Talk:Infested Block

I removed the stub for the page. I couldn't think of anything else to add on about Monster Eggs. --ThingStuffObject 21:36, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Does anyone have a citation on the name of this block? If not, it should just be renamed "Block 97", as it's kind of stupid to have a fanmade name for an article title when there's something more official that can be used. --Ancientpower 17:33, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Download the 12w21b snapshot and look in the creative mode inventory, between Jack O' Lantern and Stone Bricks: Stone Monster Egg. -- Orthotope 01:02, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Citation? LOL just look in the game code yourself then (or creative inventory if it's an available item/block). People don't usually create/rename articles for fun. - Asterick^{6 (talk)} 02:23, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

1. place a cobblestone block, 2. spawn a silverfish in it, 3. use the pick-block key. these are stackable. Flash5 14:59, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

I'm using 14w21b, and after replacing lots of regular stone blocks with air (via /fill) I realized that Stone Monster Eggs generate (in extreme hills) like ores: in "veins".

I'd like this to be looked into more & added to the article.Gamegirlxl (talk) 23:26, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

It's already there, check the first paragraph. --KnightMiner ^(t|c) 03:20, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

It appears that when more of the stone bricks in a stronghold near a silverfish spawner are monster eggs, less silverfish will spawn.108.85.152.134 13:34, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

The lead text indicates that these blocks are in the Console Edition. Can anyone help figure out when / whether that is true? (BDJP007301, maybe?) And if so, when they were added? Thanks!

• According to the patch notes at the Xbox 360 patch notes forum thread, silverfish themselves were added in Xbox 360 Console_Edition_version_history#TU5
• In the Monster Egg page history, An anon (single contribution) Special:Diff/414475 stated that they were added to Xbox 360 by the time of the edit, Dec 22, 2012, which was indeed after TU5.
• Further up the history, the next time that section was touched in any important way was when KnightMiner cleaned up for style, Special:Diff/703318, Aug 21, 2014.
• None of the patch notes at Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U mention 'Monster Egg' or 'Silverfish Block' being added.

This leaves the text in the lead very much unsupported unless a CE player can vouch for it. – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 15:49, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

BDJP007301, do you know whether Monster Eggs are in WiiU, and if so, what they're named? – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 01:31, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

(Apologies in advance if my comment broke some things.) Seal, yes, these Monster eggs are in the Wii U Edition. In-game, they are known as the following:

* Silverfish Stone

* Silverfish Cobblestone

* Silverfish Stone Brick

* Silverfish Mossy Stone Brick

* Silverfish Cracked Stone Brick

* Silverfish Chiseled Stone Brick

So far, it appears these were added when the Wii U Edition was released in 2015. After going through the Console Edition version history page and scrolling through the respective changelogs, there was not even one mention of them being added to the game. The only conclusion that can come to my mind is that someone just basically forgot to mention them as being added in an update. -BDJP ^(t|c) 02:07, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! It may just remain one of history's mysteries when they appeared, but thanks for establishing their existence and their name. – Sealbudsman ^talk/_contr 19:31, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

"Monster eggs take the same amount of time to break with any tool." and "Monster eggs will typically take longer to break than their normal stone counterparts[.]" You can't have both, which one is actually true?

They are both true, a stone monster egg takes longer to break than stone, while still breaking at the same speed as other monster eggs. jjlr (talk) 07:47, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

So all monster eggs break at the same speed, and this speed is longer than any of the stone varieties they mimic. Is that correct? --Runamucker (talk) 11:15, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Open this link: Infested Stone. It scrolls you down to Sounds section to the heading "Stone". It's very weird. (#Stone scrolls to heading "Stone") Miner (talk) 12:35, 17 April 2024 (UTC) The same problem is with Infested Deepslate. I will look into it but I don't know if I can fix it.👁 Image
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15:10, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Seeing other pages be split, especially by DIG contributors, I'm wondering if this one should be too, with this page serving as an overview page.

For instance, most infested blocks are renewable, have a hardness of 1, and a map color of 9 CLAY / 11 STONE, however:

• Infested Deepslate is not renewable
• Infested Deepslate has a hardness of 1.5
• Infested Deepslate has a map color of 59 DEEPSLATE
• Infested Stone and Infested Stone Bricks have a hardness of 0.75

Infested Stone/Deepslate also generate differently than Infested Cobblestone which generates differently than Infested Stone Bricks.

Not much on this page would change on its own but instead would just mean seven new pages that make it more clear which information pertains to which block, and I think that fits notability and split requirements. 👁 Image
FireDragons52 00:00, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

It looks like most of the differences are with deepslate, so wouldn't most of the other pages just be duplicates? Overall this doesn't look like a very good page split. -~- Nerdyguy2000   Talk   Edits  00:57, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

In the "obtaining" section of the page it says these blocks can be retained from worlds in which they were previously obtainable, yet nowhere on the page does it explain how they were previously obtainable. The history section says nothing about it, implying that they have always been unobtainable. TurkeyCookTime (talk) 19:35, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Infested stone specifically was obtainable in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 and 5 by mining any infested block with silk touch. I've now added this to the history section, so thank you for bringing this up. There have been other methods for obtaining infested blocks but they require complex setups or joke versions, so I'm not adding them to this page. You can read about them here: https://mcdf.wiki.gg/wiki/Java_Edition:Infested_Block_(Item) --Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 20:48, 4 May 2026 (UTC)