Bedrock is an indestructible block found in all three dimensions. It cannot be obtained as an item in Survival.
Obtaining[]
Bedrock can be obtained from the Creative inventory, or using commands.
Breaking[]
Bedrock cannot normally be broken in Survival mode with any tool. It can only be broken by hand in the oneblockatatime snapshot and has a hardness value of 600.
However, it can be broken using glitches involving a piston, but it does not drop as an item.
Natural generation[]
Bedrock comprises the five bottom-most layers of the Overworld in a rough pattern, although the top four layers are predominantly flat bedrock with only rare gaps, rendering the lowest, completely flat fifth layer (at Y=-64) mostly inaccessible.
In the Nether, bedrock comprises both the top and bottom four layers in a rough pattern. In both Java and Bedrock Editions, the patterns of bedrock are consistent in the Nether. At the top of the Nether, bedrock prevents the player from ascending above Y=127 without exploiting glitches, although in Java Edition the build limit extends to Y=255 in the Nether, meaning it is possible to build there. This space, known as the "Nether ceiling", consists entirely of flat bedrock and the occasional mushrooms. No mobs spawn here, as nothing can spawn on bedrock, although mobs can spawn on valid blocks placed by a player.
In the End, a single block of bedrock generates on top of each obsidian pillar, each topped with an end crystal. The bedrock remains after the destruction of the crystal (because it is indestructible), and is lit on fire indefinitely. Bedrock additionally comprises part of the exit portal at the center of the central island. Unlike in other dimensions, there is no bedrock floor at the bottom of the End, meaning it is possible to fall into the void without exploiting glitches.
An unlimited number of end gateways generate randomly across the outer End islands, each consisting of 12 blocks of bedrock.
Post-generation[]
If the bedrock that makes up the exit portal is removed by any means, it regenerates when the ender dragon is defeated or re-summoned.
An end gateway is generated on the central End island upon the death of each ender dragon, which is mostly made of bedrock. A total of 20 of these gateways generate in a circle centered on the exit portal in set positions. A corresponding end gateway is generated in the inner edge of the outer islands after an end gateway on the central island is activated for the first time.
Usage[]
Bedrock generates at the bottom of the Overworld and the Nether in order to prevent players from falling into the void.
The bedrock ceiling in the Nether was intended to prevent players from accessing the Nether ceiling, which was meant to be an empty out-of-bounds area where players cannot build. This remains true in Bedrock Edition. However, in Java Edition 1.2.1, the world height was doubled from 127 to 255, a change which was applied in all three dimensions, allowing players to build on the Nether ceiling. Due to the amount of players taking advantage of this change, it was decided by Mojang that this was to be treated as an intended feature.[1]
Bedrock generates as part of important structures in the End, including crucial elements of the ender dragon fight, as well as the gateways and the exit portals, in order to prevent them from being broken and keep them accessible and usable.
Mobs do not spawn on bedrock. Endermen are unable to place the block they are holding onto bedrock.
Beacons treat bedrock as a transparent block, meaning their beams can pass through it, allowing beacons to be used in the Nether.
In the End, any fire on bedrock never extinguishes naturally, similar to netherrack.
Trapping the wither[]
Since bedrock is indestructible in Survival, it can be used against withers. Certain configurations of bedrock (Such as that found under the exit portal) can be used to securely trap withers by spawning them below the bedrock. The wither can then either be easily killed, utilized to break blocks automatically, or used to farm wither roses.
End crystal[]
Bedrock is one of the only two blocks on which end crystals can be placed, the other being obsidian.
Placing an end crystal on bedrock in the End sets it on fire.
Note Blocks[]
Note blocks can be placed above bedrock to produce "bass drum" sounds.
Piston interactivity[]
Bedrock is unable to be pushed or pulled by either of the piston variants (regular or sticky).
Sounds[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.37 | 0.5 | |
| Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.22 | 1.0 |
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedrock | bedrock | Block & Item | dragon_immune infiniburn_end wither_immune lava_pool_stone_replaceables features_cannot_replace geode_invalid_blocks | block.minecraft.bedrock |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedrock | bedrock | 7 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.bedrock.name |
Block states[]
In Bedrock Edition, bedrock uses the following block states:
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infiniburn_bit | 0x1 | false | falsetrue | 01 | Specifies if this bedrock can burn indefinitely. |
History[]
| Java Edition Classic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0.12a | May 18, 2009 | Notch showed bedrock. | |||
| release |  Added bedrock.
| ||||
| The world boundary is lined with a bedrock textured barrier. It is completely unbreakable. | |||||
| 0.0.20a | Bedrock no longer can be placed or destroyed, except by players on servers with operator permissions. | ||||
| Operators can now destroy bedrock like any other block. | |||||
Operators can now use /solid, which now toggles stone placing itself or turning into bedrock shortly. | |||||
| If any player attempts to place bedrock using an item edited into their inventory, the server now kicks them, even if they are an operator. | |||||
| 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST | The bedrock at the bottom most layer of the world has been replaced with an infinite lava sea. Between this version and Infdev, the bottom of the world would repeatedly switch between bedrock and lava. The reason for this is unknown. | ||||
| Java Edition Indev | |||||
| 0.31 | ? | The bedrock at the bottom most layer of the world has been re-added. | |||
| 20100130 | The bedrock at the bottom most layer of the world has been replaced with an infinite lava sea once again. | ||||
| 20100131 | The bedrock at the bottom most layer of the world has been re-added once again. | ||||
| Java Edition Infdev | |||||
| 20100227 | The bedrock at the bottom most layer of the world has been replaced with an infinite lava sea once again. | ||||
| 20100616-1 | Bedrock now generates at the bottom 5 layers of the world. The infinite lava sea still generates below it. | ||||
| 20100617-2 | The infinite lava sea under the world has been removed and replaced with an additional layer of bedrock. | ||||
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
| v1.2.0 | ? | The Nether has been added, with bedrock at the top and bottom. | |||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
| 1.3 | Bedrock can no longer be destroyed by planting a wheat seed below it on tilled dirt. | ||||
| 1.6 | Test Build 3 | A bug has been fixed in which the player could fall into the void. Destroying a boat or rails with a minecart on the lowest bedrock block caused this to happen. | |||
| August 10, 2011 | Notch tweets that he had accidentally done something to the bedrock layer, but didn't specify what. | ||||
| 1.8 | Pre-release | Creative mode has been added, in which bedrock can be placed and destroyed instantly, as can any other block. | |||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 | The particle effect for bedrock can now be turned off or lowered. | |||
| When the ender dragon dies, it now leaves behind a fountain-like bedrock structure with the dragon egg sitting on top. It has another end portal to return to the player's spawn point. | |||||
| Added end crystals, which are entities that sit atop a block of flaming bedrock. | |||||
| Bedrock in the End now burns forever if set on fire, similar to netherrack. It can still be put out by the same methods, as well. | |||||
| 1.1 | 12w01a | Bedrock now generates in the superflat world type. | |||
| 1.2.1 | 12w07a | As the max world height of the Nether has been increased to 256, but Nether world generation is unchanged, mobs and mushrooms are still spawning on top of the bedrock ceiling. | |||
| 12w07b | Mobs can no longer spawn on bedrock. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w27b | The texture of bedrock now rotates randomly, giving a more natural look to the bedrock layer. | |||
| 1.8.2 | pre5 | Bedrock no longer obstructs beacon activation or beacon beams. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | The ender dragon no longer creates the exit portal upon death, with it instead generating with the world. | |||
| Bedrock now forms as part of the end gateway portal. | |||||
| 16w02a | Bedrock can no longer drop itself as an item. | ||||
| 1.14 | November 27, 2018 | JAPPA tweets an image of the updated bedrock texture. | |||
| 18w50a |  The texture of bedrock has been changed. | ||||
| 1.16.2 | Pre-release 1 | Endermen no longer place their held blocks onto bedrock. | |||
| 1.17 | 21w06a | With the expansion of the underground by 64 layers, Bedrock in the Overworld now generates at y levels -64 to -60. | |||
| 21w15a | The bedrock layer has been moved back to y levels 0 to 5 due to generation changes being reverted. | ||||
| 1.18 | Experimental Snapshot 1 | The Overworld's bedrock layer once again generates between Y=-64 and Y=-60. | |||
| 21w40a | The generation of the bedrock layer is now dependent on the world seed. | ||||
| 21w43a | Upgrading worlds from before 1.18 replaces the Overworld's old bedrock layer with deepslate. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.1.0 | Added bedrock.
| ||||
| Bedrock appears at the bottom of the world, but is unobtainable even in Creative mode. | |||||
| v0.8.0 | build 3 | Added bedrock to Creative mode. | |||
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | Added bedrock fog. | |||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Bedrock now generates in the Nether. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Bedrock now generates in the End. | |||
| Bedrock in the End now burns forever if set on fire, similar to netherrack in the Nether. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of bedrock has been changed. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added bedrock. |
| TU14 | 1.04 | The bedrock on layer 0 can now be broken in a world. However, the player still cannot fall out of the world. | |||
| 1.90 | The texture of bedrock has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added bedrock. | ||||
Data history[]
| Java Edition | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 14w11b | Bedrock with numerical metadata variants 1 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model  rather than appearing identical to bedrock. | ||||||||||
| 14w26a | Block metadata has been completely removed from this snapshot onwards with the introduction of block states. As this block never used block metadata at all prior to this version, fifteen unused, inaccessible metadata variants of it have been completely removed from the game:
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| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 7. | ||||||||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Bedrock" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- Strongholds, and the End Portal, can override generated bedrock.
- The bedrock texture, in both the Default and Programmer Art resource packs, is a variant of the stone block with increased contrast.
- Vexes and the ender dragon can fly through bedrock. Additionally, the ender dragon cannot break bedrock.
- Outside of Minecraft, "bedrock" means any solid rock beneath the soil layer (i.e. anything below dirt, sand, gravel. etc.). In real life, bedrock is breakable.
- In Java Edition, the texture of bedrock is randomly rotated and flipped. When the sides line up correctly, a pattern similar to a wither skull might appear.
Gallery[]
A mineshaft that generated at bedrock level.
Below the Overworld's bedrock layer, with an added source of light out of view. Naturally, the light level would be 0 here.
Below nether's last layer of bedrock.
Above nether's last layer of bedrock.
The correctly lined up wither head image
External links[]
- Bedrock on Wikipedia
References[]
External Links[]
- Block of the Week: Bedrock – Minecraft.net on February 15, 2018