Muddier Mud: Footprints, Puddles, and Muddy Pig

Mud blocks are 3/4 blocks tall. This makes them useful if you need a shorter block. You can use these blocks with dirt and path to create textures in terrain, potholes in roads, mud pits in animal pens, or ditches along paths. Mud blocks can be dry, hydrated, or waterlogged.

Hydrated Mud Block

When you use a water bottle on dirt, the mud block it creates will initially be hydrated but it will dry out without a nearby water block like farmland. Your feet will sink in a bit, sound squishy when you walk on it, and make you leave muddy footprints behind. They only last a short while but long enough for someone to see which way you went. You can make traps by hiding mud blocks under carpet to catch invisible players if they walk over them.

Mud blocks must be hydrated to drip water from stalactites and turn into clay.

Waterlogged Mud Block

Mud blocks are short so when it rains, they fill up with water, creating a shallow puddle deep enough to wet your boots and cause splashing but not slow you down. Without rain or a water source, the puddle will eventually empty. Placing a water bucket on a mud block counts as a water source so you can make puddles permanent.

Pigs will love rolling around in them, turning them into muddy pig. Water or splash water bottles will clean them right up. This is perfect for mangrove swamps because they can generate with plenty of mud wallows, a perfect habitat for all the pigs that spawn there, like the wild boar and peccaries that inhabit real mangrove biomes