Basalt

Basalt is an igneous rock found in the Nether.

Polished basalt is the polished version of basalt and can be found as part of ancient cities.

Smooth basalt is an ornamental rock smelted from basalt or found as part of amethyst geodes and ancient cities.

Natural generation
Basalt generates naturally as basalt pillars, which are found in the biome. They also generate in the biome as regular terrain and as part of basalt columns. $$, they also generate in blobs, which attempt to replace netherrack 75 times per chunk in blobs of radius 3—7, from levels 0 to 127, in basalt deltas biome.

Both basalt and polished basalt can be found naturally as part of bastion remnants

Smooth basalt generates naturally as a part of the outer layer of amethyst geodes.

Polished basalt and Smooth basalt also generates in ancient cities.

Breaking
Basalt drops as an item if mined by any pickaxe. If mined by any other tool, it drops nothing.

Post-generation
Basalt can also be made by lava flowing into a space that is on top of soul soil and adjacent to blue ice. The flowing lava is then replaced with basalt.

Usage
Basalt's only current use is as building material. Like logs and quartz pillars, basalt and polished basalt point perpendicular to whatever block face they are placed on.

Note blocks
Basalt and polished basalt can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.

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Trivia

 * Geologically, basalt is a volcanic rock that cools from mafic lava flows. Mafic lava is runny, much like Nether lava, and under the right conditions it can cool into the stacks of basalt columns seen in basalt deltas.
 * Basalt makes up most of Earth's sea floor, as well as Iceland and the Hawaiian Islands.
 * Despite being an extrusive igneous rock, basalt has a lower mining time than granite and diorite, which are intrusive.
 * Basalt is the only rock-like block to have both a polished and smooth variant.