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]}
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).

	“	Coral is a relatively new addition to Minecraft, but its history goes back a long way. The devs expressed interest in adding it to the game way back in 2009, very early in development. Then it was teased in 2012 in a fake snapshot, alongside “fish blocks”. But it took until the Update Aquatic, released in July 2018, before coral finally began populating Minecraft’s deep, dark oceans. Coral comes in five types – tube, fire, horn, bubble and brain. Which are the names I will be giving the next five dogs I adopt. There are also fan-shaped variants of all five, which grow on the sides of blocks as well as the tops.	„
		— Duncan Geere^[1]

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

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

Natural generation[edit]

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

Unnatural generation[edit]

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]}

Obtaining[edit]

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]}

Usage[edit]

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[edit]

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.‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}

Sounds[edit]

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

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

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[edit]

Block state[edit]

History[edit]

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".
	18w14b		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.
1.13.1	18w32a		Added dead coral.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0	beta 1.2.14.2		Added corals.
1.13.0	beta 1.13.0.9		Added dead corals.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69	1.76	Patch 38	Added corals.
TU69	1.76	Patch 38	Added dead corals.
Education Edition
1.4.0			Added corals.