68 Minecraft Blocks with secret features 

This link definitely was always here: INSTA WIRE! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ktsJjiHVUDE.html

I love how quickly this changed from “obscure block behavior” to “advanced redstone tools”

He has to keep the number of items appropriate too gotta love mumbo

This isn’t a block but instead a mob, but I still wanted to mention it. Bats were added to Minecraft as a way to make strip mining easier: if you hear a bat, you know there is a cave nearby. They basically used an animal that has supersonic hearing and made it super useful if you can hear it, which I find very cool.

If you wanted to add one more, you could have added Coarse Dirt! You can use a hoe on coarse dirt like regular dirt to turn it into farmland. While that might not seem interesting, this means that Dirt is actually a completely renewable resource, because you can craft Coarse Dirt by using 2 Dirt and 2 Gravel, giving 4 Coarse Dirt. And since you can trade for gravel from Piglins, this means that as long as you have at least 2 dirt, you can gain a theoretically infinite amount of dirt

I feel like the mention of tunnel boars was 100% a dig at Scar and Grian.

A 15 minute Mumbo jumbo video is what I needed

He forgot to mention that you will only phase through Shulker boxes if there is a block on top of you because the shulker box will try to push you upward, but can’t because of the block above you. Hoping this helps

For my future endeavors: 0:22 leaf-stone, send redstone signal 0:35 actual trapdoors, trapdoors duh 0:44 water logged stairs, water direction 0:53 shape-shifting stairs, secret staircaise 1:07 wall stone, send redstone signal 1:31 zombie proof door, open doors 1:48 infinite fire, netherrack block 1:56 falling fencegates, mob farming 2:05 redstone slabs, redstone lines 2:14 fences & iron bars, redstone doors 2:23 move-able blast resistance, ancient debrees & netherite blocks 2:46 passing sounds, v1.20 amethist transmitting skulk frequency 2:52 unoxidising copper, lighting 3:06 shulker clip, hidden entrance 3:17 stationary terracotta, non-slime sticky 3:33 the fine line, farmland, pathblocks, soulsand gap 3:41 temporary transparancy, secret entrance 3:54 muddy items, mob farm/secret entrance 4:04 dripping mud, clay generator 4:09 weird farm chains, go watch video 4:36 frost stander, fast ice generator 4:54 boat path, fast travelling 5:01 lava farm, cauldron over lava dripstone 5:09 wool blocks, block sounds 5:23 sad carpet, do I need say? 5:42 secret spy glass, stained glass 5:51 J points north, cobblestone 6:03 moss block flying machines 6:20 magma diving, air source 6:30 mangrove roots, waterlogged roots 6:42 weird redstone, redstone & observer 6:56 crying obsidian, unexplodable 7:03 mushroom breakers, frame breakers 7:12 strange slime farms, brown mushroom 7:33 composting moss, bone generator 7:49 bamboo key, hidden entrance key 8:00 cactus breaker, minecart stopper 8:10 wither spawner, wither roses 8:22 follow the sun(flower), lost again? 8:29 secret code, lilypads 8:49 sea pickles, water stream aligner 9:02 water redstone, soulsand on stream 9:15 trampling zombies, turtle eggs 9:28 underwater explosions, BREAKS BEDROCK?! 9:39 dead corals, tnt duplication 9:49 spongebob dry pants, nether 9:56 super smoker, hey bales 10:04 smoke bees 10:11 slim blocks, honey blocks 10:22 constant firing, redstone lamp 10:38 sadness, fletching 10:45 shulker boxes, redstone stuffs 10:57 campfire collector, mob farm 11:12 composters and cauldrons, go watch video 11:26 the jukebox, more redstones 11:43 the enchanTMENT table, on MCPE ._. 11:57 the lodestone 12:06 the trapolding, scaffolds 12:19 reading, traps & hidden entrances 12:35 signs & water, water stopper 12:49 barrels 12:57 weird transmitters, observer chain 13:10 redstone lamps 13:24 punching stone, silverfish warning! 13:38 target blocks, compact redstone 13:50 redirecting redstone 14:11 tripwireless string 14:24 strange hoppers, redstone stuffs 14:39 powered rails, + observers 14:48 instant redstone, more redstone :D

Fun fact: In HC season 7, Grian used the shulker clip to hide the Mycelium Resistance base (that’s also how Stress accidentaly got in)

With the J points north, you can do that with any block: when you start breaking it and the middle of the break pattern appears to be a Y, you're facing north

4:29 Actually, you can turn rooted dirt directly into mud without turning it into dirt first! It's a very niche interaction

Hey, something you may want to know, it works like the old carpet trick but it is slightly different, if you put a carpet on top of a fully grown berry bush and stand a villager on top of it, they will not move because they think they will be hurt, it keeps them from pathfinding, also mobs will not willingly walk over the top of this for the same reason, they think they will be hurt, but they CAN be pushed over it if too many mobs come up at once and shove each other forward.

Mumbo helping new and old minecrafters. I'm sure Doc will appreciate the advice at 2:43 .

I got number 69: Beacons are the only flying immovable transparent blocks you can place redstone on top of, that cannot be affected by redstone themselves. Very useful when compacting redstone machines with lots of slime and honey. Scaffolding and hoppers work too and are a lot cheaper, but scaffolding needs to be supported and hoppers can affect eachother and observers.

(7:50) you can also make a furnace key without consuming resources by using an empty bucket, as it's the only thing you can put in the fuel slot that hoppers can detect, so if you hook it up to a sorting system to detect if the item is an empty bucket, you can take your empty bucket to use later without needing a constant supply of stuff to put in your furnace

2:43 Mumbo knew what he was saying mentioning Tunnel Bores. 7:23 Hahaha knowing the context behind this first is beautiful.

I'm glad I learned some facts ! Correction at 4:21 : it's azalea trees that make rooted dirt when grown, not acacia.

Correction, for anyone wondering, you DON'T NEED DEAD CORAL or even slime blocks to duplicate TNT. People have been making videos about it for ages, but for some reason the coral fan option is the most famous one. You can just search "tnt duper without coral" and you will get plenty of videos (if not options) to choose from. I have personally used one in 1.19.2 (using only regular pistons and note blocks, not a single slime or coral).

The whole Enchantment v.s. Enchanting argument started at around the release of 1.13 for Java Edition. Apparently, the name of the afformentioned block was changed from Enchantment Table (which Bedrock and pre-1.13 Java editions use) to Enchanting Table (1.13+ Java Edition). Enchanting implies looks, Enchantment implies properties. This is just based on the denotations of each word. Personally, I use both sometimes, mainly because I heard others refer to it as both names. I /might/ use one more than the other, though. I'm not sure anymore.

Fun fact about minecraft mobs: When mobs are wandering, they select a random block within a radius, set a waypoint to that block, and pathfind to it. they will not mark blocks that they cannot reach(either because it is blocked off, there is no valid path to the block of choice, or(and i could be wrong on this) the path to the block requires them to travel too far away) but the interesting part is that they will not wander to non-full blocks(stairs, slabs, etc.) but still pathfind on trapdoors(as mentioned by Mumbo), which is why pathfinding mob farms work

the reason why the leaves send updates through one another is because leaf blocks have a variable that says how far away the nearest log is to a leaf block (only through other leaf blocks). this is used to determine if a leaf block should decay or not. even though leaves placed by players don't naturally decay, the variable is still updated, so if you push a log to a block next to a leaf block, the value will change which for some reason is detectable by observer.

11:43 Oh no, we have lost another.

The fletching block has a few uses. It turns the noteblock to a bass, can be burned and changed villager jobs

The most I've ever done with redstone was a tiny carnival game-esque pop up armor stand when you hit a target with an arrow, and even that took me like a full 30 minutes to put together, so while I don't believe I will ever be able to use most of these meaningfully, it is very cool to learn about these neat tricks!

For the mangrove roots one, did you know mumbo that this now works for every leaf in the game. In a very recent update they made all leaves able to be waterlogged

The lily pad idea at 8:40 is a very sustainable use of blocks

2:25 I actually considered this mechanic for designing a mob head farm. Needed a chamber for the charged creepers to blow up in, and for whatever reason I was too stubborn to use a moving hopper minecart as collection (wanted to be rid of minecart noises), so instead I wanted a piston to open a stream of water to push the heads into a corner with a stationary hopper minecart, and thus I planned to use ancient debris as a blast resistant pushable block.

Mumbo I absolutely loved when u brought up the lightning to reverse coppers stages trick. Because I actually learned that trick before the whole axe trick.

8:31, what a sustainable little pond!

8:35 that pond looks really sustainable. Good job mumbo

A lot of these I already knew as well as there were a handful that I didn’t know and there were some that I knew, just forgot. Nicely done 👍

3:33 now i can recreate the vietnam war

The lilypad one looked pretty sustainable

mumbo making sure he is keeping his content pg by not having 69 in the title

Another amazing use for slabs in redstone that was missed is when you snake a redstone signal up a staircase of transparent blocks like shown, the signal can only travel UP (only in java) which makes it an insanely compact one-way path that i use very often in my redstone builds.

Another thing you can do with composters is if you deposit things into it for bonemeal while standing in it you fall through, meaning you can make a secret base under your farm at the cost of a few seeds going in... idk how to get out though lol

I love that Mumbo is branching off and coming up with amazing new video ideas

The door tip can also be a fun way to mess with someone who uses pressure plates to activate doors. If you turn it that way, when they step on the pressure plate it will stay "closed" and when they get confused and step off it will "open". Best used on wooden doors since people will start opening them manually, meaning your prank can go unnoticed for a long time.

To this day I still find the whole slime farm debacle extraordinarily hilarious

the redstone block update is quite nice for hidden traps or pathways, since the update also happens through carpet. so you put a redstone ore with observer under a carpeted area and hook it up to whatever you want and people cant tell that its there.

Regarding the crying obsidian. Respawn anchors have the same blast resistance and higher light level. I've used them to light up the blast chamber in my nether wood farm. They also have a very niche application where they can give off unusual power levels from comparators that no other blocks can give (I needed 11 once and didn't want to use lecterns).

I would love to see MumboJumbo make a video where he uses all of this weird trivia and puts it into one red stone contraption. Kind of like his video where he made a contraption with every block.

4:37 that’s a cool one I found out purely on my own last year! I had random extra armor from early game, and extra end city armor, and as I’m a hoarder in game I put up some armor stands and put up some full sets with enchantments and one of them was gold frost walker boots from a ruined portal next to my infinite water source since I lived in a desert biome. I was VERY confused why it froze over to ice in a desert, I think my water bucket moved the armor stand with frost walker boots and that’s how I found out the enchantment still works while on the stand. Had to move that armor set away from my water!

Good reminders. Thank you. Slight correction: use 2 sea pickles (not 4 as shown) to align to interior hoppers, since the hit box size of two allows items to pass .

I feel like his tunnel bores comment at 2:45 is hinting at a certain recent event on Hermitcraft.

Lol glad to see you're joining Cubfan on the "why are fletching tables still useless" crusade. Hope they finally update those soon!! This is a great video, and I appreciate the inclusion of "obvious" things bc you're right that newer folks might just not know that stuff

4:32 You can also fortune the clay and sell to masons to get about 25 emeralds per stack of stone. I use that setup for beacons whenever I start a new world

That Sand/TNT trick is used in Minecraft Factions a lot when it comes to TNT Cannons for raiding enemy bases. One of my favorite mechanics

8:32 That is very sustainable

9:16 Did you know that a bug in the zombies' AI causes them to walk towards turtle eggs no matter where the mob started, when the eggs are at 0 0 0? I think that's because the zero is mathematically special (like, infinity*0 = 0) and breaks Minecraft's distance calculation algorithm, causing it to always return a distance of 0.

Love this and have my own "Building" version of these I should make tbh

0:25 I think it works because the log changes the leave from dissolving to non dissolving cause of the log so technically it changes states

Correction at 4:21 : it's azalea trees that make rooted dirt when grown, not acacia.

4:45 mumbo’s hardest bar 🥶🥶🔥💯

this video was a lot more useful than i thought it would be. definitely going to use some of these mechanics

Mumbo: Bamboo is such a bad fuel source no one would ever use it. Zedaph: oh really?

Mumbo is just teasing us at this point, 68,really?

There being 68 and not a single more reminds me of the very real story of a student having a 68.99% in a class, and wrote a lengthy email begging his teach to round his grade up a .01%, and he teacher simply wouldn't

It's really interesting seeing how different the world of Minecraft is through the eyes of a redstone engineer, taking the quirk of a block you didn't think much of only to realize that it's perfecting for some type of contraption. Different minds see different things, and different potential!

Everybody gangsta until mumbo ranks every 820 blocks by their usefulness, memorability and decorative aspects

8:37 EVERYWHERE I GO, I SEE HIS FACE

6:56 The respawn anchor has the same blast resistance, and gives off various light levels depending on how full it is it does however explode in the overworld/end just like a bed does in the nether/end

Props to Mumbo for this excellent video, I am late to watching this but I still enjoyed it! I appreciate how much effort Mumbo puts into these videos!

I'm new to minecraft but I've always wondered what building a circuit out of the mine cart tracks would do.. you explained this 110% thanks again

I learned more about redstone in this video than I ever have from copying redstone tutorials. This was so comprehensive and I had several aha moments! Great video!!!

13:33 Don't punch me, please. 🥺

We gonna talk about how that flying machine at 6:02 just disintegrated before our eyes?

This is an incredible and well condensed resource, thank you.

7:25 love how Mumbo is the only RU-vidr who revolutionized farming by being terrible, nice of you to keep title friendly

"Useful in tunnel bores" I see what you did there lmao

The title made it seem like a generic video, but DAMN, when i gave this video a chance, i saw how AWESOME IT IS! Its so much information, and basically ALL OF IT is useful, that's crazy! Thank you for making this video!!!

Loving the fact you gave the actual intended use of the lodestone as a not well known interaction

Also now I want to see a ton of hidden entrances with the things you mentioned in this video, hidden entrances never get old

I think this video just helped me solve an issue I've been having with one of my farms for like 3 months. Thanks Mumbo!

i love mumbo still keeping that minecraft content going :)

This is more than entertaining. Ima bookmark this and use it again and again. Thanks Mumbo!

I'd love a similar one with entities, here's an interesting fact about the dolfins : They can be usefull in redstone/item waterstreams for their item throwing properties. They will pick up and trow items 1 at a time with 1 tick delay (iirc) usefull to refresh the despawn timer, as well as to ensure pickup order of the items.

I've always wanted to make a secret staircase like that! Can't believe I didn't think of that method

Thank you for all this information.

It is incredible how the community manages to take the mechanics of the game and be able to utilise it in many many redstone contraptions and builds and everything else

2:52 “hun, could you clean the roof” “Not now, I have to wait for it to rain”

I find you voice so comforting!! I couldn't tell you why but I see your voice as a safety blanket almost!

The frost stand is really cool. Gotta remember it next time I might need it!

note for #1: updates are expanded every game tick, so if you put a line of observers next to a line of leaves and place a log, the observers will activate one game tick after the last.

I love the moment, where Mombo references his failed attempt on a swamp based slime farm, that got the technical community to investigate into the real good working swamp based slime farm.

Watching this just while designing my storage system, I am discovering the sea pickle trick! Thanks a lot Mumbo, this will save me a lot of useless turns in my water streams!

4:22 He meant azalea trees 6:33 Not only mangrove roots but any leaves work with this too [and using a debug stick you can waterlog double slabs] 6:56 Respawn anchors also can give off light [more than crying obsidian too] and are tnt proof. Also ender chests can do this and are used for anti mob spawners because of this and that they are a block that doesn't explode while not having a full hitbox. [There are others though, such as end gateways, end portals, end portal frames] {Also waterlogged blocks such as pickles, lanterns, (lava is a fluid) soul lanterns, glow lichen, amethyst buds, and amethyst crystals} - but crying obsidian is probably the best for most cases Not trying to be a know it all just letting people know

2:46 Another cool thing about amethysts and redstone is that the pitch of the amethyst ringing sound from it transmitting vibrations is dependent on the redstone signal strength of the original vibration; super cool detail the devs added.

Can we also just appreciate how he's developed in building? I mean everything from his hobbit hole many seasons ago to the mini displays here look really nice and it's definitely an under appreciated talent of his.

10:22 ..... The Horizon has another way to lag out pay to win servers XD

There were so many tricks in this I never knew about, that I might actually get back in to minecraft, just to utilize these... I mean the redstone leaf chain alone got me hooked.

I do the zombie proof door thing all the time. I was explaining how it works to my bestie yesterday and the way I explained it created a paradox that hurt both our brains lol

You don't have to use Mangrove roots for that contained water block feature, in fact any type of leaves works exactly the same.

I don’t know if people know this but I assumed it would be in the video after seeing the thumb. If you bonemeal rooted dirt hanging roots with grow out from under it which can be sheared off and used in builds!

Ancient debris/netherite blocks are interesting. I've been playing around with explosives mods and there seem to be two types of "explosion". One of them works like TNT and uses the blast resistance(even nukes can't break netherite), another seems to straight up remove the blocks around them, ignoring blast resistance. But not always.. some very precise explosives that seem to use this removal method still can't touch blast resistant blocks

Mumbos voice is the most calming noise

0:58 I actually discovered this myself a while ago while trying to build a hidden staircase on a server. It felt so cool to do something with redstone that actually worked and looked cool.

Loved the subtle reference to tunnel bors

Much appreciated Mumbo. I learned 10 new uses.