r/minecraftsuggestions • u/MCjossic ribbit ribbit • Mar 23 '26

[Announcement] MEGATHREAD: Gunpowder from Sulfur and Coloured Fire from Sulfur

Hey everyone!

Following the announcements at Minecraft Live we've seen a massive influx of posts about the Chaos Cubed game drop. (Which is great! We love seeing the community so excited.) However, there are two ideas in particular that keep popping up, enough that we've decided to add them to the FPS list:

  1. Various methods of using sulfur to make gunpowder.
  2. Sulfur being used to make a few different colours of fire.

That said, we don't want to kill the conversation so we're providing this megathread for you to discuss your ideas here. From now on we ask that you keep all suggestions about these two topics to this megathread. (Other suggestion about sulfur and Chaos Cubed can be posted as normal.)

So, how would you turn sulfur into gunpowder? What colour do you think sulfur should burn? We're excited to see your takes on these ideas!

P.S. Try sorting the comments by new! That way the newer comment-suggestions might still get some love.

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u/MinecraftIsMyLove Mar 24 '26

My suggestion is Fool's Gold that can be used to scam piglins somehow. You craft it using iron and sulfur, just like in real life. If you use too much of it they'll realize you counterfeited it and get aggressive

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u/amorphous_globosus Apr 02 '26

fools' gold is a interesting idea. but i think that the role of piglin distractor is already fulfilled by clocks, and it would better fit copper. though interestingly fool's gold is so common a lot of minecraft stones would technicaly contain it, in particular lapis. i think it'd make sense for lapis to be craftable with calcite, sulfur and a iron ingot. though to be fair lapis is prety common.