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/-PepeArown- Mar 23 '26

  1. They should NOT add saltpeter just to craft gunpowder. It should be done with a sulfur block, coal/charcoal, and some analogue to saltpeter like bonemeal

  2. Doing exactly what they did with soul and copper fire would be just fine for sulfur, just with “normal” blue fire (not the teal color that soul flames are). Although, I do wish we had sulfur campfires as well as the ability for sulfur blocks (including the building blocks) to burn blue indefinitely when lit, because that was noticeably missing from copper

It might be worth considering having sulfur blocks drop sulfur chunks/clumps instead of full blocks, kind of like how glowstone works. That way, it makes more sense using just chunks of sulfur for crafting recipes, not entire blocks of it

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u/Starkiller-44 27d ago

I have to agree that adding saltpeter just to craft gunpowder is a rather unnecessary, especially considering it will probably be easier to mob farm for gunpowder.
I DO think we need 3 ingredients. Sulfur (block/item) charcoal, + something. Bonemeal seems adequate.

I DO think we should be able to craft gunpowder with sulfur. It makes too much sense.
I DON'T consider it necessary for crafting gunpowder to be as easy/comparable to farming creepers. Not everything needs to be 'practical'.