Bedrock - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Bedrock in Minecraft?

Bedrock is an unbreakable block that forms the very bottom layer of the Overworld and the top and bottom layers of the Nether. It has a dark, mottled gray texture that looks incredibly tough. Its main purpose in the game is to create an indestructible boundary for the world, preventing players from falling into the void below or digging out of the world's limits. In survival mode, you cannot break or collect bedrock with any tool, no matter how powerful it is. It is a permanent part of the landscape. Because of its invincibility, it is often seen as the ultimate unmovable object. For most players, hitting bedrock is just a sign that they have reached the lowest point they can dig.

How to get Bedrock in Minecraft

In a regular survival Minecraft world, it is impossible to obtain a bedrock block as an item. It cannot be mined, and it is not available in the creative inventory menu. It is designed to be a permanent, unbreakable part of the world. The only way to get a bedrock block into your inventory is by using game commands or by exploiting very specific and complex glitches that are often removed in new game updates. To get it with commands, you need to have cheats enabled in your world. Open the chat window and type the command `/give @p minecraft:bedrock`. This will place one bedrock block directly into your inventory. This is the only reliable way for a player to ever hold or place a bedrock block themselves.

How to use Bedrock in Minecraft

If you manage to get a bedrock block using commands, its main use is for building completely indestructible structures. Since it cannot be broken by other players in survival mode and is immune to explosions from TNT or creepers, it is the ultimate material for building a secure vault, a protected base on a multiplayer server, or for containing dangerous mobs. You can build with it just like any other block. However, be very careful where you place it. Once a bedrock block is placed, you will not be able to break it again in survival mode, so any mistake is permanent. Creative players use it to build things that they want to last forever, or to create challenges for other players that involve navigating around these unmovable obstacles.

How to craft Bedrock in Minecraft

No recipes for this block.

What can Bedrock make in Minecraft

No items can be crafted.

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

Turns out building a database is harder than it looks. Who knew? I've probably broken this thing more times than I've fixed it. My laptop has definitely been sworn at more than it deserves.

The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

The database has corrupted itself more times than I care to remember. I've had images that wouldn't load for no reason. CSS that worked yesterday but decided to have a tantrum today. The usual web development nightmare stuff.

But every time I get something working properly, it feels brilliant. Like when I finally got all the block images showing up correctly, or when the search actually started finding things. Small wins, but they keep me going.

What I Actually Want to Build

Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

I know it doesn't look like much right now, and there's loads missing. But I'm working on it. It takes time when you're learning as you go and doing it around a full time job. But I'd rather take my time and do it properly than rush it and end up with something rubbish.

The plan is to make it the kind of site I actually want to use fast, easy to navigate, with everything you need in one place. No endless ads, no broken links, just useful stuff presented in a way that doesn't make you want to throw your computer out the window.

Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

Plus, I've learned loads doing this. Sure, I've wanted to give up more times than I can count, but seeing it slowly come together is pretty satisfying. And if it helps other people find what they're looking for without having to trawl through ten different outdated websites, then that's worth it.

So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.