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"Sulfur" redirects here. For an element, see Element. For upcoming potent variant, see Potent Sulfur. For upcoming biome, see Minecraft Wiki:Drafts/Sulfur Caves. For upcoming mob, see Sulfur Cube.

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This article describes content that may be included in Java Edition.

This content has appeared in Java Edition 26.2 development versions, but the full update containing it has not been released yet.

The features on this page are exclusive to Experimental Gameplay in Bedrock Edition.

These features may be properly added in a future update, but currently require enabling one or more settings in the "Drop 2 of 2026" section of the Game Settings menu.

Sulfur is an upcoming group of sickly yellowish-colored blocks that will be added in Chaos Cubed‌^[upcoming]. It consists of slab, stairs, and wall variants, and can be crafted into polished, bricks, and chiseled variants and potent sulfur.

Blocks[]

Obtaining[]

Breaking[]

Like any stone-related blocks, sulfur blocks and their variants can only be mined using a pickaxe, otherwise it drops nothing.

Block	Sulfur Sulfur Slab Sulfur Stairs Sulfur Wall	Polished Sulfur Polished Sulfur Slab Polished Sulfur Stairs Polished Sulfur Wall	Sulfur Bricks Sulfur Brick Slab Sulfur Brick Stairs Sulfur Brick Wall	Chiseled Sulfur Potent Sulfur
Hardness	1.5
Tool	Pickaxe
Breaking time
Default	7.5
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Copper	0.45
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2

Crafting[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Sulfur	Sulfur Spike		‌^{[upcoming: Cubed]}

Natural generation[]

Sulfur and potent sulfur generate naturally in sulfur caves alongside cinnabar blocks.

Usage[]

Its slabs, stairs, walls, polished, bricks, and chiseled variants can only be obtained by crafting and stonecutting.

Crafting[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Polished Sulfur	Sulfur	4	‌^{[upcoming: Cubed]}
Potent Sulfur	Sulfur		‌^{[upcoming: Cubed]}
Sulfur Slab	Sulfur	6	‌^{[upcoming: Cubed]}
Sulfur Stairs	Sulfur	4	‌^{[upcoming: Cubed]}
Sulfur Wall	Sulfur	6	‌^{[upcoming: Cubed]}

Stonecutting[]

Ingredients	Cutting recipe	Description
Sulfur	222	‌^{[upcoming: Cubed]}

Sulfur cubes[]

Sulfur cubes can only absorb full-sized sulfur blocks (including chiseled, polished, and brick variants), either picking it up or interacting with it, giving a regular/football (later slow bouncy‌^{[JE only]}‌^{[upcoming: BE 26.30]}) effect‌^{[until BE 26.30]} when hit. Sulfur cubes cannot absorb potent sulfur blocks.

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Sulfur	`sulfur`	Block & Item	`block.minecraft.sulfur`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Sulfur	`sulfur`	`?`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 1]}	`tile.sulfur.name`

↑ Available with /give command.

History[]

Upcoming Java Edition
March 21, 2026		Sulfur block sets are announced at Minecraft Live - March 2026.
26.2	snap1	Added sulfur block set.
	snap3	Sulfur blocks can now be crafted with 4 sulfur spikes.
	snap6	Changed the effect when absorbed by sulfur cubes from regular/football to slow bouncy, like other stone-related blocks does.
Bedrock Edition
26.20	beta 26.20.24	Added sulfur block set under "Drop 2 of 2026" experimental toggle.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.30	beta 26.30.20	Sulfur block sets are now available during normal gameplay.
	beta 26.30.20	Sulfur blocks can now be crafted with 4 sulfur spikes.
	beta 26.30.27	Changed the blast resistance from 3 to 6.
	beta 26.30.27	Changed the effect when absorbed by sulfur cubes from regular/football to slow bouncy, like other stone-related blocks does.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Sulfur" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery[]

Sulfur and cinnabar blocks showcased in Minecraft Live - March 2026.

See also[]

Blocks

Natural
Soil	Clay Dirt Coarse Rooted Dirt Path Grass Block Gravel Suspicious Mud Mycelium Nylium Podzol Sand Red Suspicious Soul Sand Soul Soil
Stone	Andesite Basalt Bedrock Blackstone Calcite Deepslate Diorite Pointed Dripstone Block End Stone Glowstone Granite Infested Block Magma Block Netherrack Obsidian Crying Sandstone Red Stone Terracotta Tuff
Ore/Mineral	Amethyst Bud Cluster Ancient Debris Budding Amethyst Coal Ore Deepslate Copper Ore Deepslate Diamond Ore Deepslate Emerald Ore Deepslate Gilded Blackstone Gold Ore Deepslate Nether Iron Ore Deepslate Lapis Lazuli Ore Deepslate Nether Quartz Ore Redstone Ore Deepslate
Liquid/Related	Bubble Column Ice Blue Packed Lava Flowing Snow Powder Block Water Flowing
Non-physical	Air Cave‌^{[JE only]} Void‌^{[JE only]} Fire Soul

Biota
Wood/Hypha	Logs Stripped Wood Stripped Stems Stripped Hyphae Stripped
Plant	Azalea Flowering Bamboo Shoot Block Stripped Beetroots Big Dripleaf Small Stem Cactus Carrots Cave Vines Plant Chorus Plant Flower Cocoa Dead Bush Fern Large Flowers Firefly Bush Tall Torchflower Crop Grass Tall Hanging Roots Leaves Lily Pad Mangrove Roots Muddy Melon Attached Stem Stem Moss Block Carpet Pink Petals Pitcher Plant Crop Potatoes Pumpkin Attached Stem Carved Stem Saplings Seagrass Tall Spore Blossom Sugar Cane Sweet Berry Bush Vines Wheat Hay Bale
Fungus	Fungi Glow Lichen Mushrooms Blocks Stem Nether Sprouts Nether Wart Nether Wart Block Warped Roots Shroomlight Twisting Vines Plant Weeping Vines Plant
Algae	Kelp Dried Block Plant
Fauna	Coral Dead Coral Blocks Dead Coral Fans Dead Sea Pickle
Fauna/Related	Bee Nest Bone Block Cobweb Dragon Egg Frogspawn Sniffer Egg Turtle Egg
Sculk	Sculk Sculk Catalyst Sculk Sensor Calibrated Sculk Shrieker Sculk Vein

Building
Lighting	Candle End Rod Froglight Jack o'Lantern Lantern Soul Sea Lantern Torch Soul
Ornamental	Bamboo Mosaic Bookshelf Carpets Chain Copper Grate Decorated Pot Fences Iron Bars Glass Pane Tinted Stained Glass Pane Glazed Terracotta Honeycomb Block Slabs Stairs Walls Wool
Mineral Block	Block of Amethyst Block of Coal Block of Copper Cut Raw Block of Diamond Block of Emerald Block of Gold Raw Block of Iron Raw Block of Resin Block of Lapis Lazuli Block of Netherite Block of Quartz Bricks Chiseled Pillar Smooth Block of Redstone
Structural	Bricks Chiseled Copper Chiseled Tuff Cobblestone Mossy Deepslate Concrete Powder Cut Sandstone Chiseled Smooth Cut Red Sandstone Chiseled Smooth Deepslate Bricks Cracked Deepslate Tiles Cracked End Stone Bricks Nether Bricks Chiseled Cracked Red Packed Mud Mud Bricks Planks Polished Andesite Polished Basalt Smooth Basalt Polished Blackstone Chiseled Polished Blackstone Bricks Cracked Polished Diorite Polished Granite Polished Deepslate Chiseled Polished Tuff Prismarine Bricks Dark Purpur Block Pillar Reinforced Deepslate Resin Bricks Chiseled Smooth Stone Stone Bricks Chiseled Cracked Mossy Tuff Bricks Chiseled
BE & edu only	Elements Hardened Glass Pane Hardened Stained Glass Pane

Utility
Interactable	Anvil Chipped Damaged Barrel Beacon Brewing Stand Cartography Table Chest Ender Chiseled Bookshelf Crafting Table Enchanting Table Fletching Table Furnace Blast Smoker Grindstone Lectern Loom Shulker Box Sign Hanging Smithing Table Stonecutter
Utilizable	Banners Beehive Beds Bell Cake with Candle Campfire Soul Cauldron Lava Powder Snow Water Composter Conduit End Gateway End Portal End Portal Frame Farmland Flower Pot Frosted Ice Heads Heavy Core Item Frame Glow Jukebox Ladder Lodestone Monster Spawner Nether Portal Respawn Anchor Scaffolding Sponge Wet TNT Trial Spawner Ominous Vault Ominous
Redstone/Mechanical	Button Copper Bulb Crafter Daylight Detector Dispenser Dropper Doors Trapdoors Fence Gates Honey Block Hopper Lever Lightning Rod Note Block Observer Piston Sticky Head Moving Pressure Plates Rail Activator Detector Powered Redstone Wire Comparator Repeater Lamp Torch Slime Block Target Trapped Chest Tripwire Hook Tripwire
Education Edition only	Border Chalkboard
BE & edu only	Allow Compound Creator Colored Torches Deny Element Constructor Heat Block Lab Table Material Reducer Underwater TNT Underwater Torch

Creative only
All editions	Monster Spawner Player Head
Java Edition only	Barrier Command Block Chain Repeating Jigsaw Block Light Structure Block Void
BE & edu only	Allow Compound Creator Deny Element Constructor Lab Table Material Reducer
Minecraft Education only	Border Chalkboard

Commands only
All editions	Petrified Oak Slab Unstable TNT
Java Edition only	Custom Player Head
BE & edu only	Barrier Broken Anvil Chiseled Purpur Command Block Chain Repeating Fern Fern Jigsaw Block Light Block Structure Block Air Void Smooth Stone Bricks tile.purpur_block.smooth.name Unknown
China Edition only	mod_ore

Unimplemented
All editions	Branches Copper Button Colored Wood Planks Coral Slab Dirt Slab Empty Barrel Fish Barrel Furniture Paeonia Sculk Jaw Spike Block Wax Block

Unused
Bedrock Edition only	Bell Stand tile.client_request_placeholder_block.name Glowing Obsidian Invisible Bedrock Nether Reactor Core Smokeless Campfire info_update info_update2 reserved6 Stonecutter (old)

Joke features
Java Edition only	An Ant Block of Coal Box of Infinite Books Torch (Burnt-out) Cheese Copper Sink Copper Spleaves Cursor Etho Slab Funky Portal How did we get here? Leftover Other Portal Packed Air Pickaxe Block Place Block Swaggiest stairs ever Tinted Glass USB Charger Block

Removed

Java Edition only

Bedrock Edition only

MinecraftEdu only

Legacy Console Edition only

Ring Block

Extreme metadata variants
All editions	Seamless Stone Slab Six-sided Hay Bale Weird Piston
Java Edition only	Faceless Jack o'Lantern Overripe Melon Stem Attached Overripe Pumpkin Stem Attached Overgrown Cocoa Overeaten Cake Potted non-flower block Green Shrub Potted
Bedrock Edition only	Diorite Bell Granite Bell Polished Six-sided Bone Block grass_carried leaves_carried Six-sided Purpur Pillar Six-sided Quartz Pillar