Pointed dripstone is a special type of block in Minecraft that was released with the Caves and Cliffs part 1 in 2021.

Dripstone blocks and behaviour The main draw of a dripstone cave is, unsurprisingly, dripstone. The mineral comes in block form and pointed form - a unique shape for the usually blocky sandbox game.

Dripstone caves can't exactly claim their name without two things, dripstone and water. Dripstone cave biomes will often have small reservoirs of water, typically in small areas of 1x1 or similar ...

Dripstone is one of the items in Minecraft that many players are still confused by. In-game, they're known as Pointed Dripstone, which comes in two different varieties. Stalagmites are Pointed ...

Dripstone farming To start dripstone farming, you’ll need (at least) 1 dripstone block, 1 pointed dripstone, and 1 water bucket. An example of a dripstone farm. Image: Microsoft/Mojang via Polygon ...

The basic concept of a lava farm is using Minecraft dripstone, cauldrons, and non-flammable materials to allow lava to drip down the pointed dripstone and collect in the cauldron.

Layered dripstone from the Hoti Cave, Oman, with samples used to reconstruct past precipitation ... More T. Kipfer/University of Basel About 1,500 years ago, the Near East experienced a ...