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Gray Concrete Powder

Gray Concrete Powder is a gravity-affected gray block that hardens into solid Gray Concrete when it comes into contact with water.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.12

Item ID

gray_concrete_powder

Gray Concrete Powder at a glance

Gray Concrete Powder, a block out of crafting, sits under Utility Blocks. 64 Gray Concrete Powder fit in a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 3456 in a double chest.

Gray Concrete Powder owes its colour to gray dye. A closed eyeblossom gives one. Mixing one black dye with one white dye makes two. The game rates Gray Concrete Powder at 0.5 hardness. A shovel is the right tool for Gray Concrete Powder, and any tier of it collects the block. It holds up against explosions exactly as well as it does against a pickaxe, and no better. It sits between Gray Concrete and Gray Stained Glass in Utility Blocks, number 141 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
SandSand
SandSand
Gray Concrete PowderGray Concrete Powder8
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Gray Concrete Powder has the grid for Gray Concrete Powder

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Notes

Shapeless: 1 dye + 4 sand + 4 gravel make 8 powder. Falls like sand and turns to concrete in water.

Frequently asked questions about Gray Concrete Powder

  1. Gravel, Sand going into Gray Concrete Powder, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Gray Concrete Powder in Minecraft?

    Gray Concrete Powder is crafted from Gravel and Sand at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 8.

  2. The gray dye that goes into Gray Concrete Powder, beside Gray Concrete Powder itself

    What dye does Gray Concrete Powder need?

    Gray dye is what Gray Concrete Powder needs. A closed eyeblossom gives one for Gray Concrete Powder. Mixing one black dye with one white dye makes two for Gray Concrete Powder.

  3. Gray Concrete Powder as a block, next to the shovel its 0.5 hardness asks for

    How long does Gray Concrete Powder take to break?

    Gray Concrete Powder has hardness 0.5, and it has blast resistance 0.5. Most blocks share the pattern on Gray Concrete Powder, and it is not one of the exceptions. A shovel is the right tool for Gray Concrete Powder, and any tier of it collects the block. Java 26.2 is the release Gray Concrete Powder was read from, figure by figure on it.

  4. Gray Concrete Powder on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Gray Concrete Powder used for?

    Gray Concrete Powder is a gravity-affected gray block that hardens into solid Gray Concrete when it comes into contact with water.

  5. Gray Concrete Powder coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.12

    When was Gray Concrete Powder added to Minecraft?

    Gray Concrete Powder was added in version 1.12.

  6. 64 Gray Concrete Powder drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Gray Concrete Powder can you stack?

    64 Gray Concrete Powder fills a slot, and that slot costs 40 Gravel and 32 Sand, since each one returns 8, which is 8 crafts at the crafting table.

Building with it

Gray Concrete Powder takes a closed eyeblossom, or black and white dye mixed, and gives eight blocks a craft. As powder it is still gravity-bound: drop it down a shaft, then flood the shaft, and you get a gray column that no longer falls when the block under it is mined out.

In practice

Gray concrete powder needs black and white dye, both of which are renewable from squid and skeletons. That makes gray one of the few concrete colours a world can produce endlessly without a flower farm, and it is the standard base colour for modern builds. Gray powder needs one gray dye per eight blocks, and gray dye is black and white mixed, both renewable. That makes gray the concrete colour a world can produce endlessly, which matters when a build needs several thousand blocks of a single tone.