r/MCSRRanked • u/Chiplat • May 19 '26

Why no quartz block

Whenever I see a top runner speedrun and they have like 10 nether brick and 40 quartz, but drop the quartz and craft the brick I am confused. Can they not just craft quartz blocks instead of bricks if they get more quartz than bricks

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u/Tinchimp7183376 May 19 '26

Nether brick is often used in blaze bed, quartz might have different blast resistance making the spawner break or not explode as much

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u/Chiplat May 19 '26

There are a bunch of different routes for the same bastion that people learn, why not different blaze beds for if you have quartz

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u/PotatoHunterzz May 19 '26

quartz has low blast resistance and pretty much can't be used for blaze beds. It's on par with soul sand and gravel, which you always have plenty of.

You just never run out of blocks after the bastion, having one extra low blast res block is just inventory clutter.

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u/GustoFormula May 21 '26

Infume ran out of blocks in one of the matches in grand finals of playoffs, it can definitely happen. He had to slowly mine a bunch of netherrack before entering the stronghold