Editing Dotted-Line Block

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[[File:SM64 Dotted-Line Block.png|frame|90px|''Super Mario 64'']]

'''Dotted-Line Blocks'''<ref>''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'' instruction booklet, page 49.</ref> (originally formatted without a hyphen)<ref>''Super Mario World'' English instruction booklet, page 21.</ref> are transparent objects found in several ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' games, such as ''[[Super Mario World]]'' (and [[Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2|its reissue]]), ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' (and [[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3|its reissue]]), ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]'', ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', and ''[[Super Mario Run]]''. They represent that they can be solid when a switch is triggered, rather than blocks appearing from nothing. In ''Super Mario World'', they come in four colors and turn into [[! Block]]s once the player hits the [[! Switch]] in the [[Switch Palace]] of the corresponding color. In ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'', ''Yoshi's Island DS'', ''[[Yoshi's New Island]]'', and ''[[Yoshi's Woolly World]]'', after the player hits a nearby ! Switch, the Dotted-Line Blocks temporarily become ! Blocks and are able to be used as [[platform]]s. Dotted-Line Blocks in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' can turn into and revert from [[Red Block|red block]]s after the player presses the red ! Switches in [[World 3 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 3]]. In ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' and ''Super Mario Run'', red (yellow in ''Run'') ! Switches can change Dotted-Line Blocks into red blocks for a limited time.

Similar objects called '''semi-visible blocks'''<ref>''Super Mario 64 Instruction Booklet''. Redmond: [[Nintendo|Nintendo of America]], 1996. page 19.</ref> appear in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and its remake, ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'', where they turn solid and are able to be used after the player hits the ! Switch or [[? Switch]] on the [[Tower of the Wing Cap]] in both versions and [[The Secret Under the Moat|Vanish Cap Under the Moat]] and the [[Behind the Waterfall|Cavern of the Metal Cap]] in the N64 version only.

In ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'', Dotted-Line Blocks can be triggered by [[ON/OFF Switch]]es, with only the red blocks becoming solid when they are on and only the blue blocks becoming solid when they are off. In the ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' style, they are depicted having a smiling face, while every other style depicts them as faceless blocks. As of the version 2.0 update, [[P Block]]s also appear as an outline like Dotted-Line Blocks while inactive. Although previously not available in the ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' style, Dotted-Line Blocks were added in the version 3.0.0 update released on April 22, 2020.

In the [[Nintendo Switch]] version of ''[[Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo Switch)|Mario vs. Donkey Kong]]'', inactive [[Color Block]]s are redesigned to have a similar design to Dotted-Line Blocks.

|Jap={{ruby|点線|てんせん}}ブロック<ref>''Super Mario World'' Japanese instruction booklet (fold-out)</ref>

|JapR=Tensen Burokku

|JapM=Dotted-Line Block

|Jap2={{ruby|透明|とうめい}}ブロック<ref>''Super Mario 64'' Japanese instruction booklet, page 19.</ref> <small>(''Super Mario 64'')</small>

|Jap2R=Tōmei Burokku

|Jap2M=Transparent Block

|Fre=Bloc en pointillés<ref>[http://manuelsjeux.free.fr/manuels/snes/smw20.htm ''Super Mario World'' French instruction booklet, page 21].</ref><small>(''Super Mario World'', ''Super Mario Maker 2'')</small>

|FreM=Dotted block

|Fre2=Bloc réversible<ref>''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'' French Nintendo 3DS [[Virtual Console]] digital manual, page 12</ref> <small>(''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'')</small>

|Fre2M=Reversible block

|Por=Bloco Pontilhado

|PorM=Dotted Block

|Ita=Blocchi di Contorni<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Deluxe]]'' European instruction manual, pag. 112</ref> <small>(''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'')</small>

|Ita2=Blocco semivisibile<ref>''[[Super Mario 64]]'' European manual, pag. 38</ref> <small>(''Super Mario 64'')</small>

|Ita3=Blocco Trasparente<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]'', pag. 92</ref> <small>(''Super Mario 64'', alternative name)</small>

|Ita4=Blocco tratteggiato <small>(''Super Mario Maker 2'')</small>

|ItaM=Outline block

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