Minecraft:Block of Gold

Template:Infobox block A block of gold, internally known as a gold block, is a precious Minecraft:metal block equivalent to nine Minecraft:gold ingots.

Obtaining

Breaking

Blocks of gold can only be mined with an iron pickaxe or better. Template:Breaking row

Natural generation

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

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

Usage

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

Beacons

Blocks of gold can be used to "power" a Minecraft:beacon. The beacon can be powered by a 3×3 square with blocks of gold 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 made with blocks of gold, as they may also contain Minecraft:blocks of iron, Minecraft:blocks of emerald, Minecraft:blocks of netherite, and Minecraft:blocks of diamond.

Note blocks

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

Piglins

Minecraft:Piglins run toward any block of gold item on the ground and inspect it for 6 seconds Template:In or 8 seconds Template:In<ref>Template:Bug</ref> before putting it in their inventory. They become enraged if the player breaks a block of gold near them.

Sulfur cube

Template:In development Minecraft:Sulfur cubes have the ability to absorb blocks of gold, either through picking them up or being interacted with them. This provides the medicine ball/slow flat effect to the mob when hitting it.

Data values

ID

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History

Trivia

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• In Xbox 360 Edition, before TU19, four blocks of gold 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 cubic meter, then one block of gold has a mass of 19,320 kilograms, making it the heaviest real-world matter available in vanilla Minecraft if Minecraft:element blocks are not considered. A player's inventory has 37 slots (including the offhand slot), and each can carry 64 blocks of gold; therefore, a player can carry a maximum number of 45,749.76 metric tons of mass, not considering armor or putting things in shulker boxes (theoretically increasing the mass by 27 times).

Gallery

Screenshots

• Gold blocks exposed in an ocean monument.
  Gold blocks exposed in an ocean monument.
• A spyglass staring at gold.
  A spyglass staring at gold.
• Blocks of gold in Minecraft:Overworld Adventures
  Blocks of gold in Minecraft:Overworld Adventures

In other media

• A Template:MCE as it appeared in Template:MCE.
  A Template:MCE as it appeared in Template:MCE.
• A foam block of gold at Minecraft:MINECON 2015.
  A foam block of gold at Minecraft:MINECON 2015.

External links

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