The material reducer is a block used in chemistry to learn about the natural world, by reducing Minecraft blocks to their component elements.
Obtaining[]
Material reducers cannot be obtained in Survival without commands. In Bedrock Edition, the world must also have “Education Edition” enabled.
Breaking[]
A material reducer can be mined using a pickaxe. Mining without a pickaxe is slow, but the material reducer still drops as an item.
Block | Material Reducer | |
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Hardness | 2.5 | |
Tool | ||
Breaking time[A] | ||
Default | 12.5 | |
Wooden | 1.9 | |
Stone | 0.95 | |
Iron | 0.65 | |
Diamond | 0.5 | |
Netherite | 0.45 | |
Golden | 0.35 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Usage[]
Using the material reducer opens an interface of ten inventory slots. The central slot at the top is the input, where blocks can be placed in order to break them down into their component parts. When this happens, the output slots fill up with the percentage of elements found in the broken down material.
Certain blocks such as soul sand and netherrack contain mysterious elements yet to be discovered. These are represented by an unknown element that displays as other elements, but with a question mark in place of a periodic table symbol. If you take out a few elements, but keep some in too, then the block you placed will have the missing model item, which you cannot place in the inventory.
When an element is taken from one of the output slots, the input slot gets cleared, and if there are elements in other output slots, the input slot becomes red and does not accept further input until all of the outputs are cleared.
Any block broken down in the material reducer gives 100 atoms.
Block/Item | Components | Notes |
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Andesite |
The results approximate SiO2, the chemical formula for silicon dioxide. Silicon dioxide is the sole ingredient of quartz and the main ingredient of silicate minerals. | |
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These four elements are found in all life forms on Earth. | |
The results depict dirt as a mixture of inorganic rocks and decaying organic material, although there is too little oxygen to form the compounds found in real-life dirt such as calcium carbonate. | ||
Any Overworld Logs |
The formula mirrors the chemical compositions of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, the three main components of wood. | |
Cobblestone |
These elements are all commonly found in silicate minerals. | |
Similar to regular cobblestone. Mossy cobblestone has carbon to account for the moss. | ||
Water Bucket |
The results approximate H2O, the chemical formula for water. | |
A mixture of pure (elemental) iron and silicate rock. In real life, iron ore usually contains oxidized iron, so the formula would contain much more oxygen. | ||
Gold Ore |
A mixture of pure gold and silicate rock. As gold is chemically inert, it is always naturally found in its elemental form. | |
Diamond Ore |
A mixture of pure carbon and silicate rock. Diamond is composed of pure carbon, and takes billions of years to form deep underground. | |
The formula roughly corresponds to lazurite, the main component of lapis lazuli. | ||
The formula implies that Redstone is made out of uranium methanide and an unknown element, thus it is radioactive. | ||
The results mirror the composition of coal, although real-life coal contains much less oxygen. | ||
The formula roughly corresponds to beryl, the main component of emerald. | ||
Copper Ore |
A mixture of pure copper and silicate rock. copper is composed of pure copper. | |
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The results mirror the composition of 100% pure iron. | |
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The results mirror the composition of 100% pure gold. | |
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The results mirror the composition of 100% pure diamond. | |
Netherrack |
A mixture of silicate rock and mercury. Mercury(II) oxide (HgO) is red to orange in color, although these results contain too little oxygen for any of this compound to form. | |
End Stone |
The approximate formula is Si4C, which doesn't really reflect any real-life compound. Although it is similar to the mineral SiC (silicon carbide). | |
These three gases are noble gases, which are commonly used in neon lights to produce vibrant colors. | ||
Soul Sand |
Soul sand is mostly composed of an unknown element, due to its paranormal composition. | |
These results reflect the formulae of many real-life clays, although real-life clay contains much more oxygen. | ||
Glow Ink Sac |
This formula roughly corresponds to Iron (II) sulfate, an inorganic dark dye, which is not found in any species of real-life squid. | |
Sugar |
The results approximate C12H22O11, the chemical formula for sugar. | |
Charcoal |
The results approximate C7H4O, the chemical formula for charcoal. |
Note that copper-related blocks, mud, coarse dirt, raw ore blocks and items, deepslate ores, iron, gold, and diamond equipment, doors, and trapdoors cannot be put into a material reducer, besides them being related to blocks that can.
All compounds that can be made in the compound creator and lab table can also be reduced in the material reducer, yielding their respective ingredients.
Sounds[]
Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
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Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.37 | 0.5 | |
Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.22 | 1.0 |
Data values[]
ID[]
Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
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Material Reducer | chemistry_table | 238 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.materialreducer.name |
Block states[]
Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
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chemistry_table_type | 0x1 0x2 | compound_creator
| compound_creator | 0 | Compound Creator |
element_constructor | 2 | Element Constructor | |||
lab_table | 3 | Lab Table | |||
material_reducer | 1 | Material Reducer | |||
direction | 0x4 0x8 | 0 | 0 1 2 3 | 0 1 2 3 | The direction the block's front is.
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History[]
Bedrock Edition | |||||
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1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Added material reducers. | |||
beta 1.2.20.2 | Pocket UI screens have been added to material reducers. | ||||
Education Edition | |||||
1.0.27 | Added material reducers. |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Material Reducer" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- There is currently a glitch in the material reducer's GUI: When the input slot becomes red, the "tubes" that are connected to it are sometimes rendered over the red square, which causes the image to flick between the normal square and the tubes.
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