Block of Quartz

A block of quartz, internally known as a quartz block, is a mineral block used for decoration. It can be turned into a quartz slab, chiseled quartz block, quartz pillar, quartz bricks, or smooth quartz block.

Breaking

Blocks of quartz can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Natural generation

Four quartz blocks generate naturally as part of each bridge in the bastion remnant.

Usage

Quartz blocks cannot be used to store Nether quartz because they cannot be crafted back into it, unlike blocks made from other ores.

Trivia

Because of the low blast resistance of regular quartz blocks, it may be preferable to use two quartz slabs or smooth quartz blocks when making fortifications using quartz, as their blast resistance is higher than the other quartz block variants. In real life, a 1-cubic-meter block of quartz (the size of a Minecraft block) is practically harder than the real life block of iron, while the hardness of a block of quartz in Minecraft is quite low.

Screenshots

Quartz Parthenon.png|An example of how quartz blocks can be used to simulate marble or limestone. OrientablesPE.png|Formerly all blocks that can be rotated in Bedrock Edition, including both variants of quartz. QuartzSeamlessSlabs.png|Comparison of regular and smooth quartz underside textures in prior versions of Java and Bedrock edition. Quartz blocks.jpg|An early Pocket Edition comparison of a double quartz slab and a block of quartz, mirroring the 1.14 situation.

Mojang screenshots

NetherQuartzBlock.png|The first screenshot released about the quartz block. Redstone Update Pre-release Banner2.png|The second Redstone Update Pre-release Banner.