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Dirt in Minecraft: uses, farming and making it renewable

Dirt is probably the most common surface block: it forms the layer between stone and grass in almost every biome, with roughly 1,850 blocks per chunk in plains or forests. Underground it also appears in blobs that replace stone. Anything breaks it, though a shovel is quickest.

Plenty of what you break turns into dirt: grass blocks, mycelium, podzol, farmland and dirt paths drop it without Silk Touch. Saplings, sugar cane, mushrooms, sweet berries and bamboo grow straight in it. A hoe turns it into farmland, a shovel into a dirt path, and a water bottle into mud.

Since there is so much of it, it is a common quick building block or temporary scaffolding to climb up and down.

It may seem endless, but on small worlds or islands it can run short, and there are ways to renew it. Two gravel and two dirt make four coarse dirt, which a hoe turns back into dirt; since piglins barter gravel, this multiplies your dirt. Moss is another route: an azalea turns the moss block below it into rooted dirt when it grows. You can also buy podzol or rooted dirt from the wandering trader, though only in small amounts.

Sources: minecraft.wiki/Dirt