Block of Quartz

"Oh, come on. You're not fooling anyone. We know you didn't build your palace out of Nether Quartz because you think it looks good – you're just humblebragging that you've been to the Nether, mined the place rotten for Nether Quartz ore, and then got back alive. Alive and smug. Now we have to live next to your magnificent palace made of quartz in our hut made of dirt. Grumble grumble..."

- Tom Stone

A block of quartz is a mineral block used only for decoration. It can be turned into a chiseled quartz block, quartz pillar, or smooth quartz.

Obtaining
Blocks of quartz can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it will drop nothing.

Trading
Master-level stone mason villagers have a 50% chance to either sell a block of quartz or a quartz pillar for one emerald as their trade.

Master-level stone mason villagers sell both a quartz block for one emerald and a quartz pillar for one emerald.

Usage
Quartz blocks cannot be used to store nether quartz, due to the fact that they cannot be crafted back into it unlike other ore blocks.

Crafting ingredient
Note: Smooth quartz cannot be combined with block of quartz, chiseled quartz block, or quartz pillar to craft the quartz slab or quartz stairs.

Block data
In Bedrock Edition, block of quartz uses the following data values:

Block states
Quartz Pillar

Trivia

 * Because of the low blast resistance of regular quartz blocks, it may be preferable to use two quartz slabs when making fortifications using quartz.
 * Unlike other mineral blocks, it is impossible to craft quartz blocks into nether quartz, so it is not possible to use quartz blocks as storage for nether quartz.