Since gravel is renewable through bartering with piglins, this makes a renewable source of dirt.Ī Java Edition-exclusive way to obtain renewable dirt makes use of moss blocks.
Two blocks each of gravel and dirt become four blocks of coarse dirt, which can then be placed and tilled. When they die, they turn into dirt.īy tilling coarse dirt, the player can convert gravel into dirt. Grass blocks and mycelium can die under various circumstances. Tilling rooted dirt with a hoe turns it into normal dirt, and yields a hanging roots item. Farmland and dirt paths drop dirt even if broken with Silk Touch.Īn enderman drops a dirt block upon death, if holding one.įarmland turns into dirt if either a mob jumps on it, a solid block is placed over it, or if nothing is planted on it and it is not within four blocks of water.ĭirt path immediately turns into dirt if a solid block is placed over it.Ĭoarse dirt can be tilled with a hoe to become dirt. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.įarmland, dirt paths, grass blocks, mycelium, and podzol drop dirt if broken without Silk Touch. ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds.
It can replace stone, granite, diorite, andesite, tuff, and deepslate.ĭirt drops as an item when broken with any tool or by hand, but a shovel is the quickest way to break it. Dirt attempts to generate 15 times per chunk in blobs of size 0-160 at any level in all biomes. In villages, dirt generates naturally as part of several different structures.ĭirt can generate in the Overworld in the form of blobs. There are approximately 1,850 dirt blocks per chunk in plains, forest, snowy plains, jungle, and windswept hills biomes. Dirt is found at any altitude, and comprises the majority of the upper terrain layers in most Overworld biomes, bridging the gap between stone and grass blocks in various thicknesses.