Gravel in Minecraft is really sneaky. A player narrowly avoids a death trap that turns out to be a cool “natural spectacle.”
In Minecraft, there are almost as many opportunities to express creativity as there are nasty ways to spontaneously die in all parts of the game world. Especially falling blocks like gravel and sand can quickly become a death trap for careless players.
On Reddit, player Ketchus69 shows a small exploration of an area that could have ended tragically. He is currently climbing a mountain and trying to create a “staircase” into the mountain to reach the top. However, he is also mining some gravel blocks – triggering a massive chain reaction. Gravel falls hundreds of blocks deep, revealing a gigantic rock crevice. With a bold jump, Ketchus69 narrowly escapes the fall into certain death.
Just some gravel from r/Minecraft
What is so nasty about gravel? Gravel (Gravel) and also sand are among the few blocks in Minecraft that are affected by gravity. This means that if they do not have other blocks beneath them, they will fall into the depths. However, this does not apply when generating a world. Thus, it is possible for Minecraft to generate a world where gravel is essentially “floating in the air” and conceals a huge tunnel or rock crevice beneath it.
However, once one of the freely hanging gravel blocks is mined, a chain reaction is set in motion. Minecraft then checks the gravity of all surrounding blocks, which consequently begin to fall. This triggers the chain reaction shown above, where hundreds or even thousands of gravel blocks tumble down.
This gravel behavior is actually not a bug – quite unlike the fishing rod trick that allows you to fly.
Gravel enables several ways to die: There are multiple ways to die from gravel. On one hand, falling damage from heights can mean death, but a second way to die is also possible. If you fall into gravel, you can also be “buried” under the gravel and suffocate to death in no time.
The community is excited: The clip is quite well received in the community for several reasons and has already garnered over 65,000 upvotes in less than 24 hours. This is mainly due to the combination of the two incidents. On one hand, players are impressed by how quickly they reacted to the falling gravel blocks and saved their lives. But the sheer size of this gravel area, which is even naturally placed above a gorge, leaves people on Reddit impressed.
After all, Ketchus69 can now safely find many diamonds down there or simply follow our diamond guide.
Have you also experienced such a situation in Minecraft, and did it end just as smoothly? Or have you already died a “sneaky gravel death”?
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