Editing Rock Block

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{{item infobox
|title=Rock Block
|image=[[File:Rock Block SM3DW Prima.jpg|200px]]<br>Artwork from ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]''
|first_appearance=''[[Mario & Wario]]'' ([[List of games by date#1993|1993]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'' ([[List of games by date#2023|2023]])
}}
'''Rock Blocks'''<ref>{{cite|date=November 1993|language=British English|title=''Nintendo Magazine System'' (UK) Issue #14|page=48}}</ref><ref>{{cite|date=April 1994|language=Australian English|title=''Nintendo Magazine System'' (AU) Issue #13|page=16}}</ref><ref>''Wario World'' instruction booklet, page 22 (British English) or page 24 (American English).</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Musa, Alexander; Hatchett, Geson|title=''Super Mario 3D World PRIMA Official Game Guide''|isbn=978-0804162494|date=2013|language=American English||publisher=[[Prima Games]]|page=19}}</ref> (or '''rock blocks''')<ref>{{cite|quote=Rock block, so blue and hard. Break it with eggs, leave it in shards.|author=[[Message Block]]|title=''Yoshi's Story''}}</ref> are a variety of [[block]]s appearing throughout the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]]. They are made of stone and typically harder to break than other blocks. They usually require the player to perform a particularly strong move or be under the effect of a specific [[power-up]] to break. In most appearances, Rock Blocks function similarly to the [[Block (Super Mario 64)|Black Bricks]] in ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''.

There are similar objects in the [[Super Mario (series)|''Super Mario'' series]] called [[Hard Block]]s, a throwable [[Stone (Super Mario Maker 2)|Stone]] in ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'', and an obstruction called the [[stone block]] in ''[[Paper Mario]]'', but they have different properties from the Rock Block. In ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', the [[Brick Block]]s in the [[Wooded Kingdom]] are made of stone but otherwise function normally.

==History==
===''Mario & Wario''===
[[File:HibiBlock.png|thumb]]
Rock Blocks are nearly identical to later appearances in ''[[Mario & Wario]]'', being hit once to be cracked open.

===''Yoshi's Island'' series===
====''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''====
[[File:Rock Block - Yoshi's Island.png|thumb|Rock Blocks near a [[Kaboomba]] in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''.]]
'''Cracked blocks'''<ref>{{cite|language=American English|publisher=Nintendo of America|author=Miller, Kent; Munson, Terry|title=''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' Player's Guide|date=1995|page=28}}</ref> are found in many levels of ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''. In the [[Yoshi (franchise)|''Yoshi'' franchise]], Cracked blocks are large blocks made of a durable type of rock, and can only be destroyed with [[Yoshi's Egg|Yoshi Egg]]s.

====''Yoshi's Island DS''====
Rock Blocks return in ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]'', and only [[Baby Donkey Kong]] can destroy them with eggs or a [[Ground Pound|ground pound]].

===''Yoshi's Story''===
Rock blocks appear in ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''. They are roughly the same as in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'', as they can only be destroyed by Yoshi Eggs. Golden rock blocks also appear in the game; they cannot be destroyed by any means.

===''Wario World''===
[[File:Rockblock WarioWorld.png|thumb|Wario between two Rock Blocks.]]
A different variety of Rock Blocks appeared as obstacles that [[Wario]] encountered during the events of ''[[Wario World]]''. They can be small or very large, but each has a weak point indicated by a cracked side with a bandage on it. Wario can break these blocks by [[punch]]ing or Ground Pounding the weak side. The blocks can also be destroyed by using a [[Piledriver]], [[Wild Swing-Ding]], or [[Mega Toss]]. In some areas, Rock Blocks can move upward and slam down like a [[Thwomp]] to squash Wario.

===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3''====
[[File:Grey_Brick_Block.png|frame|left]]
Gray-colored [[Brick Block]]s working like Rock Blocks appear in [[World-e]] of ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', a [[reissue]] of ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''. These blocks specifically appear in the levels [[A Sky-High Adventure]] and [[Puzzling Pipe Maze]], in which they appear to obstruct certain pathways. These solid blocks cannot be destroyed easily, breaking only by using the [[Hammer Suit]] or the [[Tanooki Suit]]'s [[Statue Mario|statue]] mode. Unlike Brick Blocks and [[White Block]]s, these gray blocks do not glisten.

On the Japanese e-Reader card for Puzzling Pipe Maze, [[Roy Koopa]] claims to have invented these blocks by himself.

====''Super Mario Galaxy''====
In [[Rolling Gizmo Galaxy]], '''stone blocks'''<ref>{{cite|Fletcher, Black|title=''Super Mario Galaxy: PRIMA Official Game Guide (Collector's Edition)''|location=Roseville|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|language=American English|date=2007|page=313|isbn=978-0-76155-713-5}}</ref> cover holes needed to progress. They are destroyed when Mario collides with them on the [[Star Ball|Rolling Ball]].

====''Super Mario 3D World'' / ''Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury'' ====
[[File:SM3DW Rock Blocks.jpg|thumb|Mega Mario breaking Rock Blacks in ''Super Mario 3D World'']]
Rock Blocks reappear in ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury]]'' as a gray variation of [[Mega Block|Big Block]]s, thus resembling larger variants of the gray-colored Brick Blocks from ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3''. They cannot be destroyed by the player on their own (except when under the effects of a [[Mega Mushroom]]); therefore, the player must make use of other means to break them, such as [[Bob-omb]]s, [[cannonball]]s, having them be hit by a [[Conkdor]], among others.

In the ''[[Bowser's Fury]]'' campaign of ''Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury'', throwing a [[Green Shell]] at a Rock Block destroys it.

====''Super Mario Maker 2''====
In ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'', [[Hard Block]]s take the form of Rock Blocks in the ''Super Mario 3D World'' level style.

====''Super Mario Bros. Wonder''====
Rock Blocks reappear in ''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'' in [[Jewel-Block Cave]]'s [[Wonder Effect]], where it can only be destroyed by either [[Big Konk]]s or [[Giant Spiked Ball]]s.

===''Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker''===
Rock Blocks reappear in ''[[Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker]]'' and its Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS [[Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo Switch / Nintendo 3DS)|ports]], where they are identical to the ''Super Mario 3D World'' version.

===''Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam''===
Rock Blocks return in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam]]'', as obstacles that can be broken by the [[Trio Move|Trio Hammer]] move. They appear primarily in [[Doop Doop Dunes]].

==Gallery==
<gallery>
SMW2 Rock Block brown.png|''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''
SMW2 Rock Block tan.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
SMW2 Rock Block maroon.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
SMW2 Rock Block gray.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
SMW2 Rock Block gray smooth.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
SMW2 Rock Block.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
SMW2 Rock Block blue smooth.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
Story Rock Block blue.png|''[[Yoshi's Story]]''
Story Rock Block yellow.png|''Yoshi's Story''
SMG Screenshot Stone Block.png|''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''
MLPJTrioHammer.png|''[[Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam]]''
SMM2 Hard Block SM3DW icon.png|''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'' ([[Hard Block]] in ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' style)
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ひびブロック<ref>''Mario & Wario'' instruction booklet, page 8.</ref>
|JapR=Hibi Burokku
|Jap2=岩ブロック
|Jap2R=Iwa Burokku
|Jap3=ロックブロック<ref>{{cite|language=Japanese|publisher=Shogakukan|date=2015|title=''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario 3D World'' section|page=234}}</ref>
|Jap3R=Rokku Burokku
|JapM=Cracked Block
|Jap2M=Stone Block
|Jap3M=Rock Block
|Ger=Fels-Block
|GerM=Rock Block
|Ita=Blocco di Roccia<ref>''[[Wario World]]'' Italian manual, pag. 22</ref>
|Ita2=Blocco pietra <small>(''Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker'')</small>
|Ita3=Blocco roccia<ref>''[[Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge]]'' Italian e-manual, section 9</ref>
|Ita4=Blocco Roccia<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''; pag. 234</ref>
|ItaM=Block [made out] of Rock
|Ita2M=Stone block
|Ita3M=Rock block
|Ita4M=Rock Block
}}

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