How to Make Diorite Wall in Minecraft

Diorite Wall — Minecraft block

Diorite Wall

Diorite Wall is a decorative boundary block crafted from six diorite; players and most mobs cannot jump over the 1.5-block-tall wall.

Block ID minecraft:diorite_wall
Mod Vanilla
Game versions
1.21

Description

Diorite Wall is a decorative wall variant of diorite used for building, added to Minecraft Java Edition in 1.14 and to Bedrock Edition in 1.9.0. Diorite walls also generate naturally in the villages of the snowy tundra. Crafting places six diorite blocks into the middle and bottom rows of the crafting grid and yields six Diorite Walls — the standard one-to-one output every wall recipe shares. Breaking a Diorite Wall requires a pickaxe, and even a wooden pickaxe qualifies, while mining a Diorite Wall without a pickaxe drops nothing. Diorite Wall stacks to 64.
Walls count as 1.5 blocks tall for player and mob collisions and as 1 block tall for every other purpose, so players and most mobs cannot jump over a Diorite Wall. Since Minecraft 1.16, stacked walls leave no vertical gaps, which keeps multi-row Diorite Wall barriers solid. A Diorite Wall connects automatically to neighboring walls and glass panes, but walls never connect horizontally to fences; fence gates remain the working link. Diorite Wall gives diorite structures a mob-proof edge for animal pens, garden borders and path trim, one craft of six walls at a time.

Block properties

Item ID minecraft:diorite_wall
/give command /give @p minecraft:diorite_wall
Stackable Yes (64)
Best tool Pickaxe
Renewable Yes
Java Edition 1.14
Bedrock Edition 1.9.0

Guide

How to craft and place a Diorite Wall in Minecraft

  1. 1

    Collect six diorite blocks

    Mine diorite with any pickaxe: diorite generates underground in the Overworld in large blobs. Diorite broken without a pickaxe drops nothing, so bring a pickaxe along.

  2. 2

    Open a crafting table

    Place a crafting table and open the 3×3 crafting grid that the wall recipe requires.

  3. 3

    Fill two rows with diorite

    Put one diorite block into each cell of the middle row and the bottom row — six diorite blocks in total, with the top row left empty.

  4. 4

    Take the six walls

    The output slot contains six Diorite Walls; move all six walls from the crafting grid into the inventory.

  5. 5

    Place the walls in a line

    Set the Diorite Walls side by side in the world; each Diorite Wall joins the neighboring walls automatically and stops most mobs from jumping across.

Stonecutter and pickaxe

A stonecutter cuts one diorite into one Diorite Wall at a time. A placed Diorite Wall mined without a pickaxe drops nothing, so keep at least a wooden pickaxe when reworking a fence.

How to craft this block

Ingredients: Diorite Diorite x6
Crafting
Diorite Wall
6
Diorite Wall

Frequently asked questions

Is Diorite Wall flammable?

No. Diorite Wall is neither flammable nor destructible by lava, so neither fire nor lava can remove a placed wall.

Can Diorite Wall be waterlogged?

Yes. Diorite Wall is waterloggable, meaning water can occupy the same block space where the wall stands without breaking the block.

Is Diorite Wall renewable?

Yes. Diorite Wall is a renewable block, and the diorite used to craft the wall is renewable too.

How many wall variants exist in Minecraft?

Thirty-two wall variants exist in Minecraft, and Diorite Wall is one of them.