Rock
The entries on this annotated, structured list of rocks all are items and blocks in Minecraft that:
- bear a resemblance to real-world rocks,
- share a name with real-world rocks, or
- are fictitious but fulfill a similar role to rocks.
A few fictitious blocks are included in this list; namely, blackstone, deepslate, dripstone, end stone, glowstone, netherrack, and redstone. Their actual nature is up to the player's imagination. These blocks are marked in the list with an asterisk(*) before their name.
Rocks in the Overworld[edit]
- Amethyst geode[upcoming: JE 1.17] – a large, round, hollow pocket found underground with crystals growing from its walls
- Andesite – a lightly coloured volcanic rock, made of very tiny crystals; found in solitary blobs
- Bedrock – an unbreakable layer of rock that limits mining past the deepslate layer
- Cobblestone – a block of cobbles that drops from stone; found naturally where flowing water meets flowing lava; useful for crafting
- Coal – remains of ancient life that were buried and turned into carbon; used for Torches and Furnace fuel
- *Deepslate[upcoming: JE 1.17 & BE 1.17.0] – a dark gray, horizontally layered rock that makes up the deep dark layer of the Overworld, below Y=0; useful for crafting
- *Dripstone[upcoming: JE 1.17 & BE 1.17.0] – a rock that dripstone caves occur in
- Diorite – a lightly coloured igneous rock, made of coarse crystals; found in solitary blobs
- Flint – a sharp, flakey rock that drops from gravel
- Granite – a pinkish igneous rock, made of coarse crystals; found in solitary blobs
- Lapis Lazuli – a rich blue rock useful as a pigment
- Obsidian – a superhard black volcanic glass; found naturally where lava is flash-cooled by water
- *Redstone – a material that can carry signals and activate moving parts
- Sandstone – sand turned rock, found at the bottom of almost all sand deposits
- Smooth Basalt[upcoming: JE 1.17] – a dark colored volcanic rock made of very tiny crystals; found encasing amethyst geodes
- Stone – the gray rock that makes up the bulk of the Overworld above Y=−7
- Terracotta – clay turned into stone, found in colorful layers in the mesa
- Tuff[upcoming: JE 1.17] – volcanic ash turned stone; common in deepslate
Rocks in other dimensions[edit]
- Basalt – a column-forming volcanic rock that's in the Nether's basalt deltas and soul sand valleys
- Bedrock – the unbreakable rock that sandwiches the Nether; also forms portal structures in the End
- *Blackstone – a material that's in the Nether's basalt deltas; useful for crafting
- *End Stone – a hard, pale yellow material that makes up the bulk of the End
- *Glowstone – a brittle, luminescent material that hangs from ceilings in the Nether
- *Netherrack – a soft, red material that makes up most of the Nether
- Obsidian – a superhard volcanic glass that makes up the Ender Dragon's pillars
See also[edit]
