What is Gilded Blackstone in Minecraft?
Gilded blackstone is a special and rare variant of blackstone that has veins of gold running through it. It has the same dark, cobblestone like texture as regular blackstone, but with beautiful golden specks. Its main purpose is to be a decorative block and a source of gold. When you mine gilded blackstone, it has a chance to drop gold nuggets, making it a unique ore. Players love using gilded blackstone to add a touch of luxury and wealth to their Nether builds. It is a block that perfectly captures the dangerous but rewarding nature of the bastion remnants where it is found.
How to get Gilded Blackstone in Minecraft
The only way to get gilded blackstone is to find it. It cannot be crafted. Gilded blackstone generates exclusively inside bastion remnants, which are the large, black castle like structures found in the Nether. You can find it scattered throughout the walls and floors of these dangerous structures. To collect it, you need to be very careful, as bastions are filled with hostile piglins and piglin brutes. When you mine a block of gilded blackstone with any pickaxe, it has a 10% chance of dropping two to five gold nuggets. If it does not drop nuggets, it will drop the gilded blackstone block itself. This means you have a 90% chance of getting the block. If you want to guarantee that you get the block every time, you must mine it with a pickaxe that has the Silk Touch enchantment.
How to use Gilded Blackstone in Minecraft
The main use for gilded blackstone is for building and decoration. Its dark texture with golden flecks makes it a fantastic block for creating luxurious floors, walls, and pillars. It is perfect for building a throne room, a treasure vault, or for adding expensive looking details to a Nether castle. It pairs beautifully with other blackstone variants and with blocks of gold. A unique feature of gilded blackstone is that piglins are attracted to it. If a piglin sees a player break a gilded blackstone block, they will become hostile, even if the player is wearing gold armor. This makes mining it in a bastion very risky. It has no other special uses, but its rare and beautiful appearance makes it a highly sought after block for builders.
How to craft Gilded Blackstone in Minecraft
No recipes for this block.
