Sand



Sand is a fairly common block, often found near water on new maps. Like gravel this block is affected by gravity and will fall to the lowest solid block in the z-coordinate it is placed in. In the indev server, if you drop sand into a fire or into lava, it turns into glass.

In Indev mode, on a floating islands map you will occasionally find floating platforms of sand and/or gravel connecting the islands. However removing a floating sand/gravel block or adding a block to it causes all the sand to fall to the ground.

History
Sand was removed at revision 0.0.19a, but returned in version 0.0.20a. It was removed due to lack of room in the UI.

A glitch was present in Single Player for quite some time that caused water to flood from blocks affected by gravity if placed against a wall but not on the ground. The bug has since been fixed.