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Packed Mud

A dried mud building block made by combining mud with wheat, used to craft mud bricks. It has a firm, earthy appearance.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.19

Item ID

packed_mud

Packed Mud at a glance

Packed Mud, a block out of crafting, sits under Utility Blocks. A slot of Packed Mud holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

Packed Mud additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Mud Bricks. Breaking Packed Mud works against a hardness of 1. Blast resistance sits at 3. Reach for a pickaxe if you want Packed Mud fast; the wooden one already drops it. It sits between Packed Ice and Pink Banner in Utility Blocks, number 235 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
WheatWheat
Packed MudPacked Mud

Used to craft

Packed Mud goes into one recipe, Mud Bricks, and the link below shows the grid for it. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Packed Mud.

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Notes

Combines 1 Mud with 1 Wheat. Four Packed Mud craft 4 Mud Bricks.

Frequently asked questions about Packed Mud

  1. Mud, Wheat going into Packed Mud, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Packed Mud in Minecraft?

    Packed Mud is crafted from Mud and Wheat at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

  2. Packed Mud turning into Mud Bricks, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Packed Mud used for?

    Packed Mud is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Mud Bricks.

  3. 64 Packed Mud drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Packed Mud can you stack?

    64 Packed Mud fill one slot, and filling it costs 64 Mud and 64 Wheat: 64 crafts. A double chest of Packed Mud comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  4. Packed Mud as a block, next to the pickaxe its 1 hardness asks for

    How long does Packed Mud take to break?

    Mining Packed Mud works against 1; explosions on it work against 3. The two numbers on Packed Mud are not the same, so mining and blowing it up are separate jobs. Reach for a pickaxe if you want Packed Mud fast; the wooden one already drops it. Java 26.2 holds Packed Mud at exactly those figures, timing on it aside.

  5. Packed Mud coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.19

    When was Packed Mud added to Minecraft?

    Packed Mud was added in version 1.19.

Building with it

Mud and wheat give packed mud, which is the halfway step to mud bricks and a decent building block in its own right. It is drier and firmer looking than mud, and unlike mud it does not slow anything walking across it.