Concrete

Concrete is a solid block available in the 16 regular dye colors.

Breaking
Concrete requires a pickaxe to be mined. When mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Post-generation


Concrete is formed when concrete powder comes into contact with a block of water (source block, flowing or waterlogged). It is not formed by contact with rain, filled cauldrons or water bottles.

Usage
The bright and solid colors of concrete make it useful for decoration. It has more pronounced colors than terracotta, and unlike wool, is not flammable.

As a building material, its hardness is slightly higher than stone, but its blast resistance is significantly lower.

Note Blocks
Concrete can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.

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Block states
$$, concrete uses the following block states:

Trivia

 * In real life, a 1-cubic-meter concrete block (the size of a Minecraft block) is practically blast-proof, while the blast resistance of concrete in Minecraft is quite low.


 * Also in real life, concrete is made of Portland cement, apart from sand, gravel and water. Cement serves as a binding material, that binds sand and gravel together. In Minecraft, dye is used instead of cement. It is possible that cement is made at the same time from sand and gravel, if the gravel contains limestone, because limestone and sand are real life ingredients for cement.