Minecraft:Potent Sulfur

Template:In development 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.

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.

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 is 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

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A sulfur spring bursting

When placed above a Minecraft:magma block and below a water source with a height of 1 to 4 blocks, potent sulfur may occasionally erupt. During an eruption, particles forming a geyser appear at the surface of the water and push any entities within it (including underwater) upwards. 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: 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>.

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

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

Although geyser particle effects are stopped by all collidable blocks, the upward force will pass through certain transparent blocks such as Minecraft:glass and Minecraft:copper grates.

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.

Sounds

Unique

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Data values

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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. Template:See also

• Template:Nbt Block entity data
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  • Template:Nbt: The base amount of time this potent sulfur block remains in the dormant phase under one water block when able to create geysers, in seconds. Randomly set between 15 and 30 when placed.
  • Template:Nbt: The number of seconds remaining until this potent sulfur block switches between dormant and erupting phases.
  • Template:Nbt: The base amount of time this potent sulfur block erupts for under one water block when able to create geysers, in seconds. Randomly set between 1 and 2 when placed.

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