuli and redstone variants of deepslate ore; added smooth basalt.
Removed deepslate slabs, stairs and walls.
21w10aAdded cracked deepslate bricks, cracked deepslate tiles; coal, copper, and emerald variants of deepslate ore, and infested deepslate.
21w13aAdded light blocks.
21w14aAdded waxed oxidized copper and its cut, slab, and stairs variants.
21w15aAdded raw blocks for copper, gold, and iron.
1.19Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1Added reinforced deepslate, sculk, sculk catalysts, sculk shriekers, and sculk veins.
22w11aSculk blocks have been moved to the normal snapshot.
Added three types of froglights, frogspawn, mangrove log, wood, stripped log, stripped wood, planks, pressure plate, button, fence, fence gate, slab, stairs, sign, door, trapdoor, propagule, leaves, roots, muddy roots; mud, packed mud, mud bricks and their slab, stairs, and wall variants.
Removed reinforced deepslate.
22w13aRe-added reinforced deepslate.
1.19.3
Experiment
Update 1.20
22w42aAdded chiseled bookshelves, hanging signs, bamboo planks, pressure plates, buttons, fences, fence gates, slabs, stairs, signs, doors, trapdoors; bamboo mosaic, their slab and stair variants.
22w45aAdded blocks of bamboo and their stripped variant.
22w46aAdded piglin head.
1.19.4
Experiment
Update 1.20
23w07aAdded cherry log, wood, stripped log, stripped wood, planks, pressure plate, button, fence, fence gate, slab, stairs, sign, hanging sign, door, trapdoor, sapling, leaves; decorated pots, pink petals, suspicious sand; torchflowers and their crop variant.
1.2023w12aBlocks from the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack have been brought out of experimental gameplay.
Added suspicious gravel, calibrated sculk sensors, sniffer eggs; pitcher plants and their crop variant.
1.20.3
Experiment
Update 1.21
23w42aAdded crafters.
23w43aAdded chiseled copper, copper bulbs, copper doors, copper trapdoors, copper grates with their weathered and waxed variants; added tuff slab, stairs and wall variants; added polished tuff and tuff bricks with their slab, stairs, and wall variants; added chiseled tuff and chiseled tuff bricks.
23w45aAdded trial spawners.
1.20.5
Experiment
Update 1.21
24w05aAdded vaults.
24w11aAdded heavy core.
1.2124w18aBlocks from the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack have been brought out of experimental gameplay.
1.21.2
Experiment
Winter Drop
24w40aAdded pale oak wood, planks, logs, leaves, saplings, pale moss carpet, pale moss blocks, pale hanging moss and creaking heart.
1.21.424w44aBlocks from the "Winter Drop" experimental data pack have been brought out of experimental gameplay.
Added eyeblossoms, resin bricks block, resin brick stairs, resin brick walls, resin brick slab, chiseled resin bricks and block of resin.
1.21.525w02aAdded leaf litters and wildflowers.
25w03aAdded test blocks and test instance blocks.
25w05aAdded bushes and firefly bushes.
25w06aAdded cactus flowers, short and tall variants of dry grass.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-releaseAdded air, sand, three types of leaves, 16 colors of wool, sandstone, grass block, dirt, stone, cobblestone, wood planks, glass, block of diamond, block of gold, block of iron, obsidian, bricks, ladder, rose, torch, sugar cane, dandelion, and TNT.
v0.1.0Added 3 types of woods; oak and cobblestone stairs, stone slabs, two types of mushrooms, bedrock, coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, diamond ore, ice, gravel, clay, water, lava, snow, grass block, oak door, and iron door.
v0.1.3Added cactus.
v0.2.0Added fence and fence gate.
v0.3.0Added crafting table, iron ore, bookshelves; brick stairs, and slabs; cobblestone and oak slabs.
v0.3.2Added furnace, 3 types of saplings, glass pane.
v0.4.0Added chest and bed.
v0.5.0Added melon, glowstone, cobweb, sign, nether reactor, glowing obsidian, and nether reactor core.
v0.6.0Added netherrack, nether bricks, block of quartz, chiseled quartz block, pillar quartz block, cracked stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, chiseled sandstone, smooth sandstone; nether brick, sandstone, stone brick, and quartz stairs; sandstone and stone bricks slabs; sand and stonecutter (old).
v0.7.0Added fire and cake.
v0.7.3Added double chests and quartz slabs.
v0.8.0build 1Added jungle wood, jungle leaves; jungle, birch and spruce stairs; jungle slabs, pumpkin, potato, carrot, cobblestone wall, iron bars, short grass, fern, dead bush, hay bale, block of coal, 16 colors of carpet, bark blocks, rail, powered rail and sponge.
build 2Added beetroot and beetroot seeds.
v0.9.0build 1Added podzol, mycelium, mushroom block, cocoa, end portal frame, double plants; acacia and dark oak wood and leaves; 16 colors of stained clay, lily pad, 12 types of flowers, red sand, hardened clay, end stone, granite, diorite, andesite, emerald ore, block of emerald, packed ice, and grassless "dirt".
v0.10.0build 1Added 5 more wood types for fences and gates.
v0.11.0build 1Added block of redstone and grass path.
v0.12.0Added 3 damaged types of anvils, brewing stand, 5 heads, flower pot, soul sand; nether brick fence and slabs; and nether quartz ore.
v0.12.1build 1Added enchanting table.
v0.13.0build 1Added redstone dust, redstone lamp, redstone torch, lever, tripwire hook, two types of daylight sensor, 4 types of pressure plates, 2 types of buttons, detector rail, activator rail, trapped chest, 5 wood types for wooden doors, iron trapdoor and note block.
v0.14.0build 1Added comparator, dispenser, double trapped chests, dropper, hopper, repeater, cauldron, item frames; red sandstone and its stair, slab, chiseled, and smooth variants; and slime block.
v0.15.0build 1Added piston, sticky piston, and observer.
v0.16.0build 1Added sea lantern; prismarine and its variants; wet sponges, border block,‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only], and chalkboard.‌[Minecraft Education only]
build 2Removed border block and chalkboard.
build 4Added beacon.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1Added chorus flower, chorus plant, end gateway, end portal, dragon head, ender chest, end rod, dragon egg; purpur block and its slabs, pillar and stairs variants; end stone bricks, 16 colors of stained glass, 16 colors of stained glass panes, structure block and structure void.
1.0.5alpha 1.0.5.0Added all types of command block.
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0Added frosted ice; all colors of concrete, concrete powder, glazed terracotta blocks, and shulker boxes.
1.1.3alpha 1.1.3.0Added magma block, bone block, nether wart block, and red nether brick.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.2.0beta 1.2.0.2Added 16 colors of banners, jukebox and coarse dirt.
1.2.13beta 1.2.13.8Added slabs and stairs for prismarine and its variants; stripped log and stripped wood for all wood types.
1.4.0beta 1.2.14.2Added buttons, pressure plates and trapdoors for all wood types; coral block and coral fan with their dead variant; coral, dried kelp block, kelp, and seagrass.
beta 1.2.20.1Added sea pickles.
As of the Chemistry Update from Minecraft Education they have added element constructor, compound creator, lab table, material reducer, heat block, underwater TNT, underwater torch, 4 colored torches; 16 colors of hardened glass and hardened glass pane; and elements to Bedrock Edition.
1.5.0beta 1.5.0.1Added conduit.
beta 1.5.0.4Added bubble columns and turtle eggs.
1.6.0beta 1.6.0.1Added barrier.
1.8.0beta 1.8.0.8Added bamboos and scaffoldings.
1.9.0beta 1.9.0.0Added cornflowers and lily of the valley; smooth stone, smooth sandstone, smooth red sandstone, smooth quartz blocks, signs for all wood types, 14 types of slabs and stairs; and 12 types of walls.
beta 1.9.0.2Added barrel, bell, blast furnace, cartography table, fletching table, grindstone, smithing table, smoker, and lanterns.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Added composters, campfires, lecterns, looms, new stonecutter, sweet berry bushes, and jigsaw blocks.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1Added illager banner.
1.13.0beta 1.13.0.9Added dead coral, wither roses, and light blocks.
1.14.0beta 1.14.0.1Added beehives, bee nests, honey blocks, and honeycomb blocks.
1.16.0beta 1.15.0.51Added allow and deny blocks, and re-added border block.
beta 1.16.0.51Added ancient debris, basalt, block of netherite; crimson and warped fungus, nylium, planks, crimson roots, warped roots, stems, slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, buttons, doors, and trapdoors; nether sprouts, warped wart block, polished basalt, shroomlight, soul fire, soul lantern, soul torch, soul soil, target block and weeping vines.
beta 1.16.0.57Added blackstone with its slabs, stairs, and wall variants; chain, chiseled nether bricks, cracked nether bricks, crying obsidian, hyphae, lodestone, nether gold ore; polished blackstone with its button, pressure plate, slab, stairs, and wall variants; polished blackstone bricks with its slab, stairs and wall variants; quartz brick, respawn anchor, soul campfire and twisting vines.
1.16.200
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs
beta 1.16.200.52Added powder snow.
1.16.210
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs
beta 1.16.210.56Added pointed dripstone and sculk sensor.
beta 1.16.210.57Added copper block, cut copper, cut copper slab, cut copper stairs with their weathered and waxed variants; added copper ore and lightning rod.
beta 1.16.210.59Added glow item frames.
beta 1.16.210.60Removed glow item frames.
1.16.220
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs
beta 1.16.220.50Added dripstone block and re-added glow item frames.
beta 1.16.220.52Added azalea, azalea leaves, cave vines, dripleaf, hanging roots, moss block, moss carpet, rooted dirt and spore blossom.
1.17.0
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs
beta 1.16.230.50Added glow lichen.
beta 1.16.230.52Added deepslate, cobbled deepslate, polished deepslate, deepslate bricks and deepslate tiles all with their slab, stairs, and wall variants; added chiseled deepslate, deepslate ores, waxed oxidized copper and its cut, slab and stairs variants.
beta 1.17.0.50Added amethyst bud, amethyst cluster, block of amethyst, blocks of raw metal, budding amethyst, calcite, smooth basalt, tinted glass, and tuff.
1.17.0beta 1.17.0.52Blocks from the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle have been brought out of experimental gameplay.
beta 1.17.0.54Added infested deepslate.
1.17.10beta 1.17.10.22Added 17 candle variants.
1.18.0
Experiment
Vanilla Experiments
beta 1.18.0.22Added sculk, sculk catalyst, sculk shrieker, and sculk vein.
1.18.10
Experiment
Wild Update
beta 1.18.10.21Moved the sculk family of blocks behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
beta 1.18.10.24Added frogspawn.
beta 1.18.10.26Added 3 froglight variants.
1.18.30
Experiment
Wild Update
Preview 1.18.30.33Added reinforced deepslate.
1.19.0Preview 1.19.0.21Blocks behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle have been brought out of experimental gameplay.
Added mangrove log, wood, stripped log, stripped wood, planks, pressure plate, button, fence, fence gate, slab, stairs, sign, door, trapdoor, propagule, leaves, roots, muddy roots; mud, packed mud, mud bricks and their slab, stairs and wall variants.
1.19.50
Experiment
Next Major Update
Preview 1.19.50.21Added chiseled bookshelves, bamboo planks, pressure plate, button, fence, fence gate, slab, stairs, sign, door, trapdoor; hanging signs, bamboo mosaic and their slab, stairs, and wall variants.
1.19.60
Experiment
Next Major Update
Preview 1.19.60.20Added block of bamboo, block of stripped bamboo, and piglin head.
1.19.70
Experiment
Next Major Update
Preview 1.19.70.23Added decorated pots, suspicious sand, and torchflowers.
1.19.80
Experiment
Next Major Update
Preview 1.19.80.20Added cherry logs, wood, stripped logs, stripped wood, pressure plates, buttons, fences, fence gates, slabs, stairs, signs, doors, trapdoors, and hanging signs; and pink petals.
Preview 1.19.80.21Added suspicious gravel.
Preview 1.19.80.22Added the calibrated sculk sensor.
1.20.0Preview 1.20.0.20Added the sniffer egg, pitcher plants and their crop variant.
Preview 1.20.0.21Blocks from the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle have been brought out of experimental gameplay.
1.20.50
Experiment
Update 1.21
Preview 1.20.50.21Added crafter.
Preview 1.20.50.22Added chiseled copper, copper bulb, copper door, copper trapdoor, copper grate with their weathered and waxed variants; added tuff slab, stairs and wall variants; added polished tuff and tuff bricks with their slab, stairs, and wall variants; added chiseled tuff and chiseled tuff bricks.
1.20.60
Experiment
Update 1.21
Preview 1.20.60.20Added trial spawners.
1.20.70
Experiment
Update 1.21
Preview 1.20.70.21Added vaults.
1.20.80
Experiment
Update 1.21
Preview 1.20.80.22Added heavy core.
1.21.0Preview 1.21.0.22Blocks from the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle have been brought out of experimental gameplay.
1.21.50Preview 1.21.50.20Added pale oak wood, planks, logs, leaves, saplings, pale moss carpet, pale moss blocks, pale hanging moss and creaking heart.
Preview 1.21.50.25Added eyeblossoms, resin bricks block, resin brick stairs, resin brick walls, resin brick slab, chiseled resin bricks and block of resin.
1.21.70Preview 1.21.70.20Added leaf litters, wildflowers, bushes and firefly bushes.
Preview 1.21.70.22Added cactus flowers, short and tall variants of dry grass.
1.21.80
Experiment
Drop 2 2025
Preview 1.21.80.25Added dried ghasts.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU1CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1Added all blocks from beta 1.6.6 except cobwebs, and sponges.
TU3Added pistons and sticky pistons.
TU5Added iron bars, oak fence gates, stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, cracked stone bricks, stone brick slabs, stone brick stairs, brick slab, brick stairs, cobwebs, vines, sponges, mushroom stems, red mushroom blocks, brown mushroom blocks, melons, melon stems, silverfish stone, silverfish cobblestone, silverfish stone bricks and pumpkin stems.
TU7Added end portal frames, brewing stands, enchantment tables, cauldrons, lily pads, nether bricks, nether brick fences, nether brick stairs, mycelium, and end stone.
TU9Added sandstone stairs, nether brick slabs, birch planks, spruce planks, oak wood slabs, birch wood slabs, spruce wood slabs, birch wood stairs, spruce wood stairs, and end portals.
TU12Added chiseled stone bricks, skeleton skulls, wither skeleton skulls, zombie heads, player heads, creeper heads, jungle wood, jungle planks, jungle wood slabs, jungle wood stairs, jungle saplings, jungle leaves, cocoa pods, and redstone lamps.
TU141.04Added emerald ore, block of emerald, ender chest, anvil, flower pot, cobblestone wall, mossy cobblestone wall, nether quartz ore, block of quartz, chiseled quartz block, pillar quartz block, quartz slab, quartz stairs, and all 16 colors of carpet.
TU19CU71.121.121.12Added hardened clay, stained clay, block of coal, hay bale, activator rail, block of redstone, daylight sensor, dropper, hopper, minecart with hopper, minecart with TNT, redstone comparator, weighted pressure plate, beacon, trapped chest, multiple snow heights and command blocks. Command blocks can only be obtained by world editing.
TU25CU141.171.171.17Added acacia planks and dark oak planks; wood, stairs, slabs, fences, fence gates, doors; iron trapdoor, inverted daylight sensor, stained glass, stained glass panes; spruce, birch and jungle fences, fence gates and doors.
TU31CU191.221.221.22Patch 3Added podzol, granite, polished granite, andesite, polished andesite, diorite, polished diorite, prismarine, dark prismarine, prismarine bricks, red sand, red sandstone, smooth red sandstone, chiseled red sandstone, red sandstone stairs, sea lanterns, wet sponge, slime blocks, coarse dirt, packed ice, acacia and dark oak saplings and barriers. Barriers can only be obtained by world editing.
TU43CU331.361.361.36Patch 13Added end stone bricks, beetroot, grass path, frosted ice, magma block, nether wart block, red nether bricks, bone block, and banner.
TU46CU361.381.381.38Patch 15Added chorus flower, chorus plant, dragon head, end rod, purpur block, purpur pillar, purpur stairs, and purpur slab.
TU53CU431.491.501.49Patch 231.0.3Added shulker boxes, concrete powder, concrete, and glazed terracotta
TU54CU441.521.521.52Patch 241.0.4Added observers and 15 new beds.
TU69 1.761.761.76Patch 38 Added corals, coral fans, coral blocks, dried kelp blocks, sea pickles, turtle eggs, stripped logs, blue ice, prismarine stairs, prismarine slabs, seagrass, 5 trapdoors, 5 pressure plates, 5 buttons, bubble column, and conduit.
1.83 Added bamboo and scaffolding.
1.88Added lily of the valley, cornflower, 5 signs, smooth stone, smooth sandstone, smooth quartz block, 14 stairs, 14 slabs, and 12 walls.
1.90Added looms, lecterns, lantern, wood, and stripped wood.
1.91Added barrels, bells, blast furnaces, campfires, cartography tables, composters, fletching tables, grindstones, illager banners, smithing tables, smokers, stonecutters, and sweet berry bushes.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0Added all blocks from v0.15.4 alpha.
1.3.12Added prismarine, wet sponge, sea lantern, and beacon.
1.5.25Added coarse dirt, 16 types of stained glass, and 16 types of stained glass panes.
1.7.10Added ender chest, dragon head, end portal, end stone, dragon breath, end crystal, eye of ender, lingering potion, end stone brick, end gateway block, end rod, and chorus plant.
1.9.19Added 16 types of concrete, 16 types of concrete powder, 16 types of glazed terracotta, 15 new types of bed, 16 types of shulker box, magma block, bone block, frosted ice, nether wart block, and red nether bricks.
[hide]MinecraftEdu
0.1Added all blocks from and prior to Java Edition Beta 1.6.6.
0.9487Added pistons, sticky pistons, stone bricks, cracked stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, infested stone, infested cobblestone, infested stone bricks, brick slabs, stone brick slabs, brick stairs, stone brick stairs, glass panes, iron bars, oak fence gates, vines, mushroom stems, red mushroom blocks, brown mushroom blocks, pumpkin stems, melon stems, and melons.
0.97Added nether bricks, nether brick stairs, nether brick fence, mycelium, lilypads, brewing stands, enchanting tables, end portal frames, end portal blocks, cauldrons, end stone, and dragon eggs.
0.982Added jungle logs, jungle leaves, jungle saplings, redstone lamps, and chiseled stone bricks.
0.984Added oak slabs, spruce slabs, birch slabs, jungle slabs, emerald ore, ender chests, sandstone stairs, tripwire, tripwire hooks, blocks of emerald, spruce stairs, birch stairs, jungle stairs, oak wood, spruce wood, birch wood, jungle wood, birch planks, spruce planks, jungle planks, cut sandstone, and chiseled sandstone.
0.985Added beacons, command blocks, carrots, potatoes, flower pots, oak buttons, cobblestone walls, mossy cobblestone walls, creeper heads, player heads, skeleton skulls, wither skeleton skulls, zombie heads, anvils, chipped anvils, damaged anvils, and nether brick slabs.
[hide]Minecraft Education
Early AccessAdded all blocks from and prior to Pocket Edition v0.16.0 alpha.
1.0.0Added ender chest, dragon head, end portal, end stone, end stone brick, end gateway block, end rod and chorus plant, allow, deny, border block, and 3 chalkboards.
1.0.1Added 16 colors of stained glass, 16 colors of stained glass panes, structure block, structure void, all types of command blocks, frosted ice; all 16 colors of concrete, concrete powder and glazed terracotta.
1.0.21Added magma block, bone block, nether wart block, red nether bricks, 16 colors of banner, jukebox, and coarse dirt.
1.0.27Added element constructor, compound creator, lab table, material reducer, heat block, underwater TNT, underwater torch, 4 colored torches; 16 colors of hardened glass and hardened glass pane; and elements.
1.4Added slabs and stairs for prismarine and its variants; stripped log and stripped wood for all wood types; buttons, pressure plates, and trapdoors for all wood types; coral block and coral fan with their dead variant; coral, dried kelp block, kelp, seagrass, and sea pickles.
1.7Added conduit, bubble column, turtle egg, and barrier.
1.91.8.0Added bamboo, scaffolding, cornflower, lily of the valley; signs made from spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak wood; smooth stone, smooth sandstone, smooth red sandstone, and smooth quartz blocks; 14 stairs, 14 slabs, and 12 walls.
1.12.0Added barrel, bell, blast furnace, cartography table, smoker, fletching table, grindstone,lantern, smithing table, composter, campfire, jigsaw block, lectern, loom, stonecutter, sweet berry bush, and illager banner.
1.14.311.14.30Added bee nest, beehive, wither rose, honey block, and honeycomb block.
1.17.301.17.30.2Added ancient debris, basalt, block of netherite; crimson and warped fungus, nylium, planks, crimson roots, warped roots, stems, slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, buttons, doors, and trapdoors; nether sprouts, warped wart block, polished basalt, shroomlight, soul fire, soul lantern, soul torch, soul soil, target block, weeping vines, blackstone with its slabs, stairs and wall variants; chain, chiseled nether bricks, cracked nether bricks, crying obsidian, hyphae, lodestone, nether gold ore; polished blackstone with its button, pressure plate, slab, stairs, and wall variants; polished blackstone bricks with its slab, stairs and wall variants; quartz brick, respawn anchor, soul campfire, twisting vines, powder snow, pointed dripstone, copper block, cut copper, cut copper slab, cut copper stairs with their weathered and waxed variants; added copper ore, lightning rod, dripstone block, glow item frame, azalea, azalea leaves, cave vines, dripleaf, hanging roots, moss block, moss carpet, rooted dirt, spore blossom, deepslate, cobbled deepslate, polished deepslate, deepslate bricks and deepslate tiles all with their slab, stairs, and wall variants; added chiseled deepslate, deepslate ores, waxed oxidized copper and its cut, slab and stairs variants; amethyst bud, amethyst cluster, block of amethyst, blocks of raw metal, budding amethyst, calcite, smooth basalt, tinted glass, tuff, infested deepslate and 17 candle variants.
1.19.521.19.50.0Added mangrove log, wood, stripped log, stripped wood, planks, pressure plate, button, fence, fence gate, slab, stairs, sign, door, trapdoor, propagule, leaves, roots, muddy roots; mud, packed mud, mud bricks and their slab, stairs and wall variants, sculk, sculk catalyst, sculk shrieker, sculk vein, reinforced deepslate, 3 froglight variants, and frogspawn.
1.20.121.20.10.0Added cherry logs, wood, stripped logs, stripped wood, pressure plates, buttons, fences, fence gates, slabs, stairs, signs, doors, trapdoors, and hanging signs, block of bamboo, block of stripped bamboo, chiseled bookshelves, bamboo planks, pressure plate, button, fence, fence gate, slab, stairs, sign, door, trapdoor; hanging signs, bamboo mosaic and their slab, stairs, and wall variants, piglin head, decorated pots, pink petals, suspicious gravel, suspicious sand, calibrated sculk sensor, torchflowers and their crop variant; pitcher plants and their crop variant; and the sniffer egg.
1.21.03Preview 1.21.01.0Added chiseled copper, copper bulb, copper door, copper trapdoor, copper grate with their weathered and waxed variants; tuff slab, stairs and wall variants; polished tuff and tuff bricks with their slab, stairs, and wall variants; chiseled tuff, chiseled tuff bricks, crafter, trial spawners, vaults, and heavy core.
[hide]China Edition
August 8, 2017Added all blocks from and prior to Java Edition 1.12.
January 28, 2018Added banners, jukebox, coarse dirt, and structure block.
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[hide]Java Edition pre-Classic
Cave game tech testAdded the default cube model.
rd-161348Added the sapling model.
[hide]Java Edition Classic
0.0.12aAdded the liquid model.
0.26 SURVIVAL TESTAdded the slab model.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.3120091223-1457Added torch and wall torch models.
20100109-1939Added the fire model.
20100128-2200Added the gear model.
20100206-2034Added farmland and crop models.
20100223Added painting models.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100607Added ladder, sign and door models.
20100618Added the rail model.
20100629Added the stair model.
[hide]Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1Added redstone wire, pressure plate, button and lever models.
v1.0.4Added the snow layer model.
v1.0.6Added the cactus model.
v1.0.17Added the fence model.
v1.2.0previewAdded the nether portal block model.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.2Added the cake model.
1.3Added bed and redstone repeater models.
1.6Test Build 3Added the trapdoor model.
1.7Added the piston model.
1.8Pre-releaseAdded glass pane, iron bars, fence gate and attached stem models.
[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 PrereleaseAdded the lily pad model.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3Added brewing stand, enchanting table, end portal frame and cauldron models.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6Added the dragon egg model.
1.3.112w19aAdded the cocoa model.
12w22aAdded the tripwire hook model.
1.4.212w32aAdded the beacon model.
12w41aAdded the anvil model.
1.513w01aAdded redstone comparator and daylight detector models.
13w02aAdded the hopper model.
1.7.213w36aAdded the sunflower model.
1.814w10aUpdated the cauldron model. [verify]
1.915w31aAdded chorus plant and end rod models.
1.1318w07aAdded the turtle egg model.
18w11aAdded the coral fan model.
18w14bAdded the sea pickle model.
1.1418w43aAdded bamboo models.
18w44aAdded bell, grindstone, lectern and stonecutter models.
18w45aAdded the scaffolding model.
18w46aAdded the lantern model.
19w02aAdded the campfire model.
19w03aAdded the composter model and changed the campfire model.
1.1620w16aAdded the sideways chain model.
1.1720w45aAdded candle and lightning rod models.
20w49aAdded the sculk sensor model.
21w05aAdded big and small dripleaf models.
1.19Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1Added the sculk shrieker model.
22w11aAdded the hanging mangrove propagule model.
1.2023w12aAdded pitcher pod and sniffer egg models.

Other changes

[hide]Java Edition pre-Classic
rd-132211Added blocks that can be placed and destroyed.
rd-160052There is now support for different block types.
New particles are now shown when destroying a block.
New support for dynamic blocks.
Added pick blocks functionality.
[hide]Java Edition Classic
0.0.9aPlacing blocks inside the player is now impossible.
0.0.22aAdded multiple sounds for blocks.
August 4, 2009Breaking blocks allows picking them up and place them, thus adding and removing them from the inventory.
August 14, 2009The requirement to have to hold down the mouse button to break blocks, creating a block-breaking animation, was first shown.
0.27 SURVIVAL TESTThe player now begins with 10 TNT blocks and can now obtain dirt, cobblestone from stone, planks from wood, gold blocks from gold ore, iron blocks from iron ore, stone slabs from coal ore and white wool from sheep.
0.28Right click now adds blocks and left click now removes them.
The player can now build with naturally occurring blocks.
The player can now use bookshelves, sponges, colored wools, bricks, obsidian, and mossy cobblestone.
Operators of servers can now also build bedrock. Some custom servers can now give the ability to place grass blocks and fluid blocks, too.
All new block types have been added.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.3120091223-1457Blocks can now be dropped on the ground.
Blocks that are thrown on the ground can now also be picked up.
20100122-2251Blocks can now be placed on resource items. As a result, resource items are now pushed off.
20100124-2310Added new block particles.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1414It is now possible to place blocks inside the player.
20100413-1949It is now impossible to place blocks inside the player.
20100617-1531Solid blocks now cause suffocation.
[hide]Java Edition
1.7.213w37aThe ability to obtain the item form of 26 technical blocks has been removed. These were the bed (26), piston head and extension (34 & 36), redstone wire (55), wheat crops (59), standing and wall sign (63 & 68), wooden and iron door (64 & 71), lit redstone ore (74), unlit redstone torch (75), sugar cane (83), cake (92), unpowered and powered repeater (93 & 94), pumpkin and melon stem (104 & 105), nether wart (115), brewing stand (117), cauldron (118), lit redstone lamp (124), tripwire (132), flower pot (140), skull (144), unpowered and powered comparator (149 & 150).
13w38bAir is now internally a block[7] and can be kept in the inventory. It uses the missing texture, .
13w38cAir can no longer be kept in the inventory anymore.
1.814w25aThe ability to obtain the item form of 12 technical blocks has been removed. These blocks were flowing and stationary water and lava blocks (8, 9, 10 & 11), double stone and wooden slabs (43 & 125), fire blocks (51), nether portal and end portal blocks (90 & 119), cocoa pods (127), potato and carrot crops (141 & 142).
Blocks now show the closest item form to themselves as the icon in the superflat settings menu.
14w26bAll technical blocks, except for the monster spawner (52) and farmland (60),[verify] now have no model in the inventory, , due to their item models being nonexistent.
1.915w49aThe ability to obtain the item form of lit furnaces (62) has been removed.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-releaseBlocks were also 2D in the inventory
v0.2.0Breaking blocks now allows the player to pick them up and place them, thus adding and removing them from the inventory. Blocks are now 3D in the inventory.
v0.2.1Added block breaking animation.
v0.9.0build 1Removed rose.
v0.12.1build 1Nether reactor core is no longer obtainable in survival or creative.
v0.13.0build 1Removed crafting recipe and functionality of the stonecutter. It can still be found in the creative inventory.

April Fools blocks

[hide]Java Edition
2.0Added the burnt-out torch, etho slab, and tinted glass.
1.RV-Pre1Added the USB charger block.
20w14∞Added the box of infinite books, funky portal, ant block, cursor, leftover, and swaggiest stairs ever.
22w13oneBlockAtATimeAdded the how did we get here?.
23w13a_or_bAdded the cheese, copper sink, copper spleaves, packed air, pickaxe block, place block, other portal, and golden chest.
24w14potatoAdded the big brain, block of amber, floatato, floatater, frying table, pedestal, peelgrass block, poisonous potato cutter, potato portal, potato battery, potato refinery, powerful potato, potato flower, potato bud, potato stem, potato planks, slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, buttons, doors, trapdoors, and hanging signs; potato leaves, potato fruit, potato pedicule, potato sprouts, strong roots, weak roots, and terre de pomme.

Issues

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Trivia

  • Certain blocks may interpret positions they cannot be placed in by normal means as a valid position. For example, a sign placed in midair via /setblock remains in midair even when updated, until either it is broken, or a block is placed below it and broken.

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