Mojang remove blocks every Minecraft update
and you haven't even noticed! Like all of these, which I've added back in! So, subscribe and here are forty-six Minecraft
blocks they had to get rid of. Number One
Before command blocks were even a thing, teleport blocks were in a official version of the game. These blocks would instantly transport you
to different ones using a menu. Home blocks would take you to your house and
spawn blocks would let you change the spawn point. Mojang removed these when making the new Education
Edition, but they would've made transportation so much quicker. Number Two
Minecraft used to have these two textures. They clearly look like a chair and a table,
and this is what they could've looked like in 3D. Weirdly, wheat used to look like this if it
somehow grew more than it should! Mojang later on banned all furniture from
being added to Minecraft. Number Three
When Minecraft was first being planned, Mojang were going to add spikes that extended and
retracted. They would've basically been spiked pistons
but these were replaced with sticky pistons. A developer said in 2012 that they'd like
to add spikes but weren't sure how they'd work. 1.17 finally added dripstone, but you can't
even push the spikes! Come on Mojang... Number Four
Doing this looks pretty cursed, but the portal block used to allow something very similar. These worked just like normal nether portals
but acted like fence posts, allowing for some nice looking designs. When portals were first added, you could place
them like a full block, too! It's good that Mojang removed them, before
someone tried to light one of these! Number Five
Back in Indev versions, there was a house with chests containing stacks of a hundred
water and lava blocks. These were DANGEROUSLY GLITCHY. Mojang even called the lava ones "volcano
blocks" because of how deadly they were. Place one of these bad boys in your world
and if you can't stop it, say goodbye to your precious Minecraft house. The water blocks would spread even faster,
but both types could be soaked up with a bit of sponge. Number Six
Soul fire was added in the nether update but another soul block was completely scrapped
from the game. Unused particles existed that looked just
like lava particles. But blue. This means soul lava might have been found
in soul sand valleys in an unreleased version. It could've been able to flow faster or dealt
more damage like soul fire does. Mojang removed it before we ever got to find
out, so we just have to speculate. Number Seven
This next one permanently broke entire worlds. Placing one of these would crash the game
and render your hard work worthless instantly. You might think it's a normal hopper, but
looking from beneath will show that it points in no direction. Luckily, the only way to place this was with
the setblock command. Though Mojang probably should've tested it
thoroughly before risking the worlds of anyone who just wanted to try the new hoppers. Number Eight
Ice and snow can get in the way, especially with 1.17's snowier snow. So, when you need to clear some away, the
heat block would've been great for warming up the area. If Mojang hadn't removed it, that is. This feature was made exclusive to the education
edition, but there is an actual reason for it! Like real life hand warmers the iron inside
oxidizes and releases heat. There's some real life chemistry in a Minecraft
video! Number Nine
This block looks like grey concrete but it's not. It's called "reserved6", or ".name<" as it
was known at the time. When fire spread in pocket edition, sometimes
it would create this block. Pocket edition also had these two secret blocks. One says "update!", which would show up when
a block was removed by an update but still placed in the world. The other says "ate! upd" so that together
they say "update!". Number Ten
Loads of unique blocks were added in the buzzy bees update. Something that bees make, other than honey,
that Mojang didn't add is beeswax. They added a texture for a wax block in a
snapshot version, but it was removed because it wasn't even meant to be added! Mojang possibly tested it out but couldn't
think of a proper use for it. They should've added it in 1.17 as a crafting
ingredient for candles! Number Eleven
Sometimes it's difficult to see where a village starts and ends but, with village border blocks,
that's no longer a problem. They were seen in a demo at a convention and
the textures remained in the files for years. However, there's no footage in existence of
them in action, so it's difficult to know if these were placed like redstone to trap
villagers or if they just generated naturally. The blocks would be nice on servers to confine
players into a small space before a challenge starts. Please help me. Number Twelve
Speaking of borders, a red variant of walls called border blocks are found in the Education
Edition but not in the main game. You can't walk under them or fly over them! Unless you're a teacher. These would also be great for servers, but
Mojang won't let us have them for some reason! All mobs are stopped apart from the ender
dragon, which just flies straight on through. Oh, and ender pearls let you escape lessons
as well. Stay in school. Number Thirteen
This one's more than just a block. It's INSIDE a block. Beacons were going to have this little rotating
cube inside, which looked like an end crystal. This had to be removed by Mojang to stop lag,
since loads of enchantment tables can destroy the game, so imagine what would happen with
loads of these. A blue cube inside is a bit more boring, though. Number Fourteen
What happens when the volcano blocks and water blocks from earlier collide? They make GEARS? Yeah, gears were in the game before redstone. You could only break them with an explosion,
so they were pretty tough to remove. Breaking the block behind it would just make
the gear invisible! Eventually, Mojang removed them and every
world with gears had them suddenly replaced with redstone. Number Fifteen
You might think we've already got enough slabs in the game. A good few were removed, however. The first ever slab variant added was removed
straight away. Dirt slabs were added so the terrain could
be a little smoother but it didn't work for cliffs so the feature had to be removed. Coral slabs got shown at Minecon Earth but
Mojang removed those too. The Etho slab, was added in an April Fools'
update. They worked like TNT and spawned anvils above
players! Number Sixteen
If you're greedy like me, you'll know the feeling of cake running out. What if you could just keep on eating it,
forever? That's what used to be possible, allowing
you to create an inverted cake block. You could see inside the cake and the appearance
changed every version. For Minecraft's tenth birthday, a big white
concrete number ten was added to the top of cakes for a few days before being removed
again. Number Seventeen
Ants used to be in Minecraft. You're thinking "that's a mob!", but it was
actually a block. It will turn right on white concrete and left
on black concrete, changing the colour as it goes. The pattern seems random at first, but it
will always eventually create a highway. The same April Fools' update also had netherite
stairs called "swaggiest stairs ever" if you're looking for something a bit more silly. Number Eighteen
Another removed block is *the zone* from the 20w14infinite snapshot. The block is invisible and emits happy villager
particles. Any mob or player that enters *the zone* will
get blindness two and poison four for three seconds. You can't use pistons to move zones or place
blocks in there, but they do affect the gravity of items thrown inside. The same update also had a cursor block that
switched colour every second, and boxes of books full of random text. What were Mojang thinking to come up with
this stuff!? Number Nineteen
Signs used to be mobs. Well, sort of. When signs were first added, they looked like
this. Pressing B would drop a sign and it would
bounce along the ground. This was an early test, as you can see from
the message that was printed on every sign. Not much point in having signs if you can't
write on them... Signs used to have a 15 letter limit, so writing
"mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" would cause the letters to hang off the edge! Number Twenty
TNT slabs are cool, but even cooler is super TNT. This was seen in Minecraft Story Mode and
was used to craft the formidi-bomb. Story Mode also had a few impossible banners,
window blocks, and don't forget the wither storm! Number Twenty-One
It feels like wool has been in the game forever. You might not know that there was a totally
different block before wool was around! Cloth was the original version of wool, with
colours like chartreuse, ultramarine, spring green, capri, rose, and way more! You used to use these blocks to craft cloth
armour, which was renamed to leather armour when leather was added. For some reason, white cloth was one of the
last ones added and there was never any black cloth, just dark grey. Number Twenty-Two
We all know that torches break in water. This can be both useful and an absolute pain. When it gets annoying, underwater torches
could be the solution! They could be, but Mojang restricted them
to the Education Edition. They're made by with a torch and magnesium. In real life, magnesium and iron oxide create
thermite, which burns underwater! So many chemistry facts in one video! You can use sodium to make blue underwater
TNT, too. Number Twenty-Three
Speaking of torches, Mojang also added coloured torches to the Education Edition. Blue, red, purple, and green ones are made
using metal chlorides. They don't even emit coloured light, so they're
a bit of a scam. Torches used to burn out after a while for
April Fools' 2013. They were going to burn out after the 2010
Halloween update, with lanterns replacing normal torches but this luckily never happened. Number Twenty-Four
When Mojang are making blocks, they sometimes need special textures to make it easier to
test things. They left two of these in the files, creatively
named debug and debug2. Using a piston to push a bubble column in
some snapshots caused debug1 to appear. What the symbols mean on debug2 is unknown,
but it does look a little like this early sandstone texture. Number Twenty-Five
Unlike the unique chest animation, opening a barrel only shows a dark... circle. Two secret textures for barrels were added
in a Bedrock Edition update. One shows a square hole for the barrel and
the other shows the same square but filled with fish! These were removed, but are now used in Minecraft
Dungeons, where barrels look even cooler. Number Twenty-Six
When you place a bell on the ground, it's held by two stone poles. These used to be made of planks. Another update secretly added versions of
bells with granite, polished granite and diorite frames, meaning that Mojang may have intended
for bells to be craftable using these items. There wasn't even an andesite one, which is
really odd. Number Twenty-Seven
The End dimension is packed full of end stone, but it used to look a lot more like this. The white cobblestone was added before end
stone and was called "whiteStone". Mojang had to remove this and replace it with
end stone, which is easier to see and just an inverted version of cobblestone. This white texture here looks like wool, but
it was added in the same version as clouds, so it might've been for those. Number Twenty-Eight
This spawner right here is actually a CHEST. When a mob spawner generates in the same block
space as a chest, the two combine and look like a pig spawner. It doesn't actually spawn any pigs and the
only way to access the items inside is with a hopper. There was also a version where signs and spawners
had the same ID, causing this to happen! Number Twenty-Nine
You'd think Minecraft has enough variants of blocks with slight changes. There are 23 types of stone brick, for example. Mojang still added more to Minecraft Dungeons,
but won't be adding these to the main game! Some blocks are unused in that game for obvious
reasons. There are loads of unique blocks, so look
out for them next time you play Dungeons. Number Thirty
Although Minecraft says it's "90% bug free", some broken blocks have slipped through the
cracks at points. This invisible block here is actually a set
of stairs. They weren't very good at being stairs, though,
because you could walk right through them. Eventually Mojang removed these phantom stairs
and replaced them with upside-down stairs. This block looks like oak planks, but it's
a bit broken because clicking it drops a button. After placing it again, it looks like this. Number Thirty-One
Minecraft's biome votes from over the years have teased a bunch of new blocks that got
cancelled because not enough people voted for them. Two types of trees that Mojang mentioned were
baobab trees in savannas and palm trees in deserts. The badlands biome would've been given cacti
with really cool designs and tumbleweed blocks which somehow would've rolled. Number Thirty-Two
1.17's tinted glass blocks were originally an April Fools' joke where you could change
the colour of glass, but couldn't see through it any more. This was added and removed even before stained
glass existed. Also, hardened glass was added to the Education
Edition. This is as blast resistant as end stone and
takes fifteen seconds to mine with your hand. So many new types! Number Thirty-Three
You wouldn't expect vines to grow in caves. That's probably why Mojang removed this next
block. These are root vines, which would've grown
from the top of caves! This texture was left in a snapshot version
and the vines look pretty similar to glow berries, but without the berries. Or the glow. Another forgotten 1.17 feature was the calibrated
sculk sensor. It looked like semi-transparent amethyst block,
but only Mojang know what it did. Number Thirty-Four
When making a world in Bedrock Edition, you can still select the "old" world type which
used to be the only option seven years ago. This world used to have a unique type of block,
called invisible bedrock. It's totally unbreakable just like the visible
version and would spawn around the edge of every world. When in your hand it looked like a flat stone
block. Invisible bedrock got removed by Mojang because
we now have border blocks. Number Thirty-Five
Now this may look like a dead bush, but it's not. In the old days, the dead bush had an alternate
version called the shrub. These were more similar to ferns as they dropped
wheat seeds and were a pixel lower than dead bushes. Another green version was created and the
colour changed based on the biome. Mojang had to remove these glitchy blocks,
which also made this a little less confusing. Number Thirty-Six
Is this block a dispenser, furnace or dropper? Trick question! It's none of them and it's about as useless
as it sounds. Certain data values used to create furnaces
with no direction, meaning no front either! Something more useful is the faceless jack
o'lantern. You can tell it's not just a normal pumpkin
because it glows! These were obtained in the same way but were
removed by Mojang. Number Thirty-Seven
Mojang actually had to remove the grass block at one point. Pocket Edition used to have this grass block
that had the side texture on the bottom. It was called "Block 253". Block 254 looked like this, which made the
crafting table the same colour as leaves. Number Thirty-Eight
In the old days of Minecraft, there were a few chances to see these two blocks that got
removed. This one is a placeholder block that used
to show up when a block tried to use a non-existent texture. It was changed to this one in 1.5 and then
to this purple and black cube in 1.6. Number Thirty-Nine
When you open a door, it's a little awkward how it opens instantly, right? Well, Mojang wanted to make it possible for
doors to turn with a nice smooth animation like this. These turning doors would've had no windows
and been made of oak because that was the only type of door at the time. Mojang removed all references to this version
of the door in 1.6, when resource packs were added. Number Forty
This removed block looks pretty weird, but it was actually Mojang's first ever April
Fools' prank. It used to look like this in 2011, and was
called the "Locked Chest". Opening it brought you to a page showing stuff
like a name change, miner's helmet, and even a creeper saddle. You couldn't actually buy these things, luckily. Number Forty-One
What if pistons could do this? Before Mojang removed six-sided pistons, you
could get them without even needing commands by using redstone clocks. They never really worked, though. Mojang removed some other six-sided variants
of blocks, including hay bales, bone blocks, and pillars, all with textures that don't
quite make sense. Number Forty-Two
Ah, the old days of Pocket Edition. This version from nine years ago had a bunch
of blocks that we don't have today. The nether reactor core, crafted like this,
would generate a nether spire with mobs and items inside. Glowing obsidian would also show up. The stonecutter looked like this and was added
so that the crafting menu wasn't too full. Then Mojang decided to remove it for four
years. Number Forty-Three
Mojang have changed which blocks correspond to which note block instrument more than a
few times. For example, note blocks on bones used to
make a bass drum sound before the xylophone instrument was added. Any note blocks from this time period still
play the bass drum and can be tuned without changing. There are few others that do this, making
for some confusing tunes. Number Forty-Four
You won't believe this, but Mojang removed acacia stairs for one update. When 1.7 released, acacia stairs were in the
game but you couldn't craft them because Mojang forgot to add in acacia planks. This also meant that acacia and dark oak slabs
weren't obtainable either. Number Forty-Five
In 2016, the Trendy Update brought us loads of futuristic items for April Fools' day. One of these was the USB charger block. It was crafted with iron, gold and redstone,
but what did it do? It was basically a futuristic clone of the
redstone block, as it would output a constant redstone signal and do nothing else. The redstone doesn't even have to go into
the top of the block. Number Forty-Six
A Minecraft developer once tweeted out this image, which shows 16 types of coloured planks. He asked, "wood this be of use to anybody?" Even though eighty percent said yes please,
Mojang BANNED this feature from being in the game. Watch this video to learn more about these
and other banned block and items. Subscribe!
