Farmland

Farmland

Transparent	Java Edition: Partial (Blocks light) BE: Yes
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	3
Tool
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Dirt (1)
Data value	dec: 60 hex: 3C bin: 111100
Namespaced ID	farmland

See also: Farming

	“	Want to live the Good Life? With a little bit of graft, you can delight in nature’s bounty - and in a happily sustainable way! The secret is dirt - and what you can do with it. Your average dirt block can be transformed into a ready and reusable dispenser for all manner of yummy foods: wheat, melons, pumpkins, carrots and potatoes.	„
		— Marsh Davies

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

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.

Obtaining

To make a block of farmland, use a hoe on dirt, grass block or grass path.

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. In Bedrock Edition, it can be obtained only using an inventory editor.

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

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

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Block breaking	block.gravel.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	Blocks	0.5	0.25	16
	Block broken	block.gravel.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
	Block placed	block.gravel.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
	Footsteps	block.gravel.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	Blocks	1.0	0.15	16
	No subtitle	block.gravel.fall	(Plays when fallen on from a height)	Blocks	0.75	0.5	16

Data values

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.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
moisture	0	0 1 2 3 4 5 6	Not fully-hydrated.
		7	Fully-hydrated.

History

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding farmland.
Java Edition Indev
February 6, 2010					Added farmland.
					There was a bug that would allow 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 would cause 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 will now also prevent it from decaying.
Java Edition Beta
1.3					Farmland blocks can no longer be destroyed by placing dirt below them, tilling the dirt and then planting seeds on the block.
1.6		?			Farmland can not currently be dug faster using a shovel. Saplings cannot be planted onto farmland; however, if a sapling is planted, and the block below is tilled, the sapling will remain. This was changed and now the player can plant saplings onto farmland, but they do not grow until the land reverts to dirt.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			When the player tills a dirt block, the top layer is now removed, but due to the way tilled dirt blocks are textured, it appears as if the block sinks into the ground. The texture for the sides shift down instead of the top pixels being removed.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6			Farmland can now decay even if fences are placed below it.
		?			Passive mobs can now spawn on nearby and lit grass, trampling the crops.
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 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					Farmland has now been reduced from a full block tall to 15⁄16.
1.11		16w38a			Using pick block 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 now been changed.
Upcoming Java Edition
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 now uses coarse dirt as the side texture.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of farmland has now 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			Farmland no longer uses coarse dirt as the side texture.
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 obtainable if the player uses "pick block" on it in creative mode.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of farmland has now been changed.

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.

See also

• Farming

References

Blocks

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