Infested blocks consist of stone, cobblestone, deepslate, or any stone bricks variants that take less time to break and spawn only silverfish when broken without Silk Touch. Silverfish hide in these blocks, and emerge when a nearby silverfish is attacked in order to attack the aggressor. Infested blocks cannot be obtained in item form.
Obtaining[]
Infested blocks are not obtainable by Silk Touch, and are only available through the Creative inventory or commands. However, they can be retained from worlds played in versions where they were legitimately obtainable.
Block | Infested Stone Infested Stone Bricks |
Infested Cobblestone | Infested Deepslate | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hardness | 0.75 | 1 | 1.5 | |
Tool | ||||
Breaking time[A] | ||||
Default | 1.15 | 1.5 | 2.25 | |
Wooden | 0.6 | 0.75 | 1.15 | |
Stone | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
Iron | 0.2 | 0.25 | 0.4 | |
Diamond | 0.15 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
Netherite | 0.15 | 0.2 | 0.25 | |
Golden | 0.1 | 0.15 | 0.2 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Breaking[]
When the block is broken, whether by a player or by an explosion, a silverfish spawns where it was broken unless the difficulty is Peaceful or the game rule doTileDrops
is set to false
(doMobSpawning
is irrelevant).
Infested blocks take less time to break than their normal counterparts. When breaking them with a pickaxe, they take half as much time to break as their normal counterparts.
When mined with anything other than a Silk Touch-enchanted tool, an infested block drops nothing and spawns a silverfish that immediately attacks the player. If the player attacks a silverfish directly with a sword, bow, or potion of Harming, or when a silverfish takes Poison damage, nearby infested blocks break, spawning more aggressive silverfish. If the silverfish is killed in one hit, then nearby infested blocks do not break, and no silverfish spawn from them.[1]
When mined with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch, however, the equivalent non-infested block is dropped without spawning a silverfish on all game difficulties.[2] Any Silk Touch-enchanted tool (including swords) will cause an infested block to drop its non-infested equivalent (that is, a pickaxe is not required). A player wishing to collect stone bricks from a stronghold safely should use Silk Touch-enchanted pickaxes.
Natural generation[]
Infested stone bricks are occasionally found in strongholds and igloo basements in place of normal stone bricks. Infested mossy and chiseled stone bricks also spawn in igloos, but they do not generate naturally in strongholds.[3]
Infested cobblestone is found in the rarely generated "End portal" room in woodland mansions.
Infested stone and deepslate can generate in the Overworld in the form of blobs. Infested blocks attempt to generate 14 times per chunk in ore features of size 0-13, from altitudes -64 to 63 in Java Edition or 0 to 64 in Bedrock Edition, within one of the following biomes, or within a chunk that is at least partially occupied by one of these biomes:
- Windswept Gravelly Hills
- Windswept Hills
- Windswept Forest
- Meadow
- Cherry Grove
- Grove
- Snowy Slopes
- Jagged Peaks
- Frozen Peaks
- Stony Peaks
Infested stone blob can replace stone, andesite, diorite, granite, polished andesite[BE only], polished diorite[BE only], polished granite[BE only], tuff[JE only], and deepslate. If it replaces tuff or deepslate, it becomes infested deepslate.
Post-generation[]
Infested blocks are generated when a silverfish enters the respective normal block form.
Usage[]
When mined, an infested block spawns a silverfish that immediately attacks the player. If the player attacks a silverfish directly with a sword, bow, or potion of Harming, or when a silverfish takes poison damage, nearby infested blocks break, spawning more aggressive silverfish. If the silverfish is killed in one hit, then nearby infested blocks do not break, and no silverfish spawn from them.
Identifying[]
Note blocks placed on infested blocks produce flute sounds[Bedrock Edition only] or harp sounds[Java Edition only], while those placed on the non-infested stone, cobblestone, or stone bricks produce bass drum sounds.
In Bedrock Edition, a player can distinguish infested from normal blocks by observing that an infested block takes a bit faster to break when using a pickaxe than the stone it appears to be, but without a pickaxe, it still breaks faster.
A silverfish does not spawn if the block is destroyed by the ender dragon.
In Java Edition, using the debug screen, a player can identify whether or not a block is infested.
Sounds[]
Stone[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.27 [sound 1] | 0.5 | |
Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.22 | 1.0 |
- ↑ MCPE-169612 — Many blocks make very slightly different sounds to stone
Deepslate[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | When the block is placed | place | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.22 | 1.0 |
Data values[]
ID[]
Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|
Infested Stone | infested_stone | Block & Item | block.minecraft.infested_stone |
Infested Cobblestone | infested_cobblestone | Block & Item | block.minecraft.infested_cobblestone |
Infested Stone Bricks | infested_stone_bricks | Block & Item | block.minecraft.infested_stone_bricks |
Infested Cracked Stone Bricks | infested_cracked_stone_bricks | Block & Item | block.minecraft.infested_cracked_stone_bricks |
Infested Mossy Stone Bricks | infested_mossy_stone_bricks | Block & Item | block.minecraft.infested_mossy_stone_bricks |
Infested Chiseled Stone Bricks | infested_chiseled_stone_bricks | Block & Item | block.minecraft.infested_chiseled_stone_bricks |
Infested Deepslate | infested_deepslate | Block & Item | block.minecraft.infested_deepslate |
Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Infested Block | monster_egg | 97 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.monster_egg.stone.name tile.monster_egg.cobble.name tile.monster_egg.brick.name tile.monster_egg.mossybrick.name tile.monster_egg.crackedbrick.name tile.monster_egg.chiseledbrick.name |
Infested Deepslate | infested_deepslate | 709 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.infested_deepslate.name |
Block states[]
Bedrock Edition:
Infested Deepslate:
Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
pillar_axis | Not Supported | y
| x | Unsupported | The deepslate is oriented east–west. |
y | Unsupported | The deepslate is oriented vertically. | |||
z | Unsupported | The deepslate is oriented north–south. |
Others:
Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
monster_egg_stone_type | 0x1 0x2 0x4 | stone
| stone | 0 | Infested Stone |
cobblestone | 1 | Infested Cobblestone | |||
stone_brick | 2 | Infested Stone Brick | |||
mossy_stone_brick | 3 | Infested Mossy Stone Brick | |||
cracked_stone_brick | 4 | Infested Cracked Stone Brick | |||
chiseled_stone_brick | 5 | Infested Chiseled Stone Brick |
History[]
Java Edition Beta | |||||
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1.8 | Pre-release | Added infested stone, infested cobblestone, and infested stone bricks. | |||
They currently lack an in-game name, and are not in the Creative inventory, so they are commonly referred to as "Block 97" due to their numeral ID. | |||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.3.1 | 12w17a | Infested blocks are now labeled as "Stone Monster Egg", "Cobblestone Monster Egg", or "Stone Brick Monster Egg" depending on what kind of block it is. | |||
12w21b | Stone monster egg is now available in the Creative mode inventory. | ||||
12w22a | Cobblestone and stone brick monster eggs are now available in the Creative mode inventory. | ||||
1.4.2 | 12w38a | Stone monster eggs now rarely generate in Extreme Hills biomes. | |||
1.6.1 | 13w17a | Silverfish do not cause monster eggs to break when /gamerule mobGriefing is set to false. | |||
1.7.2 | 13w36a | Added mossy stone brick monster egg, cracked stone brick monster egg and chiseled stone brick monster egg variants, likely as a fix for MC-7449. These are available in the Creative inventory. | |||
Silverfish are now spawned when a monster egg is destroyed by an explosion. | |||||
1.8 | 14w04a | Silverfish are no longer spawned when mining a monster egg with a Silk Touch tool. | |||
Silverfish are no longer spawned when destroying a monster egg in Creative mode. | |||||
1.9 | 15w43a | Monster eggs now generate among the stone bricks of igloo basements, with either regular, mossy or chiseled stone brick appearance. | |||
1.11 | 16w39a | Cobblestone monster eggs now generate in woodland mansions. | |||
1.13 | 17w47a | The different block states for the monster_egg ID have been split up into their own IDs.
| |||
"<block> Monster Egg" have been renamed to "Infested <block>". | |||||
Infested blocks now break instantly, regardless of the tool, instead of taking longer to break than their non-infested counterparts. This makes them harder to identify. | |||||
Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 97. | |||||
1.14 | 18w43a | The textures of infested blocks have been changed. | |||
18w44a | The texture of infested stone has been changed, once again. | ||||
18w47a | The textures of all infested stone bricks have been changed to appear more smooth. | ||||
18w50a | The texture of infested cobblestone has been changed, once again. | ||||
1.15 | 19w39a | Silverfish are no longer spawned when an infested block is destroyed in an explosion. | |||
1.16 | 20w07a | Silverfish are now spawned from blown up infested blocks again. | |||
1.17 | 21w10a | Added infested deepslate. | |||
21w15a | Now infested deepslate has correct sounds.[4] | ||||
21w16a | Infested Deepslate can now be placed on any axis. Also can now have random texture rotation like deepslate. | ||||
21w18a | Instead of breaking instantly, infested blocks now take half of the time to break compared to their regular counterparts. | ||||
21w19a | Pickaxes are now the appropriate tool for breaking infested blocks.[5] | ||||
1.18 | Experimental Snapshot 2 | Infested stone now generates in mountain meadows, mountain groves, snowy slopes, lofty peaks, and snow capped peaks. | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.9.0 | build 1 | Added monster eggs. | |||
The only way to create monster eggs in-game is with the help of silverfish, as all variants cannot be accessed in the Creative inventory. | |||||
v0.11.0 | build 1 | Monster eggs now generate in Extreme Hills biomes. | |||
v0.16.0 | build 1 | Six variants of Monster eggs are now available in the Creative inventory. | |||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Monster eggs now generate among the stone bricks of igloo basements, with either regular, cracked, mossy or chiseled stone brick appearance. | |||
1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Cobblestone monster eggs now generate in woodland mansions. | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | "Monster Eggs" have been renamed to "Infested Blocks". | |||
The textures of infested blocks have been changed. | |||||
1.17.0 | beta 1.17.0.54 | Added Infested Deepslate. | |||
? | Pickaxes are now the appropriate tool for breaking infested blocks. | ||||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
? | ? | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added silverfish blocks. [more information needed] |
TU5 | CU1 | Silverfish stone, silverfish cobblestone, and silverfish stone bricks; are available in the Creative inventory. | |||
TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Added silverfish mossy stone brick, silverfish cracked stone brick and silverfish chiseled stone brick; variants of monster eggs (to the Creative inventory).[more information needed] | |
PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
1.90 | The textures of silverfish blocks have been changed. | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | Added monster eggs. All six variants are available in the Creative inventory. |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Infested Block" or "Monster Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- Despite silverfish being able to infest cobblestone, stone bricks, and mossy stone bricks, they cannot infest mossy cobblestone.[6]
References[]
External Links[]
- Block of the Month: Infested Block – Minecraft.net on January 26, 2023