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Packed Air

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This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.
 
This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
Packed Air
Blank.png: Infobox image for Minecraft block 'Packed Air'
Invicon Packed Air.png: Inventory sprite for Packed Air in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Packed Air
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            "label": "(link to Rarity article, displayed as Rarity tier)"
        },
        {
            "field": "Yes",
            "label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
        },
        {
            "field": "Yes (64)",
            "label": "Stackable"
        },
        {
            "field": "None",
            "label": "Tool"
        },
        {
            "field": "0",
            "label": "(link to Explosion#Blast resistance article, displayed as Blast resistance)"
        },
        {
            "field": "0",
            "label": "(link to Breaking#Blocks by hardness article, displayed as Hardness)"
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            "field": "Yes (4)",
            "label": "(link to Light article, displayed as Luminous)"
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            "field": "Yes",
            "label": "(link to Opacity article, displayed as Transparent)"
        },
        {
            "field": "No",
            "label": "(link to Fire#Flammable blocks article, displayed as Flammable)"
        },
        {
            "field": "No",
            "label": "Catches fire<br>from (link to lava article, displayed as lava)"
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            "field": "Default (Harp)",
            "label": "(link to Note Block#Instruments article, displayed as Note block instrument)"
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Packed air is a joke block only present in Java Edition 23w13a_or_b.

Obtaining

Packed air can be obtained only after voting for the rule air_blocks. Just like air, it cannot be targeted, but can be placed with /setblock command.

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
Air
Invicon Air (April Fools' joke).png: Inventory sprite for Air (April Fools' joke) in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Air (April Fools' joke) with description: AirInvicon Air (April Fools' joke).png: Inventory sprite for Air (April Fools' joke) in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Air (April Fools' joke) with description: AirInvicon Air (April Fools' joke).png: Inventory sprite for Air (April Fools' joke) in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Air (April Fools' joke) with description: AirInvicon Air (April Fools' joke).png: Inventory sprite for Air (April Fools' joke) in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Air (April Fools' joke) with description: AirInvicon Air (April Fools' joke).png: Inventory sprite for Air (April Fools' joke) in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Air (April Fools' joke) with description: AirInvicon Air (April Fools' joke).png: Inventory sprite for Air (April Fools' joke) in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Air (April Fools' joke) with description: AirInvicon Air (April Fools' joke).png: Inventory sprite for Air (April Fools' joke) in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Air (April Fools' joke) with description: AirInvicon Air (April Fools' joke).png: Inventory sprite for Air (April Fools' joke) in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Air (April Fools' joke) with description: AirInvicon Air (April Fools' joke).png: Inventory sprite for Air (April Fools' joke) in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Air (April Fools' joke) with description: Air
Invicon Packed Air.png: Inventory sprite for Packed Air in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Packed Air
 9 of the slots are air

Usage

Packed air can permanently fill the player's breath bar when standing in it.

It can exist only in closed rooms on the Moon, otherwise it disappears like water in the Nether when placing it in an open space on the Moon, anywhere in another dimension or when the closed room is opened. There is a maximum size of room that can be filled with packed air, which is 127 blocks. However, the room can be expanded after placing packed air down, and packed air keeps filling new space if no more than 126 empty blocks are added at once to the room.

Sounds

Generic

This section uses a sound table which may not accurately represent the sounds associated with this feature.
 
Because of MC-177082, subtitles for falling on blocks may not have existed at this point in development, so a dedicated sound table accounting for this may be required.
BlockSprite moss-carpet.png: Sprite image for moss-carpet in Minecraft moss_carpet sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.moss_carpet.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break​0.90.8816
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedblock.moss_carpet.placesubtitles.block.generic.place​0.90.8816
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.moss_carpet.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.2250.5516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.moss_carpet.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall​0.450.82516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.moss_carpet.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.1351.116

Unique

This section is missing information about: sound of packed air filling up a room
 
Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page.
Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Fire extinguishedBlocksWhen packed air is released from a non-airtight roomblock.fire.extinguishsubtitles.block.fire.extinguish​0.11.5–2.016

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierForm Translation key
BlockSprite air.png: Sprite image for air in Minecraft Packed Airpacked_airBlock block.minecraft.packed_air

Issues

Issues relating to "Packed Air" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".

Sources

Datapack Codex — The all-versions Minecraft data pack reference. Community reference; not affiliated with Mojang Studios or Microsoft. “Minecraft” is a trademark of Mojang Synergies AB.

Primary syntax targets Minecraft Java Edition 1.21+ (singular folder names). Version-specific behaviour is flagged inline and mapped on the pack_format history page.