What is Lime Concrete Powder in Minecraft?
Lime concrete powder is a block that looks like brightly colored sand. It has a grainy texture and a vibrant, zesty lime green color. The main purpose of this block is to be the raw ingredient for making solid lime concrete. By itself, lime concrete powder is a gravity block, which means if you place it in the air with no block underneath it, it will fall down just like sand or gravel. This property makes it a bit tricky to build with, but also opens up some creative possibilities. Players craft lime concrete powder and then expose it to water to get the much more useful solid concrete blocks for their building projects. The powder itself can also be used as a decorative block.
How to get Lime Concrete Powder in Minecraft
The only way to get lime concrete powder is by crafting it. It does not generate naturally in the world. The crafting recipe is a bit unusual but gives you a good amount of powder. To make it, you will need four blocks of sand, four blocks of gravel, and one piece of lime dye. You can find sand in desert and beach biomes, and you can find gravel in caves, mountains, and underwater. To get lime dye, you can smelt a sea pickle, or combine green and white dyes. Once you have all your materials, go to a crafting table. The recipe is shapeless, which means you can place the items anywhere in the grid. Just put in the four sand, four gravel, and one lime dye, and you will get eight blocks of lime concrete powder.
How to use Lime Concrete Powder in Minecraft
The main use for lime concrete powder is to turn it into solid lime concrete. To do this, the powder block must come into contact with a water block. The easiest way is to place the powder blocks down and then pour a water bucket over them. They will instantly harden into solid concrete, which you can then mine with a pickaxe. A faster method for converting a lot of powder is to hold the powder in your off hand and a pickaxe in your main hand, then stand in water and place and mine the blocks very quickly. Besides making concrete, lime concrete powder can be used as a decorative block itself. Its soft, sandy texture and bright color can be used to create interesting paths, floors, or even pixel art.
How to craft Lime Concrete Powder in Minecraft
Crafting Table
8What can Lime Concrete Powder make in Minecraft
No items can be crafted.