What can you do with gravel in minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft gravel with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, gravel is an item that you can not make with a crafting table or furnace. Instead, you need to find and gather this item in the game.

Let's explore how to add gravel to your inventory.

Supported Platforms

Gravel is available in the following versions of Minecraft:

Platform	Supported (Version*)
Java Edition (PC/Mac)	Yes
Pocket Edition (PE)	Yes
Xbox 360	Yes
Xbox One	Yes
PS3	Yes
PS4	Yes
Wii U	Yes
Nintendo Switch	Yes
Windows 10 Edition	Yes
Education Edition	Yes

* The version that it was added or removed, if applicable.
NOTE: Pocket Edition (PE), Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Windows 10 Edition are now called Bedrock Edition. We will continue to show them individually for version history.

Where to find Gravel in Creative Mode

How to get Gravel in Survival Mode

You can add gravel to your inventory in Survival mode by finding a block of gravel to dig up. So, let's get started!

1. Find a Block of Gravel

First, you need to find a block of gravel to dig up. You can find gravel anywhere, but we are going to look for gravel by digging into the side of a mountain.

This is what a block of gravel looks like:

2. Hold a Tool

You can dig up gravel with anything including your hand, but it is faster to use a tool such as a shovel:

In this example, we are going to use a diamond shovel to dig up the gravel because it has higher durability than the other shovels.

3. Mine the Gravel

The game control to mine the gravel depends on the version of Minecraft:

• For Java Edition (PC/Mac), left click and hold on the block of gravel.
• For Pocket Edition (PE), you tap and hold on the block of gravel.
• For Xbox 360 and Xbox One, press and hold the RT button on the Xbox controller.
• For PS3 and PS4, press and hold the R2 button on the PS controller.
• For Wii U, press and hold the ZR button on the gamepad.
• For Nintendo Switch, press and hold the ZR button on the controller.
• For Windows 10 Edition, left click and hold on the block of gravel.
• For Education Edition, left click and hold on the block of gravel.

You will need to continue to dig until the block breaks and a smaller block of gravel finally appears. The block of gravel will float on the ground.

4. Pick up the Gravel

Make sure you pick up the gravel before it disappears.

Once you pick up the gravel, it will appear in your hotbar.

Gravel is a useful item and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.

Item ID and Name

Give Command for Gravel

Things to Make with Gravel

You can use gravel to make items in Minecraft such as:

Minecraft is home to hundreds of unique blocks. Most blocks are unaffected by gravity; however, gravel is one of the few blocks affected by gravity.

Gravel has been in the game since Minecraft's official release a decade ago. It is required to complete Minecraft since it is one of the few sources for flint. There is a 10% chance of gravel dropping flint when broken. Flint is required to light nether portals, which gives access to nether fortresses and bastions.

Gravel is also a great block for building and has an excellent texture for making footpaths and buildings. It has a similar color to stone-related blocks and can be used along with them. This article summarizes the top five uses of gravel in Minecraft.

#5 - Snare Drum Sound

Noteblock adds music to Minecraft. By using note blocks, players can create their own music in Minecraft. The music tone depends on the block placed under the note block. Gravel Block is used to create a snare drum sound in Minecraft.

#4 - Coarse Dirt

Coarse Dirt is a block similar to dirt in Minecraft. Grass cannot spread on coarse dirt blocks. These blocks naturally generate in some of the taiga and badland plateau biomes.

Using two gravel and two dirt, players can craft four coarse dirt in Minecraft. These blocks are suitable for building village pathways and are a better alternative to dirt.

#3 - Flint

Gravel is the best source of flint in Minecraft. 1/10 times, breaking gravel will drop one flint. Players can increase the rates by using a fortune enchanted item. If it does not drop a flint, place the block and break it. It will eventually drop a flint.

#2 - Trading

Gravel can also be traded with novice level fletchers. In the Bedrock Edition, there is a 50% chance of a Fletcher selling 10 flints for 10 gravel and one emerald. For the Java version, the rate is 66.7%.

Trading gravel is an easy way to level up Fletcher villagers. At the expert and master trade level, fletchers trade enchanted bows, crossbows, and tipped arrows.

#1 - Concrete Powder

The top use of gravel in Minecraft is to craft concrete powders. When concrete powder is placed in water, it turns into a concrete block. Players can craft eight concrete powder using four sand, four gravel, and the desired dye colour.

Concrete Powder is available in 16 different colors. These blocks come in bright colors, ideal for building towns and cities. Without gravel, players cannot get concrete blocks in Minecraft.

Also read: Minecraft Guide for Beginners

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Flint

Appearance

Gravel is a medium grey block with dark grey marks on it. Its previous texture had a pink/purple tint, but this was changed.

Uses

Gravel's abundance and gravity-obeying property make it useful for a variety of tasks, along with its gravity-obeying partner, sand. For exploration, it can be used to quickly build pillars to reach heights that are easy to dismantle after. They can also be used to quickly fill in Water or Lava lakes by dropping them on the edges or against overhead blocks so that they fall and occupy the fluids. Filling caves in with gravel is a quick way to prevent mobs from spawning. Mobs can be suffocated with gravel, too. This is an efficient way to raid a dungeon. If mined, gravel has a slight chance of dropping Flint. If using a Tool with the Fortune enchantment, however, there is anywhere from a 25% chance to a 100% chance a player will find flint, depending on the Fortune enchantment level.

Gravel is also commonly used for traps where pistons move down, allowing the gravel to move down as well, so something else such as water or lava will flow in where the gravel was, effectively making a bridge across a moat. This saves a player from having to use Slimeballs for Sticky Pistons. Another trap that gravel is useful for is setting a suffocation trap. This is where pistons would be triggered and retract sideways, allowing the gravel to fall on top of whoever was below. Another trap that uses a block update glitch in which the player will run on top of floating gravel or sand and then something will update one of the gravel or sand blocks and causes a chain reaction, and the player will fall or be killed by lava at the bottom.

Fletcher villagers can convert gravel to flint in exchange for an emerald.

Crafting

Mining

Gravel can be mined with any tool or by hand, but a shovel is the fastest.

Tool
Hardness	0.6
Breaking time[note 1]
Default	0.9
Wood	0.45
Stone	0.25
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.15
Netherite	0.1
Gold	0.1

1. ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.

Trivia

• In the Nether, it is possible to find massive cliffs made of naturally-floating gravel. Just like with sand, if any are destroyed, replaced, removed, or if a Ghast's fireball hits them, all of the adjacent floating blocks will collapse.
• Back in beta versions, there were errors of gravel appearing everywhere (even in the Void, though it is extremely, extremely rare). These masses were called "gravel beaches," which can still be seen in the Overworld.
• In caves (mainly ravines), there is another glitch called "floating gravel" in which gravel is floating in midair without any block under it. A simple hit can cause the gravel patches to fall. This can happen in Abandoned Mineshafts and Villages if a path goes over a hole.
• Gravel was used as a pathway in NPC villages. Due to its gravity obeying nature, it can collapse into caves, leaving villagers trapped underground. This was fixed in version 1.8 which made cobblestone generate underneath the gravel pathways to prevent it from collapsing.
  • In 1.9, Grass Paths replaced gravel roads.
• As a version exclusive, gravel that is capable of collapsing releases particles in Pocket Edition.
  • In update 1.12, gravel capable of collapsing will produce particles in the java edition.
• The texture of gravel has changed multiple times, the pixel arrangements had differed for each change.
  • Gravel's texture was changed in Classic 0.0.15a (Multiplayer Test 1), 1.0.0 (Beta 1.9 pre-release 5), and 1.3.1 (Snapshot 12w21a).
• If standing under naturally spawned unfallen gravel, players can see particles falling from it. This also occurs for sand.

Gallery

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