Empty Room
A legendary zone. The whole zone is one empty room, lit only by glow lichen on the floor.
The Empty Room is a zone type in the Overworld. The whole zone is one room. There is nothing in it.
What it looks like
- The floor is flat from one side of the zone to the other.
- The ceiling is one block thick, just under the top of the world, about 240 blocks over the floor.
- The walls stand on the edge of the zone, from the ground up to the ceiling. The room is so wide that from the middle you can barely see them.
- Glow lichen lies flat on the floor in an even pattern, so the floor is speckled with faint light. There are no lamps. Nothing lights the ceiling.
- Hills, lakes, trees and caves inside the zone are gone. The room is all there is.
From outside it is a wall that goes up to the sky.
By biome
The room is built from blocks that the land makes on its own. Each chunk takes the blocks of the biome at its middle, so where biomes meet, the floor and ceiling change in square patches.
| Land | Floor | Walls | Ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most of the world | Polished tuff | Tuff bricks | Clay |
| Oceans | Prismarine | Prismarine | Prismarine |
| Deserts | Smooth sandstone | Cut sandstone | Smooth sandstone |
| Badlands | Brown terracotta | Yellow terracotta | White terracotta |
| Snowy land | Stone bricks | Stone bricks | Stone bricks |
| Snowy plains | Smooth stone | Stone bricks | Smooth stone |
| Swamps | Clay | Mossy stone bricks | Clay |
| Mangrove swamps | Mud | Mossy stone bricks | Clay |
| Jungles | Packed mud | Mud bricks | Mud bricks |
| Lush caves | Clay | Mossy cobblestone | Clay |
Getting in
Each side of the room has one gap in its wall: west, east, north and south. The gaps line up, so from one gap you look straight across the room at the one on the other side.
A gap is 3 blocks wide and 4 tall, with glow lichen in the middle of its floor. It sits at the level of the ground outside. Where the land outside is higher than the floor, the gap is high up in the wall and there is a long drop into the room. Where the wall stands on very high ground the gap can be missing. Then you dig in.
Inside
Every block of the floor is within two blocks of some glow lichen, so the whole floor is lit and monsters do not spawn on it. Monsters from outside can still walk in through the gaps.
Nothing flows in and nothing falls. The caves under the floor are sealed off.
How rare it is
The Empty Room is a legendary zone. About 0.05 percent of zones are Empty Rooms, about one zone in 2,000. It exists in the Overworld only, and only in land far from anything that existed when it was added. The land around spawn never gets it, so go far.
There are no other chunk errors inside the zone.
See Chunk errors for every zone type, and Exploring for how finds are logged.