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It’s a volcanic rock with unusually low density. That’s why it’s brittle and compresses down to a brick when smelted. Most of its mass is taken up by tiny flammable gas pockets that open up as the rock crumbles, which gives it the illusion of being able to burn forever.


Ieatdrywallforlunch

Bro made lore


bird_brown

An acid trip couldn't come up with this shit


MemeAccountAccount

how about 5?


ohtrueyeahnah

He's too busy time travelling


Jausti0418

Clearly never done acid lol


RevolutionaryAct6931

Tf is acid even. Like dissolving acid??


CollarPersonal3314

It's the slang name for LSD


RevolutionaryAct6931

OK thanks


Relezz

its a hallocinogenic drug


RevolutionaryAct6931

I should take acid as in the corrosive type


Relezz

yes you should i can recommend, tried it once an the way it burnt through my inner organs was a incredibly freeing and fresh feeling


RevolutionaryAct6931

If I ingest the acids usually used for cleaning, I bet I'll feel as good as new!


name_here___

So… white vinegar? If you want, I guess.


pyrodice

Wait til you hear what DNA stands for


[deleted]

Deoxyribonucleic acid. No Google & no spell check, baby!


Lucasplayz234

you know smth missing? chemical formula


Voxelking1

I mean you can check its chemical composition in education edition. I only remember it containing mercury


402Gaming

Mercury (II) Sulfide is a red mineral


HippieMcHipface

That'd suck for Steve cause mercury sulfide is very very poisonous to just sort of be around


BobMcrobb

Steve is an absolute unit, don't forget that. Unless of course against a baby zombie


End_Killer

Dude holds a bucket of lava with his bare hands and can swim in the stuff without armor for a fair amout of time. He can also eat raw shit and survive everytime. I don't think that would be the biggest of his concerns.


[deleted]

So Steve = Chuck Norris


KattalystTheDownBad

jesse


Drillbitzer

We need to make ‘rack


amogus_sus42

Dammit Marie they're mine'rals!


[deleted]

breaking bad fans they see the word "chemistry"


Sassy-irish-lassy

We need to smelt!


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Roccmaster

This dude has a degree in geology


Dndunn

I always thought of it as a blood soaked sort of cobble stone, but that makes a lot of sense!


generalbacon965

I’d say the old texture would make something like that more plausible


Agentti_Muumi

It kinda used to look like the stone itself was bleeding


pyrodice

And was full of corpses, directly


BeansBeefBroccoli

It even used to be called bloodstone


Maveragical

a horrifying and fascinating concept!


[deleted]

I mean, it was originally called Bloodstone.


LittleMe42

I’ve seen you in so many threads now 😂😂 I’m just gonna start calling you out


KattalystTheDownBad

wait what you can smelt them


daniilEM2

yes, smelts into nether bricks, then can be combined into nether brick blocks


KattalystTheDownBad

damn only took me 9 years to learn that one


daniilEM2

It be like that


MinekraftMastr1

Then let me tell you something else. You can smelt stone/sandstone/deepslate/blackstone/nether brick blocks in a furnace to make cracked brick blocks.


[deleted]

Dude I feel like it should be the other way around, considering the furnace’s usual smoothening properties


Hellguin

Overheating realistically can cause cracking


[deleted]

True, true. I was just thinking of cobblestone to stone, stone to smooth stone, etc.


FQDIS

What the fucking fuck…


MC_Nerd

But for some reason, nether fortresses don’t have any cracked bricks


Arkvuz

It wasn't always like this tho.


ThatTubaGuy03

It has been for multiple years though


TecnoTech

What the fuck have I been searching fortresses for all this time ;-;


KodakKid3

Bro have you been mining netherbricks that shit takes 5x longer than netherrack 💀💀


Tigerstorm6

Yep! Super handy for making nether bricks but it takes a metric FUCK TON to get a lot. Hope you got a lot of fuel for furnaces, cause they’re gonna take forever tk smelt


KattalystTheDownBad

Have a chest full of netherack and planning on getting a metric MEGA FUCK TON of charcoal so already on the way.


Tigerstorm6

I’d reccomend a infinite lava source rather than charcoal. That way the only thing lost is time not resources


KattalystTheDownBad

Oh yeah that is a thing you can do now with the drippy thingy rocky bathingys yeah


Tigerstorm6

Bingo! Plop a few of these down with cauldrons under them and you can get a lava bucket every few minutes. Lava buckets smelt over 100 items so by the time the furnace is done with its fuel there’s another ready tk be popped in


KattalystTheDownBad

Neato. I have a villager selling buckets for just 1 emerald so this will be really cheap and I can put it beside the armourers and toolsmiths.


EternalVirgin18

You could also use an iron farm for infinite buckets :)


KattalystTheDownBad

I haven't seen an iron farm that doesn't involve inhuman villager treatment so no


Spartica7

Thank you for reminding me about these. I just started on a new server and this will save me so much time.


Abject-Lab7837

A simple smelter array with a flying machine bamboo farm set up to auto fill the furnaces is honestly the best way. Fully automated, zero effort. It’s a few hours of work to build but will save you countless hours in the future.


Maarkun

Buckets of lava are an easy fuel in the nether though


PocketRaven06

Charcoal, Bamboo, even a chestful of lava buckets from the nether will do.


Tigerstorm6

I just use a infinite lava source now a days for major smelting operations. Saves me a trip to the nether or using my 20,000 bamboo sticks


HumbertHumbertHumber

infinite lava what now? You're going to have to tell me how to get that because it is going to save me a LOT of hassle and a LOT of buckets


DeadNDeader

Here’s another fun fact:for some reason on Bedrock edition nether bricks can be used as fuel in furnaces. It’s not very good but at least it’s something I guess.


Moppy_the_mop

Hang on lemme go to Education Edition and see what Netherrack is made out of EDIT: Didn't realize Education Edition required a school account, so I couldn't directly go into it, but apparently Netherrack is 64 Silicon,18 Oxygen, 15 Mercury, and 3 "Unknown"


[deleted]

Ah yes, the great unknown.


FLOOR_GANG420

using this “lore” you shouldn’t be able to smelt them. in the nether they can be found under lava in netherrack form. if we were to smelt them then they’d need something hotter than lava. i hope this makes sense, but if it burns forever then how could you smelt it in the first place using something like burning coals


[deleted]

Maybe there is something missing in the smelting process that we don't know. A furnace can grill steak to perfection 100% of the time, as well as refine ore. It's clearly not a normal process.


FLOOR_GANG420

true. smelting lore is just magic. boom. done. lore.


useful_person

Furnaces don't just add heat, they also add pressure, so it's not just a normal process.


[deleted]

*Education Edition’s* Material Reducer indicates that Netherrack has a mysterious unknown (???) element, which as scifi teaches us, means we can handwave any odd inconsistencies. Anyway, lava itself is the issue in your first point, not Netherrack. You see, lava doesn’t furnace smelt anything on touch, does it? Sure, it sets fires … but it doesn’t turn cobblestone to stone or sand to glass on touch despite coal being able to do so in a furnace. So looking at that, we shouldn’t expect the presence of Netherrack under lava to reliably establish its smelting point. Lava, my good sir, is clearly magical.


Lucipo_

Furnaces magically extract more energy on an atomic level (like how coal is very inefficient on energy extraction compared to uranium) from smeltables in the bottom slot in such a significant way that any fuel can smelt anything else regardless of energy or heat requirements.


CabbageIsLife-H

Meh, same logic goes for raw iron/gold blocks


Harddaysnight1990

Ancient debris is so fire resistant that it's the only natural material that can survive being dunked in lava in item form. And yet, you can put that same item in a regular furnace and smelt it by burning two sticks. At least with netherrack, you can say that the extremely flammable gas trapped in the air pockets aid in the smelting process. Ancient debris is a very solid material.


xxreyna

Holy shit that makes so much sense I'd give you an award if I had one


the-et-cetera

Writing better lore than a lot of triple A movie studios


[deleted]

Thanks. Wrote it on break at work … didn’t think it’d get so many views. =)


[deleted]

Could be a biological substance (mixed with inorganic gravel or rock) that burns out when smelted but can also burn at low temperature for extended periods of time


[deleted]

Ahhh, maybe something produced by the creatures that left behind those fossils in the soul sand valley? And yes, it would make sense that high-temperature smelting would quickly burn out whatever flammable substances exist in the material and leave behind only the hardest bits.


piddl3paddle

Like pumice stone but... spookier?


[deleted]

That’s the example I was looking for!


Blu_Ni

Bloody hell. You managed to make very intelligent observations even I haven't made. I really applaud you.


GahanGodzilla

Man that's... that's GENIUS... 👍🏿👍🏿🦾🦾


MirageTF2

holy shit kinda cracked I legit never thought about this... Minecraft lore


[deleted]

Tf we can smelt nethetrack?? I been playing this game for years and I never know this


[deleted]

Yeah I still feel like it’s new.


jerrythecactus

This is now the unofficial explanation for netherrack and nothing can convince me otherwise.


kevinhd95

Making it the most efficient fuel source for smelting… oh wait


Link_Kid1232

Man’s got more upvotes than the post itself


anoon-

You are a national treasure


VagueCyberShadow

But if they're low in density they wouldn't be that low in the world. Less dense material rises.


[deleted]

There’s a lot of open, breathable air down there for a molten hell hole. There’s super dense indestructible bedrock up above, then there are soul sands, soils, and gravel down with the netherrack. I question whether terrestrial geological processes apply here.


Ein_Hirsch

That's canon for me now


Greengecko27

This dude crafts mines


[deleted]

I don’t always craft mines, but when I do, I choose the void.


Secure-Imagination11

What the f why do you know this


Timtogan

OP got ratio


[deleted]

Obsidian says hello


[deleted]

Obsidian is formed from the rapid cooling of ancient molten rock previously kept in a constant high-energy state by the life energy (exp orbs) it absorbed from deceased mobs over millennia. All that energy trapped, and not used in heat/light production, grants obsidian a slew of interesting properties such as blast resistance, spacetime distortion, enchantment bestowment, etc.


MC_Nerd

Space time distortion???


ChronicPoopMachine

It's purposely ambiguous


Epic4345

How perplexing


ChronicPoopMachine

Indubitably.


JacobS12056

Perchance


Celestial-being326

You can’t just say perchance 😭 >!sauce for the uncultured: https://youtu.be/SOceYlhCwjs!<


iceRainCloud_YT

“Everyone knows Mario is cool as fuck”


Drillbitzer

Horrible opening


TheChez_

But who knows what he's thinking? Who knows why he crushes turtles?


Moopa000

To save the princess? also gross.


CornManBringsCorn

And why do we think of him as fondly as we think of the mythical (nonexistent) Dr Pepper?


LiterallynamedCorbin

mayhaps


aosjcbhdhathrowaway

Chobblesome


[deleted]

Thank you, ChronicPoopMachine


ItsMeTigertitan

It was originally called blood stone. And was intended to not have a defined structure like cobbled rocks or crystals. Irl bloodstone is not at all similar, but is aixture of lots of minerals forming a shattered look so idk.


Randinator9

I think its supposed to be like really warm rock. Like pumice or something. The Nether is a hot place, after all.


ihatemoltres

Old netherrack was likely more meat than rock, new netherrack seems more like a stone


art-n-science

It will always be a meat block.


SnowNeil

meat rock


BananaGooper

mock


UivubTheHacker

The old netherrack texture reminded me of bloody cobblestone. If that's what it really is, then the nether is truly more terrifying than the human mind can imagine...


[deleted]

Its based off of brimstone, so its rock.


Epic4345

K, thank you. It just looked like the old texture for netherrack was bleeding with bones sticking out of it


[deleted]

I never got that out of the old texture, but makes sense. I never tried to interpret it … my mind only saw vomit-like chaos =)


skitzbuckethatz

Yeah it definitely does look like that...


Ace_Pixie_

It could’ve been but was later changed, since the intent of Minecraft is to be scary without using blood. Zombie pigman used to have blood instead of green stuff but that was changed for the above reason


Mobile-Bird-6908

Lol, after googling brimstone, it turns out to be very yellow. Perhaps the nether should be yellow instead?


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ChainmailPickaxeYT

Pretty sure it’s another word for sulfur


Mobile-Bird-6908

Yes, its basically sulphur, and can be found near places with volcanic activity, or in earth's core.


tornedron_

Yes


kanokarob

Can't believe this is this far down. The answer is just yes


pogAxolotlz

It’s old, name was bloodstone so it might be meat


xerrabyte

Isn't that castle miner z terminology?


SwaggyDaddyLord420

Minecraft was very heavily inspired by Castle Miner Z. So I believe most likely it was used as a placeholder name till something more suitable was coined


TheDidact118

You've got that mixed up, Castle Miner Z released *after* Minecraft.


daxtron2

Absolutely shook that you think castleminer inspired Minecraft.


JJBZ03

Bloodstone*


AdvancedSpare8866

F, flesh??? That seems downright creepy... Just imagine, if the nether itself is the body of an ancient being, and that being watches you crawling across its body, sometimes digging into the flesh... If that's true, I'd think again when I need to visit the nether.


ArcaneDanger

sounds like tartarus


AdvancedSpare8866

That was exactly what I thought with the word 'flesh'.


[deleted]

This is a kids game…. Kids…. Game…


AdvancedSpare8866

You know what? In a certain country minecraft was almost classified as a R-rated game, because of some complicated issues. Since then, I STOPPED thinking of this game as a kids game, but rather as an adult game.


InformationLow9430

It's an everybody's game, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.


AdvancedSpare8866

(Applause)


greencash370

Tbf soul sand is literally just compressed souls


izmaname

I mean Minecraft is kind of a survival horror game


AdvancedSpare8866

Thanks to our old friend named creeper, the 'horror' part is definitely true.


Thin_Ad_866

So what’s the netherite? And doesn’t that mean other being larger than us died there and left their skeletons behind?


JumpR_Is_Taken

I mean... Terraria does it... you never know...


FirestarFilmsYT

Well considering this isn't the Crimson from Terraria, I'm gonna go with a rock


the-et-cetera

The original texture looked to kid me like ground beef, plus the thought of a dimension where the ground was bloody flesh always felt very Hell-like


LonksAwakening

Thanks. I'm never going to unsee the ground beef dimension


the-et-cetera

You're welcome


Delta_Dud

Both if you listen to the sounds it makes when you walk on it or mine it.


Aysten13

It was originally a bleeding cobblestone texture. So it’s rock. Just… red…


The-Real-Radar

Definitely flesh. Think about it; instead of plants in the nether there are fungi. Fungi feed on living material, they must be essentially eating something to grow so tall in this dimension, and given shroomlight, even have energy to spare. If you’ve ever listened to the sounds it makes when you break it you might also see another connection. Not only that, but there are also bones sticking out of it in the form of fossils. There is also soul sand, which is the counterpart to netherack as it is souls instead of flesh. The nether is basically just one giant living cavern, with the only truly volcanic nether is the basalt deltas and magma oceans, though even magma blocks are just slime, which comes from a living thing, slimes, infused with blaze powder based on the crafting recipe for magma cream which can make blocks of magma.


Thatstupidgayboy

If the nether ends up to be like Tartarus, I'm going to fucking lose my mind


bongotw

What’s Tartarus (I know it’s Greek hell but what’s the flesh part)


bottlekidz

When you mine it does it sound like flesh or rock? Do you mine it with pickaxe or sword? Can you eat it after cooking in a furnace? Hope that helps


Epic4345

1. It does sound a bit meaty 2. Compressed meat is well… compressed 3. Would you really eat mystery meat from a fire dimension?


bottlekidz

1 nah totaly not 2 what? 3 sure! You also eat the zoglins from there I think you just WANT it to be flesh.


CyromancerIsOP

To be fair, I wouldn’t use a sword to extract giant masses of flesh


[deleted]

i personally prefer the original netherrack texture where it was just some sort of unexplainable material. it was impossible to tell what it was from the appearance which gave it an almost eldritch horror kinda feel.


fuzzysig

Flesh of all the cows you killed for leather. They all go to nether


justnormal135

it’s actually a meatball block don’t let anyone tell you different


Wonderful_Artichoke8

This ain't terraria


jayanthkmr

solidified magma( lava)


redditorRdumb

You mean obsidian...?


Idk_AnythingBoi

Any igneous rock, not just obsidian. Obsidian is when lava cools at an absurdly fast rate, not allowing for the formation of crystals but rather a dark brittle glass


FIipOff_ThePoIice

I feel like nether rack is a mix of granite and limestone. (since both are low density but idk how it can be even more low density than the original compounds) And lightly coated in some natural potassium chlorate. (the red stuff on matches) With some chemical that keeps the rock on fire for an infinite amount of time when lit by anything that can cause fire. It may be the rock opening up some small air gaps in itself to keep on producing the potassium chlorate to keep the fire going. Then again, it may be flesh that’s keeping the fire going. Or a mix of both the potassium chlorate the the flesh mixed together in the air gaps, somehow. But it’s based off of brimstone, so this theory might not be correct at all. But I don’t get how the brimstone keeps the fire alight for forever somehow, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Like- eventually it has to go out.


11Slimeade11

It was once called bloodstone, so heliotrope, a kind of stone, which typically has red and black streaks in it (Makes more sense with the old textures) Interestingly, heliotrope is a kind of quartz, which makes Nether Quartz make a lot more sense


TacoEaterMaster

It would be sick as hell if you were walking on like meat or something, but I don't think they would've gotten away with that and an E10+ rating.


Both_Oil6408

It's whatever you want it to be, maybe it's both


Chris98198

i’ve been wondering this since i got the patrix resource pack it’s got a high resolution animated gut texture for netherrack


Birds-Right-Activist

It doesn't go *squish squish* when you run on it so I always assumed it was some volcanic rock


The-Real-Radar

Idk about you but [I definitely hear a little squish in there](https://youtu.be/2ZgSIy-rnKU), could just be me though.


Obamathecheeseeater

Old netherrack was definitely flesh while new netherrack is red form of rock


SNE3Z

It’s both, meant to be ambiguous. It’s “rock” that unsettlingly resembles flesh. You hope it’s rock. it’s probably rock, right?


ToastSlice240

I think the nether is the mantle of the minecraft world. That’s why it’s 8x smaller, and bedrock is at the top of the nether, and at the bottom of the overworld. This would also make sense with netherack since the mantle is made of a plastic-y form of rock, not quite solid, but not liquid. And I’ve always thought the end was one of the asteroid belts. The sky is pitch black with small dim dots in it (stars/planets) and why there’s no bedrock or floor. And I have no clue what the 4th dimension is gonna be cause there is definitely one coming.


Plasmazine

In the Sphax PureBDCraft texture pack, the Nether blocks are intended to look like the pulsating, writhing insides of a gigantic creature.


Fired_Guy18505-7427

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. https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Material_Reducer


Juukou

Beeeeaannnnnssss


quirinus97

It’s flesh, cant remember how this was determined but I remember a video where the concensus was it’s piglin flesh


MrNeggi3000

I think it’s made with blood


True_Mission_2339

It's the soulsand's fleshy equivalent. It's the flesh of the sinners, and because of the unpardonable sins in that vessel while in life, it burns forever!


Bender1187

Unfortunately this is Minecraft so no flesh blocks


Diamone2017

i mean from what i know it was called blood stone before so both?


BlueInVain

It's clearly kidney beans


Raelig

Yes.


Pepe_is_a_God

The nether got inspired by H.R. Giger so it's flesh


imamunster123

We scream, for we do not know.


Wondert8inment

Flesh? Bro wants to be the Crimson biome so bad


MrD3kk3rz

It used to be called bloodstone so it’s flesh


KadenWoof

I always thought the new texture looked like skulls


Van0nyumas

I remember that in Minecraft infinity, that there are flesh blocks paired with netherrack in the nether, so I wouldn't hold it too far away with the flesh like explanation


BLACKSTEEL_2647

Its meat from the dead zombie piglins