Gravel is a gravity-affected block found in the Overworld and The Nether. It is a source of flint, which can be produced by crafting gravel with a Grass Mesh.
Obtaining[]
Natural generation[]
Gravel is generated in disks on beaches, near rivers and small pools of water; in windswept gravelly hills biomes covering most of the surface; underwater covering the bottom of ocean biomes and in form of stripes in stony shores.
Gravel can generate in the Overworld in the form of blobs. Gravel attempts to generate 8 times per chunk in blobs of size 0-160, at all levels and in all biomes. It can replace stone, granite, andesite, and diorite.
In the Nether, gravel generates naturally in multiple-block-deep layers, along the shores of the lava ocean. It often generates without blocks below it, in which case it falls when updated.
Blobs of gravel attempt to replace netherrack 2 times per chunk in blobs of size 0-160, from levels 5 to 41, in The Nether.
Breaking[]
Gravel can be broken using any tool, but a shovel is the quickest.
If gravel falls onto a non-full block, it drops as an item and does not drop flint.
Usage[]
If the supporting block below a block of gravel is removed, it falls until it lands on the next available block. More specifically, the gravel block turns into a "falling block" entity, which is affected by gravity; when the falling block lands on a block with a solid top surface, it becomes a block again. More information about the falling block entity are available in the main article listed above.
When gravel falls on a player or mob, it can engulf the head, resulting in suffocation inside gravel until destroying the block, moving out of it, or dying. If falling gravel lands in a space occupied by a non-solid block (such as torches, slabs, rails, or redstone dust) or soul sand, it breaks and turns into a gravel item. Gravel falls slowly through a cobweb until it passes completely through, or until it touches any block, at which point it drops and becomes a gravel item.
Gravel can be placed on a non-solid block without falling.