The Most Expensive Minecraft Item You’ll Never Have

– [Skip the Tutorial] Did you know that you can craft Netherite into stairs? Or how about this official trick to make an infinite lava source? And today we’re joined by the channel Block Facts to cover the 47 Minecraft block facts you possibly didn’t know. And hey, YouTube told me straight up

That absolutely zero people have subscribed using their nose. So if you’re up to the challenge, park your schnauz on that red button down below. It’s free and it helps out a ton. (XP dings) It’s physically possible to explode a block of Obsidian. Now obviously you couldn’t do this with regular TNT,

No matter how many explode at once, but if you use this command to summon a primed piece of TNT with an explosion power of 72 or above, it’ll be strong enough to destroy a piece of Obsidian. (XP dings) This here is called invisible bedrock. And if you can’t see what I’m talking about,

That’s kinda the point. Now this behaves much like the barrier block, except it’s exclusive to the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft. And it was originally used in the game to create these world boundaries around old worlds. But those world boundaries didn’t go past build height, so if you just built up high enough,

You could walk over it. [XP dings] – [Block Facts] This cactus is 23 blocks tall! And what’s even more impressive is that this cactus spawned naturally. Thanks to the Minecraft@Home research project, the community has discovered seeds you can load up in Java 1.14.4 and see this huge cactus.

So if you need a bunch of green dye, I’d say this is a good start. [XP Dings] – [Skip the Tutorial] In the snapshot 12W32A, we got a new block called “work in progress”. A catchy name, I know. But even unfinished, I’m sure any Minecraft veteran

Can notice that this eventually became what we call the Beacon Block. Though to get there, it had to go through four separate texture variations. Which definitely lives up to the work in progress name after all. [XP Dings] Turtle eggs are stronger than you think. Because, even though these eggs can’t support the weight

Of the player or other mobs, they can support lanterns that are either placed above, or below them. But it’s worth noting that the lantern does look like it’s floating in those cases so, maybe that’s why they don’t break – it was never there in the first place.

[XP Dings] – [Block Facts] A netherite beacon looks expensive, but how much would it cost? Well, all the ancient debris alone would be 5,904 pieces. And all of those items would take up 92 and a quarter stacks and fill up nearly three and a half shulker boxes.

Which makes this one by Wadzee even more impressive. [XP Dings] – [Skip the Tutorial] The reason that beds explode in the Nether is because Notch was lazy. Well, that’s an oversimplification, but he has gone on records saying that this is the easiest solution to whether

Or not the player should respawn in the other dimensions. And it’s funny to think that just with that little decision, it made for an entirely new form of combat in the way of “bed bombing”. (XP dings) In case you didn’t know, leaves in Bedrock edition

Turn white when you leave them in the snow. But if you play that version and you never noticed, that might not be your fault, since it’s not an instant transition. And instead it’ll take some time in the Tundra before it finally changes their tone. (XP dings) Bamboo grows fast.

Too fast in some cases. And as it is, it’ll only take 500 bamboo stalks and an automatic farm like so, to produce more items than a hopper can actually process, meaning that this simple farm produces more than two and a half items per second. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] Usually when

You craft something out of wood, it’ll look like it’s made of oak. But there are exceptions to that. Like how item frames and fletching tables look like they’re made of birch. Barrels look closest to spruce, cartography tables and grindstones have a dark oak base, and things like chests and juke boxes

Don’t look like any wooden plank. But sadly, acacia is left out. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] If you place TNT over a slab and then ignite it, it will have a much smaller blast radius than if you explode it on the ground. In fact, there are cases where only the slab

Will be destroyed, leaving the rest of the block safe. And I wouldn’t worry about this getting patched anytime soon since it’s been open and unresolved on the bug tracker since 2014. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] If you look closely, you’ll notice that bedrock and stone look very similar.

And the reason is that in all versions, the bedrock texture is just a very high contrast version of the stone texture. And this is true whether using the current textures, or the old programmer art textures. But hey, the same is basically true for end stone and cobblestone, so it’s fair.

(XP Dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] If you get a mob to stand on a cake, it’ll just keep rotating in place, completely unable to move. And this is due to a path-finding oversight in their AI code. Which is why the same thing happens on fences as well.

(XP Dings) – [Block Facts] How many items does it take for an iron pressure plate to give a full Redstone signal of 15? Well, if we throw all the items on there in total it would take nine stacks and 22 items, minimum. Or just shy of 600 items.

Or, you know, use a redstone torch. – [Skip the Tutorial] Minecraft veterans remember a time where we didn’t need to use blaze powder to brew up our potions. So, why did this change? Well according to one of the games’ developers, Searge, it’s so the games’ progression wouldn’t be thrown off.

Since, when they added in igloos, it would’ve been less important to go to the nether if you could just find a brewing stand right underneath one in the Overworld. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] Here’s how you get wool in a desert. Now that sounds ridiculous

Since you are not gonna find any sheep out here, but back in 1.3, it was possible since desert temples generated with wool for the colorful bits. Though, when terracotta was added in as hardened clay, those patterns were quickly replaced. (XP dings) As a matter of fact, if you were to break every piece

Of terracotta in a naturally spawned desert temple, you’d be left with 55 pieces- 54 of them orange, and one blue from the center. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] These gears used to be in vanilla Minecraft. See, in the Java edition Indev phase, there were these flat gears that could only be broken

By letting water into them or exploding it. And if you tried to break them like a normal block it would just break the block behind them. And maybe that’s why this buggy feature never made it into the official game. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] This light

Block is the only high definition texture in Minecraft. At least it was. Before the texture changed in snapshot 21w18A, the Java edition light blocks had a 32 by 32 texture, instead of the 16 by 16 that we’re used to. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] If you

Take a close look at any of the Minecraft doors, you’ll notice that they have two sets of hinges on the opposite sides, instead of just one functional hinge. And while that might seem like a bug or mistake, Mojang did confirm on the bug tracker that this is actually intentional.

And if you look at the comments, it seems like some players aren’t too happy about that. Sorry Conner, I don’t think they’re gonna fix it. Did you know Steve can sprint twice as fast as a full-speed minecart? Sure enough, if you were to sprint-jump

On a blue ice tunnel filled with trap doors like so, it’s possible that the player can move at a top speed of 18.5 blocks per second. And if you were to build this in the Nether, we can consider it eight times faster than in the Overworld.

But doing that will cause your hunger bar to drop just as quickly, so bring plenty of steak for the journey. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] When they were first added, Minecraft saplings used to look like this. They were only two colors, just tan and green.

But only six days later, they were given a new texture that looks a lot more like how they look today. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] What’s the difference between this fence gate, and this one that we have right here? Well, it’s hard to notice,

But when you place a fence gate next to a wall, it’ll stoop down a little bit lower to match the height of the cobblestone wall. (XP dings) – But with the cobblestone wall’s lack in size, they more than make up for in volume. And in fact, if you were to craft a stack

Of cobblestone into cobblestone walls, you’d be left with exactly enough walls to fence in one 16 by 16 chunk. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] Why is this pattern called “Thing”? Well it’s not just Mojang being humble. There’s actually a good reason for it. If you were to translate the word Mojang

From Swedish, it would roughly translate to the words gadget, doohickey, or thing. – [Skip the Tutorial] According to Notch, torches were supposed to burn out after a while. But this never made it into the official game. However, if you play the Java edition 2.0 snapshot, they do just that.

And you’ll even need a flint and steel just to reignite them once they burn out. Which is annoying so let’s just hope this stays as an April Fools joke. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] This is not a light gray shulker box. At least, it wasn’t in snapshot 16W39B.

But rather, in this experimental build, it was referred to as a silver shulker box instead. And understandably, it was changed just a day after to match the standard names of the dye. (XP dings) And while we’re talking about light gray, I’d like you to take a look at this stained glass pane.

Can’t see it? Well that’s actually the point. Since the texture is flat and the inventory screen is light gray, it’s almost impossible to see a single light gray stained glass pane like this. And according to Mojang, that’s intentional. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] What’s

The most fuel you can put in a furnace? Well, even though a lava bucket is the single best item, if you put in a full stack of coal blocks, it can smelt for over 14 hours straight, which is just over 42 Minecraft days of smelting. That’s more than 50 times better than

The single lava bucket. But, you would need 576 coal to do this, so, better get Fortune on your pickaxe. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] Before we even got concrete confirmed for the snapshots, Jeb first showed off the concept in a video posted in February, 2017.

And in this clip, we see an early texture for the pink concrete powder, and how it would eventually harden on impact with water. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] Back in Java edition classic, when you broke a wood log, it would drop the planks instead of the actual block.

Which seems more like “Mine” than “Craft” to me. (XP dings) And moving from logs to their Nether counterparts, you’ll notice that the crimson and warped stem blocks are the only logs in the game that have an animation. (XP dings) I would bet that most of you have never experienced this Minecraft fact.

Because frankly, I hadn’t either. But if you were to press a button next to a bell, there was a chance for the bell to play its ringing sound in reverse, much like this: (XP dings) – [Block Facts] At some point, it was possible for endermen to move around and place cactus blocks. Meaning it was theoretically possible for enough endermen to increase the population of cacti in a desert, and keep planting more as they grow. Which is just as terrifying as it sounds, trust me.

Maybe they made the really tall cactus from earlier. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] It turns out, piglins are the reason that there’s no more netherite ore in the game, only the ancient debris that we’re left with. At least that’s according to this official Minecraft article for 1.16.

In this, it says that pure netherite ore no longer exists, since the piglins mined it all out of the Nether. Which pegs the question- why would they switch from netherite to gold tools? So clearly they’re not that smart. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] If you were to try to use your diamond pick

To mine a block of obsidian underwater while not standing on solid ground, it would take you just shy of four minutes, at 234 seconds. And for that effort, just place a door and do it in 9.4 seconds. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] Back in the survival test for Java edition,

When you would mine gold ore, it would drop 1-3 golden blocks instead of golden ingots, or the ore itself. And if only it still worked that way, huh? (XP dings) But here’s the real question for you. Which came first, gold or diamond? Well, not only did gold come first,

But the diamond blocks’ texture is just the same as the block of gold, but with a blue-ish tint. And that’s true of the old programmer art, and the new textures that came with 1.14s texture update. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] 809 quadrillion. That sounds like a big number,

But it’s actually how many uniquely crafted banner patterns there are. With 16 blank banners, 38 patterns of 16 colors each, and up to 6 patterns per banner, we can get this giant number. Though, that includes a lot of duplicates because these two inverted patterns do look the same.

But, they count as separate entries and don’t stack. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] Lecterns were added in 1.14, but Dinnerbone wanted them in the game much sooner. In fact, back in 2012, Dinnerbone talked about a way to add in a stand that would make it easier to read the written books.

But after various complications, the idea was scrapped, and it wouldn’t return until 2019, seven years later. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] This might look like a crate, but it’s actually a piston. See, in older versions of the game, it was possible to do a glitch called “block update suppression”, and with this,

We could make this weird piston block that has a piston block that has a piston head on all sides. And hey, the same was possible for sticky pistons too. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] In vanilla Minecraft, it’s entirely possible to have a candle that’s lit on fire, even when it’s underwater.

And with the NBT tags like so, we can summon in that candle. Or if you’re in Java, just use a debug stick like so. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] You know you can make stairs out of Netherite. It’s a big flex, but in the April Fools infinite snapshot,

There was a special stair block called “the swaggiest stairs ever”, and to get these they’d only naturally generate in the so-called “missing” dimension, so don’t expect this in vanilla anytime soon. (XP dings) – [Skip the Tutorial] Now, why is this quartz block better than this one?

Well by default quartz blocks have a low blast resistance. But if you were to use two quartz slabs or a smooth quartz block instead, you can make a substantially stronger fort than the alternative- all without sacrificing the look of the regular quartz. (XP dings) – [Block Facts] TNT doesn’t

Explode underwater, but if you add sodium to it, you get this special underwater TNT, and this blue variant only exists in the education edition. Though to do this in other versions, just place a sand block above TNT, ignite it, it’ll explode underwater just the same. – [Skip the Tutorial] According to the official

Minecraft: Combat handbook, you can make an infinite lava source if you were to make a cross shape with nether bricks and then add lava to the middle. Okay, but that’s obviously fake. Man, even Dinnerbone confirmed that it was false. But, even though this did come out in 2014,

We would eventually get renewable lava when we got the dripstones in the caves and cliffs update. So the concept’s true but this is just a blatant lie. Every time that you place a coral block in Minecraft, Mojang donated one cent to charity. After bedrock players had placed 10 million coral blocks under water,

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