Block of Gold

Blocks of Gold (also known as Gold Blocks) are decorative mineral blocks that do not appear in normally generated maps.

Gold blocks can be crafted by placing 9 gold ingots in a 3x3 square in a crafting grid. The gold blocks can then be crafted back into 9 ingots again (even in your inventory crafting grid), making them more useful as a compact way to store gold ingots rather than a building material. They are also used in a recipe to make a more powerful variation of golden apples.

Mining a gold block drops itself (rather than ingots) as long as an iron or diamond level pickaxe is used, thus, no resources are lost. However, if they are broken without a pickaxe or with a lower pickaxe, they drop nothing, effectively causing the loss of all 9 gold ingots used to create the block.

Gold blocks are susceptible to destruction from TNT, and only require approximately 1 second to mine successfully.

Gold blocks are needed to build and activate the Nether Reactor in Pocket Edition.

Trivia

 * Gold and iron blocks are the only mineral blocks in Classic.
 * Gold and diamond blocks are the only mineral blocks to share the same textures. Iron used to, but as of Beta 1.9pre5, it was changed to a more industrial look.
 * In the Pocket Edition, four gold blocks are needed to create a machine called the Nether Reactor, which will provide the player with resources such as quartz, melon seeds, netherrack, and other various assorted items.
 * Assuming a gold block is the heaviest possible object in the game, being made out of pure gold, making it weight 19320kg per block and 1236480 per stack, calculating the max weight steve's inventory can reach leads us to 44513280 kilograms or 49067.5 tons approx.

Gold (Block) Gold (Block)/es Or (bloc) 금 블록 Goud (blok) Złoto (blok) Золото (блок) 金块