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Particles are a type of Entity in Minecraft; they are graphical effects. The particles always seem to "look" at the player and will usually dissapear after a short period of time

You can reduce the amount of particles visible in the Options menu.

Types of Particles

On Minecraft 1.0.0 code you can find a variety of particles. To help modders or for curious players below is displayed the types of particles and its real name shown on the game's code. If you throw a splash potion at the ground near some cobwebs, the particles emitted from the potion that enter a cobweb will slow down. Each particles area is 8x8 pixels.

Particle Real name on code
Smoke "smoke"
Icon Consumption//Break "iconcrack_"
Snowball//Egg break "snowballspoof"
Tool break "tilecrack_"
Nether Portal//EnderEye "portal"
Water Splash "splash"
Water Bubbles "bubble"
Mycelium spores "townaura"
Explosion (Huge) "hugeexplosion"

Blocks that use particles

Entity Effect
Mob Spawner Fire and smoke.
Fire Smoke.
Dispenser Smoke.
Torches Fire and some smoke.
Redstone Torch Smoke (red)
Burning Furnace Fire and smoke
Nether Portal Smoke (Purple)
Water Squares
Enderman Purple Portal effects
Void Squares
Mycelium Mycelium spores
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