Potent Sulfur

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Potent sulfur is a block made from sulfur that produces noxious gas if placed beneath shallow water. Placing a magma block below it in shallow water turns it into a geyser that occasionally erupts and launches entities upward. Placing lava below it causes a constant, non-stop eruption instead.

Potent sulfur drops as an item if mined by any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Potent sulfur generates naturally in the sulfur caves biome in sulfur pools and on the surface in sulfur springs.

When placed under a water source, potent sulfur emits a column of decorative white bubbles, ending in noxious gas on the water's surface (indicated by yellow gas particles) if certain criteria is met. For noxious gas to be formed, all the water blocks above potent sulfur must be source blocks, potent sulfur must be placed no more than 4 blocks below the water's surface, and the block immediately above the surface must be air. Noxious gas is emitted on all water source blocks with air above in a 3 block radius centered on the surface water block directly above potent sulfur.

Players and mobs in this water are inflicted with 4 seconds of Nausea as an ambient effect, which is renewed as long as the entity is inside the water.

When placed above lava or a magma block and below a water source with a height of 1 to 4 blocks, potent sulfur will erupt into a geyser, either continuously or periodically depending on which block is underneath. When a potent sulfur block is erupting, particles forming a geyser appear at the surface of the water and push any entities within it (including underwater) upwards.

The height of the geyser depends on the height of the water column: (in blocks).

When placed above a lava source, potent sulfur will continuously erupt.

When placed above a magma block, potent sulfur may occasionally erupt. A full cycle occurs every 300 to 1200 game ticks (15 to 60 seconds), while the eruption phase lasts between 20 and 100 game ticks (1 to 5 seconds).

When a block of potent sulfur is placed, two random values are assigned to it based on the position of the block in the world: a dormant value (between 15 and 30) and an eruption value (between 1 and 2). The intervals between the dormant state and the eruption state depend on the height of the water column above the potent sulfur and these two values:

• dormant phase duration (in seconds): ;
• eruption phase duration (in seconds): .

Geysers generate naturally on the surface as part of sulfur springs due to them featuring magma blocks. The sulfur pools within sulfur caves do not feature magma blocks underneath their potent sulfur, and thus geysers cannot be found naturally in sulfur caves.

Potent sulfur is a block entity and cannot be pushed by pistons. It also cannot be pushed nor pulled by sticky pistons.

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Potent sulfur has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

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Issues relating to "Potent Sulfur" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• The block entity of potent sulfur in Bedrock Edition does nothing, because the counter function for geyser is performed by the block's own tick.