Basalt pillars are tall terrain features made up of basalt.
Generation[]
Basalt pillars are found in soul sand valleys and in its standard biome, the basalt deltas.
Structure[]
Basalt pillars have their starting points in the ceiling of an area, then have a pillar of between one and three blocks wide in both the X and Z axis going all the way down to the ground, where a flat clump of basalt can be found around a 3×3 area from the center of the pillar, as if a vertical lava flow, like those commonly found in the Nether, had solidified. Possibly due to blue ice next to omnipresent lava going over a soul soil ceiling, as with the "basalt generator" design.
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Resource location |
|---|---|
| [No displayed name] | basalt_pillar |
History[]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 28, 2019 | Basalt pillars shown unnamed as part of soul sand valley biome at Minecon 2019. | ||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a | Added basalt pillars. | |||
| 20w22a | Now terminate flush with the ground or lava, rather than one block above. | ||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | Added basalt pillars. | |||
Gallery[]
A small basalt pillar.
A large and a small basalt pillar that generated on the edges of a Warped Forest and a Crimson Forest, respectively
Basalt pillars reaching the surface of a lava sea as they did historically.
A pillar cutting through a fossil.
Three pillars flush with the ocean surface as of 20w22a.
Another pillar level with the soul sand ground.
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