Talk:Block of Quartz

Come to think of it, is this reversible?
I don't see a recipe for getting back the quartz items, and the recipes I do see look more like sandstone than like a mineral block. When mined, does the basic block drop 4 quartz, or itself? If it's not reversible, then this isn't a storage block. --Mental Mouse 03:37, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

It is not a storage block, the blocks only drop themselves.

Also, the Block of Quartz has a really low blast resistance, when a creeper exploded within a 5x5x3 block of it, all the blocks in a radius of 2 blocks were gone. Only the corners remained. So, probably a similar blast resistance to dirt. -kastor1994

I would concur with kastor1994 on quartz block's blast resistance. I tested blast resistance by setting off a TNT block inside a 5x5x5 chunk of different materials (gold ore, quartz, stone, dirt, grass) and the remains most resembled dirt or grass blocks - almost completely obliterated - so I would surmise that it's either 2.5 or 3. -- darkwyrm

Weird links
Why does the "see also" link to a page on "decorations" (I.e. flowers, saplings, mushrooms) in CLASSIC? This should be fixed or removed. --96.237.54.85 01:19, 17 January 2013 (UTC) Thanks, whoever fixed it. --96.237.54.85 15:15, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Pillar Quartz in Wrong Place
The pillar quartz recipie should be under "as a crafting ingredient", but I'm a noob with javascript so I can't do it. :P –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.106.150.23 (talk) at 13:42, 20 June 2014‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * This page is about all quartz variants. And JS has nothing to do with it. –Matt ᐸ Talk Contribs ⎜ 14:16, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Three-sided pillar
Where does the image of the three-sided pillar come from? As far as I can see, it's not in the game: /setblock doesn't offer it, the debug stick can't get it into that state and it's not on the block states page. Fabian42 (talk) 19:05, 28 April 2019 (UTC)


 * It exists only in bedrock edition, see data values section. FVbico (talk) 21:27, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Split proposal
I don't think the topics are diverse enough to warrant separate pages, and definitely not 5 separate pages. I might support splitting smooth quartz into its own page, as it's the most different. Otherwise, the split. -PancakeIdentity (talk) 22:59, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

I would propose following the way stone splits up and have “block of quartz” “quartz bricks” and “smooth quartz” as their own pages and continuing to have chiseled and quartz pillars as sub-blocks within “block of quartz”. I think that’s consistent with the way other pages are structured and doesn’t created a whole different page for each and every block. I the split if done this way. Adeseo (talk) 06:39, 9 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I'd this, though not for the reasoning discussed below. They just feel like obvious places to draw the lines. -PancakeIdentity (talk) 21:10, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

I splitting Smooth Quartz and Quartz Bricks. Currently, my philosophy is that every block which can be made into other blocks like slabs and stairs, should get their own page. Chiseled Quartz and Quartz Pillars cannot, so they don't necessarily need get their own page.

While were at it, can we also discuss the same with Sandstone? — Thomanski | t | c | 13:43, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * This seems pretty reasonable, for that right now. By that logic, sandstone would be split into "sandstone" (+ chiseled), "cut sandstone" and "smooth sandstone", and stone bricks into "stone bricks" (+ cracked and chiseled) and "mossy stone bricks", right? What about red sandstone or red nether bricks, would they be split?--Capopanzone (talk | contribs) 20:04, 9 April 2020 (UTC)