How to Make Mossy Cobblestone in Minecraft

Mossy Cobblestone

Mossy Cobblestone is regular cobblestone overgrown with green vines — the signature texture of dungeons, jungle temples, and old ruins.

Block ID minecraft:mossy_cobblestone

Mod Vanilla

Game versions

1.21

Description

Mossy Cobblestone has two paths to acquisition. The crafting route combines one cobblestone with one vine in any crafting slot, yielding one mossy block — a one-to-one conversion that demands no precision in placement. Alternatively, the block generates naturally inside dungeons (the small mob-spawner rooms found underground), inside jungle temples (the structures built into hillsides), and along the floors of overgrown ruins worldwide.

The texture overlays the familiar grey cobblestone with thick green vine growth and small lichen patches, suggesting a stone surface that has stood untouched long enough for vegetation to take root. For builders, this is the single most useful material for ageing a build: replace one in five cobblestone blocks in a wall with the mossy variant, and the resulting wall reads as ruin or abandonment without any other change. The full structural set — slabs, stairs, walls — exists, allowing entire ruined dungeons to be built without ever switching back to clean cobblestone.

Block properties

Item ID	`minecraft:mossy_cobblestone`
/give command	`/give @p minecraft:mossy_cobblestone`
Stackable	Yes (64)
Best tool	Pickaxe
Renewable	Yes
Hardness	2
Blast resistance	6

Java & Bedrock Guide

How to get Mossy Cobblestone in Minecraft

1

Gather cobblestone

Mine stone with any pickaxe to collect cobblestone, the base ingredient for the recipe.
2

Collect vines

Harvest vines with shears from jungle or swamp trees; one vine is enough for one block.
3

Craft the block

Place 1 cobblestone and 1 vine anywhere in the crafting grid to make 1 mossy cobblestone.
4

Or mine it naturally

Break mossy cobblestone directly from dungeon walls and jungle temple floors with a pickaxe to keep the block.