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{{outdated feature|edition=java}}
{{Infobox block
| image = Gear.gif
| renewable = No
| stackable = Yes (64)
| tool = none
| light = No
| transparent = Yes
| flammable = No
| lavasusceptible = No
}}
The '''gear''' was a [[Minecraft:block]] that could be placed on walls and grounds, but had no clearly defined or implemented functionality. It is believed that gears were intended to be used in mechanisms, similarly to [[Minecraft:redstone wire]]. 

== Obtaining ==
Gears are only known to be obtainable through the use of inventory editors and other external tools.

== Breaking ==
Gears cannot be targeted by the player and thus cannot be destroyed by mining them. If it were possible, they would have a hardness value of 0.5 and a breaking time of 0.75 seconds.

== Usage ==
[[File:Gears on infinite sources.png|thumb|right|Gears would only render on the sides of full, solid blocks, including [[Water Spawner|water]] and [[Minecraft:lava spawner]]s.]]
When edited into the game, a placed gear would show nothing in its block space and was invisible unless horizontally adjacent to one or more blocks. The placed gear would then show an animated gear sprite on the near side of each of those blocks. It was not possible to destroy a placed gear by mining a block that its gear sprite was shown on, because the placed gear itself was actually adjacent to that block. If the block a gear sprite was shown on was destroyed, the adjacent placed gear would no longer show that sprite. Removing all blocks adjacent to a placed gear would remove all of its visible gear sprites, leaving the placed gear invisible. Placed gears could not be destroyed directly by the player; attempts to do so would phase through to the block behind it, much like [[Minecraft:water]]. Placed gears could only be removed by letting water or lava flow into them, or by explosions.

=== Texture generation ===
{{:Procedural animated texture generation/Gears}}

== Sounds ==
There are no specific sounds for the gear block. Mostly just when you step on it.

== Data values ==
=== ID ===
{{ID table
|edition=java
|shownumericids=y
|nonameid=y
|showforms=y
|displayname=[No displayed name]
|spritename=gear
|spritetype=block
|id=55
|foot=1
}}

== History ==
{{See texture generation|Gears|type=block}}
{{HistoryTable
|{{HistoryLine|java indev}}
|{{HistoryLine||January 26, 2010|link={{ytl|N_TT1N-9K90|t=2m12s}}|[[Minecraft:Notch]] posted a video of gears being placed onto the wall of a cliff.}}
|{{HistoryLine||0.31|dev=20100128-2200|[[File:Gear (N).png|32px]] [[File:Gear (NW).png|32px]] [[File:Gear (W).png|32px]] Added gears.
|Gears have a numerical ID of 55.
|[[File:Gear (placeholder texture) JE1.png|32px]] [[File:Gear (placeholder texture) JE1.png|32px]] There are also two identical gear placeholder textures in <samp>[[Minecraft:terrain.png]]</samp>, one per direction.}}
|{{HistoryLine|||dev=20100130|Gears are now visible in the inventory.}}
|{{HistoryLine|java alpha}}
|{{HistoryLine||v1.0.1|Removed gears. Existing gears would automatically convert into [[Minecraft:redstone wire]] as the latter had a numerical ID of 55, the same as gears.}}
}}

== Issues ==
{{removed block issues}}

== Trivia ==

* In an episode of [[Minecraft:How We Make Minecraft]], it's stated that the original plans for gears were forgotten.<ref>{{YouTube link|DLSeGbecKMw|Redstone: How We Make Minecraft|Minecraft|February 26, 2021}}</ref>

== Gallery ==
=== Screenshots ===
<gallery>
Gears.png|Gears placed into the world.
Gears does not show up on non-solid blocks.png|More gears placed into the world.
Gears on cobblestone.gif|In-game animation of gears.
</gallery>

== References ==
{{reflist}}

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