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Blocks

In Minecraft, the game’s world is composed of basic and simple structure units known as blocks. These blocks can be gathered and positioned anywhere within the game’s world to serve as useful resources. The blocks are arranged in a 3D grid of 1-cubic-meter cells, with some blocks occupying partial cells such as slabs, snow layers, ladders, vines, stairs, turtle eggs, sea pickles, and various other types of blocks. This arrangement creates a highly detailed and immersive environment that players can explore and interact with in countless ways.

The game environment is made up of blocks and fluids that can be harvested and utilized in different ways. Certain blocks, like dirt and sandstone, are opaque and occupy a full cubic meter, while others, such as glass and flowers, are transparent or non-solid. Explosions have varying effects on different blocks, with some being easier to destroy than others. Some blocks are completely immune to explosions.

Air is an unbreakable transparent block that substitutes for the absence of blocks. It has two variants: cave air and void air (Java EMost types of blocks in Minecraft don’t follow the rules of gravity. However, there are some exceptions to this. Sand, red sand, gravel, anvils of all damage levels, dragon eggs, all colours of concrete powder, scaffolding, snow layers (Bedrock edition only), pointed dripstone, suspicious sand, and suspicious gravel are affected by gravity. If the block supporting them is removed, they will turn into entities edition only).

Some blocks, such as Sea Lantern 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.

Most types of blocks in Minecraft don’t follow the rules of gravity. However, there are some exceptions to this. Sand, red sand, gravel, anvils of all damage levels, dragon eggs, all colours of concrete powder, scaffolding, snow layers (Bedrock edition only), pointed dripstone, suspicious sand, and suspicious gravel are affected by gravity. If the block supporting them is removed, they will turn into entities.

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Block Textures

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Blocks in Minecraft have textures that are 16×16 pixels on their faces. They usually have a cubic meter shape, which can be changed with models. Some blocks have animated textures such as water, lava and fire. Players can customize the textures, resolution and shapes of blocks by using resource packs and models. They can also change the size of blocks to any size with an equal width and height. The game allows players to change these textures while playing.