Gravel

Gravel is a gravity-affected block found in the Overworld and the Nether. It is a source of flint, which has a chance to drop when gravel is broken.
== Obtaining ==
=== Natural generation ===
Gravel is generated in disks in rivers, shallow oceans and small pools of water; in windswept gravelly hills biomes covering most of the surface; underwater covering the bottom of sufficiently deep rivers and normal, cold, and frozen ocean biomes, as well as their deep variants; and in the form of strips in stony shores.
Gravel can generate in the Overworld in the form of ore features. Gravel attempts to generate 14 times per chunk in ore features of size 0-160, at all levels and in all biomes. It can replace stone, granite, andesite, diorite, polished granite, polished andesite, polished diorite, tuff, and deepslate.
Gravel can also generate as part of cold ocean ruins and trail ruins.
In the nether, gravel generates naturally in layers along the shores of the lava sea, in all biomes except crimson and warped forests. The layers are one block deep in nether wastes, and 3-5 blocks deep in soul sand valley and basalt deltas.
Ore features of gravel in the nether attempt to replace netherrack 2 times per chunk in blobs of size 0-160, from levels 5 to 41 or 36, in all Nether biomes except basalt deltas.
=== Breaking ===
Gravel can be broken using any tool, but a shovel is the quickest. When broken, it has a 10% chance of dropping flint instead of the gravel itself. The flint received can be controlled with enchantments: Silk Touch removes the chance of dropping flint; Fortune increases the chance to 14% at the level I, 25% at level II, and 100% at level III.
If gravel falls onto a non-full block, it drops as an item and does not drop flint.
=== Mob loot ===
An enderman holding gravel always drops the block upon death.
=== Bartering ===
Piglins may barter 8-16 gravel when given a gold ingot.
== 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, rails, or redstone dust) or non-full block (such as slabs 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.
Bamboo can be placed and grown on gravel.
=== Crafting ingredient ===
=== Trading ===
Novice-level fletcher villagers have a 50% or chance to buy 10 gravel and one emerald for 10 flint as part of their trade.
=== Note blocks ===
Gravel can be placed under note blocks to produce snare drum sounds.
== Sounds ==
== Data values ==
=== ID ===
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=== Falling block entity ===
== History ==
=== Data history ===
== Issues ==
== Trivia ==
* Explosions launch falling gravel.
* If a player stands on a stack of sand or gravel, and the stack falls onto a non-solid block, the player falls fast enough to take damage or even die.
* Gravel often falls into caves, making a mock dead end. If a player encounters a gravel dead-end while mining, removing the gravel may reveal additional passageways.
== Gallery ==
Gravel In Cave.png|A naturally generated gravel blob as seen in a cave.
Ocean life.png|A naturally generated gravel floor as seen in an ocean.
Gravel in Nether.png|A gravel blob as seen in the Nether.
Floating Gravel.png|Gravel shown to be not affected by gravity if there is a non-solid block (except fire) underneath it.
MidairGravel.png|Gravel floating in midair in a windswept gravelly hills biome.
Gravelcave.png|Naturally generated gravel blob in a cave.
GravelLava.png|Gravel hanging above the lava sea, without any support below. Viewed in Spectator mode.
GravelBeach.png|A disk of gravel by a shoreline that extends partially onto land.
GravelStrip.png|A strip of gravel in a stony shore biome.
=== Java Edition ===
Gravelbeachonmap.png|A gravel beach before Java Edition Beta 1.8.
ShortGravelBeach.png|A shorter gravel beach before Java Edition Beta 1.8.
=== Bedrock Edition ===
PE v0.5.0 alpha (survival).png|Gravel in early versions of Pocket Edition shown to be not affected by gravity.
== References ==
== External Links ==
*Block of the Week: Gravel – Minecraft.net on March 23, 2018
Category:Natural blocks
Category:Generated structure blocks
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