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Basalt

3Block states
1Properties
YesItem form

Basalt is a block in Minecraft. Players mine it with a pickaxe, and when it is broken it drops itself, so it can be collected and carried elsewhere.

Basalt can be placed as it is, or used as an ingredient in three different crafting recipes.

Contents (6)
  1. Data values
  2. Sounds
  3. Block states
  4. Natural generation
  5. History
  6. See also

Data values

Read from reports/blocks.json of Minecraft 26.3.

Identifierminecraft:basalt
Numeric default state ID8671
Block states3
State properties1
Item formYes

Sounds

Sound events named after this block. Blocks that share a generic sound group are not listed, because the game keeps those groupings in code rather than in its data files.

WhenSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
BrokenBlock brokenblock.basalt.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break
Fallen onSomething falls on a blockblock.basalt.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall
Hit while miningBlock breakingblock.basalt.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit
PlacedBlock placedblock.basalt.placesubtitles.block.generic.place
Walked onFootstepsblock.basalt.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps

Block states

1 property combine into 3 distinct states.

PropertyDefaultAllowed valuesMeaning
axisyx y zThe axis the block is aligned to.

Natural generation

Biomes whose own feature list places this block, followed from worldgen/biome through placed_feature to feature. Blocks that the terrain itself is made of (stone, dirt, deepslate) come from the surface rules instead and are not listed here.

Placed by the worldgen features basalt_blobs, basalt_pillar, large_basalt_columns, small_basalt_columns.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
20w06a5 February 2020Added.

See also