Where to Find Mud in Minecraft
Mud blocks are naturally generated in the mangrove swamp biomes. They cover the surface of these dense wood areas and a few layers beneath. Mangrove swamps, like other biomes in Minecraft, tend to generate attached to other biomes with similar temperatures. Therefore, if you encounter a warm biome, like a desert, savanna, jungle, or a regular swamp, a mangrove swamp might be somewhere nearby.
You can break and obtain mud by mining it with your hands, but a preferred tool for this task is a shovel. Breaking mud requires no additional Minecraft enchantments.
How to Use Mud Blocks in Minecraft
The mud itself is a great building block that you can not only use in your terraforming projects but also in many other scenarios, which are as under:
1. Craft Packed Mud, Muddy Mangrove Roots
With mud, you can make two different building blocks in Minecraft, and those are muddy mangrove roots and packed mud.
The muddy mangrove roots block is similar to the mangrove roots, but it’s not transparent. Thanks to this block’s texture, it can be used in terraforming projects in combination with mud blocks. You will need one mud block and one mangrove roots block to craft the muddy mangrove roots.
Furthermore, packed mud is an amazing building block that goes well with terracotta and jungle wood in a Minecraft block palette. There are unfortunately no slabs and stairs variants for packed mud. But, you can use it to craft mud bricks that do have the mentioned variants.
To make a single block of packed mud, you will need one mud block and one wheat. Similar to the previous recipe, this recipe is also shapeless, meaning you can place the ingredients wherever you want in the crafting grid.
2. Mud is Not a Full Block
Minecraft’s mud block is not a full block. But, why is that important? Well, this feature makes mud more efficient to use in certain situations than some other blocks. For example, a hopper below the mud can pick up items that sit on top of this block.
So, if you decide to use mud in a sugar cane farm design, you can make the collection system using only hoppers and not use hopper minecarts at all.
You can still place sugar cane on top of mud, so it’ll make the farm a bit more compact. Moreover, any falling blocks, like sand or gravel, that fall directly on the mud block will break and turn into their item forms. This can be useful in mini-game maps that try to kill the players by suffocating them in the falling blocks.
3. Use Mud to Make Clay Blocks
You may not be able to plant seeds and grow crops in mud, but you can do something even better with it. You can turn it into clay blocks. Yeah, that’s right, with mud, you can make clay completely renewable and get as much of it as you want, provided that you have a ton of mud. This mechanic implies that a mud block should get dried, after which it’ll turn into clay.
You can do this by placing mud on any block and then attaching pointed dripstone to the underside of that block. The pointed dripstone will extract the water and over time, dry the mud block completely. After the conversion, you can break the clay and replace it with more mud.
