Asphalt

Asphalt is a solid block that can be found creating roads in the wilderness and streets in the towns and cities. The block comes in several visual variants with different degree of damage.

It can be used as a building block or crafted into slabs

Breaking
This block can be mined with any pickaxe. if mined without a pickaxe, the block wont drop.

Natural generation
Asphalt is quite common, seeing how all the roads, both inside and outside of the city, are made of it.

Usage
Asphalt Slabs can be crafted from 3 Asphalt blocks in either the workbench or the crafting table

Both the Asphalt block and its slabs are purely decorative

Sounds
placement -

breaking -

walking -

Block states
The block itself does not have any special block states, however it randomly uses 6 different models (and therefore textures). The models are determined by their coordinates (just like the random rotation of Lily Pads) and therefore cannot be placed using commands.