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Polished Tuff

A smooth variant of tuff used as the base for tuff bricks and tiles. It has a clean gray-green building texture.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.21

Item ID

polished_tuff

Polished Tuff at a glance

Polished Tuff, a block out of crafting and Stonecutter, sits under Utility Blocks. 64 Polished Tuff fit in a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 3456 in a double chest.

Polished Tuff additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Tuff Bricks. It has a hardness of 1.5. A pickaxe shortens the job on Polished Tuff, and no minimum material applies. For explosions the number that counts is 6. Polished Tuff sits between Polished Granite and Poppy in Utility Blocks, number 248 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
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Used to craft

Polished Tuff goes into one recipe, Tuff Bricks, and the link below shows the grid for it. Each link below opens that recipe with Polished Tuff in the grid.

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Stonecutter

Notes

Crafted from 4 Tuff (yields 4), or cut from Tuff at a stonecutter.

Frequently asked questions about Polished Tuff

  1. Tuff going into Polished Tuff, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Polished Tuff in Minecraft?

    Polished Tuff is crafted from Tuff at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 4. It also comes from Stonecutter, not just the recipe above.

  2. Polished Tuff coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.21

    When was Polished Tuff added to Minecraft?

    Polished Tuff was added in version 1.21.

  3. Polished Tuff as a block, next to the pickaxe its 1.5 hardness asks for

    How long does Polished Tuff take to break?

    The block data for Polished Tuff 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. A pickaxe shortens the job on Polished Tuff, and no minimum material applies. Java 26.2 gives Polished Tuff these numbers, and no stopwatch was held to it.

  4. 64 Polished Tuff drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Polished Tuff can you stack?

    64 Polished Tuff fill one slot, and filling it costs 64 Tuff, since each one returns 4: 16 crafts. A double chest of Polished Tuff comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  5. Polished Tuff turning into Tuff Bricks, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Polished Tuff used for?

    Polished Tuff is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Tuff Bricks.

Building with it

Polishing tuff gives a smooth gray green block that is the middle step toward bricks and tiles. It is one of the newer stone families in the game, and it fills a gap that builders had been mixing andesite and deepslate to fake for years.