Black Argillite

Black Argillite
Mod	Born in Chaos
Items	33
Stackable	Yes (64)
Hardness	4
Tool	pickaxe (required)

Black Argillite is a dark stone block added by Born in Chaos. It generates underground in the overworld and is the base material of a large family of building blocks: bricks, stairs, slabs, walls, columns, buttons, pressure plates and carved variants. A parallel set of "Cursed" blocks uses the same shapes, with a hardness of 25 and a mining penalty that is applied to the player.

Obtaining

Black Argillite is a vein ore. It is placed in the overworld at 3 veins per chunk, between Y -17 and Y 17. Each vein is up to 27 blocks in size, and it replaces stone, granite, diorite and andesite. Mining it requires a pickaxe. For the other ores added by the mod, see Ores and Mining.

Crafting

The crafting recipe for Black Argillite is shown in the grid below. Its fired form is made by smelting, and the brick and stone-cut variants are made from fired blocks.

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Black Argillite · Crafting

4

Black Argillite Brick · Crafting

Black Argillite Brick · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

Fired Black Argillite · Furnace · Smelting · 10 s, 1 XP

Black Argillite Brick Stairs · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

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Black Argillite Brick Stairs · Crafting

Black Argillite Brick Stairs · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

2

Black Argillite Brick Slab · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

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Black Argillite Brick Slab · Crafting

2

Black Argillite Brick Slab · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

Cracked Black Argillite Brick · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

Cracked Black Argillite Brick · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

Cracked Black Argillite Brick · Furnace · Smelting · 10 s, 1 XP

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Black Argillite Brick Wall · Crafting

Black Argillite Brick Wall · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

Black Argillite Brick Wall · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

Mossy Black Argillite Brick · Crafting

Stained Black Argillite Brick · Crafting

Carved Black Argillite · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

Black Argillite Column · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

2

Black Argillite Column · Crafting

2

Black Argillite Column Slab · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

6

Black Argillite Column Slab · Crafting

2

Black Argillite Column Slab · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

Black Argillite Stairs · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

4

Black Argillite Stairs · Crafting

6

Black Argillite Slab · Crafting

2

Black Argillite Slab · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

6

Black Argillite Wall · Crafting

Black Argillite Wall · Stonecutter · Stonecutting

2

Black Argillite Button · Crafting

2

Black Argillite Pressure Plate · Crafting

4

Argillite Lamp · Crafting

Smelting

Black Argillite is smelted in a furnace into Fired Black Argillite. The process takes 200 ticks (10 seconds) and gives 1.0 experience.

Usage

Black Argillite is a hardness 4 block with a blast resistance of 17. Its brick form, Black Argillite Brick, has a blast resistance of 40, so the brick variants are more resistant to explosions than the plain block. All the non-cursed variants are mined with a pickaxe. The mod adds the Black Argillite stairs, slabs, walls and buttons to the vanilla stair, slab, wall, button and pressure plate tags, so recipes that accept those tags also accept them.

Fired Black Argillite and bricks

Fired Black Argillite has the same hardness as the plain block but a blast resistance of 40. It is the usual input for the brick family: it can be crafted into Black Argillite Brick, or stone-cut into Black Argillite Brick, Cracked Black Argillite Brick, Black Argillite Brick Wall, Black Argillite Brick Stairs, Black Argillite Brick Slab and Black Argillite Column or Carved Black Argillite. The brick variants include mossy and stained bricks, which are made by combining Black Argillite Brick with a Moss Block or with Beetroot.

Each variant's recipe is listed in the table below.

Result	Uses	Method
Orange Ornate Glass ×9	Fired Black Argillite	Crafting
Green Ornate Glass ×9	Fired Black Argillite	Crafting
Scarlet Ornate Glass ×9	Fired Black Argillite	Crafting
Ornate Glass ×9	Fired Black Argillite	Crafting
Purple Ornate Glass ×9	Fired Black Argillite	Crafting

Argillite Lamp

The Argillite Lamp is a light source made from Fired Black Argillite, glass panes and glowstone dust. It has a light level of 15, which is the maximum, and a hardness of 0.6. It can be mined with any tool.

Cursed variants

The Cursed family is a copy of most of the Black Argillite blocks, with the suffix _n in the internal names. Each Cursed block has a hardness of 25 and a blast resistance of 1000. Mining a Cursed block requires an iron pickaxe or better. The Cursed blocks are the only ones in the family that apply an effect to the player:

• Starting to mine a Cursed block with a pickaxe in survival mode gives the player Mining Fatigue III for 1000 ticks (50 seconds). This effect is applied only if the player does not already have Mining Fatigue III.
• Breaking a Cursed block in survival mode gives the player Mining Fatigue III for 1600 ticks (80 seconds). This effect is applied each time a block is broken.

Both effects play the elder guardian curse sound. The base Cursed Black Argillite block also blocks all light. No recipe for a Cursed variant appears in the data, and the mod's profile does not describe how they are obtained.

Items

• The base block and its bricks are the main building materials in the family.
• The Cursed family uses the same shapes as the base family but has the hardness and mining penalties described above.
• Cursed Fired Black Argillite and the other Cursed bricks follow the same pattern.

Item	Hardness
Black Argillite	4
Black Argillite Brick	4
Fired Black Argillite	4
Black Argillite Brick Stairs	4
Black Argillite Brick Slab	4
Cracked Black Argillite Brick	4
Black Argillite Brick Wall	4
Mossy Black Argillite Brick	4
Stained Black Argillite Brick	4
Carved Black Argillite	4
Black Argillite Column	4
Black Argillite Column Slab	4
Black Argillite Stairs	4
Black Argillite Slab	4
Black Argillite Wall	4
Black Argillite Button	4
Black Argillite Pressure Plate	4
Cursed Black Argillite	25
Cursed Black Argillite Brick	25
Cursed Fired Black Argillite	25
Cursed Black Argillite Brick Stairs	25
Cursed Black Argillite Brick Slab	25
Cursed Cracked Black Argillite Brick	25
Cursed Black Argillite Brick Wall	25
Cursed Mossy Black Argillite Brick	25
Cursed Stained Black Argillite Brick	25
Cursed Carved Black Argillite	25
Cursed Black Argillite Column	25
Cursed Black Argillite Column Slab	25
Cursed Black Argillite Stairs	25
Cursed Black Argillite Slab	25
Cursed Black Argillite Wall	25
Argillite Lamp	0.6