Red Phosphorus

Red Phosphorus
Properties
Type	Element Allotrope
Made With/By	Natural, Blaze Rod Extraction
Default Ore Veins per Chunk	24 (in nether)
Ore Vein Size	6 (in nether)
Minimum Ore Height	0 (in nether)
Maximum Ore Height	127 (in nether)
Exists in Reality	Yes
Atomic Number	15

For the rarer and more unstable allotrope only used in weapons, see White Phosphorus.

Red phosphorus is a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus. Its item form is not pyrophoric or otherwise particularly dangerous, but its block form is when in your inventory.

Production

It can be obtained from Nether phosphorus ore in the Nether, by centrifuging blaze rods, from bedrock ores or with a cyclotron.

Centrifuge

Cyclotron

Uses

As a fuel it can power 32 operations in a furnace.

It can be used to craft matches, single use fire lighters.

Incendiary weapons of all kinds.

Trivia

Red phosphorus is relatively non-toxic, except when exposed to oxygen and water vapor.
- It can be extremely toxic when mixed with white phosphorus.
Red phosphorus is used in fertilizer in real life.
Sort of an inverse of white phosphorus in the sense that it only has a powder form wheras WP only has an ingot form.
- This means that red phosphorus is the kind that is used in the cyclotron.