47 Minecraft Block Facts You Maybe Didn't Know - Summary

Summary

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This is a video transcript of a Minecraft YouTuber who collaborates with the channel Block Facts to share 47 facts about different blocks in the game. The facts cover topics such as block textures, interactions, history, and mechanics. The video also encourages viewers to subscribe to both channels and enjoy the content.

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1. The filling texture of the Composter block is the same as Podzol.
2. In Bedrock Edition, it is possible to re-light an unlit campfire by going over and stopping, dropping and rolling right on top of an unlit pile of ashes.
3. The Jungle Wood Door has undergone changes throughout Minecraft history.
4. The current texture of the Jungle Wood Door in the inventory does not match up with the door when it's placed down.
5. Stacking stained glass blocks on top of each other can create new colors, resulting in 12 billion 326 thousand 391 unique colors.
6. If you have 37 Shulker Boxes fully filled to the brim in your inventory, hot bar, and offhand slot, you can carry 63,936 total items.
7. Gilded Blackstone is even rarer than Ancient Debris blocks.
8. You can find predictability in the way Bedrock spawns and use this information to locate the largest clump of Bedrock at the topmost layer.
9. Barrels were first added to Minecraft Java Edition roughly a month before Bedrock in snapshot 18w44a.
10. There were plans to add variants of the barrel, both empty and filled with fish, but they were never implemented.
11. As of snapshot 19w41a in Java Edition, you can no longer see the full Beacon beam when looking up through it.
12. Soul Sand isn't a full block, and when gravity blocks try to fall on top of it, they get broken.
13. When you toggle a Piston between on and off rapidly with a gravity-affected block on top of it, the Piston can break the block.
14. Mob spawning has quirks, such as mobs being able to spawn on Piston Head blocks.
15. Crafting a Stonecutter instead of a Crafting Table can be more expensive, but when making stairs using a Stonecutter, it requires only one block per staircrafted.
16. Beacon beams can't pass through solid blocks, but if you place a Beacon underneath Bedrock with no other solid blocks in between, it'll blast through the Bedrock roof.
17. Smelting items in a Furnace can be a good way to get experience, especially when partnered with Cactus and Bamboo farms.
18. The Invisibility Potion effect doesn't make you completely invisible to the Enchantment Table.
19. None of the words that the Enchantment Table can use contain the letters J or Q.
20. Beacons don't require a Diamond Pickaxe to break.
21. The Smithing Table has undergone changes during its development, and it initially had a different texture.
22. On May 17th, 2019, Minecraft celebrated its 10th anniversary, and if you placed a Cake on that day, you'd see a modified Cake model with a tent made out of White Concrete.
23. The only three blocks that can naturally generate in all three dimensions are Chests, Obsidian, and Bedrock.
24. Chains have the same blast resistance as a full block of Iron.
25. Notch first hinted at the idea of a Command Block in his Reddit AMA on July 31st, 2012.
26. The Conduit displays the Heart of the Sea at its center when activated.
27. If you don't have the Flame Enchantment on your Bow, you can still fire off Flame Arrows by shooting them into Flowing Lava.
28. Beds in the Nether can protect you from Lava damage while you're sleeping.
29. On Halloween night, some Mobs can spawn with Jack-o-Lanterns on their heads.
30. There's only one transparent block that cannot be placed on Ice, which is Snow Layers.
31. Hoppers can transfer 9,000 items per hour or 150 items per minute.
32. Gravity in Minecraft does not accelerate all objects at the same rate.
33. When Hoppers were first added, they had a work-in-progress texture that only showed up when you had the Hopper inside your inventory.
34. Honey Blocks are sticky along their sides.
35. As of 1.16, the current longest name for a block is Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate.
36. Even though some servers use Spawn Protection, you can still use Bone Meal on the grass in a Spawn Protected area.
37. Pistons have a unique way of interacting with the blocks in front of them, momentarily reclassifying them as block entities.
38. Before Stained Glass and Stained Glass Paints were added, there was a similar block named Tinted Glass that existed in the April Fools version 2.0 update.
39. Hay Bales were added in snapshot 13w16a, and they initially looked different.
40. As soon as you hoe a Dirt block and turn it into Farmland, you're not able to place Ladders or Torches along the side, but you can still place Signs.
41. Ender Chests originally allowed every player on a server to access the same inventory.
42. The texture for Endstone is an inversion, geometric translation, and recoloration of the Cobblestone's texture.
43. If you place a Note Block on top of another Note Block, it produces a string-based instrument when played.
44. Observers have a unique face texture because Jeb kept forgetting which bit was the front.
45. Minecraft Sponges used to be an unobtainable block that didn't soak up any water.
46. Bats are the only Mobs that cannot trample Turtle Eggs.
47. Water-filled Cauldrons are not the same as Waterlogged Blocks when it comes to breaking your fall.
48. The Enchantment Table can use a list of words that don't contain the letters J or Q.
49. The only Mobs that can wear Jack-o-Lanterns on their heads are the 13 different Mobs that spawn during Halloween night.
50. The Sponge block was originally going to decay over time like leaves in Minecraft Classic.

Note that some of these facts might be more interesting or relevant than others, but I've tried to extract all the key facts from the text.