How do you get Blue Concrete in Minecraft?

Blue Concrete is obtained through placing Blue Concrete Powder in water, and Blue Concrete from mining with a pickaxe. It has no recipe at all: a pickaxe is the whole tool list.

How many Blue Concrete can you stack?

Blue Concrete stacks in 64s: a double chest is 3,456, a shulker box 1,728, and your own 36 slots 2,304. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.

When was Blue Concrete added to Minecraft?

Blue Concrete was added in version 1.12.

What dye does Blue Concrete need?

Blue dye is what Blue Concrete needs. A cornflower or lapis lazuli each give one for Blue Concrete.

How long does Blue Concrete take to break?

The two numbers behind Blue Concrete are 1.8 for mining and 1.8 against explosions. The pair on Blue Concrete being level means it has no hidden strength against explosives. A pickaxe shortens the job on Blue Concrete, and no minimum material applies. Java 26.2 sets Blue Concrete at these values, and we copied them onto it.

Utility Blocks

Blue Concrete

Blue Concrete is a solid, vibrantly-colored blue building block formed when Blue Concrete Powder touches water. It is hard and not affected by gravity.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Blue Concrete at a glance

Placing Blue Concrete Powder in water and mining with a pickaxe give you Blue Concrete, a block filed under Utility Blocks. Carrying Blue Concrete is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

Blue Concrete owes its colour to blue dye. A cornflower or lapis lazuli each give one. Hardness 1.8 is what Blue Concrete is worth in the block data. A pickaxe shortens the job on Blue Concrete, and no minimum material applies. Blast resistance on Blue Concrete is that same 1.8. It sits between Blue Carpet and Blue Concrete Powder in Utility Blocks, number 54 of 340 there.

How to obtain

Placing Blue Concrete Powder in water
Mining with a pickaxe

Notes

Not craftable. Created only when the matching concrete powder contacts water; requires a pickaxe to mine.

Frequently asked questions about Blue Concrete

How do you get Blue Concrete in Minecraft?
Blue Concrete is obtained through placing Blue Concrete Powder in water, and Blue Concrete from mining with a pickaxe. It has no recipe at all: a pickaxe is the whole tool list.
How many Blue Concrete can you stack?
Blue Concrete stacks in 64s: a double chest is 3,456, a shulker box 1,728, and your own 36 slots 2,304. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.
What is Blue Concrete used for?
Blue Concrete is a solid, vibrantly-colored blue building block formed when Blue Concrete Powder touches water. It is hard and not affected by gravity.
When was Blue Concrete added to Minecraft?
Blue Concrete was added in version 1.12.
What dye does Blue Concrete need?
Blue dye is what Blue Concrete needs. A cornflower or lapis lazuli each give one for Blue Concrete.
How long does Blue Concrete take to break?
The two numbers behind Blue Concrete are 1.8 for mining and 1.8 against explosions. The pair on Blue Concrete being level means it has no hidden strength against explosives. A pickaxe shortens the job on Blue Concrete, and no minimum material applies. Java 26.2 sets Blue Concrete at these values, and we copied them onto it.

Building with it

Blue Concrete is deep enough to stand in for water in a flat build and calm enough to use across a whole wall. A cornflower or a piece of lapis lazuli each give one dye, which makes it one of the few strong colours you can gather from a flower field or a mineshaft rather than trading for it.

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