Basalt Item ID

Each item in Minecraft has a unique ID assigned to it, known as an item ID, this can be used in commands to spawn the item into the game. The item ID for basalt in Minecraft is shown below:

Basalt Spawn Command

The Basalt item can be spawned in Minecraft with the below command. Cheats must be enabled before this will work.

If you are running the Essentials plugin, you will need to run /minecraft:give instead of simply /give. This is because the Essentials /give command overrides Minecraft's built-in command.

Mining Tools

Below is a table of the tools that can be used to break Basalt blocks, and the speed it will take to break at (in seconds). This is calculated with the formula (1.5 * Block Hardness) / Tool Multiplier.

Tool Speed
Golden Pickaxe Golden Pickaxe 0.16s
Diamond Pickaxe Diamond Pickaxe 0.23s
Iron Pickaxe Iron Pickaxe 0.31s
Stone Pickaxe Stone Pickaxe 0.47s
Wooden Pickaxe Wooden Pickaxe 0.94s

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Basalt Information

Basalt

Basalt is a decorative block that spawns within the Nether. You can find it in the soul sand valley biome as a constituent of basalt pillars. It can also be generated using soul soil and lava.

Item ID minecraft:basalt
Stackable Yes
Max Stack Size 64
Recipes Used In Polished Basalt
Hardness 1.25
Material Rock
Diggable Yes
Min / Max State IDs 4002 - 4004

Basalt Block States

Block states are values assigned to a block that changes its state. For example, many blocks have a "direction" block state which can be used to change the direction a block faces.

Find a table of all blockstates for the Basalt block below.

Block State Name Type Values
axis enum ?
  • x
  • y
  • z