According with these Minecraft Wiki blast resistance and explosion causes charts, the smooth quartz block and the smooth quartz stairs should have a blast resistance of 6, which is more than enough to resist the ghast fireball attack. But I've been attacked by one and it destroyed a wall made of that block and also the stairs of that type. The only exception that can effectively resist this attack is the smooth quartz slab, which blast resistance is also 6.
I don't believe now that this could be an error of any of the Wikis information, it's a bug at any light.
Anyone can reproduce this by building a big wall made of smooth quartz block, along with some smooth quartz stairs and slabs, and spawning a Ghast; this can be done whether in the overworld (using a spawn egg in the creative inventory) or the nether but since the environment is the nether it is recommended to be there. Then change the game mode to survival and be spotted by a Ghast and make it to hit the building with one of its fireballs.
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As of June 14, 2022, this bug is still active on Bedrock Edition Release 1.19. Smooth Quartz seems to have the same blast resistance as its regular counterpart.
-Blast Resistance has been abbreviated to B.R.
Steps to reproduce:
Ignite tnt around iron blocks or any other B.R. 6 block
Ignite tnt around smooth quartz
Ignite tnt around regular quartz
Observed Results:
The smooth quartz block is destroyed far easier than any other B.R. 6 block and, in practice, seems to have the same B.R. as normal quartz or any other 0.8 B.R. Block.
Expected Results:
The smooth quartz should be able to withstand more of the tnt blast and should exhibit the same resilience as any other B.R. 6 block.
Note: After testing this in Java Release 1.19, I can confirm that, as the wiki would suggest, smooth quartz is intended to have a higher B.R. than normal quartz as it was able to resist the tnt far better than the normal quartz.
My setup for both Java and Bedrock (Standard Left, Smooth Right)
[media]The result after TNT detonation (Bedrock)
[media]The result after TNT detonation (Java)
[media]Conclusion:
In short, this bug is still active in bedrock edition, and furthermore, is not a result of a mistake on the wiki. The blast resistance of smooth quartz seems to be the same as normal quartz resulting in the two being literally identical in this specific situation.
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