Pāhoehoe

Transcript:

Sarah: So this one is my favorite, the rock that has my favorite name, and it's not in Minecraft yet but it should be. 

Kim: It should be! 

Sarah: Kim, do you want to talk about this one? 

Kim: I love these rocks. So there's different kinds of basalts, and they're based more on their appearance. So this one is called pāhoehoe, and that's just a fun name to say, and it's from how it crystallized. So it's forming these ropey tubes, almost, you can see in the picture in the middle there, that the outer part has cooled off because it's interacting with the atmosphere, and then the underneath part of it is still molten, so it's it's still pulling and forming these these ropes or tubes. 

Yeah, so the pāhoehoe, and then there's aʻā, which are two types of lavas that form in Hawaii, and yes, I think those should definitely be Minecraft.

Sarah: So cool. I think the closest we get in Minecraft is probably these magma blocks. So we put them all together, we can see some patterns in them, and if I stand on them, I'm going to get hurt. We can see, if I hold really still, you can see them actually moving around a little bit too, but that's about, I think, as close as we get in Minecraft so far. 

Kim: Well that's pretty good, though, I'm really impressed that they've come up with these features, and showing how you can crystallize into obsidian, I think that's that's really great.