Sand is a fairly common block, often found near water on new maps. Like gravel this block is affected by gravity and will fall to the lowest block in the z-coordinate it is placed in. However, it does not exhibit this behavior in water.

Sand
Sand.PNG: Infobox image for Sand the block in Minecraft
Invicon Sand.png: Inventory sprite for Sand in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Sand
Tool

?

Blast resistance

0.5

Hardness

0.5

Luminous

?

Transparent

No

Flammable

?

Catches fire from lava

?

Map color (Java)


  2 SAND

Sand has been removed in 0.0.19a, but returned in version 0.0.20a. It was removed due to lack of room in the UI.