Editing Rock Block

|image=[[File:Rock Block SM3DW Prima.jpg|200px]]<br>Artwork from ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]''

'''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.

'''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.

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

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.

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]].

[[File:SM3DW Rock Blocks.jpg|thumb|Mega Mario breaking Rock Blacks in ''Super Mario 3D World'']]

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

|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

|Ita=Blocco di Roccia<ref>''Wario World'' Italian manual, pag. 22</ref>

|Ita2=Blocco pietra <small>(''Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker'')</small>

|Ita4=Blocco Roccia<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''; pag. 234</ref>