Is bedrock unbreakable in real life?

In the real world, what geologists call bedrock is more like Minecraft's stone layer - it's the name for the compacted rock that sits below the surface soil. Real-world bedrock is hard, but absolutely breakable - and most large buildings are anchored into the bedrock with structures called "foundations".
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What is under bedrock in real life?

Bedrock is the hard, solid rock beneath surface materials such as soil and gravel. Bedrock also underlies sand and other sediments on the ocean floor. Bedrock is consolidated rock, meaning it is solid and tightly bound. Overlying material is often unconsolidated rock, which is made up of loose particles.
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Can you break through bedrock?

In Minecraft, Bedrock is supposed to be unbreakable. It lines the bottom of the overworld and top and bottom of the Nether. In creative mode, you can easily break bedrock the same as you would any other block. In Survival Mode, the only way to break bedrock is to find glitches in the game to exploit to break bedrock.
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Can bedrock be broken by hand?

Bedrock has no "set" tool that you can mine it with, so even a 32k enchanted diamond pickaxe will still mine up at the speed of your hand, and the enchantment will have no effect.
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Can bedrock be mined?

Bedrock is a block that is not intended to be broken in Survival mode. Despite this, it is still possible to break the unbreakable blocks in Survival mode without cheats. Bug exploits are used to achieve this, so these methods could be rendered useless in any update.
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Can a house be built on bedrock?

I know from long-term experience that solid bedrock makes the best of all possible foundations. Insulated concrete forms (ICFs) are definitely the best option for building on bedrock. They're made of foam, so they're easy to cut to fit the undulations of the rock.
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What is a beacon in real life?

A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention to a fixed point that can be used to navigate around obstacles or into port.
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Can TNT break bedrock?

This TNT can Destroy BEDROCK in Minecraft.
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Why is bedrock wither harder?

The either on bedrock has 600 health, while on java it only has 300. Also, the protection enchantment on bedrock doesn't protect against status effects like wither ll, so the wither effect is too powerful on bedrock as it deals too much damage to deal with.
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Can the Wither Despawn?

Wither when spawned with its blue shield. Like all other hostile mobs, the wither despawns when the difficulty is changed to Peaceful.
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Is there gold under bedrock?

The gold is found not only in the bedrock, but in gravels as much as two feet above the bedrock. In the original pay-streak on Wade Creek, gold is found as deep as 1 1/2 feet into the bedrock. The origin of the gold is supposed to have been from the quartz stringers in the schists.
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Is there water under bedrock?

Groundwater accumulates in fractures and cavities in bedrock. Drilling a well in the most ordinary of rock types will usually provide enough water for a farm, house or cottage. Bedrock groundwater is an important source of water supply for isolated dwellings.
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What is beyond bedrock?

Below the upper crust where bedrock is found, the next layer down is the upper mantle. This is rock which is in a fluid state nearer the super-hot core. The mantle actually makes up the majority of the Earth's volume. The crust and boundary to the mantle are called the lithosphere.
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Does dirt have an age?

Dirt is still being produced all the time, albeit in much lesser quantities. Beneath the soil's surface, rocks constantly react with rainwater or groundwater and slowly grind together to break down into smaller minerals. So in that respect, dirt really isn't that old.
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How far down is bedrock?

Bedrock is the solid, intact part of the earth's crust, the outer layer 20 to 25 miles thick that rests on the earth's mantle.
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Can you pour concrete on bedrock?

The minimum thickness over the high spots is 2" for pouring over solid bedrock. I would install a poly vapor barrier (10 mil) under the slab. If water is seeping up through the bedrock, you should lay 2" of crushed stone over the bedrock, then the poly, then pour your new floor.
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How much does it cost to blast bedrock?

Bedrock has a blast resistance of 18,000,000. (That's 3,000 times more durable than obsidian.) The explosion math is not straightforward, but a great simplification is that a block is destroyed if its blast resistance is overcome by the explosion power applied to it.
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Can the Ender Dragon break bedrock?

The Ender Dragon can break through nearly every block in the game, except blocks that were already in its terrains, such as the obsidian towers, the bedrock portal, and the endstone of the island itself.
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What's the hardest block to break in Minecraft?

1) Obsidian

Obsidian is one of the strongest blocks in the game, coming second only to the bedrock and end frame blocks which can't be mined. Obsidian takes a lot of time to mine, even with a netherite or diamond pickaxe. This is the strongest block players can use to build anything. Q.
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What is the lowest Y level in Minecraft 1.17 bedrock?

In Minecraft, altitude is often expressed as the bottom face of a block layer, where the lowest block that can be placed is at layer -64 and has a Y-coordinate of −64.
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