Coral Block

Coral Block

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	30
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	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

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

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.

Natural generation

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

Obtaining

Coral blocks can only be obtained 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
Hand	7.5
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Golden	0.2

Trading

In Java Edition, one coral blocks 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

Coral blocks grow sea pickles when bone meal is used on them.^{[more information needed]}‌^{[Java Edition only]} Additionally, 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.

Data values

ID

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

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

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 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 were not implemented.
1.13		18w09a			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.
					Added dead coral blocks, which at the time were called dead coral and did not have any variants.
		18w10a			Changed texture of all coral blocks.
		18w10b			Replaced the single dead coral block with five dead coral blocks (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.
		18w10d			Added coral reefs, allowing coral blocks to generate naturally.
		18w14b			What was previously called "Coral" has now been renamed to "Coral Blocks", and what was previously named "Coral Plants" have now been renamed to "Coral".
					The blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow variants of all coral blocks and dead coral blocks have now 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. At this time, coral blocks would die only if they touched air or void blocks, meaning that coral technically did not need water to stay alive.
					[verify] 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 the new wandering trader.
					The texture of the horn coral block has now been changed 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.

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  All variants of coral blocks.

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  All variants of dead coral blocks.

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  Coral blocks within a coral reef.

References

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