Air (April Fools' joke)

For other uses, see Gas.

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.

Air

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

Air is a joke item exclusive to Java Edition 23w13a_or_b.

Obtaining

Crafting

This recipe is unlocked by voting air_blocks.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Glass Bottle

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Air	Lunar Base	Chest	1–4	13.3% { "item": "Air", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.13345384463776555, "structure": "Lunar Base", "container": "Chest" }

Usage

Air can be eaten by pressing and holding use while it is selected in the hotbar to keep a player alive while on the Moon, a joke dimension added in the same update. It is also used to inflate cows and moon cows, that when fully inflated, spring a rider into the air.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Packed Air	Air		9 of the slots are air

Sounds

Generic

Block

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.

stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Item

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Air	air_block	Item	item.minecraft.air_block

Issues

Issues relating to "Air (April Fools' joke)" 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".