Table of Contents: Behavior List of Blocks

List of Blocks in Different Versions of Minecraft

Bedrock Edition Education Edition (mobile) only Removed blocks

Technical blocks Videos

Behavior

Blocks are arranged in a three-dimensional grid of 1-cubic-meter cells. Each cell usually contains exactly one block; exceptions exist in the form of slabs, vines, snow layers, turtle eggs and sea pickles.

Together, blocks and fluids build up the in-game environment, and most can be harvested and utilized in various fashions. Some blocks, such as dirt and sandstone, are opaque and occupy their entire cubic meter, while other blocks, such as glass and flowers, are transparent or non-solid. Explosions destroy some blocks more easily than they destroy others.

Some blocks, such as torches and glowstone, emit light. The amount of light they emit varies widely; see this table of light values for further information. Opaque blocks completely block light, while transparent blocks can have no effect on light, block the light, or merely weaken it.

Almost all blocks ignore gravity, with the exception of sand, red sand, gravel, anvils, dragon eggs, concrete powder, scaffolding, and snow.[Bedrock Edition only]

When broken, blocks will emit sounds and particles associated with themselves, except in the following cases:

• When the block is removed by a piston.
• If the block is affected by gravity and falls into an invalid space.
• Anvils which are destroyed by running out of durability or falling. Only particles are missing.
• If the block is washed away by a flowing fluid.
• If the block can be replaced by other blocks, and is replaced.
• If the block is a rail, powered rail, detector rail, activator rail, redstone wire, redstone comparator or redstone repeater and it's supporting block is removed.
• If the block is leaves and decays.

Bedrock Edition

These blocks can be accessed only in Bedrock Edition. In this edition, item frames work as block entities, stonecutters are obtainable only from creative mode inventory, through commands, or by inventory editing, and glowing obsidian, invisible bedrock, and nether reactor cores are not obtainable at all but continue to exist in old worlds.

Education Edition (mobile) only

These blocks can be accessed only in Education Edition and in Bedrock Edition when education options are enabled.

Removed Blocks

Removed blocks no longer exist in current versions of the game.

Technical blocks

Technical blocks are blocks whose main functions are strictly tied to the usage of other blocks. They cannot be acquired through normal gameplay. Most of them cannot be obtained with commands and even external editors,.[Java Edition only] but others require commands or mods to obtain. They serve various purposes during events within the game. If acquired, they usually have a missing texture.

Many of these blocks have different representations in the inventory; flint and steel is used to place fire, water and lava can be placed with their respective buckets, and blocks such as beds, doors, cake and flower pots have separate inventory items.

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