Block of Gold

This article is about the mineral block. For the ore, see Gold Ore. For the item, see Gold Ingot. For the nugget, see Gold Nugget.

Block of Gold

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Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	6
Hardness	3
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

A block of gold is a precious metal block equivalent to nine gold ingots.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Ocean monuments have a central room containing 8 blocks of gold encased in dark prismarine.

Blocks of gold generate as part of ruined portals and bastion remnants in varying quantities.

Breaking

Blocks of gold can be mined only with an iron pickaxe or better.

Block	Block of Gold
Hardness	3
Tool
Breaking time
Default	15
Wooden	7.5
Stone	3.75
Iron	0.75
Diamond	0.6
Netherite	0.5
Golden	1.25

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Block Of Gold	Bastion remnant	Bridge chest	1	11.2%
		Generic chest	1	19%
		Treasure chest	2–5	33.7%
		Hoglin stable chest	2–4	18.2%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1–2	1.5%
Bedrock Edition
Block Of Gold	Bastion remnant	Bridge chest	1	12.2%
		Generic chest	1	16%
		Treasure chest	2–5	29.4%
		Hoglin stable chest	2–4	23.8%
	Ruined portal	Chest	1–2	1.5%

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Gold Ingot

Usage

Blocks of gold are a compact way to store gold ingots.

Beacons

Blocks of gold can be used to "power" a beacon. The beacon can be powered by a 3×3 square of gold blocks underneath it, and can optionally also include a 5×5, 7×7 and 9×9 layer in the shape of a pyramid under the original layer to increase the effects from the beacon. The layers do not have to be entirely gold blocks, as they may also contain blocks of iron, blocks of emerald, blocks of netherite, and blocks of diamond.

Note blocks

Blocks of gold can be placed under note blocks to produce bell sounds.

Piglins

Piglins become distracted upon the player dropping a block of gold as an item, and become enraged if the player breaks a block of gold near them.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Gold Ingot	Block of Gold	9

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Item tags (JE)	Form	Translation key
Block of Gold	gold_block	beacon_base_blocks guarded_by_piglins	piglin_loved	Block & Item	block.minecraft.gold_block

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Block of Gold	gold_block	41	Block & Item	tile.gold_block.name

History

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding "metal block"s.
0.0.20a					30px Added blocks of gold.
0.24 SURVIVAL TEST					Gold blocks now drop themselves when mined.
October 24, 2009					Notch teased a texture change for blocks of gold.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST					32px The texture of blocks of gold has now been changed.
					Gold blocks no longer get destroyed by explosions.
					1-3 Gold blocks are now dropped from Gold ore.
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20100128			Gold ore no longer drops gold blocks.
		20100129			Gold blocks can now be crafted with 4 gold ingots.
					Gold blocks can no longer be found in the Indev house chests.
		20100130			Gold blocks are now more expensive, requiring 9 gold ingots (3x3) instead of 4 (2x2).
					Gold blocks can be uncrafted into 9 ingots.
Java Edition Infdev
Minecraft Infdev		20100227-1			Gold blocks can now be used to craft golden apples.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0		?			32px The texture of blocks of gold has now been changed to use the top texture on all sides.
Java Edition Beta
1.2					The side and bottom textures of blocks of gold have now been removed from terrain.png.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			32px The texture of blocks of gold has now been changed, having less drastic dark gradients in the top-left and bottom-right corners.
1.1		release			Golden apples are no longer crafted using gold blocks.
1.3.1		12w21a			Blocks of gold can now be used to craft enchanted golden apples.
1.4.2		12w32a			Blocks of gold can now be used to activate a beacon.
1.8		14w25a			Blocks of gold now generate naturally in ocean monuments.
1.9		15w44a			Gold blocks are no longer used to craft enchanted golden apples.
1.12		17w17a			Block of gold can now be used to play the bell, if they are under note blocks.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 41.
Texture Update		?			32px A new texture for gold blocks has now been proposed in the beta Texture Update resource pack.
1.14		18w43a			32px The texture of blocks of gold has now been changed.
		18w47a			32px The texture of blocks of gold has now been changed, once again.
1.16		20w16a			Block of gold can now generate as part of bastion remnants or be found in its chests.
					Block of gold can now generate as part of ruined portals or be found in its chests.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					32px Added blocks of gold.
v0.2.0					32px The texture of blocks of gold has now been changed, having less drastic dark gradients in the top-left and bottom-right corners.
v0.5.0					Blocks of gold are now required to build the Nether reactor.
v0.12.1		build 1			Blocks of gold are now used to craft enchanted golden apples.
					The Nether reactor functionality has now been removed, so blocks of gold are no longer used to build them.
v0.16.0		build 1			Blocks of gold now generate naturally in ocean monuments.
		build 4			Blocks of gold can now be used to activate beacons.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Blocks of gold can no longer be used to craft enchanted golden apples.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			32px The texture of blocks of gold has now been changed.
					Block of gold can now be used to play the bell, if they are under note blocks.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Blocks of gold can now generate naturally in bastion remnants and ruined portals.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	32px Added blocks of gold.
TU19	CU7	1.12			Blocks of gold can now be used to construct beacon pyramids.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					32px The texture of blocks of gold has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					32px Added blocks of gold.

Issues

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Trivia

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• In Xbox 360 Edition, before TU19, four gold blocks stacked on top of an obsidian block could be found inside the tutorial world's desert pyramid. This is a reference to Achievement Hunter's Let's Play Minecraft series, in which this combination is used to create the "Tower of Pimps" (seen right), a structure first created by Gavin Free, which is now used in many episodes as a trophy.
• If one block is considered to be equal to one meter³, then one block of gold has a mass of 19,320 kilograms, making it the heaviest real-world matter available in vanilla Minecraft if element blocks are not considered. A player's inventory has 36 slots, with each being able to carry 64 gold blocks; therefore, a player can carry a maximum number of 44,467.2 tons of weight, not considering armor or putting things in shulker boxes (which theoretically increases the weight by 27 times).