Headspace ramble pt.3, We'll be talking about The Blocks!
The Blocks is the layer right over (quite literally, it's like a floating island that you can see if you squint) the primary layer, The Garden.
The Blocks has been around for about as long as we've had a headspace, and is actually our original headspace made by our very first Architect, Sashja.
The Blocks is a layer that is based off of, and a carbon copy of Minecraft. It gets regular updates, new items, mob drops, etc and has the same functionalities as Minecraft.
If Minecraft gets updates, new mobs, new items, so does The Blocks. They continue to be implemented by Sashja who continues to work on The Blocks to this day (Which, is about twelve years now?).
The enter point of The Blocks is a nether portal in the forest beside The Teleporting City that is in The Garden (not every headmate can enter this portal). The nether portal teleports you to the plains that has a dirt parth that leads to the village in the plains. Though, Going the opposite way through the forest will sooner or later lead you to the tundra, then the desert.
The village is a residential area for permanent or temporary residents of most people of The Blocks (though, not everyone who stays in the blocks stays in the plains). From the village you'll see a mountain range.
The mountain range as two paths, if you go over the mountain range you'll end up in the nether. If you go under the mountain range through a cave(and depending what path you take) you can end up in the deep dark or at the end portal.
There is a bastion in the nether, and a lava lake with a rickety bridge over it past the bastion. Over the bridge is simply some houses some residents of The Blocks stay.
We do have mobs (aka NPCs) in The Blocks, such as creepers, zombies, wardens, ender dragons, endermen, etc. They do drop loot (like spiders eyes, and bones, and the dragon egg), as well as respawn (Though, the warden and ender dragon take a couple months to respawn after being killed). Though, most mobs are non-hostile unless provoked.
People in The Blocks can also be killed (and respawn) by things such as TNT or gravel or mobs, etc, and The Blocks residents can decide if they want keep inventory or not individually and they'll respawn either where they set their respawn point or back at the nether portal.
Um, Yeah :D. The Blocks is a longtime favorite of the system and we love questions about it.