There is a tiny wild sun trapped inside my crystal tower. I hear its garbled voice and catch the yellow of its fire through the blinding white blocks of the summit. The tower itself is so bright on the outside you can barely identify objects placed on it, but I have smashed the crust and dug a network of passages, and it’s shadier within. A realm of shining fog, slick as tooth enamel, with fissured, fugitive reflections that call to mind the beautiful quartz spacecraft in Noctis.
The relative gloom inside the tower implies that the structure’s external radiance is also a reflection. It appears to be caught in the glare of some celestial body, but if such a body exists, it emits radiation invisible to the naked eye, discernable only from its impact on other bodies. The skies of Lucid Blocks are dark and cloudy even by day, inasmuch as ‘day’ means anything in the game. There is one major astral feature, a hazy torus that neither rises nor sets, luminous enough to orient by when exploring the game's procedurally generated landscapes, but not enough to actually light your steps after dark. The only real sun here is the one below. The one I crafted. It slurs and shouts, nosing the walls of its prison.
Minecraft revealed its second drop for 2026 during Minecraft Live: Chaos Cubed. And, while the main appeal of this announcement is the brand new Sulfur Cave biome it'll receive, I'm far more excited for the brand new mob, the Sulfur Cube. This cave-dwelling beast has stolen the hearts of many players already, including my own, and for good reason.
The Sulfur Cube is the only mob of its kind in Minecraft, so it's got a lot of peculiar quirks and qualities that players are excited to make the most of. The only downside is that we currently don't know when it'll become available, so it could be a hot minute before the Sulfur Cube is added to the game. Here's all the info we do have, though, so you know exactly what to gear up for.
When is the Sulfur Cube being added to Minecraft?
The Sulfur Cube will be added to Minecraft as part of the Chaos Cubed update, which doesn't have a release date yet. Given Minecraft produces a new drop each quarter though, we do know it'll launch around Summer. Should it correspond with the drop schedule of last year, we are anticipating this to roll out around mid-June too.
What does a Sulfur Cube do in Minecraft?
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Aside from looking adorable, the Sulfur Cube has one unique skill that separates it from the rest of Minecraft's mob roster: the ability to consume blocks and take on their attributes. This doesn't mean the cube simply takes on the appearance of a block either, oh no, it takes on the characteristics of whatever it consumes.
For example, if you feed a Sulfur Cube ice, it will start to slide rather than defaulting to hopping around. Whereas if you feed the cube wood, it acts sort of like a "ball" (despite being a cube still) which you and your friends can use for different minigames like setting up a cube-y match of croquet, or golf. These aren't the only blocks the cube can consume either, even though they are the only ones we've seen in action.
According to the official blog post recapping the announcement, the cube can absorb "loads of different blocks" and will have "infinite potential for experimentation." Meaning, the full abilities of the Sulfur Cube are down to us to explore, and since we're a ways out from seeing the Chaos Cubed update, it'll be a while before we can even get stuck into testing. I don't doubt everyone will be quick to see which hilarious attributes they can give their Cube though, and I look forward to seeing how they are implemented into minigames.
Because of how little we know about the Chaos Cubed update in general, we don't know if the Sulfur Cube drops anything when killed, or if it can be tamed or bred yet either. That's all part of the fun of waiting.
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A few weeks back, there was an article on PC Gamer that actually made me laugh out loud. “I’m sick of the survival crafting ‘Cube’ and calling the gamer HOA on all of you,” author Andrea Shearon declared. I feel extremely called out because I literally have one of these in Palia; I bought a […]
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