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Sand

Does not stack
Places a block
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Sand is a block in Minecraft that players can collect and carry in stacks of up to 64. Placing it down sets a block of the same name in the world.

Sand is used as an ingredient in 18 different recipes, which makes it a handy material to keep in the inventory for crafting.

Block form

Contents (3)
  1. Sounds
  2. History
  3. See also

Sounds

Taken from this item’s own components and from sound events named after it.

WhenSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
BrokenBlock brokenblock.sand.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break1116
Fallen onSomething falls on a blockblock.sand.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall1116
Hit while miningBlock breakingblock.sand.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit1116
—Sandy soundsblock.sand.idlesubtitles.block.sand.idle4116
PlacedBlock placedblock.sand.placesubtitles.block.generic.place1116
Walked onFootstepsblock.sand.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps1116
—Brushing Sanditem.brush.brushing.sandsubtitles.item.brush.brushing.sand0.60.616
—Brushing Sand completeditem.brush.brushing.sand.completesubtitles.item.brush.brushing.sand.complete1116

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w01a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w01a (3 January 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

See also