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Coral Block

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Coral Block
Tube Coral Block.pngBrain Coral Block.pngBubble Coral Block.pngFire Coral Block.pngHorn Coral Block.png
Dead Tube Coral Block.pngDead Brain Coral Block.pngDead Bubble Coral Block.pngDead Fire Coral Block.pngDead Horn Coral Block.png
Transparent

No

Luminance

0

Blast resistance

30

Tool

Renewable

Yes

Stackable

Yes (64)

Flammable

No

Drops

Coral Block:
Dead Coral Block
Itself (with Silk Touch)
Dead Coral Block:
Itself

Data value

dec: 387 hex: 183 bin: 110000011

Namespaced ID

See Data values

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

Coral blocks are solid blocks that come in five variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn.

Dead coral blocks are the dead variants of coral blocks.

Obtaining[edit]

Coral blocks can only be obtained with a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch, otherwise, they will 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[note 1]
Hand 7.5
Wooden 1.15
Stone 0.6
Iron 0.4
Diamond 0.3
Golden 0.2
  1. ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds. For more information, see Haste § Instant mining.

Natural generation[edit]

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

Trading[edit]

Coral blocks can be bought from wandering traders for 3 emeralds.

Usage[edit]

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[edit]

Coral blocks grow sea pickles when bonemeal is used on it. Making it the only way for farming renewable Sea pickles.

Dead coral blocks[edit]

In order for coral blocks to stay alive, at least one of the orthogonally-adjacent blocks must be water. If placed outside of water, it will transform into its respective dead coral block after a few seconds. They are a grayscale version of coral blocks.

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

Java Edition:

Block Namespaced ID
Tube Coral Block tube_coral_block
Brain Coral Block brain_coral_block
Bubble Coral Block bubble_coral_block
Fire Coral Block fire_coral_block
Horn Coral Block horn_coral_block
Dead Tube Coral Block dead_tube_coral_block
Dead Brain Coral Block dead_brain_coral_block
Dead Bubble Coral Block dead_bubble_coral_block
Dead Fire Coral Block dead_fire_coral_block
Dead Horn Coral Block dead_horn_coral_block

Bedrock Edition:

Block Namespaced ID Numeric ID
Coral Block coral_block 387

Block data[edit]

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
5 Dead Tube Coral Block
6 Dead Brain Coral Block
7 Dead Bubble Coral Block
8 Dead Fire Coral Block
9 Dead Horn Coral Block

History[edit]

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Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009Notch expresses interest in a suggestion regarding corals by user "solarblade".
Java Edition Alpha
June 28, 2010Notch 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, 2012Coral were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with fish mobs and "fish blocks".
November 18, 2017Coral blocks were shown in a clip at MINECON Earth. Horn coral, fire coral, tube 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 not implemented.
1.1318w09aTube Coral Block (18w09a).pngBrain Coral Block (18w09a).pngBubble Coral Block (18w09a).pngFire Coral Block (18w09a).pngHorn Coral Block (18w09a).png Added coral blocks, which at the time were called simply "coral", and the tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn variants were named blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow, respectively.
Dead Coral Block.png Added dead coral blocks, which at the time were called dead coral and did not have any variants.
18w10aTube Coral Block.pngBrain Coral Block.pngBubble Coral Block.pngFire Coral Block.pngHorn Coral Block.png Changed texture of all coral blocks.
18w10bDead Tube Coral Block.pngDead Brain Coral Block.pngDead Bubble Coral Block.pngDead Fire Coral Block.pngDead Horn Coral Block.png Replaced the single dead coral block with five dead coral blocks[1] (once again, called dead coral at the time). Like coral blocks, they were blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow at the time, but were later changed to tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn.
18w10dAdded coral reefs, allowing coral blocks to generate naturally.
18w14bRenamed what was previously called coral to coral blocks, and renamed coral plants to coral.
Renamed the blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow variants of all coral blocks and dead coral blocks to tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn, respectively.
18w16aMining coral blocks will now require Silk Touch to drop them.
Coral blocks will now have a short delay before dying.
Coral blocks will no longer die as long as one side is touching water.
pre6Living 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
1.4.0beta 1.2.14.2Tube Coral Block.pngBrain Coral Block.pngBubble Coral Block.pngFire Coral Block.pngHorn Coral Block BE.png Added coral blocks. At this time, coral blocks would only "die" if they touched air or void blocks, meaning that coral technically did not need water to stay alive.
Dead Tube Coral Block.pngDead Brain Coral Block.pngDead Bubble Coral Block.pngDead Fire Coral Block.pngDead Horn Coral Block.png Added dead coral blocks.
1.5.0beta 1.5.0.4Coral blocks will now no longer die as long as one side is touching water.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Coral can be bought from the new wandering trader.
Updated texture of horn coral block to look the same as in Java Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
TU691.76Patch 38Tube Coral Block.pngBrain Coral Block.pngBubble Coral Block.pngFire Coral Block.pngHorn Coral Block.png Added coral blocks.
Dead Tube Coral Block.pngDead Brain Coral Block.pngDead Bubble Coral Block.pngDead Fire Coral Block.pngDead Horn Coral Block.png Added dead coral blocks.
Education Edition
1.4.0Added coral blocks.

Issues[edit]

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

Trivia[edit]

Gallery[edit]

  • 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.

  • A cave scattered with various dead coral blocks, placed by the player.

  • Coral blocks within a coral reef.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ MC-126564
  2. ↑ https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/you-helped-us-help-oceans

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