Basalt

Obtaining and breaking Basalt

• Pickaxe is the recorded preferred tool for Basalt, and the registry marks a suitable tool as required for the intended drop.
• Its recorded hardness is 1.25. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.

What to use Basalt for

2 current recipe relationships are recorded for Basalt. These links include recipes that produce the block and recipes that consume it as an ingredient.

• Ingredient for Polished Basalt.
• Ingredient for Smooth Basalt.
• Basalt is used by 2 recorded recipes, including Polished Basalt, Smooth Basalt.
• One full inventory stack holds 64 Basalt blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.

• Polished Basalt Recipe has 3 current variants.
• Smooth Basalt Recipe has 1 current variant.

Build and technical notes

• Basalt is a natural & decorative blocks block identified as minecraft:basalt. Its material, collision, light and recipe relationships below are the useful details for building, survival collection and commands.
• The recorded collision shape is “block”. Collision is a gameplay property, so do not infer it only from the block's visible model.
• Java data contains 3 block-state combinations for Basalt. Commands that need one exact orientation or state must specify properties separately from the base ID.
• Its recorded blast resistance is 4.2; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.

Java and Bedrock differences

• Basalt exists in both tracked editions. Java uses minecraft:basalt; Bedrock uses minecraft:basalt.
• The available hardness, blast-resistance and preferred-tool records do not show a cross-edition conflict for this block.

Command and version data

/give @p minecraft:basalt 64

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