Coral

Coral

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	0
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Itself (with Silk Touch)‌[JE, BE & LCE only]‌[upcoming: BE 1.13]
Data value	dec: 386 hex: 182 bin: 110000010
Namespaced ID	See Data values

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

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

Dead corals‌^{[JE, BE & LCE only]}‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.13]} are the dead variants of coral.

Natural generation

Corals naturally generate in coral reef structures found in warm ocean biomes.

Unnatural generation

When using bone meal on dirt, coarse dirt, sand, red sand or gravel underwater, coral will generate in place of some of the seagrass.‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]} However, this only works in warm ocean biomes.

Dead coral is created when coral is placed out of water.‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.13]}

Obtaining

Corals generated in warm oceans.

Corals can be mined instantly, but can only be obtained when mined with a Silk Touch enchanted tool.‌^{[Java, Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]}‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.13]}

Usage

Corals can be used as a building or decoration block. If it's not placed underwater, it will quickly transform into dead coral.If at any time the block above a coral is removed (such as by using a bucket to remove a water source block or by breaking a solid or transparent block) and not immediately replaced with water (which can flow into the block or be left behind when a waterlogged block is broken), the coral will break and drop nothing.

Dead coral

In order for coral to stay alive, at least one of the blocks surrounding it must be water. If placed outside of water, it will die and transform into its respective dead coral after a few seconds in Java Edition; in Bedrock Edition the coral will instead disappear.^{[until BE 1.13]}

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID
Tube Coral	tube_coral
Brain Coral	brain_coral
Bubble Coral	bubble_coral
Fire Coral	fire_coral
Horn Coral	horn_coral
Dead Tube Coral	dead_tube_coral
Dead Brain Coral	dead_brain_coral
Dead Bubble Coral	dead_bubble_coral
Dead Fire Coral	dead_fire_coral
Dead Horn Coral	dead_horn_coral

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Coral	coral	386

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, corals have the following block data:

	DV	Description
	0	Tube Coral
	1	Brain Coral
	2	Bubble Coral
	3	Fire Coral
	4	Horn Coral

Block state

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
waterlogged	true	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this coral.

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 as mobs and "fish blocks".
November 18, 2017					Two types of coral were shown in a clip at MineCon Earth.
1.13		18w10a			Added coral, which at the time were erroneously named coral plants. Also, their variants were named blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow instead of tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn, like they are now.
		18w10b			The texture of red coral has now been changed.
		18w10d			Added coral reefs, allowing coral to generate naturally.
		18w14b			Renamed what was previously called "coral plants" to "corals".
					Renamed the blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow corals to tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn, respectively.
		pre6			Added 5 new sound events that apply to corals: block.wet_grass.break, block.wet_grass.fall, block.wet_grass.hit, block.wet_grass.place, and block.wet_grass.step.
		pre10			Coral can now be collected using silk touch. Prior to this, they were completely unobtainable in survival.
1.13.1		18w31a			Bone meal used in water of warm ocean biomes now has a chance of growing coral.
		18w32a			Added dead coral.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added corals.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Added dead corals.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added corals.
					Added dead corals.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added corals.

Issues

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

Trivia

• In real life, corals are colonies of sessile (immobile) animals.

Gallery

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  Coral naturally generating in a coral reef.

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  All variants of live coral.

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  Coral blocks within a coral reef.

Blocks

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