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Purple Concrete Powder

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

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.12

Item ID

purple_concrete_powder

Purple Concrete Powder at a glance

Minecraft files Purple Concrete Powder under Utility Blocks: a block you get from crafting. Stack Purple Concrete Powder 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest.

Purple Concrete Powder owes its colour to purple dye. It has no plant of its own: mixing one blue dye with one red dye makes two. Purple Concrete Powder is a 0.5-hardness block. For Purple Concrete Powder the blast resistance is not separate: it is 0.5 as well. The game files it under a shovel, without a minimum tier attached to Purple Concrete Powder. It sits between Purple Carpet and Purple Stained Glass in Utility Blocks, number 256 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Purple DyePurple Dye
SandSand
SandSand
Purple Concrete PowderPurple Concrete Powder8
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Purple Concrete Powder has the grid for Purple 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 Purple Concrete Powder

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

    How do you get Purple Concrete Powder in Minecraft?

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

  2. 64 Purple Concrete Powder drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Purple Concrete Powder can you stack?

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

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

    How long does Purple Concrete Powder take to break?

    The block data for Purple Concrete Powder holds 0.5 for hardness on it and 0.5 for blast resistance. Since neither figure on Purple Concrete Powder is raised, it behaves the same under a pickaxe and under a blast. The game files it under a shovel, without a minimum tier attached to Purple Concrete Powder. Java 26.2 gives Purple Concrete Powder these numbers, and no stopwatch was held to it.

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

    What is Purple Concrete Powder used for?

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

  5. The purple dye that goes into Purple Concrete Powder, beside Purple Concrete Powder itself

    What dye does Purple Concrete Powder need?

    Purple dye is what Purple Concrete Powder needs. It has no plant of its own: mixing one blue dye with one red dye makes two for Purple Concrete Powder.

  6. Purple Concrete Powder coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.12

    When was Purple Concrete Powder added to Minecraft?

    Purple Concrete Powder was added in version 1.12.

Building with it

Purple Concrete Powder is the one colour in the set with no plant behind it at all: blue dye plus red dye is the only route, two dyes at a time. That makes purple a colour you make from other colours, and the powder behaves like the rest of them, falling until water sets it in place.

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