Sand

This is the Matcha Flavoured version of Sand, renamed or changed from vanilla Minecraft.

Sand

Type	Block
Stackable	Yes (64)
Resource location	minecraft:sand
Defined in	sand.json

Sand is a gravity-affected block found in deserts and on beaches. Matcha Flavoured lets it be made from gravel in a blast furnace, so players need not dig up deserts, and lets plants grow on it.

Obtaining

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Recipe
Sand	Sandstone	2 matcha:crafting/sand_from_sandstone

Blasting

Name	Ingredients	Recipe
Sand	Gravel	Blast Furnace · 5 s, 0.1 XP matcha:blast/sand

• Blasting gravel gives sand (5 seconds).
• A block of sandstone crafts back into 2 sand.
• Eight sand around an iron nugget make 8 red sand.

Other sources

Chance is the probability that a single chest, mob or catch yields at least one, assuming no Looting, Luck or Fortune.

Chest loot

Source	Stack size	Chance	Notes
Desert pyramid (chests/desert_pyramid)	1–4	80.2%

Block drops

Source	Stack size	Chance	Notes
Sand (blocks/sand)	1	50.0%

Mined with a tool that has the adamant tool intrinsic, sand drops glass instead, increased by Fortune.

Usage

Name	Ingredients	Recipe
Quartz	Sand	Blast Furnace · 5 s, 0.1 XP matcha:blast/quartz
Red Sand	8 × Sand + Iron Nugget	8 matcha:crafting/red_sand_from_sand_and_iron
Sandstone	4 × Sand	2 matcha:crafting/sandstone
TNT	5 × Paper or Sand + 4 × Sulfur Chunk	2 matcha:crafting/tnt
Glass	Sand or Red Sand	Mud Kiln · 5 s, 0.35 XP matcha:kiln/glass_from_smoking_sand
Black Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Black Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Blue Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Blue Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Brown Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Brown Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Cyan Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Cyan Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Gray Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Gray Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Green Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Green Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Light Blue Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Light Blue Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Light Gray Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Light Gray Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Lime Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Lime Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Magenta Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Magenta Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Orange Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Orange Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Pink Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Pink Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Purple Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Purple Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Red Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Red Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
White Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	White Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8
Yellow Concrete Powder (vanilla recipe)	Yellow Dye + 4 × Sand + 4 × Gravel	8

• Fired in a mud kiln, sand becomes glass; blasted, it becomes quartz.
• Sand and red sand support vegetation, so grass and flowers can be planted on them.

History

0.6-alpha	Sand and red sand support vegetation.
1.0	Picking up sand unlocks the quartz recipe.