Minecraft: Blocks - basics, tips Minecraft guide, tips

This page of our guide has basic information about blocks. You will find out how the game is made, how the blocks work and their properties.

The world is made of blocks

The entire world of Minecraft is constructed of various blocks, called voxels. All of the blocks, apart from one kind, (which is Bedrock) can be destroyed with bare hands, or with tools. Some of the blocks have their own characteristic features (a block of sand falls when it is up in the air, wood burns). This is the kind of blocks that the player is interested in, as materials and resources that you can later process. Many of the basic blocks, like sandstone or some plants, do not perform any function, in the basic version of the game, other than decorative and building materials. That is why, on what you can craft from them, and how easy/difficult they are to obtain, depends their value (while bartering with NPCs and the other players in the multiplayer mode).

The location of some of the blocks also depends on the biome itself. In the winter biomes, the ground is covered with snow and, in the desert, instead of dirt, you can find sand. . Some of the blocks can only be found in the other worlds (End Stone in The End, or Quartz in the Nether). Some items that can be placed in the world, like anvil, tracks, or chest also count as blocks.

A considerable number of blocks can be added to the game with mods. Each of these blocks can obey its own rules and be independent of the game itself (e.g. a block of uranium added with mods, which serves as a power source, and can cause radiation disease if you stay near it.

As a curiosity, it is worth adding that, when you combine lava and water you can obtain stone. If you pour water onto the beds of lava you can obtain obsidian.