This page describes an education-related feature.
This feature is available only in Minecraft Education or when enabling the "Minecraft Education features" cheat setting in Bedrock Edition.
Heat Block
| Renewable | No |
|---|---|
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Tool | 
|
| Blast resistance | 2.5 |
| Hardness | 2.5 |
| Luminous | No, but melts blocks |
| Transparent | Partial |
| Waterloggable | No |
| Flammable | No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
| Note block instrument | Default (Harp) |
Heat block is a block that can melt snow and ice like a torch, but it does not give off light.
Obtaining
Breaking
The suitable tool to break heat block is pickaxe. Heat block needs to be broken using a pickaxe, otherwise the breaking time will increase and the block drops nothing.
| Block |  Heat Block
| |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 2.5 | |
| Tool | 
| |
| Breaking time (sec)[A] | ||
| Default | 12.5 (JE) 12.5 (BE) | |
| Wooden
|
1.9 (JE) 1.9 (BE) | |
 Stone
|
0.95 (JE) 0.95 (BE) | |
 Copper
|
0.75 (JE) 0.75 (BE) | |
 Iron
|
0.65 (JE) 0.65 (BE) | |
 Diamond
|
0.5 (JE) 0.5 (BE) | |
 Netherite
|
0.45 (JE) 0.45 (BE) | |
 Golden
|
0.35 (JE) 0.35 (BE) | |
Legend
- incorrect tool, drops nothing
- correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
- correct tool, drops the block itself
- italicized can be instant mined
- ↑ These durations ignore any other influential factors (e.g., Mining Fatigue) and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Mining efficiency.
Heat block drops itself when it's destroyed.
Lab table
| Result | Materials needed |
|---|---|
Heat Block |
   
|
| Iron, Water, Charcoal, Salt |
Usage
Heat blocks melt snow layers and ice within 2 blocks (taxicab distance). It is unique in that it is the only block that melts objects without giving off light.
Sounds
Generic
 stone sound type | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8–1.0 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | place | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8–1.0 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | subtitles | 0.37 | 0.5 | |
| Footsteps | Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | subtitles | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Footsteps | Players | Walking on the block | step | subtitles | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| Footsteps | Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump | subtitles | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| Footsteps | Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | subtitles | 0.22 | 1.0 | |
Unique
| Sounds | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| ? | Hostile Mobs | When a heat block is created by a lab table | mob | ? | 1.0 | 0.5/0.7 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat Block | chemical_heat | 192 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile |
History
Bedrock Edition
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 |  Added heat blocks. | |||||
| 1.21.0 | Preview 1.21.0.21 | Heat blocks now appear in the Creative inventory when the Education edition toggle is on. | |||||
Minecraft Education
| Minecraft Education | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.27 | Added heat blocks. | ||||||
| 1.21.03 | Preview 1.21.01.0 | Heat blocks now appear in the Creative inventory. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Heat Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Trivia
- The ingredients of the heat block corresponds to the contents of hand warmers. A hand warmer generates heat due to the same electrochemistry that rusts iron in seawater, but with powdered iron the effect becomes more appreciable.
