Block of Gold


 * This article is about the solid gold block. For the ore, see Gold (Ore). For the Ingot, see Gold (Ingot).

Gold blocks (also known as Block of Gold) are blocks for storing gold ingots that do not appear in normally generated maps anywhere.

Gold blocks are available for use in Creative mode and are often used to make shiny buildings or to show "wealth".

Gold is susceptible to destruction from TNT, and only requires approximately 3 seconds to mine successfully.

Gold blocks can be crafted by placing 9 gold ingots in a crafting grid. The gold blocks could then be crafted back into 9 ingots again, making them more useful as "storage units" rather than building units. Golden blocks can be used to make Golden Apples.

Mining a gold block drops a full gold block (rather than ore or ingots) so no resources are lost. Like mining gold ore, destroying the block with a different tool or a pickaxe lower than iron quality will destroy the block, but will not drop anything, wasting all 9 ingots.

History
Gold blocks had a different skin when first made. The skin was changed from to  in the Survival 0.26 update, and then again 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 early versions of Survival, gold blocks resisted explosions. However, this is no longer the case.

Trivia

 * The gold block is the heaviest and therefore densest block in Minecraft and if pure would weigh approximately 19.3 tons in real life. A chest filled with gold blocks would weigh over 33,500 tons. This is well over 200 times denser than the core of the sun and about 1/30 the density of degenerate matter in a white dwarf.
 * Human civilization, through all its history, has produced approximately 136 stacks of gold blocks.

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