Holystone (The Aether)
Holystone is The Aether’s counterpart to regular stone. Alongside Aether Dirt, it is one of main blocks comprising the Aether’s floating islands.
Obtaining
Breaking
Holystone can be mined using any pickaxe; if mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. Pickaxes of non-Aether origin (even netherite or golden, regardless of Efficiency level) mine Holystone at the same speed and are slower than an unenchanted Skyroot Pickaxe.
If the block has the double_drops
state set to true
, mining it with a Skyroot Pickaxe yields two blocks (unaffected by Fortune). The dropped blocks have double_drops
set to false
, meaning that placing one of them and mining it again with a Skyroot Pickaxe only yields one block.
Natural generation
Holystone is the most common block that generates as part of The Aether/The Aether’s floating island landscape, excluding a few top layers where Aether Dirt generates instead. Naturally generated Holystone has the double_drops
state set to true
, meaning that it yields two blocks when mined with a Skyroot Pickaxe.
Post-generation
Holystone can be generated similarly to vanilla basalt, with water used instead of lava, a Magma Block instead of Blue Ice, and Quicksoil instead of Soul Soil. A water source or flowing water that is above Quicksoil and adjacent to the Magma Block is replaced with Holystone. This Holystone is equivalent to an already mined one (double_drops
block state is set to false
) and only yields one block when mined with a Skyroot Pickaxe.
Usage
Being easy to acquire, Holystone can be used as a building block, but its hardness and blast resistance are inferior to Overworld stone, being more similar to Netherrack. Like the Nether’s Blackstone, Holystone doesn’t have a cobblestone variant and is directly used in crafting recipes, including some vanilla recipes as a replacement for Cobblestone or regular stone.
Crafting ingredient
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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Holystone Pickaxe | Holystone + Skyroot Stick |
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Holystone Shovel | Holystone + Skyroot Stick |
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Holystone Hoe | Holystone + Skyroot Stick |
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Holystone Axe | Holystone + Skyroot Stick |
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Holystone Sword | Holystone + Skyroot Stick |
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Incubator | Holystone + Ambrosium Torch |
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Freezer | Holystone + Icestone + Skyroot Planks |
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Altar | Holystone + Zanite Gemstone |
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Holystone Stairs | Holystone | 4 |
|
Holystone Slab | Holystone | 6 |
|
Holystone Wall | Holystone | 6 |
|
Holystone Bricks | Holystone | 4 |
|
Holystone Pressure Plate | Holystone | ||
Holystone Button | Holystone | ||
Furnace | Holystone | Can use any combination of Holystone, Cobblestone, Cobbled Deepslate, and/or Blackstone. | |
Brewing Stand | Blaze Rod + Holystone |
Can use any combination of Holystone, Cobblestone, Cobbled Deepslate, and/or Blackstone. | |
Stonecutter | Iron Ingot + Holystone |
Holystone cannot be used together with Stone. |
Stonecutting
Name | Ingredients | Cutting recipe |
---|---|---|
Holystone Stairs | Holystone | |
Holystone Slab | Holystone | 2
|
Holystone Wall | Holystone | |
Holystone Bricks | Holystone | |
Holystone Brick Stairs | Holystone | |
Holystone Brick Slab | Holystone | 2
|
Holystone Brick Wall | Holystone |
Altar enchanting
Name | Ingredients | Enchanting recipe |
---|---|---|
Healing Stone | Holystone + Ambrosium Shard or Block of Ambrosium |
Book of Lore entry
“ |
|
„ | |
— Book of Lore on Holystone |
Sounds
Holystone uses the same sounds as Overworld stone.
Data values
ID
Holystone has the aether:holystone
resource identifier and is part of the following block tags:
aether:holystone
aether:aether_island_blocks
forge:stone
minecraft:mineable/pickaxe
minecraft:sculk_replaceable
minecraft:sculk_replaceable_world_gen
minecraft:snaps_goat_horn
Block states
double_drops
true
— Drops are doubled when mined with a Skyroot Pickaxe.false
— Only drops one block when mined, even with a Skyroot Pickaxe.
History
Before Aether Legacy, the crafting recipe that currently yields Holystone Walls was used to create Holystone Fences instead.
Renewable generation of Holystone using Water, Magma Blocks and Quicksoil was introduced in the 1.0.0-beta.5 build for 1.19.4.
Issues
Issues relating to "Holystone" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.