The Bone Block was added to Minecraft as part of The Frostburn Update.
Source & About[]
Bone blocks can be found buried underground or found above ground in The Nether, clustered in patterns that combine to make a fossil structure, and in the 1.16 - Nether Update in The Nether they can be found above ground in the soul sand valleys. Bone blocks can be found in groups of 15 to 24 blocks (random). At y-coordinates ranging from 40 to 49, below the surface in deserts and swamplands biome, including the "Hills" and "M" variants. Each chunk has a 1 in 64 chance to generate a fossil and in the 1.16 - Nether Update nether fossil has a chance to generate. They may generate as one of four different variants of skull or one of four different variants of spine, and in the 1.16 - Nether Update in the soul sand valley’s that are in The Nether, Ribs and Ripcages can be found in fourteen different variants. Alternatively, bone blocks can be crafted using 9 bone meal (see below).
Crafting[]
| Bone Block (x1) | Bone Meal x9 (Shapeless recipe) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bone Meal | Bone Meal | Bone Meal | None | None | None | |
| Bone Meal | Bone Meal | Bone Meal | None | Bone Block | None | |
| Bone Meal | Bone Meal | Bone Meal | None | None | None | |
Mining[]
A Bone Block requires a pickaxe to harvest, otherwise, it will drop nothing.
| Tool | 
|
|---|---|
| Hardness | 2 |
| Breaking time[note 1] | |
| Default |
10 |
| Wood |
1.5 |
| Stone |
0.75 |
| Iron |
0.5 |
| Diamond |
0.4 |
| Netherite |
0.35 |
| Gold |
0.25 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.
Trivia[]
- In snapshot 16w20a, bone blocks were actually transparent; however, this was fixed in snapshot 16w21a.
- As of update 1.12 (snapshot 17w17a), when a note block is placed on top of a bone block, it will make a xylophone sound.