Farmland

Farmland

Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.6
Hardness	0.6
Luminant	No
Transparent	Java Edition: Partial (Blocks light) Bedrock Edition: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Block: Yes Item: No

Farmland is a block on which seeds, root vegetables and most saplings can be planted and grown.

Obtaining

Breaking

When mined (even with a Silk Touch tool), farmland drops dirt. In Java Edition, it can be obtained only from the inventory using commands, the Creative inventory or the pick block control.

Block	Farmland
Hardness	0.6
Tool
Breaking time
Default	0.9
Wooden	0.45
Stone	0.25
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.15
Netherite	0.1
Golden	0.1

Natural generation

Farmland occurs naturally in villages where wheat, potatoes, carrots, beetroots, pumpkin stem, and melon stem are grown. Patches of farmland are surrounded by logs or sandstone, spruce trapdoor, and cobblestone. They also naturally occur in woodland mansions.

Post-generation

A block of farmland is the result of using a hoe on dirt, grass block or grass path.

Usage

Farmland is required to grow six of the game's types of crops.

Plants such as saplings, ferns, tall grass and flowers may be planted on farmland. Mushrooms, sugar canes and cactus cannot be planted on farmland.

In Java Edition, acacia saplings don't grow on farmland and 2×2 trees cannot be grown if the NW sapling is on farmland.

In Bedrock Edition, 2×2 giant spruce trees and giant jungle trees don't grow if the NW sapling is on farmland.

Hydration

Conditions in which farmland is and is not hydrated.

A farmland block is created dry. It becomes hydrated if the following conditions are met:

1. Water up to four blocks away horizontally, including diagonals.
2. The water must be on the same level or 1 block above farmland block level.

The blocks between the farmland block and the water make no difference.

There is nothing the player can do to affect the rate at which farmland becomes hydrated. Each farmland block within a 9x9 grid of farmland with a single water block in the middle has exactly the same chance of becoming hydrated as a single farmland block in an ocean.

Farmland can also be hydrated by rain.

Different types of seeds grow faster on hydrated farmland than on dry farmland. Hydrated farmland yields a fully developed wheat crop in a little over a single day/night cycle.

Decay

Under certain conditions, a farmland block becomes a dirt block, regardless of its state of hydration. This happens if any of the following occur:

• If the farmland block is dehydrated and nothing is planted on it for too long.
• If the player or any mob jumps/falls on the block (with a greater chance as falling speed increases).
  • In Java Edition, mobs smaller than 0.512 cubic block cannot destroy farmland. This includes parrots, rabbits, chickens, bats, ocelots, wolves, foxes, cave spiders, endermites, silverfish, baby mobs, small slimes, and small magma cubes.
• If a piston arm is extended over a farmland block.
• If a piston pushes a farmland block down.
• If a solid block covers the top surface of the farmland block such as when pumpkin or melon blocks appear or trees grow.
• If an enderman teleports directly on top of a farmland block.
• If snow falls directly on top of a farmland block.
• If a ravager walks on it.

When farmland decays, crops at the top are dropped as items, as if they were harvested.

Sounds

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Blocks	Breaking the block	dig.gravel	?	0.8
?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.gravel	?	?
?	Blocks	Mining the block	hit.gravel	?	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.gravel	?	?
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.gravel	?	?
?	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.gravel	?	?
?	Blocks	Placing the block	use.gravel	?	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Farmland	farmland	block.minecraft.farmland

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Farmland	farmland	60	tile.farmland.name

Block data

See also: Data values

Value	Meaning
0	Dry land
1 to 7	Increasing levels of wetness. The wetness value counts down to 0 while the farmland does not have access to water. The wet texture is only used on level 7. Newly hydrated farmland jumps from 0 to 7.

Block states

See also: Block states

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
moisture‌[JE only] moisturized_amount‌[BE only]	0	0 1 2 3 4 5 6	Not fully-hydrated.
		7	Fully-hydrated.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Husbandry	Plant one of these 5 crops: Beetroot, Melon, Nether Wart, Pumpkin, Wheat. Other crops and plants, if any, can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/plant_seed

History

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding farmland.
Java Edition Indev
February 6, 2010					Added farmland.
					There is currently a bug that allows players to destroy any block (even bedrock) by placing a dirt block under a block, tilling the dirt, and planting seeds on the dirt. This causes the block above the tilled dirt to disappear without giving a resource.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.17					Fences can now be placed below farmland to prevent it from decaying.
v1.1.1					Sneaking on farmland now also prevents it from decaying.
Java Edition Beta
1.2					The block destruction bug for farmland has been fixed.
1.6					Farmland can now be dug faster using a shovel.
1.7					The texture of farmland has been changed. The dirt comprising the sides is now aligned to other dirt textures; previously it was moved down one pixel, which was particularly noticeable when tilling blocks.
1.8		Pre-release			Dropped farmland items no longer appear larger than normal blocks.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			The texture of farmland has been changed due to dirt's texture being changed.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6			Farmland can now decay even if fences are placed below it.
1.1		11w48a			As a response to the bug fix in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6, farmland can now be trampled only if the player jumps onto it; walking no longer affects it. Animals, villagers, and other mobs can now similarly trample farmland by jumping on it, but not by walking.
		11w49a			Particles no longer destroy farmland.
					Melon and pumpkin blocks no longer need farmland to spawn onto, as they can now grow on normal dirt or grass blocks.
1.9		15w46a			Small mobs no longer turn farmland to dirt by falling on it.
1.10.1		release			Farmland has now been reduced from a full block tall to 15⁄16.
1.11		16w38a			Using pick block now gives the player the farmland itself instead of dirt.
		16w39a			Farmland now generates in woodland mansions.
1.13		17w47a			Farmland is now available in the creative inventory.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 60.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of farmland has been changed.
1.15		19w36a			Blocks that can now be manually placed on farmland without turning it into dirt can now also be pushed into it by a piston without turning the farmland under the block the piston has pushed into dirt.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0					Added farmland.
0.5.0					Farmland can now be trampled into dirt when jumped on.
0.9.0		build 1			Farmland now naturally generates in villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Farmland now generates in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
?					Farmland with hydration values between 1 and 6 now uses coarse dirt as the side texture.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of farmland has been changed.
					Farmland is now used as the job site block for farmer villagers.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Farmland is no longer used as the job site block for farmer villagers.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.2			Dry farmland no longer uses coarse dirt as the side texture.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.50			Farmland can now be obtained from the creative inventory.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added farmland.
TU55	CU47	1.54	Patch 25	1.0.5	Farmland is now obtainable if the player uses "pick block" on it in creative mode.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of farmland has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added farmland.

Issues

Issues relating to "Farmland" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Ladders and torches cannot be attached to the side of a farmland block, but signs can.
• Farmland is not trampled when walking off of a slab next to it.
• Farmland does not revert to dirt if the player jumps onto it, if a block is two blocks above the farmland being jumped on.
• The flowing water that comes off of a source block hydrates farmland just as source blocks do.
• Farmland in Bedrock Edition is a full-block, therefore a hopper cannot pick up items on a farmland from underneath it.

See also

• Farming

References

Blocks

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