Material Reducer

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.

This page describes an education-related feature.

This feature is available only in Minecraft Education or when enabling the "Education" option in Bedrock Edition.

The material reducer is a block used in chemistry to learn about the natural world, by reducing Minecraft blocks to their component elements.

Obtaining[]

Material reducers cannot be obtained in Survival without commands. In Bedrock Edition, the world must also have “Education Edition” enabled.

Breaking[]

A material reducer can be mined using a pickaxe. Mining without a pickaxe is slow, but the material reducer still drops as an item.

Block	Material Reducer
Hardness	2.5
Tool
Breaking time^[A]
Default	12.5
Wooden	1.9
Stone	0.95
Iron	0.65
Diamond	0.5
Netherite	0.45
Golden	0.35

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Usage[]

Using the material reducer opens an interface of ten inventory slots. The central slot at the top is the input, where blocks can be placed in order to break them down into their component parts. When this happens, the output slots fill up with the percentage of elements found in the broken down material.

Certain blocks such as soul sand and netherrack contain mysterious elements yet to be discovered. These are represented by an unknown element that displays as other elements, but with a question mark in place of a periodic table symbol. If you take out a few elements, but keep some in too, then the block you placed will have the missing model item, which you cannot place in the inventory.

When an element is taken from one of the output slots, the input slot gets cleared, and if there are elements in other output slots, the input slot becomes red and does not accept further input until all of the outputs are cleared.

Any block broken down in the material reducer gives 100 atoms.

Products
Block/Item	Components	Notes
Andesite Diorite Granite Polished Andesite Polished Diorite Polished Granite Gravel Obsidian Red Sand Red Sandstone, all variants Sand Sandstone, all variants Stone Block of Quartz Pillar Quartz Block Chiseled Quartz Block Smooth Quartz Block Quartz Stairs Quartz Slab Smooth Quartz Stairs Smooth Quartz Slab Nether Quartz Ore Nether Quartz	Silicon x33 Oxygen x67	The results approximate SiO₂, the chemical formula for silicon dioxide. Silicon dioxide is the sole ingredient of quartz and the main ingredient of silicate minerals.
Grass Block Mycelium	Carbon x15 Oxygen x70 Nitrogen x8 Phosphorus x7	These four elements are found in all life forms on Earth.
Dirt	Silicon x21 Calcium x8 Phosphorus x3 Nitrogen x3 Iron x13 Magnesium x6 Zinc x2 Copper x2 Oxygen x42	The results depict dirt as a mixture of inorganic rocks and decaying organic material, although there is too little oxygen to form the compounds found in real-life dirt such as calcium carbonate.
Any Overworld Logs Any Overworld Stripped Logs Any Overworld Wood Any Overworld Stripped Wood Any Overworld Wooden Planks Any Overworld Wooden Stairs Any Overworld Wooden Slabs	Carbon x49 Hydrogen x6 Oxygen x44 Nitrogen	The formula mirrors the chemical compositions of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, the three main components of wood.
Cobblestone Cobblestone Stairs Cobblestone Slab Cobblestone Wall Lava Bucket Magma Block	Oxygen x47 Silicon x28 Aluminum x8 Iron x5 Calcium x4 Sodium x3 Potassium x3 Magnesium x2	These elements are all commonly found in silicate minerals.
Mossy Cobblestone Mossy Cobblestone Wall	Oxygen x45 Silicon x28 Aluminum x8 Iron x5 Calcium x4 Sodium x3 Potassium x3 Magnesium x2 Carbon x2	Similar to regular cobblestone. Mossy cobblestone has carbon to account for the moss.
Water Bucket Ice Packed Ice Blue Ice Snow Block Snowball Snow	Hydrogen x67 Oxygen x33	The results approximate H₂O, the chemical formula for water.
Iron Ore	Iron x64 Silicon x12 Oxygen x24	A mixture of pure (elemental) iron and silicate rock. In real life, iron ore usually contains oxidized iron, so the formula would contain much more oxygen.
Gold Ore	Gold x64 Silicon x12 Oxygen x24	A mixture of pure gold and silicate rock. As gold is chemically inert, it is always naturally found in its elemental form.
Diamond Ore	Carbon x64 Silicon x12 Oxygen x24	A mixture of pure carbon and silicate rock. Diamond is composed of pure carbon, and takes billions of years to form deep underground.
Lapis Lazuli Ore Lapis Lazuli Block of Lapis Lazuli	Sodium x13 Sulfur x8 Aluminum x13 Oxygen x53 Silicon x13	The formula roughly corresponds to lazurite, the main component of lapis lazuli.
Redstone Ore Redstone Dust Block of Redstone	Carbon x31 Uranium x31 ??? x38	The formula implies that Redstone is made out of uranium methanide and an unknown element, thus it is radioactive.
Coal Ore Coal Block of Coal	Hydrogen x6 Carbon x50 Oxygen x43 Nitrogen	The results mirror the composition of coal, although real-life coal contains much less oxygen.
Emerald Ore Emerald Block of Emerald	Aluminum x15 Beryllium x25 Silicon x20 Oxygen x40	The formula roughly corresponds to beryl, the main component of emerald.
Copper Ore	Copper x64 Silicon x12 Oxygen x24	A mixture of pure copper and silicate rock. copper is composed of pure copper.
Iron Ingot Iron Nugget Block of Iron	Iron x100	The results mirror the composition of 100% pure iron.
Gold Ingot Gold Nugget Block of Gold	Gold x100	The results mirror the composition of 100% pure gold.
Diamond Block of Diamond	Carbon x100	The results mirror the composition of 100% pure diamond.
Netherrack	Silicon x64 Oxygen x18 Mercury x15 ??? x3	A mixture of silicate rock and mercury. Mercury(II) oxide (HgO) is red to orange in color, although these results contain too little oxygen for any of this compound to form.
End Stone	Silicon x59 Carbon x13 ??? x28	The approximate formula is Si₄C, which doesn't really reflect any real-life compound. Although it is similar to the mineral SiC (silicon carbide).
Glowstone Glowstone Dust	Argon x20 Boron x20 Krypton x20 Neon x20 ??? x20	These three gases are noble gases, which are commonly used in neon lights to produce vibrant colors.
Soul Sand	Silicon x37 Oxygen x3 ??? x60	Soul sand is mostly composed of an unknown element, due to its paranormal composition.
Clay Terracotta Any Glazed Terracotta	Silicon x77 Aluminum x17 Iron x3 Magnesium Calcium Oxygen	These results reflect the formulae of many real-life clays, although real-life clay contains much more oxygen.
Glow Ink Sac	Iron Sulfur Oxygen x4	This formula roughly corresponds to Iron (II) sulfate, an inorganic dark dye, which is not found in any species of real-life squid.
Sugar	Carbon x6 Hydrogen x12 Oxygen x6	The results approximate C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, the chemical formula for sugar.
Charcoal	Carbon x7 Hydrogen x4 Oxygen	The results approximate C₇H₄O, the chemical formula for charcoal.

Note that copper-related blocks, mud, coarse dirt, raw ore blocks and items, deepslate ores, iron, gold, and diamond equipment, doors, and trapdoors cannot be put into a material reducer, besides them being related to blocks that can.

All compounds that can be made in the compound creator and lab table can also be reduced in the material reducer, yielding their respective ingredients.

Sounds[]

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.stone`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.stone`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.stone`	0.37	0.5
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.stone`	0.4	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	`step.stone`	0.3	1.0
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.stone`	0.12	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.stone`	0.22	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Material Reducer	`chemistry_table`	`238`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.materialreducer.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same id as the block.

Block states[]

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
chemistry_table_type	`0x1` `0x2`	`compound_creator`	`compound_creator`	`0`	Compound Creator
			`element_constructor`	`2`	Element Constructor
			`lab_table`	`3`	Lab Table
			`material_reducer`	`1`	Material Reducer
direction	`0x4` `0x8`	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3`	`0` `1` `2` `3`	The direction the block's front is. 0: north 1: east 2: south 3: west

History[]

Bedrock Edition
1.4.0	beta 1.2.20.1	Added material reducers.
1.4.0	beta 1.2.20.2	Pocket UI screens have been added to material reducers.
Education Edition
1.0.27		Added material reducers.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Material Reducer" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

There is currently a glitch in the material reducer's GUI: When the input slot becomes red, the "tubes" that are connected to it are sometimes rendered over the red square, which causes the image to flick between the normal square and the tubes.

Gallery[]

Renders[]

Screenshots[]

The interface of the material reducer.

[breakingtimenote-1] Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

[bedrock-item-id-2] ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.

[bedrock-give-available-3] Available with /give command.

[bedrock-item-form-4] The block's direct item form has the same id as the block.

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