Minecraft:Material Reducer

Template:Education feature Template:Infobox block The material reducer is a Minecraft:block used in chemistry to learn about the natural world, by reducing Minecraft:Minecraft blocks to their component Minecraft:elements.

Obtaining

Material reducers can be obtained from the Minecraft:Creative inventory. They cannot be obtained in Minecraft:Survival without Minecraft:commands. Template:IN, the world must also have the "Education Edition" setting enabled.

Breaking

A material reducer can be mined with any tool, but Minecraft:pickaxes are faster.

Usage

File:Material Reducer GUI.png

The interface of the material reducer.

Using the material reducer opens an interface of 10 Minecraft:inventory slots. The central slot at the top is the input, where blocks can be placed in order to break them down into their component parts. When this happens, the output slots fill up with the percentage of Minecraft:elements found in the broken down material.

Certain blocks such as Minecraft:soul sand and Minecraft:netherrack contain mysterious elements yet to be discovered. These are represented by an unknown element that displays as other elements, but with a question mark in place of a periodic table symbol. If you take out a few elements, but keep some in too, then the block you placed will have the missing model item, which you cannot place in the inventory.

File:Material Reducer GUI input red.png

The interface of a material reducer after an element is taken out.

When an element is taken from one of the output slots, the input slot gets cleared, and if there are elements in other output slots, the input slot becomes red and does not accept further input until all of the outputs are cleared.

Any block broken down in the material reducer gives out 100 different elements.

Products

Block/item	Components	Notes
Template:BlockLink prior to the Wild Update Template:BlockLink prior to the Wild Update Template:BlockLink prior to the Wild Update Template:BlockLink prior to the Wild Update Template:BlockLink prior to the Wild Update Template:BlockLink prior to the Wild Update Template:BlockLink prior to the Wild Update	Template:BlockLink ×49 Template:BlockLink ×6 Template:BlockLink ×44 Template:BlockLink	The formula mirrors the chemical compositions of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, the three main components of wood.
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×15 Template:BlockLink ×70 Template:BlockLink ×8 Template:BlockLink ×7	These four elements are found in all life forms on Earth.
	Template:BlockLink ×21 Template:BlockLink ×8 Template:BlockLink ×3 Template:BlockLink ×3 Template:BlockLink ×13 Template:BlockLink ×6 Template:BlockLink ×2 Template:BlockLink ×2 Template:BlockLink ×42	The results depict dirt as a mixture of inorganic rocks and decaying organic material, although there is too little oxygen to form the compounds found in real-life dirt such as calcium carbonate.
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink, all variants Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink, all variants Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:ItemLink	Template:BlockLink ×33 Template:BlockLink ×67	The results approximate SiO2, the chemical formula for silicon dioxide, the mineral quartz. Silicon and oxygen are the primary atomic elements of silicate minerals. Many of these real life rocks are composed of silicate minerals, not just SiO2.
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:ItemLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×47 Template:BlockLink ×28 Template:BlockLink ×8 Template:BlockLink ×5 Template:BlockLink ×4 Template:BlockLink ×3 Template:BlockLink ×3 Template:BlockLink ×2	These elements are all commonly found in silicate minerals. The abundances of these elements are the average composition of earth's crust and close to the average composition of real life Andesite
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×45 Template:BlockLink ×28 Template:BlockLink ×8 Template:BlockLink ×5 Template:BlockLink ×4 Template:BlockLink ×3 Template:BlockLink ×3 Template:BlockLink ×2 Template:BlockLink ×2	Similar to regular cobblestone. Mossy cobblestone has carbon to account for the moss.
Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×77 Template:BlockLink ×17 Template:BlockLink ×3 Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	These results reflect the formulae of many real-life clays, although real-life clay contains much more oxygen.
Template:ItemLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:ItemLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×67 Template:BlockLink ×33	The results approximate H2O, the chemical formula for water.
Template:BlockLink Template:ItemLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×6 Template:BlockLink ×50 Template:BlockLink ×43 Template:BlockLink	The results mirror the composition of coal, although real-life coal contains much less oxygen.
Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×64 Template:BlockLink ×12 Template:BlockLink ×24	A mixture of pure (elemental) iron and silicate rock. In real life, iron ore usually contains oxidized iron, so the formula would contain much more oxygen.
Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×64 Template:BlockLink ×12 Template:BlockLink ×24	A mixture of pure gold and silicate rock. As gold is chemically inert, it is always naturally found in its elemental form.
Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×64 Template:BlockLink ×12 Template:BlockLink ×24	A mixture of pure carbon and silicate rock. Diamond is composed of pure carbon, and takes billions of years to form deep underground.
Template:BlockLink Template:ItemLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×13 Template:BlockLink ×8 Template:BlockLink ×13 Template:BlockLink ×53 Template:BlockLink ×13	The formula roughly corresponds to lazurite, the main component of lapis lazuli.
Template:BlockLink Template:ItemLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×31 Template:BlockLink ×31 Template:BlockLink ×38	The formula implies that Redstone is made out of uranium methanide and an unknown element, thus it is radioactive.
Template:BlockLink Template:ItemLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×15 Template:BlockLink ×25 Template:BlockLink ×20 Template:BlockLink ×40	The formula roughly corresponds to beryl, the main component of emerald.
Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×100	The results mirror the composition of 100% pure iron.
Template:ItemLink Template:ItemLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×100	The results mirror the composition of 100% pure gold.
Template:ItemLink Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×100	The results mirror the composition of 100% pure diamond.
Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×64 Template:BlockLink ×18 Template:BlockLink ×15 Template:BlockLink ×3	A mixture of silicate rock and mercury. Mercury(II) oxide (HgO) is red to orange in color, although these results contain too little oxygen for any of this compound to form.
Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×59 Template:BlockLink ×13 Template:BlockLink ×28	The approximate formula is Si4C. Although, it is similar to the mineral SiC (carborundum).
Template:BlockLink Template:ItemLink	Template:BlockLink ×20 Template:BlockLink ×20 Template:BlockLink ×20 Template:BlockLink ×20 Template:BlockLink ×20	These three gases are noble gases, which are commonly used in neon lights to produce vibrant colors.
Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockLink ×37 Template:BlockLink ×3 Template:BlockLink ×60	Soul sand is mostly composed of an unknown element, due to its paranormal composition.
Template:ItemLink	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink ×4	This formula roughly corresponds to Iron (II) sulfate, an inorganic dark dye, which is not found in any species of real-life squid.
Template:ItemLink	Template:BlockLink ×6 Template:BlockLink ×12 Template:BlockLink ×6	The results approximate C6H12O6, the chemical formula for a simple sugar.
Template:ItemLink	Template:BlockLink ×7 Template:BlockLink ×4 Template:BlockLink	The results approximate C7H4O, the chemical formula for charcoal.

Note that amethyst-related blocks and items, copper-related blocks and items, mud, coarse dirt, raw ore blocks and items, deepslate ores, iron, gold, and diamond equipment, doors, and trapdoors cannot be put into a material reducer, despite them being related to blocks that can.

All compounds that can be made in the compound creator and lab table can also be reduced in the material reducer, yielding their respective ingredients.

Data values

Block states

{{#lst:Compound Creator|block states}}

History

Trivia

• There is currently a glitch in the material reducer's GUI: When the input slot becomes red, the "tubes" that are connected to it are sometimes rendered over the red square, which causes the image to flick between the normal square and the tubes.

Gallery

Renders

• A material reducer facing south.
  A material reducer facing south.
• A material reducer facing west.
  A material reducer facing west.
• A material reducer facing north.
  A material reducer facing north.
• A material reducer facing east.
  A material reducer facing east.

Screenshots

• A material reducer in front of Minecraft:Tundra Brewer
  A material reducer in front of Minecraft:Tundra Brewer

Other

• The interface of the material reducer.
  The interface of the material reducer.
• Concept art.
  Concept art.
• A render from the chemistry lab journal
  A render from the chemistry lab journal