Heat Block
This page describes an education-related feature.
This feature is available only in Minecraft Education or when enabling the "Minecraft Education features" cheat setting in Bedrock Edition.
Heat Block
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| Renewable |
No |
|---|---|
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Tool | |
| Blast resistance |
2.5 |
| Hardness |
2.5 |
| Luminous |
No, but melts blocks |
| Transparent |
Partial |
| Waterloggable |
No |
| Flammable |
No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
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Heat block is a block that can melt snow and ice like a torch, but it does not give off light.
Obtaining
Breaking
The suitable tool to break heat block is pickaxe. Heat block needs to be broken using a pickaxe, otherwise the breaking time will increase and the block drops nothing.
| Block | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 2.5 | |
| Tool | ||
| Breaking time (sec)[A] | ||
| Default | 12.5 | |
| 1.9 | ||
| 0.95 | ||
| 0.75 | ||
| 0.65 | ||
| 0.5 | ||
| 0.45 | ||
| 0.35 | ||
Legend
- incorrect tool, drops nothing
- correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
- correct tool, drops the block itself
- italicized can be instant mined
- ↑ These durations ignore other influential factors (e.g., Mining Fatigue) and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Heat block drops itself when it's destroyed.
Lab table
| Result | Materials needed |
|---|---|
Heat Block |
|
| Iron, Water, Charcoal, Salt |
Usage
Heat blocks melt snow layers and ice within 2 blocks (taxicab distance). It is unique in that it is the only block that melts objects without giving off light.
Sounds
Generic
stone sound type | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.37 | 0.5 | |
| Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.22 | 1.0 | |
Unique
| Sounds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Hostile Mobs | When a heat block is created by a lab table | mob | 1.0 | 0.5/0.7 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
chemical_heat | 192 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile |
History
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | ||||||
| 1.21.0 | Preview 1.21.0.21 | Heat blocks now appear in the Creative inventory when the Education edition toggle is on. | |||||
| Minecraft Education | |||||||
| 1.0.27 | |||||||
| 1.21.03 | Preview 1.21.01.0 | Heat blocks now appear in the Creative inventory. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Heat Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Trivia
- The ingredients of the heat block corresponds to the contents of hand warmers. A hand warmer generates heat due to the same electrochemistry that rusts iron in seawater, but with powdered iron the effect becomes more appreciable.
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