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.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Breaking[edit]
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[A] | ||
Default | 7.5 | |
Wooden | 1.15 | |
Stone | 0.6 | |
Iron | 0.4 | |
Diamond | 0.3 | |
Netherite | 0.25 | |
Golden | 0.2 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Natural generation[edit]
Coral blocks and dead coral blocks naturally generate in coral reef structures. These are found in warm oceans.
Trading[edit]
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[edit]
Coral blocks and their dead variants can be used as building or decoration blocks.
Sea pickle farm blocks[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
All types of coral blocks and dead coral block can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.
Sounds[edit]
{{Sound table}}
.
Examples can be seen at Bee#Sounds and Ladder#Sounds.
The wikicode should be laid out neatly as in these examples for improved readability.
Remember to include a foot parameter so the table appears in the correct place. Do NOT convert the table using Visual Editor.
Sound | Subtitle | Namespaced ID | Subtitle ID | Source | Pitch | Volume | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block breaking | block.coral_block.hit
|
subtitles.block.generic.hit
|
Blocks | 0.5 | 0.25 | 16 | |
Block broken | block.coral_block.break
|
subtitles.block.generic.break
|
Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Block placed | block.coral_block.place
|
subtitles.block.generic.place
|
Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Footsteps | block.coral_block.step
|
subtitles.block.generic.footsteps
|
Blocks | 1.0 | 0.15 | 16 | |
No subtitle | block.coral_block.fall
|
(Plays when fallen on from a height) | Blocks | 0.75 | 0.5 | 16 | |
Block breaking | block.stone.hit
|
subtitles.block.generic.hit
|
Blocks | 0.5 | 0.25 | 16 | |
Block broken | block.stone.break
|
subtitles.block.generic.break
|
Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Block placed | block.stone.place
|
subtitles.block.generic.place
|
Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Footsteps | block.stone.step
|
subtitles.block.generic.footsteps
|
Blocks | 1.0 | 0.15 | 16 | |
No subtitle | block.stone.fall
|
(Plays when fallen on from a height) | Blocks | 0.75 | 0.5 | 16 |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
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 |
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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. | ||||
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1.13 | 18w09a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
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18w10a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
18w10b | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
Coral blocks currently die only if they touch air or void blocks, meaning that coral technically do not need water to stay alive. | |||||
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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. | |||
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Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU69 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||
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Education Edition | |||||
1.4.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
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Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Coral Block" or "Dead Coral Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- 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.[2]
Gallery[edit]
Corals (prototype) shown in a clip from MINECON Earth 2017.
Coral blocks naturally generating in a coral reef.