Minecraft:Potent Sulfur

Template:Infobox block Potent sulfur is a Minecraft:block made from Minecraft:sulfur that produces noxious gas if placed beneath shallow Minecraft:water. Placing a Minecraft:magma block below it in shallow water turns it into a geyser that occasionally erupts and launches entities upward. Placing Minecraft:lava below it causes a constant, non-stop eruption instead.

Obtaining

Breaking

Potent sulfur drops as an item if mined by any Minecraft:pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. Template:Breaking row

Natural generation

Potent sulfur generates naturally in the Minecraft:sulfur caves biome in Minecraft:sulfur pools and on the surface in Minecraft:sulfur springs. Template:Block distribution

Usage

Noxious gas

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A visual of potent sulfur's gas spread

When placed under a water source, potent sulfur emits a column of decorative white bubbles, ending in noxious gas on the water's surface (indicated by yellow gas Minecraft:particles) if certain criteria are met. For noxious gas to be formed, all the water blocks above potent sulfur must be source blocks, potent sulfur must be placed no more than 4 blocks below the water's surface, and the block immediately above the surface must be Minecraft:air. Noxious gas is emitted on all water source blocks with air above in a 3 block radius centered on the surface water block directly above potent sulfur.

Minecraft:Players and Minecraft:mobs in this water are inflicted with 4 seconds of Minecraft:Nausea as an ambient effect, which is renewed as long as the entity is inside the water.

Geysers

Template:Redirect When placed above Minecraft:lava or a Minecraft:magma block and below a water source with a height of 1 to 4 blocks, potent sulfur erupts into a geyser, either continuously or periodically depending on which block is underneath. When a potent sulfur block is erupting, particles forming a geyser appear at the surface of the water and push any entities within it (including underwater) upward.

The height of the geyser depends on the height of the water column: <math>5 \times height</math> (in blocks).

Continuous geysers

When placed above a lava source, potent sulfur erupts continuously.

Periodic geysers

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A sulfur spring bursting

When placed above a Minecraft:magma block, potent sulfur may occasionally erupt. A full cycle occurs every 300 to 1200 Minecraft:game ticks (15 to 60 seconds), while the eruption phase lasts between 20 and 100 game ticks (1 to 5 seconds).

When a block of potent sulfur is placed, two random values are assigned to it based on the position of the block in the world: a dormant value (between 15 and 30) and an eruption value (between 1 and 2). The intervals between the dormant state and the eruption state depend on the height of the water column above the potent sulfur and these two values:

• dormant phase duration (in seconds): <math>10 \times (height - 1) + dormant\_value</math>;
• eruption phase duration (in seconds): <math>(height - 1) + eruption\_value</math>.

Geyser data based on water column height

Height of the water column (in blocks)	Dormant phase duration (in seconds)	Eruption phase duration (in seconds)	Geyser height (in blocks)
1	15-30	1-2	5
2	25-40	2-3	10
3	35-50	3-4	15
4	45-60	4-5	20

Geysers going through blocks

When a singular block is placed above a geyser, but not directly above its water source, some of the geyser particles pass through it and lose the ability to launch entities.

Generation

An image of geysers produced by water columns of 1, 2, 3, 4 blocks in depth respectively. Placed against a background of diamond blocks for contrast.

Geyser heights in game

Geysers generate naturally on the surface as part of Minecraft:sulfur springs due to them featuring magma blocks. The Minecraft:sulfur pools within Minecraft:sulfur caves do not feature magma blocks underneath their potent sulfur, and thus geysers cannot be found naturally in sulfur caves. <section end="periodic_geyser" />

Piston interactivity

Potent sulfur is a block entity and cannot be pushed by Minecraft:pistons. It also cannot be pushed nor pulled by Minecraft:sticky pistons.

Sounds

Unique

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Data values

ID

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Block states

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Block data

Potent sulfur has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

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• Template:Nbt Block entity data
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  • Template:Nbt: The number of seconds remaining until this potent sulfur block switches between dormant and erupting phases.

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History

Trivia

• The block entity of potent sulfur Template:In does nothing, because the counter function for geyser is performed by the block's own tick.