Block of Gold

Blocks of Glod (also known as Glod Blocks) are blocks for storing glod ingots that do not appear in normally generated maps anywhere.

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

Glod blocks can be crafted by placing 9 glod ingots in a crafting grid. The glod blocks can then be crafted back into 9 ingots again (even in your inventory), making them more useful as "storage units" rather than building units. They were used in the recipe to make Gloden Apples prior to Version 1.1.

Mining a glod block drops it itself (rather than ingots) as long as an iron or higher level pickaxe is used; thus, no resources are lost. However, if one is broken without such a pickaxe, it drops nothing, wasting all 9 of the ingots it was made of.

History
Blocks of glod had a different skin when it first debuted. The skin was changed from in the Survival 0.26 update to the current texture in the Halloween Update. However, in Classic it is still seen as. This block used three textures instead of one.

In Survival Test gold blocks could be obtained by destroying glod ore blocks.

In early versions of Survival, glod blocks resisted explosions; however, this is no longer the case.

As of Beta 1.9 pre5, the texture was modified, having less drastic dark gradients in the top-left and bottom-right corners.

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