Suspicious gravel is a fragile gravity-affected block found in ocean ruins and trail ruins that can be brushed to extract certain items, including pottery shards. Suspicious gravel will drop nothing if it is broken, and breaks if it falls any height or is moved with a piston.
Obtaining
Breaking
Suspicious gravel is unobtainable by mining, even using a tool enchanted with Silk Touch. It is affected by gravity, but it always breaks with no drop after falling. It breaks immediately if pushed by a piston or sticky piston, and cannot be pulled by sticky pistons or slime block.
| Block | Suspicious Gravel | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | ? | |
| Tool | ||
| Breaking time[A] | ||
| Default | ? | |
| Wooden | ? | |
| Stone | ? | |
| Iron | ? | |
| Diamond | ? | |
| Netherite | ? | |
| Golden | ? | |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Natural generation
Suspicious gravel generates naturally in cold ocean ruins. Additionally, some of the gravel within trail ruins will be replaced with suspicious gravel upon generation.
Usage
Loot
Suspicious gravel drops nothing when broken.
Using a brush, the player can extract an item from the suspicious gravel. The latter will immediately be converted into regular gravel. The loot within the suspicious gravel is dependent on the structure it generates in (ie. suspicious gravel in trail ruins will have different items inside than suspicious gravel in ocean ruins). Therefore, when placed by the player, nothing is produced after brushing, as no loot table is selected.
Sounds
Generic
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block.suspicious_gravel.break | subtitles.block.generic.break | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block.suspicious_gravel.place | subtitles.block.generic.place | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block.suspicious_gravel.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hit | 0.2 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.suspicious_gravel.fall | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block.suspicious_gravel.step | subtitles.block.generic.footsteps | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | Once the block has broken | break.suspicious_gravel | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | When the block is placed | place.suspicious_gravel | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit.suspicious_gravel | 0.23 | 0.5 | |
| Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | step.suspicious_gravel | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Walking on the block | step.suspicious_gravel | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Jumping from the block | step.suspicious_gravel | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | step.suspicious_gravel | 0.18 | 1.0 |
Unique
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brushing Gravel | Blocks | While a brush is brushing suspicious gravel | item.brush.brushing.gravel | subtitles.item.brush.brushing.gravel | 0.6 | 0.6 | 16 | |
| Brushing Gravel completed | Players[sound 1] | When a brush finishes brushing suspicious gravel | item.brush.brushing.gravel.complete | subtitles.item.brush.brushing.gravel.complete | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | While a brush is brushing suspicious gravel | brush.suspicious_gravel | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Players | When a brush finishes brushing suspicious gravel [sound 1] | brush_completed.suspicious_gravel | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 |
- ↑ These sounds do not play due to MCPE-168805
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspicious Gravel | suspicious_gravel | ? | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.suspicious_gravel.name |
| Name | Identifier |
|---|---|
| Block entity | brushable_block |
Block states
In Bedrock Edition, suspicious gravel uses the following block states:
Suspicious Gravel/BS
Block data
- Block entity data
- Tags common to all block entities
- LootTable: Optional. Loot table to be used to generate the hidden item when brushed.[note 1]
- LootTableSeed: Optional. Seed for generating the loot table. 0 or omitted use a random seed.[note 1]
- item: The item in the block. May not exist.
History
| October 3, 2020 |  Suspicious gravel was shown unnamed as part of the archeology system at Minecraft Live 2020. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Added suspicious gravel. | |||
| 23w14a | Suspicious gravels now can be mined faster using shovels | ||||
| Suspicious gravels can now have bamboo planted on it. | |||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| Next Major Update (Experimental) | beta 1.19.80.21 |  Added suspicious gravel behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle. | |||
Gallery
Gravel and suspicious gravel side by side.
Issues
Issues relating to "Suspicious Gravel" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.