Block of Quartz

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

Breaking
Blocks of quartz can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Natural generation
Quartz blocks can be found naturally as part of bastion remnants.

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 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 because they cannot be crafted back into it, unlike other ore blocks. This is completely intentional.

Note Blocks
All types of quartz blocks can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

ID




Metadata
$$, quartz blocks use 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 or smooth quartz blocks when making fortifications using quartz, as their blast resistance is higher than the other quartz block variants.
 * Unlike other compressed resource blocks, quartz blocks cannot be crafted back into nether quartz.