Concrete Powder

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^[A]
Default	0.75
Wooden	0.4
Stone	0.2
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.1
Netherite	0.1
Golden	0.1

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

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.^[1]

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. 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.

Note Blocks

Concrete powder can be placed under note blocks to produce "snare drum" sound.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	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
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.sand.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.sand.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	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
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.sand`	0.05	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.sand`	0.14	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	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

Bedrock Edition: None ^[2]

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Concrete Powder	`concrete_powder`	`concretePowder`	`237`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	`concrete_powder` Alias ID: `concretepowder`	`tile.concretePowder.black.name` `tile.concretePowder.red.name` `tile.concretePowder.green.name` `tile.concretePowder.brown.name` `tile.concretePowder.blue.name` `tile.concretePowder.cyan.name` `tile.concretePowder.silver.name` `tile.concretePowder.gray.name` `tile.concretePowder.pink.name` `tile.concretePowder.lime.name` `tile.concretePowder.yellow.name` `tile.concretePowder.lightBlue.name` `tile.concretePowder.magenta.name` `tile.concretePowder.orange.name` `tile.concretePowder.white.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.

Block states

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
color	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4` `0x8`	`white`	`white`	`0`	White Concrete Powder
			`orange`	`1`	Orange Concrete Powder
			`magenta`	`2`	Magenta Concrete Powder
			`light_blue`	`3`	Light Blue Concrete Powder
			`yellow`	`4`	Yellow Concrete Powder
			`lime`	`5`	Lime Concrete Powder
			`pink`	`6`	Pink Concrete Powder
			`gray`	`7`	Gray Concrete Powder
			`silver`	`8`	Light Gray Concrete Powder
			`cyan`	`9`	Cyan Concrete Powder
			`purple`	`10`	Purple Concrete Powder
			`blue`	`11`	Blue Concrete Powder
			`brown`	`12`	Brown Concrete Powder
			`green`	`13`	Green Concrete Powder
			`red`	`14`	Red Concrete Powder
			`black`	`15`	Black Concrete Powder

Falling block entity

Dynamic block entity data
- - Tags common to all entities
- BlockState: The falling block represented by this entity.
  - Name: The resource location of the block.
  - Properties: Optional. The block states of the block.
    - Name: The block state name and its value.
- 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.
- FallHurtAmount: Multiplied by the FallDistance to calculate the amount of damage to inflict. By default this value is always 2.
- FallHurtMax: The maximum hit points of damage to inflict on entities that intersect this falling block. For vanilla falling blocks, always 40 × 20.
- HurtEntities: 1 or 0 (true/false) – true if the block should hurt entities it falls on.
- TileEntityData: Optional. The tags of the block entity for this block.
- Time: The number of ticks the entity has existed. When Time goes above 600, or above 100 while the block is below Y=1 or is outside building height, the entity is deleted.

History

Java Edition
1.12		February 02, 2017			Jeb tweeted a video of a mysterious pink gravity-obeying block transforming into a solid gravity-defying block on contact with water.
		February 02, 2017			Jeb later added that it is to come in 16 different colors.^[3]
		17w06a			Added concrete powder.
		pre1			Concrete powder now converts to concrete when replacing a lava source.
1.13		17w47a			The different block states for the `concrete_powder` ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					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.^[4]
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 252.
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.
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.
1.18.30		beta 1.18.30.26			concrete powder's ID is changed to `concrete_powder`.
1.18.30		beta 1.18.30.26			Before this version, Its ID was `concretePowder` while its direct item form's ID was `concrete_powder`.
Legacy Console Edition
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Added concrete powder.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added concrete powder.