
Rather than falling by turning into a falling block entity, sand instantly appears at the lowest point it can go when placed above an air block, without any sort of falling animation.

These beaches are always at and below ocean level. Sand blocks appear naturally only in one block-thick beaches (usually by water or in the middle of a landscape). Sand behaves similarly to gravel, which was also added during this update. When Time goes above 600, or above 100 while the block is below Y=1 or is outside building height, the entity is deleted. If the block at its location has the same ID as its BlockState.Name when Time ticks from 0 to 1, the block is deleted, and the entity continues to fall, having overwritten it. If set to 0, the moment it ticks to 1, it vanishes if the block at its location has a different ID than the entity's BlockState.Name.

Sand and red sand can be placed under note blocks to produce "snare drum" sound. Sand or red sand is required for farming cactus, and can also be used for farming bamboo, sugar cane and kelp.Ī turtle egg can hatch only if it's on sand or red sand. Because sand falls, it can also be used for construction underwater while the player remains above the surface of the water. Sand can be used in the construction of airlocks and mob suffocation traps. This trick can be used to collect blocks underwater, or break into underwater structures such as the ocean monument without mining. Though TNT does not break any blocks if it explodes underwater, if sand, concrete powder, or gravel falls and covers the TNT before it explodes, blocks are broken as normal. Sand that falls onto a lifting bubble column floats on top of the water until the bubble column is blocked or removed. If it falls onto a cobweb, it falls slowly until it has gone through completely if it touches the ground while still inside the cobweb, the sand becomes an item. If falling sand lands in the space occupied by a non-solid block (such as torch, slab, rail, or redstone dust), the sand drops and turns into an item. If falling sand lands and covers the head of a mob or the player, the mob or player buried in it continuously receives suffocation damage. More information about the falling block entity is available in the main article listed above. More specifically, the sand block turns into a " falling block" entity, which is affected by gravity when the falling block lands on a block with a solid top surface, it becomes a block again. If the supporting block below a block of sand is removed, it falls until it lands on the next available block. Wandering traders also sell 8 sand for one emerald.

Wandering traders sell 4 red sand for one emerald. when a block is placed near it or when a block near it is broken).
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The floating cluster of sand falls when one of the sand blocks receives an update (e.g. Unlike sand, there is no red sandstone that supports it below.īoth types of sand can spawn floating in the air. Red sand generates naturally in badlands biomes and variants, always in a one-block-deep layer. Sand also generates as part of warm ocean ruins and some desert village houses. (In this case, sand is used to cover up buried treasure chests that generate in beaches and ocean floors that are composed of sand, but in some cases stone or sandstone might be used instead). Sand is also used to cover up buried treasure chests depending on where the chest generates in. It usually generates in quantities of 545 blocks per chunk on average in non-desert biomes. Sand also generates as the ocean floor of lukewarm oceans, deep lukewarm oceans and warm oceans. It generates in abundance in deserts and beaches, generally in four-block-deep layers, supported by sandstone below. Sand generates naturally in many biomes of the Overworld, in disk-like formations near lakes, ponds and rivers. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
