Uses of soul sand blocks in Minecraft

Minecraft is an extremely large world where everything is made up of eye-catching 3D square blocks.

Those square blocks are considered the elements that make up the Minecraft world. So they also have countless different types from colors to uses.

Today I continue the series introducing the uses of each block in Minecraft. And in this article I will introduce it to you soul sand block and applications their uniqueness.

Here’s what I know about soul sand blocks in Minecraftif you have any additions or questions, you can leave your comments below the comments section of the blog! Now, please continue reading my article.

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#1. What is soul sand?

As you all know, if you want to learn deeply about something, you must first know its common characteristics.

Similar to the real world, the white sand blocks in hell will be soul sand blocks. They were added to the game from version 1.2.0 (for PC) and 0.12.1 (for PE).

In terms of shape, this is a rather strange type of block, probably partly because they are in hell. They are gray-brown in color, above the soul sand blocks are faces screaming, in pain,… those are mostly the faces of souls in hell. From the outside, they look quite scary.

Soul sand blocks appear mainly in hell. But at most, you can see them appear below height y= 65. In addition, you can also catch them in the castle in hell (this is also considered one of the most beautiful wonders in Minecraft). .

Soul sand blocks have quite low durability, so you can mine them with any tool.

Specifically, the time to destroy soul sand blocks is as follows: Manually: 0.75 seconds; by wooden shovel: 0.45 seconds; ice shovel: 0.2 seconds; iron shovel: 0.15 seconds; Diamond shovel = gold shovel: 0.1 seconds.

#2. Applications of soul sand blocks in Minecraft

2.1. Plant hell hump

This is the most common and easiest use of hell sand blocks.

Hell hump seeds are very picky about soil, they can only live on soul sand and are a type of creature that does not like light. If you don’t know, hell hump is one of the rare medicinal ingredients in the game.

2.2. Soul sand causes mobs to lose running speed

Another unique application of soul sand. They have the ability to slow all mobs and players when walking on them.

Especially when placed underwater, it can reduce running speed many times more than when on shore.

If you want to be even slower, place them on ice blocks or slime blocks, at which point the running speed of all mobs and players walking on them will be slowed to the maximum. You can absolutely use this application for your own secret mechanisms.

Mobs and players will sink when standing on soul sand blocks. When you stand on the soul sand blocks, your feet will immediately sink by 2 pixels.

That may not seem important, but it can cause difficult situations. In addition to slowing you down, they also cause you to get stuck in lava if you stand close to the edge of those soul blocks.

2.3. Causes silverfish and Ender lice to die

You probably don’t know that a great application of hellish sand blocks is that they can kill mobs like silverfish and Ender lice.

These types of mobs, when coming into contact with or lying on soul sand blocks, will be trapped and suffocated to death. You can absolutely use these sand blocks to kill silver fish and Ender lice.

Placing a row of soul sand in front of the door will make the door become a one-way door.

A very cool thing about version 1.7.2 of the game Minecraft is that if you use soul sand blocks and place them in front of the door like this, you will only be able to go out but cannot go back in. This is a very good mechanism that you can take advantage of to protect your home,…

2.4. Summon a wither ghost

Wither ghosts are a type of mobs that are not found in nature and must be summoned. The main ingredients to be able to summon this type of mobs, you must first prepare at least 5 blocks of hellish sand and 3 heads of withered monsters.

The summoning formula is similar to Iron Man, which is that you use 5 sand blocks to build a letter shape T3 blocks high.

=> Then continue to place 3 heads on top and you can summon the withered ghost. Note that they are extremely strong, so you must be really strong to summon wither ghosts.

2.5. The boat will not break when it hits the soul sand

If you don’t know, from versions 1.7.2 and below, boats when approaching shore at high speed will break into wooden planks and sticks.

But that is with other normal blocks, but when the boat hits the hellish sand blocks, they will not break but instead will sink deep into the sand.

#3. End

Above are some Uses of soul sand blocks in Minecraft that you should know. If you find it interesting or if you have any additional comments, you can respond below in the comments section so I can supplement and improve!

Hope this article will be useful to you. Wish you have fun playing the game 🙂

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