Java Edition removed items

This page documents an exhaustive list of items which no longer exist in current versions of Java Edition.

Blocks previously obtainable as items

See also: Tutorials/Obtaining discontinued blocks and items

The game prevents certain blocks from being obtained through normal gameplay methods, such as crafting, the creative inventory, the pick block key, and the Silk Touch enchantment. It also prevents such blocks from being given through less conventional methods, such as inventory editing, mods, and commands. Until 1.7.2 and 1.8, there had been a wide variety of blocks that could be edited into the inventory; over time, however, the game was updated so that these blocks became entirely unavailable, even though one utilized inventory editing. From Java Edition 1.13 onwards, blocks and items are completely different concepts, and numerical IDs no longer exist at all.

Currently, the game accepts only namespaced IDs (such as minecraft:dirt) in most commands, and uses only these namespaced IDs when assigning blocks to the inventory and save files. The old method of obtaining a block via numerical IDs is no longer an option. In addition, the game automatically removes blocks with illegitimate namespaced IDs from the inventory, so using inventory editors is also no longer an option. Furthermore, certain blocks with both block and item forms, such as minecraft:cake, cannot be obtained in their block form in the inventory; however, since the game has a corresponding item named minecraft:cake, the item form is given instead.

Despite never being intended to be obtainable, some of these could even be acquired in survival using unorthodox means - see Tutorials/Obtaining discontinued blocks and items for more info.

All such blocks

See also: Java Edition data values § IDs

All of the following block items were removed at one point, as clarified in the following paragraphs.

In snapshot 13w37a for 1.7.2, the /give command was modified so that it would display the name of the item in chat. Due to this, 26 blocks were made unavailable.

In snapshot 14w25a for 1.8, changes were made to the way the icons of items were rendered, and the way block data was internally represented. Due to this, 12 blocks were made unavailable.

Block	Namespaced ID	Dec	Hex	Obtainable until...
Bed	bed	26	1A	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Piston Head	piston_head	34	22	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Piston Extension	piston_extension	36	24	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Redstone Wire	redstone_wire	55	37	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Wheat	wheat	59	3B	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Standing Sign	standing_sign	63	3F	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Wooden Door	wooden_door	64	40	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Wall Sign	wall_sign	68	44	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Iron Door	iron_door	71	47	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Lit Redstone Ore	lit_redstone_ore	74	4A	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Unlit Redstone Torch	unlit_redstone_torch	75	4B	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Sugar Cane	reeds	83	53	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Cake	cake	92	5C	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Unpowered Redstone Repeater	unpowered_repeater	93	5D	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Powered Redstone Repeater	powered_repeater	94	5E	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Pumpkin Stem	pumpkin_stem	104	68	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Melon Stem	melon_stem	105	69	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Nether Wart	nether_wart	115	73	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Brewing Stand	brewing_stand	117	75	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Cauldron	cauldron	118	76	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Lit Redstone Lamp	lit_redstone_lamp	124	7C	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Tripwire	tripwire	132	84	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Flower Pot	flower_pot	140	8C	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Skull	skull	144	90	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Unpowered Redstone Comparator	unpowered_comparator	149	95	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Powered Redstone Comparator	powered_comparator	150	96	1.7.2 (13w37a)
Air	air	0	0	1.7.2 (13w38c)
Flowing Water	flowing_water	8	08	1.8 (14w25a)
Still Water	water	9	09	1.8 (14w25a)
Flowing Lava	flowing_lava	10	0A	1.8 (14w25a)
Still Lava	lava	11	0B	1.8 (14w25a)
Double Stone Slab	double_stone_slab	43	2B	1.8 (14w25a)
Fire	fire	51	34	1.8 (14w25a)
Nether Portal	portal	90	5A	1.8 (14w25a)
End Portal	end_portal	119	77	1.8 (14w25a)
Double Wooden Slab	double_wooden_slab	125	7D	1.8 (14w25a)
Cocoa	cocoa	127	7F	1.8 (14w25a)
Carrots	carrots	141	8D	1.8 (14w25a)
Potatoes	potatoes	142	8E	1.8 (14w25a)
Lit Furnace	lit_furnace	62	3E	1.9 (15w49a)

History of inventory appearances

As these were never intended to be implemented, it is possible to observe drastic and unexpected texture changes on these blocks due to minor code changes elsewhere from version to version.

Java Edition Indev
Minecraft Indev		20100206			Added wheat crops, with this texture as its unobtainable item form.
?					Fire is now visible as an item.
Java Edition Infdev
Minecraft Infdev		20100607			Added oak doors.
					As a result of a bug that also affects the fluid blocks in the world, water block items render with some of the lava texture and lava blocks some of the water texture.
		20100608			Fixed the above texture bug.
		20100615			Water and lava item textures are now a complete flat.
		20100618			The textures of doors have been changed.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1					Added iron doors.
					Added redstone wire.
					Added redstone torches.
					Added redstone ore.
v1.0.11					Added sugar cane.
v1.2.0		preview			Nether portal blocks initially appear as full cubes as an item. However, the item changes on-the-fly every time a proper nether portal block is observed.
Unknown
?					Water and lava items now visually flow downward.
Java Edition Beta
1.2					Added cake, oddly enough with a fully 3D rendered item model.
1.3					Added beds.
					Added unpowered and powered redstone repeaters.
					Redstone wire's item texture has changed.
1.7					Added piston heads.
					Added the moving piston block.
1.8		Pre-release			Added pumpkin and melon stems.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Added nether wart.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			The cauldron item texture probably looked like this, since it also looked like this in prerelease 3 upon official implementation.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Added brewing stands.
					Added end portals, appearing as a cube as an item at first. However, upon targeting an existing end portal block, this texture becomes extremely thin and carpet-like due to this being the hitbox of end portal blocks at the time
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4			Changed the end portal item.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			Changed the moving piston block texture.
					Likewise changed the end portal block texture.
					This texture is now used by the item for of standing signs and wall signs - they probably used the prior planks texture before.
1.2.1		1.2			The lit redstone lamp uses this appearence as an item. It probably used an older texture upon implementation though.
?					Double wooden slabs added
1.3.1		12w19a			Added cocoa.
		12w22a			Tripwire's item probably used texture.
		12w23a			The texture tripwire uses almost certaintly changed to this.
		1.3			The pumpkin and melon stem item textures almost certaintly changed.
1.4.2		12w34a			Carrots and potatoes have been added.
					Flower pot items use this raw texture.
		12w36a			The skull block uses the soul sand texture.
1.5		13w01a			Added unpowered and powered comparators.
		13w02a			Changed the texture the cauldron item uses.
					Changed the moving piston item texture.
					Repeaters now use their top textures.
					Comparators now use their top textures.
					The lit furnace item is now faceless.
					Changed the end portal item texture.
					Following texture storage reforms, the usually-unobtainable wooden and iron door blocks, as well as the skull block, now appear completely invisible as an item.
		13w02b			the skull block now uses the skeleton skull item appearence.
		13w03a			The aforementioned wooden and iron door blocks now point to the missing texture, presumably to fix several crash bugs relating to invalid textures.
		13w04a			The wooden and iron door block items now point to the door textures again.
1.7.2		13w38b			For the snapshot it existed as an item in, air had a missing texture.
		13w42a			Water is now translucent as an item.
					Nether portal items are now translucent.
					This version probably also made the end portal item translucent.
1.8		14w05a			The end portal texture is now this.
		14w06a			The lit furnace item now is completely correct.
		14w10a			The lit furnace's item is now its top texture.
		14w17a			The texture the cocoa item uses has changed.
		14w18a			Nether portal's item form is no longer 3D.
					The lit furnace item now is again correct.
		14w25a			The lit furnace item now uses a cube model with the missing texture.
1.9		15w31a			Lit furnaces have no model and appear completely missing.

Reverted potions

Main article: Potion

Before snapshot 15w31a for 1.9, potions had a form known as "reverted". In the inventory, reverted potions looked identical to their base potion, much like mundane and mundane (extended) potions, and their usage was also identical to their base potions, with the exception of turning into reverted potions rather than base potions. The only difference was the data values.

There were two general methods to create reverted potions, one of which involved the addition of fermented spider eyes. Reversion, in general, referenced changing a longer, upgraded potion into its original weaker potion (for example, changing from a potion of Poison (extended) into a potion of Harming (reverted) by adding fermented spider eye).

• The first method involved adding glowstone dust (typically) to an already upgraded tertiary potion. Since these tertiary potions have already been modified with redstone dust (typically), they could be changed to their original (reverted) unmodified states depending on which modifier was added previously. Not all potions could be reverted (or react, for that matter) when glowstone dust or redstone dust was added to an upgraded tertiary potion (for example, adding redstone dust to an already extended potion did not yield a new potion).
• The second method involved the addition of fermented spider eyes, followed by glowstone dust (usually). Method two worked by adding a fermented spider eye to an extended positive potion (i.e. an extended tertiary potion). In almost all cases, this would corrupt the potion and produce a negative potion of equal strength (in this case, extended). Then, glowstone dust (depending on the recipe) was added to the extended negative potion. Since these negative tertiary potions (regardless of origin) have already been modified with redstone dust, the addition of glowstone dust would revert the potion to a potion of lesser duration.

A good example of this process at work is the reversion of a potion of Weakness. A potion of Weakness can be made in two ways. The first method is by adding a fermented spider eye to a mundane potion (water bottle + ghast tear / glistering melon slice / blaze powder / magma cream / sugar / spider eye), then adding redstone dust to produce a potion of Weakness (extended). The second method is by adding a fermented spider eye to either a potion of Strength or a potion of Regeneration. Potions of Strength and Regeneration, in their base or extended forms, produce potions of Weakness with equal magnitude (for the sake of this example, fermented spider eye is added to a potion of Strength (extended) to produce a potion of Weakness (extended)).

Now, there should be two potions of Weakness (extended). Glowstone dust could be added to the potion of Weakness (extended), which reverted the potion into a base potion of Weakness. The act of reducing the duration from 4:00 to 1:30 was reversion.

Glowstone dust

Potion	Base	Reagent	Effect	Duration (minutes)
Potion of Fire Resistance (reverted)	Potion of Fire Resistance (extended)	Glowstone Dust	Gives immunity to damage from fire, lava, and ranged blaze attacks.	3:00
Potion of Night Vision (reverted)	Potion of Night Vision (extended)	Glowstone Dust	Makes everything appear to be at max light level, including underwater areas.	3:00
Potion of Slowness (reverted)	Potion of Slowness (extended)	Glowstone Dust	Decreases movement speed.	1:30
Potion of Weakness (reverted)	Potion of Weakness (extended)	Glowstone Dust	Reduces all melee attacks by 0.5 damage (0.25 heart).	1:30
Potion of Water Breathing (reverted)	Potion of Water Breathing (extended)	Glowstone Dust	Does not deplete the oxygen bar when underwater.	3:00

Redstone dust

Potion	Base	Reagent	Effect	Duration (minutes)
Potion of Healing (reverted)	Potion of Healing II	Redstone Dust	Restores of health.	Instant
Potion of Harming (reverted)	Potion of Harming II	Redstone Dust	Inflicts of damage.	Instant

Fermented spider eye

Potion	Base	Reagent	Effect	Duration (minutes)
Potion of Harming (reverted)	Potion of Healing (reverted) or Potion of Poison (extended)	Fermented Spider Eye	Inflicts of damage.	Instant
Potion of Slowness (reverted)	Potion of Fire Resistance (reverted) or Potion of Swiftness II	Fermented Spider Eye	Decreases movement speed.	1:30
Potion of Weakness (reverted)	Potion of Strength II or Potion of Regeneration II	Fermented Spider Eye	Reduces all melee attacks by 0.5 damage (0.25 heart).	1:30

Horse saddle

Main article: Horse Saddle

Horse saddles worked just like regular saddles, but for horses instead of pigs, which were added in the 13w16a snapshot. They could be crafted from 5 leather and 3 iron ingots. Horse saddles were removed in 13w18a.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Leather + Iron Ingot		Horse saddle recipe

Studded armor

Main article: Armor

Studded armor^{[citation needed]} consisted of several sprites that were added in Indev 0.31 20091231-2. They were taken from Notch's unfinished game, Legend of the Chambered, along with other armor sprites. The sprites were added for testing purposes, didn't have armor health, and were eventually removed between Indev 0.31 20100204-1 and Indev 20100206.

Slowness Arrows

Main article: Arrow § Tipped_arrows

In Java Edition 1.10, slowness arrows dropped by strays contained a different NBT tag from slowness arrows crafted. The different NBT tag was fixed in 1.10.1.

Obtaining

Data-retaining minecarts

In Java Edition 1.10.2, when a minecart of any type was broken a specially named minecart was dropped. In this version, the game messed up when separating the minecart from the item inside, and accidentally let the minecart retain its previous data. The minecart obtained would be named entity.MinecartRidable.name, entity.TNTMinecart.name, entity.FurnaceMinecart.name, Minecart with Chest, entity.MinecartCommandBlock.name, entity.SpawnerMinecart.name, and Minecart with Hopper.

Obtaining:

File:Data retaining minecarts.mp4

Link to the bug report on the Minecraft bug tracker

Fish

Prior to Java Edition 1.13, the item now referred to as cod was simply known as fish, and had a generic texture strongly unlike the cod texture used currently. These were substituted out of the game in much the same way as roses.

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