Moss stone is a block of cobblestone with moss growing in its cracks.
Obtaining
Moss stone can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it will drop nothing.
| Block | Moss Stone | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | ? | |
| Tool | ||
| Breaking time[A] | ||
| Default | ? | |
| Wooden | ? | |
| Stone | ? | |
| Iron | ? | |
| Diamond | ? | |
| Netherite | ? | |
| Golden | ? | |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Crafting
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Moss Stone | Cobblestone + Vines |
Natural generation
Moss stone can be found naturally in dungeons, jungle temples and in the form of scattered boulders in Mega Taiga biome. In Pocket Edition, moss stone also generates in place of some cobblestone in zombie villages.
Usage
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Mossy Cobblestone Slab | Mossy Cobblestone | |
| Mossy Cobblestone Stairs | Mossy Cobblestone | |
| Mossy Cobblestone Wall | Mossy Cobblestone | |
| Wild Armor Trim Smithing Template | Diamond + Wild Armor Trim Smithing Template + Mossy Cobblestone |
Video
Mossy Cobblestone/video
History
| classic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST 9 | File:Moss Stone-Pre Beta 1.8.png Added Moss Stone. | ||||
| Indev | |||||
| January 26, 2010 | The player now spawns in a moss stone house. | ||||
| Infdev | |||||
| Seecret Friday 2 | Moss stone can be found in dungeons along with cobblestone. | ||||
| Beta | |||||
| 1.8 | File:Moss Stone.png Changed texture. | ||||
| Official Release | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w22a | Moss stone is now found in jungle temples along with dungeons. | |||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Moss stone can now be used to craft mossy cobblestone walls. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | "Boulders" of moss stone appear in the Mega Taiga biome. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w04a | Added crafting recipe for moss stone. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.4.0 | Moss stone added for creative mode. | ||||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | Moss stone now spawns naturally in dungeons and as part of moss stone boulders. | |||
| 0.9.5 | Added crafting recipe for moss stone. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added moss stone. | |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Added crafting recipe for moss stone. | |
Issues
Issues relating to "Mossy Cobblestone" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- A picture of villages was released by Notch before Beta 1.8 was released.[1] In the early screenshots, villages were partly made of moss stone.
- Moss stone uses an older cobblestone texture instead of the current one.
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