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Suspicious sand is a block that can be found in desert wells and desert pyramids. Depending on the structure, it contains one of several items that can be revealed by using a brush on it.

Obtaining

Breaking

Suspicious sand is unobtainable by mining, even using a tool enchanted with Silk Touch. It is affected by gravity, but it always breaks with no drop after falling. It breaks immediately if pushed by a piston or sticky piston, and cannot be pulled by sticky pistons or slime blocks.

Block Suspicious Sand
Hardness 0.25
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default 1.25
Wooden 0.2
Stone 0.1
Iron 0.1
Diamond 0.05
Netherite 0.05
Golden 0.05
  1. Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Natural generation

Blocks of suspicious sand generate naturally in buried rooms under desert pyramids, as well as in the bottom of desert wells.

Usage

Loot

Suspicious sand drops nothing when mined. It is affected by gravity, but breaks upon landing.

Using a brush, the player can extract an item from the suspicious sand. The latter will immediately be converted into regular sand. Items can only be extracted from naturally generated suspicious sand blocks. When placed by the player, nothing is produced after brushing.

Structure Item Probability
Desert Pyramid Archer Pottery Shard 17
Prize Pottery Shard 17
Skull Pottery Shard 17
Gunpowder 17
TNT 17
Diamond 17
Emerald 17
Desert Well Arms Up Pottery Shard 37
Brick 17
Stick 17
Suspicious Stew[more information needed] 17
Emerald 17

Sounds

Java Edition:

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.suspicious_sand.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break1.00.816
Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedblock.suspicious_sand.placesubtitles.block.generic.place1.00.816
Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.suspicious_sand.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit0.250.516
None[sound 1]Entity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.suspicious_sand.fallNone[sound 1]0.50.7516
FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.suspicious_sand.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.151.016
  1. a b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch
BlocksOnce the block has brokenbreak.suspicious_sand1.00.8-1.0
BlocksWhen the block is placedplace.suspicious_sand1.00.8-1.0
BlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenhit.suspicious_sand0.230.5
PlayersFalling on the block with fall damagestep.suspicious_sand0.41.0
PlayersWalking on the blockstep.suspicious_sand0.21.0
PlayersJumping from the blockstep.suspicious_sand0.121.0
PlayersFalling on the block without fall damagestep.suspicious_sand0.181.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormBlock tagsItem tagsTranslation key
Suspicious Sandsuspicious_sandBlock & Itembamboo_plantable_on
enderman_holdable
sand
lush_ground_replaceable
mineable/shovel
sandblock.minecraft.suspicious_sand

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID FormItem ID[i 1]Translation key
Suspicious Sandsuspicious_sandBlock & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]tile.suspicious_sand.name
  1. ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
  2. Available with /give command.
  3. The block's direct item form has the same id as the block.

Block states

See also: Block states

In Bedrock Edition, suspicious sand uses the following block states:

Java Edition:

Name Default value Allowed values Description
dusted00
1
2
3
Increases as the block is being brushed.

Bedrock Edition:

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
brushed_progressNot Supported00
1
2
3
UnsupportedIncreases as the block is being brushed.
hangingNot Supportedtruetrue
false
Unsupported[more information needed]

Falling block entity

Main article: Falling Block
  • Dynamic block entity data
      • Tags common to all entities
    •  BlockState: The falling block represented by this entity.
    •  CancelDrop: 1 or 0 (true/false). Whether the block will be cancelled from being placed when it lands on a solid block. When true, it also prevents the block from dropping as an item (regardless of what the DropItem tag is set to). However, if true and the falling block's Time tag goes to 0 before landing on a solid block, it will still destroy itself and drop itself as an item (or not, respective to what the DropItem tag is set to). CancelDrop defaults to false for summoned and naturally occurring falling blocks (except for Suspicious Blocks).
    •  DropItem: 1 or 0 (true/false) – true if the block should drop as an item when it breaks. Any block that does not have an item form with the same ID as the block does not drop even if this is set.
    •  FallHurtAmount: Multiplied by the FallDistance to calculate the amount of damage to inflict. By default this value is 2♥ for anvils, and 6♥♥♥ for pointed dripstone.
    •  FallHurtMax: The maximum hit points of damage to inflict on entities that intersect this falling block. For vanilla falling blocks, always 40♥ × 20.
    •  HurtEntities: 1 or 0 (true/false) – true if the block should hurt entities it falls on.
    •  TileEntityData: Optional. The tags of the block entity for this block.
    •  Time: The number of ticks the entity has existed. When Time goes above 600, or above 100 while the block is below Y=1 or is outside building height, the entity is deleted.

History

October 3, 2020Excavation blocks were announced at Minecraft Live 2020 to be part of archaeology features. The excavation sand was mentioned but not shown in the video footage
April 14, 2021Archaeology features were delayed
February 10, 2023The archaeology features were re-announced, including the suspicious sand
Upcoming Java Edition
1.20
(experimental)
23w07aSuspicious Sand JE1 BE1 Added suspicious sand.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.20.0
(expermiental)
beta 1.19.70.23Suspicious Sand JE1 BE1 Added suspicious sand.

Issues

Issues relating to "Suspicious Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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