Cobblestone walls are decorative blocks. There are 2 types: cobblestone walls and mossy cobblestone walls.
Obtaining
Cobblestone walls can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it will drop nothing.
| Block | Cobblestone Wall | |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Cobblestone Wall | Cobblestone | |
| Mossy Cobblestone Wall | Moss Stone |
Usage
Cobblestone walls are one and a half blocks tall for player/mob collision, and one block tall for all other purposes, similar to fences. This prevents players and mobs from jumping over them, while using only one actual block space. A wall occupies the center space of blocks and automatically connects to any solid block that is placed next to it. Since their hitbox is smaller than a single block, it will allow a mob in the block to breathe even when submerged.
Cobblestone walls are more efficient at fencing off mobs than a two-block high wall of cobblestone, costing only half as many blocks, and being more space-efficient as well. The drawback, however, is that a skeleton might shoot over the wall, a creeper could explode if a player is standing near the wall and a spider could still climb over the wall.
Unlike fences, if two cobblestone walls are placed one block apart diagonally, you cannot walk between them.
Data values
Block data
| DV | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Cobblestone Wall | |
| 1 | Mossy Cobblestone Wall | |
| 2 | Granite Wall | |
| 3 | Diorite Wall | |
| 4 | Andesite Wall | |
| 5 | Sandstone Wall | |
| 6 | Brick Wall | |
| 7 | Stone Brick Wall | |
| 8 | Mossy Stone Brick Wall | |
| 9 | End Stone Brick Wall | |
| 10 | Nether Brick Wall | |
| 11 | Prismarine Wall | |
| 12 | Red Sandstone Wall | |
| 13 | Red Nether Brick Wall |
Block state
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| east | none | lownonetall | How the wall extends from the center post to the east. |
| north | none | lownonetall | How the wall extends from the center post to the north. |
| south | none | lownonetall | How the wall extends from the center post to the south. |
| up | true | falsetrue | When true, the wall has a center post. |
| waterlogged | false | falsetrue | Whether or not there's water in the same place as this wall. |
| west | none | lownonetall | How the wall extends from the center post to the west. |
Bedrock Edition Non-blackstone and deepslate wall:
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wall_block_type | 0x10x20x40x8 | cobblestone | cobblestonemossy_cobblestonegranitedioriteandesitesandstonebrickstone_brickmossy_stone_bricknether_brickend_brickprismarinered_sandstonered_nether_brick | 012345678910111213 | The type of wall; for example, stone_brick denotes a stone brick wall. |
| wall_connection_type_east | Not Supported | none | noneshorttall | Unsupported | How the wall extends from the center post to the east. |
| wall_connection_type_north | Not Supported | none | noneshorttall | Unsupported | How the wall extends from the center post to the north. |
| wall_connection_type_south | Not Supported | none | noneshorttall | Unsupported | How the wall extends from the center post to the south. |
| wall_connection_type_west | Not Supported | none | noneshorttall | Unsupported | How the wall extends from the center post to the west. |
| wall_post_bit | Not Supported | true | falsetrue | Unsupported | Whether or not the wall has a center post. |
Blackstone and deepslate wall:
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wall_connection_type_east | Not Supported | none | noneshorttall | Unsupported | How the wall extends from the center post to the east. |
| wall_connection_type_north | Not Supported | none | noneshorttall | Unsupported | How the wall extends from the center post to the north. |
| wall_connection_type_south | Not Supported | none | noneshorttall | Unsupported | How the wall extends from the center post to the south. |
| wall_connection_type_west | Not Supported | none | noneshorttall | Unsupported | How the wall extends from the center post to the west. |
| wall_post_bit | Not Supported | true | falsetrue | Unsupported | Whether or not the wall has a center post. |
Video
Wall/video
History
| release | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 16, 2012 | Jeb tweets the first image of cobblestone walls. | ||||
| August 17, 2012 | Dinnerbone tweets another image of cobblestone walls. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added cobblestone walls. | |||
| ? | Mossy cobblestone walls now drop itself, instead of normal cobblestone walls. | ||||
| 12w40a | Mob AI no longer considers cobblestone walls as blocks of a normal height. | ||||
| 1.9 | ? | Improved wall models to work with model combining, that up is active even when there is no block above it and that there are unused models, which are only accessable on a debug-map. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | Added cobblestone walls. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU14 | CU1 | 1.04 | Patch 1 | Added cobblestone walls. | |
Issues
Issues relating to "Wall" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- When a fence gate is placed between 2 cobblestone walls (of either type) it will stoop down slightly to match the height of the cobblestone wall.
- If the fence gate is placed next to only 1 (mossy) cobblestone wall, or vice versa, it will not lower.
- Although the cobblestone wall only raises at corners and ends, it will raise to support a solid or non-solid block placed above it.
- A stack of cobblestone made into cobblestone walls (which will only use 60 of the 64 cobblestone) will make exactly enough walls to fence off one chunk.
- Mossy cobblestone walls use an older cobblestone texture instead of the current one.


