Bone blocks are decorative blocks that can face in different directions.
Obtaining
Bone blocks can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, they will drop nothing.
| Block | Bone Block | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 2 | |
| Tool | ||
| Breaking time[A] | ||
| Default | 10 | |
| Wooden | 1.5 | |
| Stone | 0.75 | |
| Iron | 0.5 | |
| Diamond | 0.4 | |
| Netherite | 0.35 | |
| Golden | 0.25 | |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Bone Meal |
Natural generation
Bone blocks are generated naturally as part of fossil structures found in desert and swampland biomes.
Usage
Bone blocks are decorative blocks, and can also be used as compact storage for bonemeal.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Bone Meal | Bone Block |
Data values
Block state
See also: Block states
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| axis | y
| x | The bone block is oriented east–west. |
y | The bone block is oriented vertically. | ||
z | The bone block is oriented north–south. |
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pillar_axis | 0x40x8 | y | yxz | 012 | The axis along which the block is oriented |
| deprecated | 0x10x2 | 0 | 0123 | 0123 | Unused, has no effect in game. |
History
| release | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.10 | 16w20a | Added bone blocks. | |||
| 16w21a | Bone blocks are no longer transparent. | ||||
| 1.12 | 17w17a | Bone blocks can now be placed under note blocks to play the xylophone. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Added bone blocks. | |
| pocket upcoming | |||||
| 1.1.3 | build 1 | Added bone blocks. | |||
Issues
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