Minecraft:Sulfur Cube

A sulfur cube is a bucketable jumping passive mob found in sulfur caves. It can absorb a full-sized Minecraft:block into itself, which immobilizes it and makes it receive higher knockback from most attacks instead of damage. The block type a sulfur cube absorbs affects its physical properties, and some blocks cannot be absorbed. Blocks can be extracted using Minecraft:shears, or by killing the sulfur cube.

Small sulfur cubes spawn in groups of two when a large sulfur cube dies. They grow up over time similarly to babies and cannot absorb blocks.

Spawning

Large sulfur cubes spawn naturally in sulfur caves at light level 0.

Two small sulfur cubes spawn when a large sulfur cube dies, which can then grow up into large sulfur cubes; see § Splitting below.

Despite being passive mobs, sulfur cubes cannot spawn in Peaceful difficulty,Template:Only<ref>Template:Bug</ref> as they count as Minecraft:monsters.

Behavior

Sulfur cubes are passive mobs that, by default, jump around aimlessly. In this state, they are susceptible to all sources of damage.

If a sulfur cube pathfinds into a block which can be climbed, such as Minecraft:ladders or Minecraft:vines, the sulfur cube will climb the block. Sulfur cubes with absorbed blocks which are launched are also capable of climbing.Template:Only

Splitting

Sulfur cubes come in two sizes: small and large. When a large sulfur cube dies, it splits into two small cubes. If a small sulfur cube dies, it does not split and drops nothing. When a named large sulfur cube is killed and splits, both small cubes retain the name.

Small sulfur cubes grow into large ones after 20 minutes, similarly to baby mobs. Minecraft:Slimeballs can be used to tempt and feed small sulfur cubes, which will decrease their remaining growth time. They can also be fed a golden dandelion to prevent them from growing.

Absorbing blocks

Large sulfur cubes have the ability to absorb some Minecraft:blocks, mostly full-sized ones. It can absorb a block dropped on the ground, and also can be fed a block by {{#vardefine: control | right click on mouse or left trigger on gamepad }}interacting with it. Sulfur cubes move toward absorbable blocks dropped on the ground, and also follow players holding an applicable block in their hand. Small sulfur cubes cannot absorb blocks. A Minecraft:dispenser can also be used to make a sulfur cube absorb a block.

Any method of feeding a block to a sulfur cube can also be done on a sulfur cube that has already absorbed a block, which changes the block inside it and drops its previously-absorbed block as an item.

When a sulfur cube has absorbed a block, it stops moving and its absorbed block is visible inside of it. The absorbed block can be removed from a sulfur cube by using Minecraft:shears on it, which drops the block as an item.

Sulfur cubes in Minecraft:boats and Minecraft:minecarts can still absorb blocks dropped on the ground. Shears in a Minecraft:dispenser can be used to remove the block from the sulfur cube while it is still in the boat or minecart.

Absorbed blocks in sulfur cubes have the same visual properties as when placed down, including MERS textures with Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals. Froglights, for example, glow inside the sulfur cube, but they do not actually light the environment gameplay-wise. Throwing a splash potion of Invisibility on a sulfur cube will show only the absorbed block.

Sulfur cubes can absorb named blocks; the block will remain named if removed, but the name tag will not display above the sulfur cube.

Sulfur cubes can only absorb the specific blocks listed in the § Absorbed properties section.

Item interactions

A large sulfur cube can be picked up by using an empty Minecraft:bucket on it to create a bucket of sulfur cube. If a named sulfur cube is bucketed, the name of the item becomes "Bucket of <name>" (the sulfur cube's name).

If the bucketed sulfur cube has an absorbed block, the bucket of sulfur cube item tooltip displays the name of the absorbed block, unless the sulfur cube is also named.

Damage resistance

A sulfur cube that has absorbed a block is resistant to the following forms of damage:

• Melee attacks
• Projectiles
• Falling blocks, including Minecraft:anvils and stalactites
• ExplosionsTemplate:Only
• Fall damage, including onto stalagmites
• Freezing
• Contact with Minecraft:cactus or sweet berry bushes

Other sources of damage, such as Minecraft:fire, suffocation, cramming or poison, can damage or kill the sulfur cube as normal.

Some hostile mobs will attack the sulfur cube even while it has absorbed a block, such as zoglins, the Minecraft:wither and Minecraft:wardens. Although the sulfur cube is immune to the warden's melee damage, they can be killed by its sonic boom. Additionally, tamed wolves will attack a sulfur cube which their owner attacks.

Launching

When affected by knockback, the sulfur cube is launched and may bounce like a ball. The direction and trajectory in which a sulfur cube is launched are dependent on where on its body it is hit.<needs testing></needs testing>

The force at which a sulfur cube is launched is based on the amount of damage the attack does. For example, hitting it with a diamond sword (Template:Hp in Template:Editions or Template:Hp in Template:Editions) launches it farther than punching it without an item (Template:Hp).

Depending on the absorbed block, the sulfur cube exhibits different properties when hit.

Archetypes

Archetype	Block	Description	Minecraft:Attribute values
Rubber Ball/Bouncy	Template:Flatlist	Makes it very bouncy.	Knockback resistance: -2.0 Bounciness: 0.9 Friction modifier: 0.3 Air drag modifier: 0.01
Golf Ball/Fast Flat	Template:Flatlist	Makes it bounce less and slide more often. Sinks in water.	Knockback resistance: -2.0 Bounciness: 0.2 Friction modifier: 0.1 Air drag modifier: 0.01
Hockey Puck/Fast Sliding	Template:Flatlist	Makes it able to slide, but unable to bounce. Sinks in water.	Knockback resistance: 0.5 Bounciness: 0.1 Friction modifier: 0.05 Air drag modifier: 0.01
High Resistance	Template:Flatlist	Makes it very hard to push and unable to bounce. Sinks in water.	Knockback resistance: 0.7 Bounciness: 0.2 Friction modifier: 1 Air drag modifier: 0.01
Beach Ball/Light	redirect Template:blockLink	Gives it lower gravity, making it floaty.	Knockback resistance: -1.0 Bounciness: 1.0 Friction modifier: 0.3 Air drag modifier: 1.8
Medicine Ball/Slow Flat	Template:Flatlist	Gives it higher gravity, making it heavy. Sinks in water.	Knockback resistance: 0.7 Bounciness: 0.2 Friction modifier: 0.3 Air drag modifier: 0.1
Curling Stone/Slow Sliding	Template:Flatlist	Makes it slide slow and unable to bounce. Sinks in water.	Knockback resistance: 0.8 Bounciness: 0.1 Friction modifier: 0.05 Air drag modifier: 0.01
Sticky	redirect Template:blockLink	Makes it unable to slide or bounce.	Knockback resistance: -2.0 Bounciness: 0.0 Friction modifier: 2.0 Air drag modifier: 0.01
Football/Regular	Template:Collapse	Makes it slide and bounce often.	Knockback resistance: -1.0 Bounciness: 0.5 Friction modifier: 0.3 Air drag modifier: 0.1

<references group="fn"></references> If a sulfur cube with a block dies, it drops the block as an item in addition to splitting.

Sounds

Mob

Big

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Small

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Ball

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Data values

ID

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Entity data

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• Template:Nbt/sprite Entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit
  • Template:Nbt inherit
  • Template:Nbt/sprite Size: The size of the sulfur cube. Note that this value is zero-based, so 0 is the smallest slime, 1 is the next smallest, etc. The sizes that spawn naturally are 0 and 1. Values that are greater than 126 get clamped to 126.
  • Template:Nbt/sprite wasOnGround: 1 or 0 (true/false) - 1 if the sulfur cube is touching the ground, 0 if not.
  • Template:Nbt/sprite from_bucket: 1 or 0 (true/false) - 1 if the sulfur cube was spawned by using a Minecraft:Bucket of Sulfur Cube, 0 if not.

The absorbed block (if any) is stored in equipment.body.

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  • Template:Bedrock nbt/inherit
  • Template:Bedrock nbt/inherit
  • Template:Nbt/sprite Size: The size of the sulfur cube. 1 is the smallest slime, 2 is the next larger.
  • Template:Nbt/sprite SlotDropChances: List of equipment slots and the chance that the item in that slot drops when the sulfur cube dies.
    • Template:Nbt/sprite: A slot entry.
      • Template:Nbt/sprite DropChance: The probability that the item in this slot will drop (0.0 to 1.0).
      • Template:Nbt/sprite Slot: The name of the equipment slot. Can be

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Videos

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History

Trivia

• A simplified version of the front texture of the sulfur cube is depicted on the chiseled sulfur block.
• Prior to sulfur cubes, the idea of slimes being used as a ball appeared as a brief visual gag in Village & Pillage: Official Trailer.
• In the first Bedrock Edition Preview, the golf ball archetype would cause the cube to stick to ceilings.

Gallery

Renders

Java Edition

• A sulfur cube that has absorbed an oak log
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed an oak log
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed a moss block
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed a moss block
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed ice
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed ice
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed soul sand
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed soul sand
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed white wool
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed white wool
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed a block of iron
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed a block of iron
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed a red mushroom block
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed a red mushroom block
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed honeycomb
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed honeycomb
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed stone
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed stone
• A sulfur cube without its inner layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)
  A sulfur cube without its inner layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)
• A sulfur cube without its outer layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)
  A sulfur cube without its outer layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)

Bedrock Edition

• A sulfur cube that has absorbed an oak log
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed an oak log
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed a moss block
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed a moss block
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed ice
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed ice
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed soul sand
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed soul sand
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed white wool
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed white wool
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed a block of iron
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed a block of iron
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed a red mushroom block
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed a red mushroom block
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed honeycomb
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed honeycomb
• A sulfur cube that has absorbed stone
  A sulfur cube that has absorbed stone
• What the unused small sulfur cube texture looks like when mapped
  What the unused small sulfur cube texture looks like when mapped
• A sulfur cube without its inner layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)
  A sulfur cube without its inner layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)
• A sulfur cube without its outer layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)
  A sulfur cube without its outer layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)
• A baby sulfur cube without its inner layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)
  A baby sulfur cube without its inner layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)
• A baby sulfur cube without its outer layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)
  A baby sulfur cube without its outer layer (this state cannot be seen in-game)

Textures

• Inner texture
  Inner texture
• Outer texture in Template:Editions
  Outer texture in Template:Editions
• Outer texture in Template:Editions
  Outer texture in Template:Editions
• Small sulfur cube texture in Template:Editions
  Small sulfur cube texture in Template:Editions

Minecraft Live screenshots

• A sulfur cube jumping
  A sulfur cube jumping
• A sulfur cube next to Kai
  A sulfur cube next to Kai
• A sulfur cube with a Minecraft:pumpkin inside of it in mid air
  A sulfur cube with a Minecraft:pumpkin inside of it in mid air
• A sulfur cube with a Minecraft:stone block inside of it
  A sulfur cube with a Minecraft:stone block inside of it
• A sulfur cube with a crimson hyphae inside of it
  A sulfur cube with a crimson hyphae inside of it
• A cage full of sulfur cubes
  A cage full of sulfur cubes
• A sulfur cube with a sea lantern inside of it
  A sulfur cube with a sea lantern inside of it
• A sulfur cube with a birch log inside of it
  A sulfur cube with a birch log inside of it
• A sulfur cube with jungle wood inside of it
  A sulfur cube with jungle wood inside of it

References

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