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Block of Diamond

A storage block that holds nine diamonds. It can form part of a beacon's base pyramid.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

block_of_diamond

Block of Diamond at a glance

Crafting gives you Block of Diamond, a block filed under Utility Blocks. A single slot takes 64 Block of Diamond, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Block of Diamond has a hardness of 5. Anything below iron destroys Block of Diamond without a drop. For explosions the number that counts is 6. Block of Diamond sits between Block of Copper and Block of Emerald in Utility Blocks, number 46 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

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How to obtain

  • Crafting

Notes

Can be uncrafted back into 9 diamonds. Often used in beacon pyramids.

Frequently asked questions about Block of Diamond

  1. Diamond going into Block of Diamond, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Block of Diamond in Minecraft?

    Block of Diamond is crafted from Diamond at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

  2. How long does Block of Diamond take to break?

    Look up Block of Diamond and you get 5 hardness, with 6 blast resistance on it. It is not equally easy both ways, since the two figures on it pull apart. Anything below iron destroys Block of Diamond without a drop. Java 26.2 sets Block of Diamond at these values, and we copied them onto it.

  3. Block of Diamond on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Block of Diamond used for?

    A storage block that holds nine diamonds. It can form part of a beacon's base pyramid.

  4. Block of Diamond coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Block of Diamond added to Minecraft?

    Block of Diamond was added in the early Alpha development period.

  5. 64 Block of Diamond drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Block of Diamond can you stack?

    64 Block of Diamond fills a slot, and that slot costs 576 Diamond, which is 64 crafts at the crafting table. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.

Building with it

Nine diamonds make a block, and it is one of the few blocks players build purely as a statement. Practically it stores diamonds compactly, serves as a beacon base, and comes back apart into nine diamonds whenever you need them, so nothing is lost by stacking them up.

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