Breaking


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Breaking, digging, punching, or mining is one of the most fundamental activities in Minecraft Minecraft Author(s) Mojang AB (Credits) Markus "Notch" Persson (Creator) Jens "Jeb" Bergensten (Lead Developer) Jon "jonkagstrom" Kågström (AI Programmer) Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams Erik "Grum" Broes Michael "Searge" Stoyke Thomas "ProfMobius" Guimbretière Agnes "LadyAgnes" Larsson Maria minecraft , performed (by default) by holding the left mouse button while the cursor is over a block See the various blocks found in Minecraft. For the blocking with shields that reduces damage when performed, see Blocking. All blocks Blocks are the basic units of structure in Minecraft. Contents 1 minecraft . Breaking is used to create passages and tunnels, to clear away unwanted blocks, and is also the primary way of acquiring blocks for future placement or crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft .

Basics of breaking

Breaking is accomplished simply by holding break while the cursor is over a block. If the player is within a range of about 4 meters of the target, the player will begin swinging their hand, making a repetitive "thump" noise as the player hits the block, and cracks will begin to appear. When the player is in range, the block will also be marked with a wireframe cube outline, showing the current target. After the cracks completely cover the block, it will break, and depending on the type of block and the tool See the in-game items. For program enhancing software, see Programs and Editors. Tools are items used by the player while held to perform actions faster and more efficiently, to gather materials not being wielded, it may be harvested for resources Item Health points 5 () 1] First appearances See History Internal ID PC: 1 PE: 64 Network ID PC: 2 Entity ID PC: item PE: itementity Items are "dropped" blocks or items (non-block resources) which minecraft .

Although many blocks can be harvested with bare hands, the harder ones require the use of a tool See the in-game items. For program enhancing software, see Programs and Editors. Tools are items used by the player while held to perform actions faster and more efficiently, to gather materials not . In particular, to get resources from stone or metal-type blocks, the player will need to use a pickaxe Pickaxe Type Tools Durability Wood: 60 Uses Stone: 132 Uses Iron: 251 Uses Golden: 33 Uses Diamond: 1562 Uses Renewable Yes Stackable No Data values See data values Name See data values Pickaxes are one minecraft . For harder blocks like iron ore Iron Ore Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Experience Smelted: 0.7 Drops Itself Data value dec: 15 hex: F bin: 1111 Name iron_ore See the ore. minecraft or obsidian Obsidian Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 6,000 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 49 hex: 31 bin: 110001 Name obsidian “ Strong almost beyond compare and able to stand huge minecraft , not just any pickaxe will do; the player needs one made from a higher tier materials. The player can also use shovels Shovel Type Tools Durability Wood: 60 Uses Stone: 132 Uses Iron: 251 Uses Golden: 33 Uses Diamond: 1562 Uses Renewable Diamond: No All Others: Yes Stackable No Data values See Data values Name See Data minecraft and axes to speed up digging of dirt and wood-type blocks (respectively), although they are not required to get the resource drop. The downside is that tools have durability Item durability is a property that affects all tools, weapons and armor, as well as certain other usable items. It represents the number of useful actions an item can perform and depletes upon item use. , and so they eventually wear out.

The progress for breaking a block is reset if the target block changes while breaking. Progress is also reset whenever the mouse button is released. The player can move freely while breaking, and the player can even dig while jumping or swimming; although there is a speed penalty for the latter two.

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Speed

The speed at which the player digs is controlled by three factors: The block the player is breaking, the item the player is currently wielding, and the mining penalties affecting the player. Every block has a hardness, which determines the base amount of time to break that block if the player hits it with his/her bare hands.

The base time in seconds is the block`s hardness multiplied by 1.5 if the player can harvest the block with the current tool, or multiplied by 5 if the player cannot.

Assuming that the player can harvest the block, the next check is whether the player`s tool See the in-game items. For program enhancing software, see Programs and Editors. Tools are items used by the player while held to perform actions faster and more efficiently, to gather materials not helps speed breaking for this block. See Best tools for a full list.

If the tool See the in-game items. For program enhancing software, see Programs and Editors. Tools are items used by the player while held to perform actions faster and more efficiently, to gather materials not helps, then it increases digging speed by a constant multiplier, given in the following table:

Material Nothing Wood Stone Iron Diamond Gold Shears Sword
Multiplier 1x 2x 4x 6x 8x 12x 15x (5x on wool Wool Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 4 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same color only Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 35 hex: 23 bin: 100011 Name wool Wool is a block derived from sheep minecraft ) 1.5x (15x on cobwebs Cobweb Transparency Partial (diffuses sky light) Luminance No Blast resistance 20 Tools Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops String (1) Data value dec: 30 hex: 1E bin: 11110 Name web Cobwebs are blocks that slow down minecraft )

If a proper tool is used, this multiplier is further increased by Efficiency "Flame" redirects here. For the non-solid damage-dealing block, see Fire. “ How does enchanting work in Minecraft? Well, you open a magical book and pick a random spell, not quite sure knowing what it will minecraft . If the level of Efficiency is not 0, then the level squared plus 1 is added to the tool speed. For instance, Efficiency I adds 2 to the value, while Efficiency V adds 26. The speed is also increased by (20⃗level)% per level of Haste "Healing" redirects here. For health, see health. Contents 1 Behavior 2 Summary of effects 3 List of effects 3.1 Absorption 3.2 Bad Luck 3.3 Blindness 3.4 Fire Resistance 3.5 Glowing 3.6 Haste 3.7 Health Boost minecraft , while Mining Fatigue "Healing" redirects here. For health, see health. Contents 1 Behavior 2 Summary of effects 3 List of effects 3.1 Absorption 3.2 Bad Luck 3.3 Blindness 3.4 Fire Resistance 3.5 Glowing 3.6 Haste 3.7 Health Boost minecraft decreases it by 70% for level I, 91% for level II, 99.73% for level III, and 99.919% for all other levels.

Regardless of whether the tool helps or not, breaking can be slowed if the player is not on the ground. Breaking takes 5 times as long if the player is not standing on the ground while digging, and 5 times as long if the player is underwater and lacks armor with Aqua Affinity. These two values can combine, giving a 25⃗ multiplier for a swimming player.

The total time to break a block is always a multiple of 120 of a second, or 1 game tick, any remainder is rounded up to the next tick.

Instant breaking

When breaking a block, a tool plus its enchantments will do its speed value as "damage" to a block every game tick, and when that value equals or exceeds the blocks hardness times 30, the block is broken. If the tool plus enchantments equals or exceeds the hardness times 30, the block is broken with no delay, otherwise there will be a 1⃢₁₄4 second delay before the next block is mined. For instance, a player with Haste II holding an Efficiency V diamond pickaxe can break stone instantly, as the damage is (8+26)*(1+0.4)=47.6 which is larger than the base hardness of stone, times 30.

Instant breaking does not exist in Pocket Edition Pocket Edition Author(s) Mojang AB Jens Bergensten Aron Nieminen Daniel Kaplan Tommaso Checchi Shoghi Cervantes Jason Major Daniel Wustenhoff Tomas Alaeus Mikael "Slicedlime" Hedberg @@@#@@@Microsoft(microsoft.com)###@### Studios 1] Platform(s) Written in C++ 2] Latest version 1.1.2 minecraft as of 0.15.6. Even if the damage dealt by a tool is larger than the base hardness times 30, there will still be the 1⃢₁₄4 second delay before the next block is mined.

Best tools

Fastest tools to mine specific blocks:

Tool Material Blocks Notes

Axe
Plants Shears are required to collect vines.
Wood

Pickaxe
Ice Must have Silk Touch enchantment to drop an item.
Metal I Pickaxe is required to collect a block. For Nether Reactor Core, Silk Touch must be used, or it will drop its ingredients.
Metal II Stone, iron, or diamond pickaxe is required to collect a block.
Metal III Iron or diamond pickaxe is required to collect a block.
Other Shulker Box can be mined with bare hand, but pickaxes mine faster.
Rail These blocks can also be washed away by water.
Rock I Pickaxe is required to collect a block.
Monster spawner cannot be collected, it will instead drop xp.
Rock II Stone, iron or diamond pickaxe is required to collect a block.
Rock III Iron or diamond pickaxe is required to collect a block.
Rock IV Diamond pickaxe is required to collect a block. For Glowing Obsidian, Silk Touch is needed to collect the block, or it will drop regular obsidian.

Shears
Leaves Shears are required to collect a block.
Leaves will drop their alternative items if any other tool is used.
Web Can also be washed away by water.
Sword or water is required to collect string. Shears or Silk Touch enchantment are required to collect cobweb.
Wool

Shovel
Ground Must have Silk Touch enchantment to drop grass block, mycelium or podzol and not get dirt as a result.
Snow Shovel is required to collect snowballs from snow-type blocks.

Sword
Plants Only Jack o`Lantern and pumpkin drop themselves when broken with a sword. See the other categories for the correct tools/enchantments.
Web Can also be washed away by water.
Sword or water is required to collect string. Shears or Silk Touch enchantment are required to collect cobweb.
Any (all tools are equally efficient) Circuits
Glass For glass, glass panes, glowstones, sea lanterns, stained glass and stained glass panes to drop themselves, they must be mined with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch.
Other Carpet can also be washed away by water.
Dragon egg cannot be mined directly because hitting it causes it to teleport.
Piston
Plants
Any (instantly breaks; doesn`t damage tools) Circuits These blocks can also be washed away by water.
Destroying the tripwire while not holding shears will trigger a redstone pulse.
Other Torches can be washed away by water.
Plants These blocks, except sugarcane, can also be washed out by water.
Fern and tall grass must be mined with shears; or they will drop nothing. Dead bushes must be mined with shears to drop themselves; if anything else is used, only sticks will drop.
None (unbreakable) Liquid The source block can be picked up with a bucket.
Other Nether Portal can be broken by placing water in place of it. Invisible Bedrock will simply be targeted through like air and liquids.

Blocks by hardness

The following table shows the time it takes to break each type of block. Values with a red background indicate that it cannot be harvested by that quality of tool. If there is no tool that helps speed up mining the block, the five "tool" columns are left empty. Few blocks are harvested faster with shears or a sword. These speeds are listed in the last two columns, but only if it`s different than "nothing".

Note that some blocks, don`t drop anything even when they are mined with the proper tool; these are marked with a yellow background.

Any blocks with a breaking time of 0.05 seconds or less can be broken without the 14 second delay. See instant breaking above.

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Block Hardness Tool Breaking time
Hand Wooden Stone Iron Diamond Golden Shears Sword

Barrier

Bedrock

Command Block

End Portal

End Portal Frame

Portal

Lava
100

Structure Block

Structure Void
0 0.05

Water
100

Obsidian
50
250 125 62.5 41.7 9.4 20.85

Ender Chest
22.5
112.5 16.9 8.45 5.65 4.25 2.85

Anvil
5
25 3.75 1.9 1.25 0.95 0.65

Block of Coal
5
25 3.75 1.9 1.25 0.95 0.65

Block of Diamond
5
25 12.5 6.25 1.25 0.95 2.1

Block of Emerald
5
25 12.5 6.25 1.25 0.95 2.1

Block of Iron
5
25 12.5 1.9 1.25 0.95 2.1

Block of Redstone
5
25 3.75 1.9 1.25 0.95 0.65

Enchantment Table
5
25 3.75 1.9 1.25 0.95 0.65

Iron Bars
5
25 3.75 1.9 1.25 0.95 0.65