Talk:Breaking

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Have we been double-trolled?
I've known for a long time that, contrary to expectations originating from most games, gold tools in Minecraft aren't actually worth much - they have the same durability as wood tools. However, I never even began to suspect that, for many harvestable blocks, gold tools match, if not surpass, diamond ones in harvesting speed! Has Notch managed to troll us all, not once, but twice here? o_O 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 06:36, 14 March 2011 (UTC)


 * For a long time gold tools dug at the same speed as wood, and so they were pretty much entirely worthless. Sometime pretty recently that got changed. (Beta 1.2 maybe? I'm sure the changelog knows.) They still can't break the harder blocks like Iron Ore though. And given their durability, still pretty worthless IMO.
 * BTW, I know nothing really links here yet, I'll get around to that soon. D0sboots 07:32, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

From the source code?
Excellent article here, this certainly clears a huge number of things up. Quick question though, is all this straight from the Minecraft source code? Alphap 07:41, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * To my knowledge, all of it. Darkid 12:01, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

What about 1.8 blocks?
Iron bars: about 7 seconds with a diamond pickaxe

Stone bricks: about 4 seconds with a diamond pickaxe

Melons: Same as pumpkins? 24.63.148.133 20:50, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Not updated for 1.8
This doesn't have any blocks at all from 1.8 and later. It's important to put them in here, especially after 5 months. HotdogPi 03:54, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

This article isn't well known
Very few pages link to this page, and the page STILL hasn't been updated for 1.8! It's been 8 months since 1.8 came out. HotdogPi Come to my page! 23:18, 22 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, now that I've linked it on the template, it should be viewed more often and hopefully updated/improved. - Asterick6 (talk) 19:52, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Diging timings differ from the other pages
The timings for digging on this page do NOT agree with the timings on the various other pages.

In particular, according to this page, gold tools are always faster if they can harvest.

According to the shovel page, that's not the case.

... hmm, looks like the Pickaxe and Axe pages have already been updated. So semi-nevermind.

Keybounce 17:25, 3 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Updated all three tool pages with the data from here, which was derived from 1.2.5 source code. All consistent now. -- Orthotope 07:24, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Did I miss a point?
I don't see a difference between yellow and red background? Both means, that the block can't be harvested! –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.27.161.163 (Talk) 08:52, 2 August 2012 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * Red indicates that strength of tool (or lack thereof) is considered insufficient to mine the block, so it takes a long time. Note how all red cells for a given block have the same mining time. Yellow indicates that having the proper tools speeds up mining, even though it doesn't drop anything. Mostly important for monster spawners, as you often want to break them quickly; if those cells were red, it would be less obvious that having a pickaxe is helpful. -- Orthotope 10:04, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Emerald block with gold pickaxe
you can dig emerald block via gold pickaxe fastest. please chceck seconds needed.

sorry for bad english.. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 93.159.131.54 (Talk) 22:35, 3 August 2012‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * You're right, fixed. Odd that emerald ore requires a stronger pickaxe to mine than emerald blocks, unlike iron, gold, and diamond. -- Orthotope 20:05, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Explosions in Blocks by hardness
Since TNT is also one way to break blocks, I'd suggest adding a column for breaking blocks with explosions - is it possible and how easily (like dirt explodes more widely than stone). --Robotkoer 14:45, 29 March 2014 (UTC)


 * See Explosion. -- Orthotopetalk 17:18, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Obsidian can be broken faster using pickaxes in 1.8
Around 60s for Stone Pickaxe, 45s for Iron Pickaxe. Doesn’t drop the block but is so much faster than default 4m 10s.

31.183.33.225 22:34, 13 September 2014 (UTC)