Gear

This page describes content that exists only in outdated versions of Java Edition.

This feature used to be in the game but has since been removed.

Gear

Renewable	?
Stackable	Yes
Tool	None
Blast resistance	?
Hardness	?
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

The gear was a block that could be placed on walls, but had no clearly defined or implemented functionality. It is believed that gears were intended to be used in mechanisms, similarly to redstone dust.

1 Obtaining
2 Usage
- 2.1 Texture generation
3 Data values
- 3.1 ID
4 History
5 Gallery

Obtaining[]

It could only be obtained by inventory editing and was at first invisible in the inventory. Later it became visible.

Usage[]

When edited into the game, a placed gear would show nothing in its block space and was invisible unless horizontally adjacent to one or more blocks. The placed gear would then show an animated gear sprite on the near side of each of those blocks. It was not possible to destroy a placed gear by mining a block that its gear sprite was shown on, because the placed gear itself was actually adjacent to that block. If the block a gear sprite was shown on was destroyed, the adjacent placed gear would no longer show that sprite. Removing all blocks adjacent to a placed gear would remove all of its visible gear sprites, leaving the placed gear invisible. Placed gears could not be destroyed directly by the player; attempts to do so would phase through to the block behind it, much like water. Placed gears could only be removed by letting water^{[needs testing]} flow into them, or by explosions.

Texture generation[]

This section is missing information about

RPM of the gear? - preferably get the internal value rather than calculating from the image
How is the resulting image made to be 16x16?.

Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page.

The animation for gears was generated using two predefined image files - misc/gear.png for the rotating gear and misc/gearmiddle.png for the stationary center.

misc/gear.png
misc/gearmiddle.png

There are two different animations used for gears - one for clockwise rotation, and another for anticlockwise rotation, to allow for logical meshing. These are presumably generated identically, with the only difference being the direction of rotation.^[verify]

Clockwise rotation
Anticlockwise rotation

Data values[]

ID[]

The ID is the same as redstone in current versions: number 55.

History[]

Java Edition Indev
January 26, 2010		Notch posted a video of gears being placed onto the wall of a cliff.
0.31	20100128	Added gears.
0.31	20100128	Gears have the data value of 55.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1		Gears have been removed.
v1.0.1		Old worlds with gears in them now convert these to redstone instead as the data value for redstone is also 55.

Gallery[]

Gears placed into the world.
Gears did not show up on non-solid blocks, but they did show up on infinite water and lava sources, which proved they were solid blocks.
In-game animation of gear.

Blocks

Natural
Soil	Clay Cobweb Dirt Coarse Rooted Dirt Path Grass Block Gravel Mycelium Nylium Podzol Sand Soul Sand Soul Soil
Stone	Andesite Bedrock Basalt Smooth Blackstone Gilded Calcite Cobblestone Mossy Deepslate Diorite Dripstone Block End Stone Glowstone Granite Infested Block Magma Block Netherrack Obsidian Crying Pointed Dripstone Sandstone Stone Terracotta Tuff
Ore/Mineral	Amethyst Bud Cluster Ancient Debris Budding Amethyst Coal Ore Deepslate Copper Ore Deepslate Diamond Ore Deepslate Emerald Ore Deepslate Gold Ore Deepslate Nether Gold Ore Iron Ore Deepslate Lapis Lazuli Ore Deepslate Nether Quartz Ore Redstone Ore Deepslate
Liquid/Related	Air Cave‌^{[JE only]} Void‌^{[JE only]} Bubble Column Ice Blue Packed Fire Lava Powder Snow Snow Block Water

Vegetation
Wood/Hypha	Logs Stripped Wood Stripped Stems Stripped Hyphae Stripped
Plant	Azalea Bamboo Shoot Beetroots Big Dripleaf Small Stem Cactus Carrots Cave Vines Cocoa Chorus Plant Flower Dead Bush Fern Large Flowers Glow Lichen Grass Tall Hanging Roots Kelp Dried Leaves Lily Pad Melon Stem Moss Block Carpet Potatoes Pumpkin Carved Stem Sapling Seagrass Tall Sugar Cane Sweet Berry Bush Vines Wheat Crops Hay Bale
Fungus	Fungi Mushrooms Blocks Nether Sprouts Nether Wart Nether Wart Block Warped Roots Shroomlight Twisting Vines Weeping Vines
Fauna	Coral Dead Coral Blocks Dead Coral Fans Dead Sea Pickle Turtle Egg

Building
Decoration	Carpets Chain Dragon Egg Iron Bars Glass Pane Stained Glass Pane Tinted Glass Glazed Terracotta Honeycomb Block Slabs Stairs Walls Wool
Mineral Block	Block of Amethyst Block of Coal Block of Copper Cut Raw Block of Diamond Block of Emerald Block of Gold Raw Block of Iron Raw Block of Lapis Lazuli Block of Netherite Block of Quartz Chiseled Pillar Smooth Bricks Block of Redstone
Manufactured	Bone Block Bookshelf Bricks Chiseled Deepslate Cobbled Deepslate Concrete Concrete Powder Cut Sandstone Chiseled Smooth Cut Red Sandstone Chiseled Smooth Deepslate Bricks Cracked Deepslate Tiles Cracked End Stone Bricks Nether Bricks Cracked Chiseled Red Planks Polished Andesite Polished Basalt Polished Blackstone Bricks Polished Diorite Polished Granite Polished Deepslate Prismarine Bricks Dark Purpur Block Pillar Smooth Stone Stone Bricks Cracked Mossy Chiseled
Lighting	End Rod Jack o'Lantern Lantern Soul Sea Lantern Torch Soul
BE & EE only	Elements Hardened Glass Pane

Utility
Interactable	Anvil Barrel Beacon Bell Brewing Stand Blast Furnace Cartography Table Chest Ender Crafting Table Enchanting Table Fletching Table Furnace Grindstone Loom Shulker Box Sign Smithing Table Smoker Stonecutter
Usable	Banners Bee Nest Beehive Beds Cake Campfire Soul Cauldron Composter Conduit Farmland End Gateway End Portal End Portal Frame Fences Flower Pot Frosted Ice Heads Item Frame (as a block)‌^{[BE only]} Glow Ladder Lodestone Jukebox Lectern Nether Portal Respawn Anchor Scaffolding Spawner Sponge Wet TNT
Mechanism	Button Dispenser Daylight Detector Doors Dropper Fence Gates Honey Block Hopper Lever Lightning Rod Note Block Observer Piston Sticky Head Moving Pressure Plates Rail Activator Detector Powered Redstone Dust Comparator Lamp Repeater Torch Slime Block Target Trapdoors Trapped Chest Tripwire Hook Tripwire
Java Edition only	Candle
Education Edition only	Chalkboard
BE & EE only	Compound Creator Element Constructor Lab Table Material Reducer Colored Torches Underwater Torch Underwater TNT Allow Border Deny Heat Block

Creative only
All editions	Player Head
Generates in Buffet/Custom worlds‌^{[JE only]}	Spore Blossom

Java Edition only	Petrified Oak Slab
Bedrock Edition only	Empty Monster Spawner
BE & EE only	Allow Border Deny

Commands only
All editions	Barrier Command Block Chain Repeating Unstable TNT
Java Edition only	Custom Player Head Sculk Sensor
Bedrock Edition only	Chiseled Purpur Wooden Slab Smooth Stone Bricks tile.purpur_block.smooth.name
JE & BE only	Jigsaw Block Light Block Structure Block Structure Void
Education Edition only	Camera

Unused
Bedrock Edition only	Bell Stand Glowing Obsidian Invisible Bedrock Nether Reactor Core Smokeless Campfire info_update info_update2 reserved6 Stonecutter (old)

Removed
All editions	Six-sided Hay Bale
Java Edition only	Cloth Gear Dead Coral Block Faceless Jack o'Lantern Infinite Lava Source Infinite Water Source Locked chest Overripe Melon Stem Overripe Pumpkin Stem Potted non-flower block Ruby Ore Sponge (Classic) Shrub Green Six-sided Piston
Bedrock Edition only	Diorite Bell Granite Bell Polished Six-sided Bone Block Six-sided Purpur Pillar Six-sided Quartz Pillar

Unimplemented
All editions	Branches Colored Wood Planks Coral Slab Dirt Slab Empty Barrel Fish Barrel Furniture Paeonia Spike Block Wax Block

Joke features
Java Edition only	An Ant Block of Coal Box of Infinite Books Burnt-out Torch Cursor Etho Slab Funky Portal Leftover Swaggiest stairs ever Tinted Glass Pane USB Charger Block

Removed features

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