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Utility Blocks

Gilded Blackstone

A blackstone variant flecked with gold that has a chance to drop gold nuggets when mined. It generates in bastion remnants in the Nether.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.16

Item ID

gilded_blackstone

Gilded Blackstone at a glance

Mining gives you Gilded Blackstone, a block filed under Utility Blocks. A single slot takes 64 Gilded Blackstone, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Gilded Blackstone has a hardness of 1.5. For explosions the number that counts is 6. Gilded Blackstone is tagged for a pickaxe, and nothing is said about which one. Of the 4 kinds of generated chest that can hold Gilded Blackstone, bastion chests are the best bet at about 44% per chest. It sits between Furnace and Glass in Utility Blocks, number 128 of 340 there.

How to obtain

  • Mining

Notes

Has a chance to drop 2-5 Gold Nuggets when mined without Silk Touch.

Frequently asked questions about Gilded Blackstone

  1. Mining leading to Gilded Blackstone, the way this answer says Gilded Blackstone arrives

    How do you get Gilded Blackstone in Minecraft?

    Gilded Blackstone is obtained through mining. There is no recipe: Gilded Blackstone is found, and bastion chests give the best chance at about 44%.

  2. Gilded Blackstone as a block, next to the pickaxe its 1.5 hardness asks for

    How long does Gilded Blackstone take to break?

    The block data for Gilded Blackstone holds 1.5 for hardness on it and 6 for blast resistance. It is not equally easy both ways, since the two figures on it pull apart. It is tagged for a pickaxe, and nothing is said about which one. Java 26.2 sets Gilded Blackstone at these values, and we copied them onto it.

  3. 64 Gilded Blackstone drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Gilded Blackstone can you stack?

    Gilded Blackstone goes 64 to a slot, and bastion chests hand over 1 to 5 at a time, so a full slot is at least 13 chests of searching. A shulker box of Gilded Blackstone comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

  4. A chest beside Gilded Blackstone, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Gilded Blackstone in chests?

    Gilded Blackstone is chest loot in bastion chests (about 44%, 1 to 5 at a time), bastion treasure chests (about 34%, 5 to 15 at a time), bastion hoglin stable chests (about 23%, 2 to 5 at a time), and bastion bridge chests (about 11%, 8 to 12 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

  5. Gilded Blackstone coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.16

    When was Gilded Blackstone added to Minecraft?

    Gilded Blackstone was added in version 1.16.

  6. Gilded Blackstone on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Gilded Blackstone used for?

    A blackstone variant flecked with gold that has a chance to drop gold nuggets when mined. It generates in bastion remnants in the Nether.

Building with it

Gilded blackstone appears in bastion remnants and drops gold nuggets when mined without Silk Touch, which makes it half decoration and half ore. Piglins get angry if they see you break it, so a bastion raid needs either gold armour or a fast escape.