Packed Air

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.

Packed Air

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	None
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	Yes (4)
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

Packed air is a joke block exclusive to 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	Notes
Air		9 of the slots are air

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Packed Air	Lunar Base	Chest	1	2.8% { "item": "Packed Air", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.02771212845055082, "structure": "Lunar Base", "container": "Chest" }

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.

moss_carpet sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.moss_carpet.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.9	0.88	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.moss_carpet.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.9	0.88	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.moss_carpet.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.225	0.55	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.moss_carpet.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.45	0.825	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.moss_carpet.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.135	1.1	16

Unique

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Packed Air	packed_air	Block	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".