Coral Block

This article is about the solid block. For the non-solid block, see Coral. For other kinds of corals, see Coral (disambiguation).

Coral Block

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	6
Hardness	1.5
Luminant	0
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

A coral block is a solid block that comes in five variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn.

A dead coral block is a dead variant of a coral block.

Obtaining

Breaking

Coral blocks can be obtained only with a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch; otherwise, they drop the respective dead coral block. Dead coral blocks can be obtained with any type of pickaxe.

Block	Coral Block
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	7.5
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2

Natural generation

Coral blocks and dead coral blocks naturally generate in coral reef structures. These are found in warm oceans.

Trading

In Java Edition, one coral block can be bought from wandering traders for 3 emeralds, while in Bedrock Edition, 3 of the same coral block can be bought for 1 emerald.

Usage

North

East

South

West

Example

Schematic of valid block placements for coral blocks
with water around. Several ways are shown where the
arrangement would cause coral blocks to stay alive
or die.

Coral blocks and their dead variants can be used as building or decoration blocks.

Sea pickle farm blocks

If sea pickles are planted on coral blocks, using bone meal on the sea pickles increases the number of sea pickles and creates more sea pickles on nearby coral blocks. Specifically, they can spread to the original sea pickle's level or one level below, out to a horizontal taxicab distance of 2. This is the only way to farm renewable sea pickles.

Dead coral blocks

In order for a coral block to stay alive, at least one of the six directly adjacent blocks must be water. If placed outside of water, it transforms into its respective dead coral block after a few seconds — a grayscale version of the coral block. A coral block still dies if the Gamerule randomTickSpeed is set to 0.

Note Blocks

All types of coral blocks and dead coral block can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the coral block	block.coral_block.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Players	Falling on the coral block with fall damage	block.coral_block.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the coral block	block.coral_block.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the coral block	block.coral_block.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Players	Walking on the coral block	block.coral_block.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.5	16
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the dead coral block	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Players	Falling on the dead coral block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the dead coral block	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the dead coral block	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Players	Walking on the dead coral block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Translation key
Tube Coral Block	tube_coral_block	coral_blocks	block.minecraft.tube_coral_block
Brain Coral Block	brain_coral_block	coral_blocks	block.minecraft.brain_coral_block
Bubble Coral Block	bubble_coral_block	coral_blocks	block.minecraft.bubble_coral_block
Fire Coral Block	fire_coral_block	coral_blocks	block.minecraft.fire_coral_block
Horn Coral Block	horn_coral_block	coral_blocks	block.minecraft.horn_coral_block
Dead Tube Coral Block	dead_tube_coral_block	None	block.minecraft.dead_tube_coral_block
Dead Brain Coral Block	dead_brain_coral_block	None	block.minecraft.dead_brain_coral_block
Dead Bubble Coral Block	dead_bubble_coral_block	None	block.minecraft.dead_bubble_coral_block
Dead Fire Coral Block	dead_fire_coral_block	None	block.minecraft.dead_fire_coral_block
Dead Horn Coral Block	dead_horn_coral_block	None	block.minecraft.dead_horn_coral_block

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Coral Blocks	coral_block	387	tile.coral_block.blue.name tile.coral_block.pink.name tile.coral_block.purple.name tile.coral_block.red.name tile.coral_block.yellow.name tile.coral_block.blue_dead.name tile.coral_block.pink_dead.name tile.coral_block.purple_dead.name tile.coral_block.red_dead.name tile.coral_block.yellow_dead.name

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, coral blocks have the following block data:

	DV	Description
	0	Tube Coral Block
	1	Brain Coral Block
	2	Bubble Coral Block
	3	Fire Coral Block
	4	Horn Coral Block
	8	Dead Tube Coral Block
	9	Dead Brain Coral Block
	10	Dead Bubble Coral Block
	11	Dead Fire Coral Block
	12	Dead Horn Coral Block

Block states

See also: Block states

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
coral_color	blue	blue
		pink
		purple
		red
		yellow
dead_bit	0	0 1	Whether or not this coral is dead.

History

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch expresses interest in a suggestion regarding corals by user "solarblade".
Java Edition Alpha
June 28, 2010					Notch mentioned on his blog: "I tried adding corals, but it's really hard to draw a single block that looks like corals, since it's really more about crazy amounts of variation and diversity. But I do know that the corals will have tiny fish particles around them."
Java Edition
October 5, 2012					Coral were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with fish mobs and "fish blocks".
November 18, 2017					Coral were shown in a clip at MINECON Earth.
					Yellow coral, red coral, blue coral, and dead coral were shown (only one variant at the time), and in the clip slab variants of coral were shown as well, although they were not implemented.
1.13		18w09a			Added coral.
					Added dead coral.
		18w10a			The textures of all coral have been changed.
		18w10b			The single dead coral has been replaced with five dead coral.
					Dead coral in worlds before this update now stop existing when the world is updated.
		18w10d			Added coral reefs, allowing coral to generate naturally.
		18w14b			What was previously named "Coral" has been renamed to "Coral Blocks", and what was previously named "Coral Plants" have been renamed to "Coral".
					The blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow variants of all coral blocks and dead coral blocks have been renamed to tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn, respectively.
		18w16a			Mining coral blocks now require Silk Touch to drop them.
					Coral blocks now have a short delay before dying.
					Coral blocks no longer die as long as one side is touching water.
		pre6			Living coral blocks now have new sound events: block.coral_block.break, block.coral_block.fall, block.coral_block.hit, block.coral_block.place, and block.coral_block.step.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added coral blocks.
					Coral blocks currently die only if they touch air or void blocks, meaning that coral technically do not need water to stay alive.
					Added dead coral blocks.
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.4			Coral blocks no longer die as long as one side is touching water.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Coral blocks can now be bought from wandering traders.
					The texture of horn coral blocks has been changed to look the same as Java Edition's texture.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added coral blocks.
					Added dead coral blocks.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added coral blocks.
					Added dead coral blocks.

Issues

Issues relating to "Coral Block" or "Dead Coral Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• After players had placed 10 million coral blocks underwater in Bedrock Edition, Mojang donated US$100,000 to The Nature Conservancy to protect and restore coral reefs around the world.

Gallery

• 

  Corals (prototype) shown in a clip from MINECON Earth 2017.

• 

  Coral blocks naturally generating in a coral reef.

• 

  All variants of coral blocks.

• 

  All variants of dead coral blocks.

• 

  Coral blocks within a coral reef.

References

Blocks

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