46 Minecraft Blocks Mojang Had To Remove

Mojang remove blocks every Minecraft update and you haven’t even noticed! Like all of these, which I’ve added back in! So, subscribe and here are forty-six Minecraft blocks they had to get rid of. Number One Before command blocks were even a thing, teleport blocks were in a official version of the game.

These blocks would instantly transport you to different ones using a menu. Home blocks would take you to your house and spawn blocks would let you change the spawn point. Mojang removed these when making the new Education Edition, but they would’ve made transportation so much quicker.

Number Two Minecraft used to have these two textures. They clearly look like a chair and a table, and this is what they could’ve looked like in 3D. Weirdly, wheat used to look like this if it somehow grew more than it should! Mojang later on banned all furniture from being added to Minecraft.

Number Three When Minecraft was first being planned, Mojang were going to add spikes that extended and retracted. They would’ve basically been spiked pistons but these were replaced with sticky pistons. A developer said in 2012 that they’d like to add spikes but weren’t sure how they’d work.

1.17 finally added dripstone, but you can’t even push the spikes! Come on Mojang… Number Four Doing this looks pretty cursed, but the portal block used to allow something very similar. These worked just like normal nether portals but acted like fence posts, allowing for some nice looking designs.

When portals were first added, you could place them like a full block, too! It’s good that Mojang removed them, before someone tried to light one of these! Number Five Back in Indev versions, there was a house with chests containing stacks of a hundred water and lava blocks. These were DANGEROUSLY GLITCHY.

Mojang even called the lava ones “volcano blocks” because of how deadly they were. Place one of these bad boys in your world and if you can’t stop it, say goodbye to your precious Minecraft house. The water blocks would spread even faster, but both types could be soaked up with a bit of sponge.

Number Six Soul fire was added in the nether update but another soul block was completely scrapped from the game. Unused particles existed that looked just like lava particles. But blue. This means soul lava might have been found in soul sand valleys in an unreleased version.

It could’ve been able to flow faster or dealt more damage like soul fire does. Mojang removed it before we ever got to find out, so we just have to speculate. Number Seven This next one permanently broke entire worlds. Placing one of these would crash the game and render your hard work worthless instantly.

You might think it’s a normal hopper, but looking from beneath will show that it points in no direction. Luckily, the only way to place this was with the setblock command. Though Mojang probably should’ve tested it thoroughly before risking the worlds of anyone who just wanted to try the new hoppers.

Number Eight Ice and snow can get in the way, especially with 1.17’s snowier snow. So, when you need to clear some away, the heat block would’ve been great for warming up the area. If Mojang hadn’t removed it, that is.

This feature was made exclusive to the education edition, but there is an actual reason for it! Like real life hand warmers the iron inside oxidizes and releases heat. There’s some real life chemistry in a Minecraft video! Number Nine This block looks like grey concrete but it’s not.

It’s called “reserved6”, or “.name<” as it was known at the time. When fire spread in pocket edition, sometimes it would create this block. Pocket edition also had these two secret blocks. One says “update!”, which would show up when a block was removed by an update but still placed in the world. The other says “ate! upd” so that together they say “update!”. Number Ten Loads of unique blocks were added in the buzzy bees update. Something that bees make, other than honey, that Mojang didn’t add is beeswax. They added a texture for a wax block in a snapshot version, but it was removed because It wasn’t even meant to be added! Mojang possibly tested it out but couldn’t think of a proper use for it. They should’ve added it in 1.17 as a crafting ingredient for candles! Number Eleven Sometimes it’s difficult to see where a village Starts and ends but, with village border blocks, that’s no longer a problem. They were seen in a demo at a convention and the textures remained in the files for years. However, there’s no footage in existence of them in action, so it’s difficult to know If these were placed like redstone to trap villagers or if they just generated naturally. The blocks would be nice on servers to confine players into a small space before a challenge starts. Please help me. Number Twelve Speaking of borders, a red variant of walls Called border blocks are found in the Education Edition but not in the main game. You can’t walk under them or fly over them! Unless you’re a teacher. These would also be great for servers, but Mojang won’t let us have them for some reason! All mobs are stopped apart from the ender dragon, which just flies straight on through. Oh, and ender pearls let you escape lessons as well. Stay in school. Number Thirteen This one’s more than just a block. It’s INSIDE a block. Beacons were going to have this little rotating cube inside, which looked like an end crystal. This had to be removed by Mojang to stop lag, since loads of enchantment tables can destroy the game, so imagine what would happen with loads of these. A blue cube inside is a bit more boring, though. Number Fourteen What happens when the volcano blocks and water blocks from earlier collide? They make GEARS? Yeah, gears were in the game before redstone. You could only break them with an explosion, so they were pretty tough to remove. Breaking the block behind it would just make the gear invisible! Eventually, Mojang removed them and every world with gears had them suddenly replaced with redstone. Number Fifteen You might think we’ve already got enough slabs in the game. A good few were removed, however. The first ever slab variant added was removed straight away. Dirt slabs were added so the terrain could be a little smoother but it didn’t work for cliffs so the feature had to be removed. Coral slabs got shown at Minecon Earth but Mojang removed those too. The Etho slab, was added in an April Fools’ update. They worked like TNT and spawned anvils above players! Number Sixteen If you’re greedy like me, you’ll know the feeling of cake running out. What if you could just keep on eating it, forever? That’s what used to be possible, allowing you to create an inverted cake block. You could see inside the cake and the appearance changed every version. For Minecraft’s tenth birthday, a big white concrete number ten was added to the top of cakes for a few days before being removed again. Number Seventeen Ants used to be in Minecraft. You’re thinking “that’s a mob!”, but it was actually a block. It will turn right on white concrete and left on black concrete, changing the colour as it goes. The pattern seems random at first, but it will always eventually create a highway. The same April Fools’ update also had netherite stairs called “swaggiest stairs ever” if you’re looking for something a bit more silly. Number Eighteen Another removed block is *the zone* from the 20w14infinite snapshot. The block is invisible and emits happy villager particles. Any mob or player that enters *the zone* will get blindness two and poison four for three seconds. You can’t use pistons to move zones or place blocks in there, but they do affect the gravity of items thrown inside. The same update also had a cursor block that switched colour every second, and boxes of books full of random text. What were Mojang thinking to come up with this stuff!? Number Nineteen Signs used to be mobs. Well, sort of. When signs were first added, they looked like this. Pressing B would drop a sign and it would bounce along the ground. This was an early test, as you can see from the message that was printed on every sign. Not much point in having signs if you can’t write on them… Signs used to have a 15 letter limit, so writing “mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm” would cause the letters to hang off the edge! Number Twenty TNT slabs are cool, but even cooler is super TNT. This was seen in Minecraft Story Mode and was used to craft the formidi-bomb. Story Mode also had a few impossible banners, window blocks, and don’t forget the wither storm! Number Twenty-One It feels like wool has been in the game forever. You might not know that there was a totally different block before wool was around! Cloth was the original version of wool, with colours like chartreuse, ultramarine, spring green, capri, rose, and way more! You used to use these blocks to craft cloth armour, which was renamed to leather armour when leather was added. For some reason, white cloth was one of the last ones added and there was never any black cloth, just dark grey. Number Twenty-Two We all know that torches break in water. This can be both useful and an absolute pain. When it gets annoying, underwater torches could be the solution! They could be, but Mojang restricted them to the Education Edition. They’re made by with a torch and magnesium. In real life, magnesium and iron oxide create thermite, which burns underwater! So many chemistry facts in one video! You can use sodium to make blue underwater TNT, too. Number Twenty-Three Speaking of torches, Mojang also added coloured torches to the Education Edition. Blue, red, purple, and green ones are made using metal chlorides. They don’t even emit coloured light, so they’re a bit of a scam. Torches used to burn out after a while for April Fools’ 2013. They were going to burn out after the 2010 Halloween update, with lanterns replacing normal torches but this luckily never happened. Number Twenty-Four When Mojang are making blocks, they sometimes need special textures to make it easier to test things. They left two of these in the files, creatively named debug and debug2. Using a piston to push a bubble column in some snapshots caused debug1 to appear. What the symbols mean on debug2 is unknown, but it does look a little like this early sandstone texture. Number Twenty-Five Unlike the unique chest animation, opening a barrel only shows a dark… circle. Two secret textures for barrels were added in a Bedrock Edition update. One shows a square hole for the barrel and the other shows the same square but filled with fish! These were removed, but are now used in Minecraft Dungeons, where barrels look even cooler. Number Twenty-Six When you place a bell on the ground, it’s held by two stone poles. These used to be made of planks. Another update secretly added versions of bells with granite, polished granite and diorite frames, meaning that Mojang may have intended for bells to be craftable using these items. There wasn’t even an andesite one, which is really odd. Number Twenty-Seven The End dimension is packed full of end stone, but it used to look a lot more like this. The white cobblestone was added before end stone and was called “whiteStone”. Mojang had to remove this and replace it with end stone, which is easier to see and just an inverted version of cobblestone. This white texture here looks like wool, but it was added in the same version as clouds, so it might’ve been for those. Number Twenty-Eight This spawner right here is actually a CHEST. When a mob spawner generates in the same block space as a chest, the two combine and look like a pig spawner. It doesn’t actually spawn any pigs and the only way to access the items inside is with a hopper. There was also a version where signs and spawners had the same ID, causing this to happen! Number Twenty-Nine You’d think Minecraft has enough variants of blocks with slight changes. There are 23 types of stone brick, for example. Mojang still added more to Minecraft Dungeons, but won’t be adding these to the main game! Some blocks are unused in that game for obvious reasons. There are loads of unique blocks, so look out for them next time you play Dungeons. Number Thirty Although Minecraft says it’s “90% bug free”, some broken blocks have slipped through the cracks at points. This invisible block here is actually a set of stairs. They weren’t very good at being stairs, though, because you could walk right through them. Eventually Mojang removed these phantom stairs and replaced them with upside-down stairs. This block looks like oak planks, but it’s a bit broken because clicking it drops a button. After placing it again, it looks like this. Number Thirty-One Minecraft’s biome votes from over the years have teased a bunch of new blocks that got cancelled because not enough people voted for them. Two types of trees that Mojang mentioned were baobab trees in savannas and palm trees in deserts. The badlands biome would’ve been given cacti with really cool designs and tumbleweed blocks which somehow would’ve rolled. Number Thirty-Two 1.17’s tinted glass blocks were originally an April Fools’ joke where you could change the colour of glass, but couldn’t see through it any more. This was added and removed even before stained glass existed. Also, hardened glass was added to the Education Edition. This is as blast resistant as end stone and takes fifteen seconds to mine with your hand. So many new types! Number Thirty-Three You wouldn’t expect vines to grow in caves. That’s probably why Mojang removed this next block. These are root vines, which would’ve grown from the top of caves! This texture was left in a snapshot version and the vines look pretty similar to glow berries, but without the berries. Or the glow. Another forgotten 1.17 feature was the calibrated sculk sensor. It looked like semi-transparent amethyst block, but only Mojang know what it did. Number Thirty-Four When making a world in Bedrock Edition, you can still select the “old” world type which used to be the only option seven years ago. This world used to have a unique type of block, called invisible bedrock. It’s totally unbreakable just like the visible version and would spawn around the edge of every world. When in your hand it looked like a flat stone block. Invisible bedrock got removed by Mojang because we now have border blocks. Number Thirty-Five Now this may look like a dead bush, but it’s not. In the old days, the dead bush had an alternate version called the shrub. These were more similar to ferns as they dropped wheat seeds and were a pixel lower than dead bushes. Another green version was created and the colour changed based on the biome. Mojang had to remove these glitchy blocks, which also made this a little less confusing. Number Thirty-Six Is this block a dispenser, furnace or dropper? Trick question! It’s none of them and it’s about as useless as it sounds. Certain data values used to create furnaces with no direction, meaning no front either! Something more useful is the faceless jack o’lantern. You can tell it’s not just a normal pumpkin because it glows! These were obtained in the same way but were removed by Mojang. Number Thirty-Seven Mojang actually had to remove the grass block at one point. Pocket Edition used to have this grass block that had the side texture on the bottom. It was called “Block 253”. Block 254 looked like this, which made the crafting table the same colour as leaves. Number Thirty-Eight In the old days of Minecraft, there were a Few chances to see these two blocks that got removed. This one is a placeholder block that used to show up when a block tried to use a non-existent texture. It was changed to this one in 1.5 and then to this purple and black cube in 1.6. Number Thirty-Nine When you open a door, it’s a little awkward how it opens instantly, right? Well, Mojang wanted to make it possible for doors to turn with a nice smooth animation like this. These turning doors would’ve had no windows and been made of oak because that was the Only type of door at the time. Mojang removed all references to this version of the door in 1.6, when resource packs were added. Number Forty This removed block looks pretty weird, but it was actually Mojang’s first ever April Fools’ prank. It used to look like this in 2011, and was called the “Locked Chest”. Opening it brought you to a page showing stuff like a name change, miner’s helmet, and even a creeper saddle. You couldn’t actually buy these things, luckily. Number Forty-One What if pistons could do this? Before Mojang removed six-sided pistons, you could get them without even needing commands by using redstone clocks. They never really worked, though. Mojang removed some other six-sided variants of blocks, including hay bales, bone blocks, and pillars, all with textures that don’t quite make sense. Number Forty-Two Ah, the old days of Pocket Edition. This version from nine years ago had a bunch of blocks that we don’t have today. The nether reactor core, crafted like this, would generate a nether spire with mobs and items inside. Glowing obsidian would also show up. The stonecutter looked like this and was added so that the crafting menu wasn’t too full. Then Mojang decided to remove it for four years. Number Forty-Three Mojang have changed which blocks correspond to which note block instrument more than a few times. For example, note blocks on bones used to make a bass drum sound before the xylophone instrument was added. Any note blocks from this time period still play the bass drum and can be tuned without changing. There are few others that do this, making for some confusing tunes. Number Forty-Four You won’t believe this, but Mojang removed acacia stairs for one update. When 1.7 released, acacia stairs were in the game but you couldn’t craft them because Mojang forgot to add in acacia planks. This also meant that acacia and dark oak slabs weren’t obtainable either. Number Forty-Five In 2016, the Trendy Update brought us loads of futuristic items for April Fools’ day. One of these was the USB charger block. It was crafted with iron, gold and redstone, but what did it do? It was basically a futuristic clone of the redstone block, as it would output a constant redstone signal and do nothing else. The redstone doesn’t even have to go into the top of the block. Number Forty-Six A Minecraft developer once tweeted out this image, which shows 16 types of coloured planks. He asked, “wood this be of use to anybody?” Even though eighty percent said yes please, Mojang BANNED this feature from being in the game. 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