All Block Types and How to Destroy Them in Metroid Dread

Francesco De Meo

Published: Dec 21, 2021 04:45 am

Metroid Dread features a very big map that players will have to explore almost fully to reach the final boss and escape from Planet ZDR, and to do, you will have to complete a variety of navigational puzzles that often involve destroying special types of blocks.

All Block Types and How to Destroy Them in Metroid Dread

There are 9 different block types in Metroid Dread, and they are all destroyed using a specific type of weapon or special ability, with the exception of Pitfall Blocks, which can be destroyed even by just stepping on them.

Blocks	Description	How to Destroy
Beam Block	Block with a glowing circle	Any attack
Missile Block	Block with a missile in the center	Any Missile attack
Bomb Block	Block with a Morph Ball symbol	Any Bomb attack
Pitfall Block	Block with a cracked circle	Step on it, or any attack
Black Block	Regular black block	Any attack
Speed Booster Block	Orange block with an arrow on it	Speed Booster ability
Screw Attack Block	Block with a thunder on it	Screw Attack
Grapple Beam Block	Block with a glowing triangle	Grapple Beam
Wide Beam Box	Huge box with three lines	Wide Beam

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Francesco De Meo

Francesco has been writing about video games and the video games industry for almost a decade, focusing on all aspects of the industry. Having always loved handheld gaming, he joined TouchTapPlay in 2013 to cover mobile gaming and, later on, the Nintendo Switch console, which is today his most played console.