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PASSIVE Added in 26.2

Sulfur Cube mob in Minecraft

The Sulfur Cube is a passive, bouncing cube that lives in the Sulfur Caves. Its trick is that it can absorb a block, and the block it holds changes what kind of cube it is. It eats slimeballs, drops nothing but the block it holds, and can be carried home in a bucket.

Health: 84 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Food: Slimeball
Found in: Sulfur Caves

Sulfur Cube stats

Health: 8 4 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Spawns in: 1 biomes
XP when killed: 1 to 2
Detection range: 16 blocks
Tempt range: 8 blocks

// Experience drops only when a player kills it.

How much damage Sulfur Cube deals

Damage to a player without armor, by world difficulty. 1 ♥ = 2 damage points.

Contact

Peaceful00 ♥

Easy10.5 ♥

Normal10.5 ♥

Hard1.50.75 ♥

Explosion

Explosion power 3: damage depends on how close you are to the blast.

// Armor, Protection and Resistance reduce these values. Base values read from the game code (26.3).

Where to find Sulfur Cube

Biomes where it spawns naturally, with its share of the spawns in each group.

Sulfur Caves

Spawning

Group size: 2 to 4

Sulfur Cube drops

Nothing from its loot table.

Carried items and gearDropped on death, outside the loot table (game code)

The block it has absorbedAlways dropped100%

Health compared

Health vs other passive mobshealth points

Pig10

Squid10

Sheep8

Sulfur Cube8

Bat6

Parrot6

Tadpole6

Sulfur Cube and its family

Mobs built on the same base in the game code, compared on their game values.

Mob	Health	Attack	XP	Speed	No fall damage	Extra freeze damage	Frog food	Immune to Oozing	Ignored by pufferfish
Magma Cube	16	—	1–4	0.2	✓	✓	✓	·	·
Slime	16	—	1–4	—	·	·	✓	✓	·
Sulfur Cube	8	1	1–2	—	·	·	·	·	✓

Traits

Properties set in the game files.

Ignored by pufferfishPufferfish do not puff up near it.

Food and breeding

Items it eats, follows or breeds with.

Slimeball

Gear and tools

Items it can wear, and items you use on it.

Catch it inBucket of Sulfur Cube

Advancements with Sulfur Cube

Advancements whose criteria involve this mob, from the game files.

Uh OhHave a Sulfur Cube absorb a TNT block

Command

Summon a Sulfur Cube/summon →

/summon minecraft:sulfur_cube ~ ~ ~

Where to find a Sulfur Cube

Sulfur Cubes spawn only in the Sulfur Caves. They are passive: they bounce around and never attack you. They come in a small and a large form, a bit like the hostile Slime, which shares the same caves.

Blocks it can absorb

Sulfur Cube in Minecraft: an empty Sulfur Cube next to one that has absorbed a Magma Block — An empty Sulfur Cube next to one that has absorbed a Magma Block Scene setup: Test platform; the block was dropped by command and absorbed by the cube itself. In-game screenshot · Java Edition 26.3

A Sulfur Cube can take a block inside itself. The game keeps a fixed list of blocks it accepts and sorts them into a dozen families. Their internal names hint at the result:

Bouncy: planks, logs and bamboo blocks.
Light: wool. Sticky: the Honeycomb Block.
Sliding: Blue Ice, packed ice and snow blocks, or mushroom blocks for a slower slide.
Flat: metal blocks and ores for a slow one, coral, sponge, moss, melons or pumpkins for a fast one.
High resistance: Soul Sand and soul soil.
Hot: the Magma Block. Explosive: TNT.
Regular and slow bouncy: dirt, mud, clay, then most stone, brick, deepslate and terracotta blocks.

The block can be removed again later. Some combinations are not harmless: a cube holding a Magma Block can kill, as its death messages show, and having one absorb TNT unlocks the advancement “Uh Oh”, so keep it away from your base.

Feeding and carrying it

Its food is the Slimeball. A small Sulfur Cube that eats one puts on mass. You can also scoop a Sulfur Cube into a bucket, which gives a Bucket of Sulfur Cube, the easy way to bring one back from the caves.