How To Make A Slime Launcher Minecraft

This article is about the block. For the mob, see Slime.

A slime block is a storage block equivalent to nine slimeballs. Information technology has both sticky and bouncy properties making information technology useful in conjunction with pistons to move both blocks and entities.

Obtaining [ ]

Breaking [ ]

Slime blocks can exist cleaved instantly, regardless of held items, or when under the Mining Fatigue result.

Block	Slime Block
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05

Crafting [ ]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Slimeball

Usage [ ]

Landing on a slime cake does not crusade fall harm unless the player is sneaking .

Slime blocks are also slightly slippery, just less so than ice.

Slime blocks cause motility on top of them to irksome down.

Bouncing [ ]

A player or mob that falls onto the top of a slime block bounces to a height proportional to the falling velocity. The bounce height quickly deteriorates. For instance, a fall of 255 blocks produces a bounce height of virtually 50 blocks, while a autumn of 50 blocks results in a bounce summit of 22 blocks. The maximum bounce height is 57.625 blocks. Entities hitting the side of a slime block do not bounce, unless the slime block is moving using a piston.

A player property the leap primal performs a normal jump on contact with the slime block without taking fall impairment. A actor holding sneak does non bounce at all and takes fall damage. Landing on the border of a slime cake that is bordered past anything (including air) other than another slime cake is treated like landing on a solid cake, receiving fall damage and not bouncing.^[1]

Placing carpets, rails, trapdoors, redstone repeaters or redstone comparators on a slime cake does not stop mobs from bouncing and non taking fall damage. Besides, placing a pressure level plate on a slime block does not finish mobs from bouncing, but the pressure plate even so activates. Half-blocks such as Cakes and slabs stop the billowy consequence.

Most mobs bounciness off slime blocks. Exceptions are chickens, ghasts, bats, phantoms, bees, parrots, and vexes. Occasionally a equus caballus may get stuck on a block when a role player tries to spawn information technology on top of a slime block in Creative mode.

Items, falling blocks, minecarts and boats do not bounce on slime blocks. Particles, however, do bounce. Players can also become around the fact that falling blocks, minecarts, and boats don't bounce by having viscous pistons with slime blocks bounce them.

Pistons [ ]

A				B

Piston A tin extend considering the slime cake ignores the side by side obsidian. Piston B cannot extend because the diamond cake is prevented from moving past the obsidian and so the slime block likewise refuses to move.

A self-propelled aircraft engine. Place the elevation block of redstone and sticky piston terminal.

When being pushed by a piston, entities (except ender dragons, item frames and paintings) that are ahead are launched into the management the block is pushed into. When pulled by a piston, no entities are launched.

When a slime cake is pushed or pulled by a piston, it attempts to motility all adjacent blocks in the aforementioned direction. The types of blocks that can be moved are the aforementioned as those that tin can exist pulled by a pasty piston. Blocks that cannot be pulled by a viscid piston (i.e. all the blocks listed on the table on the pistons folio) stay in place. The blocks that are moved may in plow button other blocks. For example, a slime cake sitting on the ground attempts to move the ground cake underneath itself, which pushes boosted ground blocks in the direction of motion just equally if it were being pushed direct by a piston.

Blocks such equally glazed terracotta and honey blocks are exceptions; they do non motility when adjacent slime blocks are moved, even if they are normally pushable by a piston.

When the side by side cake that is moved is also a slime cake, that block attempts to motion all its next blocks. For instance, a 2×ii×two cube of slime blocks may be pushed or pulled as a unit by a single piston interim on any of the blocks in the cube and attempts to move all blocks adjacent to the cube.

A slime block side by side to a block that cannot be moved past pistons ignores the immobile cake. However, if an next block could be moved merely is prevented by the presence of an immobile cake, the slime block is too prevented from moving. This includes slime blocks being pulled rather than pushed, in which example the piston retracts without pulling anything. Liquids are an exception: they aren't moved, but neither practice they finish a piston from pushing or pulling blocks into their infinite (ordinarily destroying the liquid, and in a rare instance displacing it through the piston).

Slime blocks are non pulled past a non-viscous piston, nor are they moved if an adjacent (non-slime) cake is moved by a piston.

The maximum of 12 blocks moved past a piston still applies. For instance, a 2×2×3 of slime blocks may be pushed or pulled past a viscous piston equally long every bit no other movable blocks are adjacent to it.

A piston cannot move itself via a "loop" constructed of slime blocks, but cocky-propelled contraptions can be created with multiple pistons.

Crafting ingredient [ ]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Slimeball	Slime Block	ix

Sounds [ ]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Cake cleaved	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.slime_block.pause`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
None ^{[sound 1]}	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.slime_block.fall`	None ^{[sound 1]}	0.v	0.75	16
Cake breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.slime_block.striking`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.five	16
Cake placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`cake.slime_block.place`	`subtitles.cake.generic.place`	one.0	0.8	16
Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	`cake.slime_block.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.fifteen	1.0	16

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Boulder Edition:^{[ more information needed ]}

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Coffee Edition:

Proper name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Slime Cake	`slime_block`	Cake & Item	`block.minecraft.slime_block`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Course	Item ID^{[i one]}	Translation key
Slime Cake	`slime`	`165`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i two]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.slime.proper noun`

↑ ID of block'south directly detail form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Bachelor with /give command.
↑ The block'due south direct detail grade has the same id with the block.

Achievements [ ]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Trampoline	Bounce thirty blocks upward off a slime cake.	—	15G	Statuary

History [ ]

Java Edition
ane.8		December 20, 2013			Jeb posts the showtime image of the slime cake. At this stage, slime blocks are known as "Bouncy Blocks".
		14w02a			Added slime blocks.
		14w18a			Slime blocks can at present move adjacent blocks when moved by pistons.
		14w18a			Slime blocks pushed upwards by a piston now launch entities vertically into the air.
		14w19a			Slime blocks tin at present button entities sideways and down when attached to a piston.
		14w25a			The texture of the within block originally used the 10×10 center of the 16×xvi `slime.png` file, however, since the add-on of explicit texture referencing in cake models in this snapshot, the center 10×10 section now has its ain texture, due to limitations of the custom models non existence able to access not-foursquare texture files. Notwithstanding this change did not affect the actual advent.
		14w32c			The breaking/placing sound of slime blocks has been changed to the hurt sound of slimes.
1.12		17w16a			Slime blocks no longer pull glazed terracotta fastened to its side when pulled by sticky pistons.
1.12		pre3			Slime blocks no longer pull glazed terracotta attached on whatsoever side, moved by whatever blazon of piston.
1.xiii		17w47a			The ID has been changed from `slime` to `slime_block`.
1.xiii		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block'southward numeral ID was 165.
ane.fourteen		18w43a			The texture of slime blocks has been changed.
1.15		19w42a			Slime blocks no longer stick to honey blocks when pushed past pistons.
1.17		21w08a			Slime blocks have been moved to the redstone tab of the Creative inventory.
Pocket Edition Blastoff
v0.14.0		build 1			Added slime blocks.
Bedrock Edition
1.ten.0		beta 1.ten.0.3			The texture^{[ verify ]} of slime blocks has been changed.
one.14.0		beta 1.xiv.0.2			The texture of slime blocks has been inverse to lucifer Java Edition'south texture.
one.14.0		beta 1.xiv.0.2			Slime blocks no longer stick to honey blocks when pushed by pistons.
Legacy Panel Edition
TU31	CU19	ane.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added slime blocks.
?					Slime blocks are a lot more see-through on this edition.
PlayStation 4 Edition
ane.90					The texture of slime blocks has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added slime blocks.

Bug [ ]

Issues relating to "Slime Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues in that location.

Trivia [ ]

A minecart leaving a track onto a slime block tin can continue on a rail on the opposite side if information technology has sufficient momentum leaving the initial rail.
Slime blocks under soul sand make the player motion slower than if the actor was merely walking on soul sand. This is as well apparent with ice.
Entities launched up by a slime block on top of a piston achieve slightly more than 6.4 blocks of lift, including the lift from the piston. Entities launched sideways beyond normal blocks or air are moved 3.510 blocks in the direction of the launch.
While falling, placing a slime block while just earlier affect prevents all autumn damage.
Slime blocks are invisible if seen from the clouds.
Players walking on slime blocks motility at 1.359 m/s, a speed reduction of effectually lxx% from the normal walking speed.

Gallery [ ]

A zombie bouncing on a slime block. Click to view animation.
Paradigm posted by Jeb over Twitter posted to Imgur.
The 14w02a Banner showing slime blocks in a slime shape. Obsidian is used for the eyes and the mouth.^[2]
Testing of bounciness heights. X centrality is the get-go pinnacle in half blocks. Y axis is the return height in one-half blocks. Cerise line at the top is maximum possible bounciness height in half blocks.
Crafting a Slime Block in Minecraft: Story Mode