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Lily Pad
"Lily" redirects here. For the lily of the valley, see Flower.
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| Renewable |
Yes |
|---|---|
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Tool |
Any tool |
| Blast resistance |
0 |
| Hardness |
0 |
| Luminant |
No |
| Transparent |
Yes |
| Flammable |
No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
A lily pad is a short, flat non-solid block that can be found naturally growing only on water, in swamps and wheat farm rooms in woodland mansions.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Breaking[edit]
Lily pads can be instantly mined with anything. They also break when collided with a boat at high speed.
Natural generation[edit]
Lily pads can be found naturally on water in swamps and wheat farm rooms of woodland mansions.
Fishing[edit]
Lily pads can be obtained as a "treasure"[Bedrock Edition only] "junk"[Java Edition only] item while fishing.
Trading[edit]
Wandering traders can sell lily pads in sets of 2 for one emerald.
Usage[edit]
Lily pads can be used to make paths over water without having to build bridges or use full blocks. Lily pads are broken and drop as an item when water flows on it. Mobs cannot spawn on lily pads.
Normal blocks can be placed on the bottom side of lily pads (from below). This breaks the lily pad (dropping it as an entity), but leaves the block in place. Since lily pads can be placed anywhere on water, this is useful for starting construction mid-ocean without need to start from the bottom or shore, for example when starting construction of an ocean monument draining system.
Placement[edit]
Lily pads can be placed only on top of water, ice or frosted ice. Lily pads occupy the block above water and are not part of the water block itself. It changes texture when placed on water.
Lily pads must be directly planted on the top of a water, ice or frosted ice block; unlike most blocks, targeting the side of a block that would result in it being placed in top of a valid block does not allow it to be placed.[1]
A lily pad faces a consistent direction that depends on its location; it is unaffected by the direction the player faces. Replacing a lily pad does not change the direction.
In Bedrock Edition, unlike most blocks entities can collide with, lily pads can be placed directly inside players.[2]
Composting[edit]
Placing a lily pad into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Appearance[edit]
- In the inventory, lily pads have the color:
#71c35c. - Otherwise, lily pads have the color:
#208030.
Sounds[edit]
| Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block broken | Blocks | Breaking the block | block.grass.break | subtitles.block.generic.break | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| None[3] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.grass.fall | None | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | Mining the block | block.grass.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hit | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | Placing the block | block.lily_pad.place | subtitles.block.generic.place | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Blocks | Walking on the block | block.grass.step | subtitles.block.generic.footsteps | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Name | Namespaced ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Lily Pad | lily_pad | block.minecraft.lily_pad |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lily Pad | waterlily | 111 | tile.waterlily.name |
History[edit]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease |  _JE1.png){kind=small} Added lily pads.
| |||
| Lily pads are non-solid, and can be placed only in swamplands. | |||||
| Lily pads are currently the shortest block in the game, at 1⁄64 of a block tall. | |||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 | Lily pads are now solid blocks. | ||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Boats no longer break when they collide at high speed with lily pads. Instead, the lily pad is destroyed. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Lily pads can now be caught in fishing as treasure. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w25a | _JE2_BE1.png){kind=small} Lily pads have now been tinted with the inventory color #71c35c in the inventory instead of the Overworld color #208030. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | Lily pads can now be placed on ice and frosted ice. | |||
| 15w45a | Height of lily pads has now been increased from 1⁄4 of a pixel (1⁄64 of a block) to 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block). | ||||
| Due to the height change of lily pads, they are no longer the shortest block in the game. | |||||
| 15w49a | Height of lily pads has now been decreased from 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block) to 15⁄16 of a pixel (15⁄256 of a block), and the width has now been changed changed to be inset from three edges of the block by 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block). | ||||
| 15w50a | Added a sound to lily pads: block.waterlily.place.
| ||||
| Lily pads now play this sound when placed on water. | |||||
| 16w04a | Height of lily pads has now been increased to 11⁄2 pixels (3⁄32 of a block), and is now inset 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block) on all sides. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The ID of lily pads has now been changed from waterlily to lily_pad.
| |||
| Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 111. | |||||
| 17w50a | Lily pads now play a different sound when they are placed on top of ice.[4] | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  _JE3_BE2.png){kind=small} The texture of lily pads has now been changed. | |||
| 19w03a | Placing a lily into the brand-new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||
| 19w05a | Lily pads now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
| 1.15 | 19w37a | Lily pads now display a hand animation when placed in third person mode, like other blocks.[5] | |||
| 1.16 | 20w21a | Lily pads when fished is now considered as junk loot instead of treasure loot. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | Added lily pads. | |||
| build 3 | Lily pads are now brighter in the inventory. | ||||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Lily pads can now be caught in fishing as treasure. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of lily pads has now been changed.
| |||
| Lily pads can now be bought from wandering traders. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Lily pads can now be used to fill up composters by an unknown amount. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added lily pads. | |
| 1.90 | The texture of lily pads has now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added lily pads. | ||||
Trivia[edit]
- When lily pads are placed on water source blocks that do not take up the space of the entire block (when the water is flowing to the block next to it), the lily pad appears floating above the water source block.
- Lily pads are the only block whose height is not a multiple of 1/16 (size of one pixel on the default texture pack). It is 1.5 pixels high, or 0.09375 or 3/32 blocks high.
- If the player sprints[verify] or falls on lily pads, they appear to give off water particles. This is because the game thinks the player is technically on the water below the lily pad.[6][7]
Gallery[edit]
Lily pads in a swamp biome.
A lily pad generated in cave under a swamp biome.
Lily pads generated in a frozen ocean, due to a neighboring swamp.
Four lily pads on flowing water.
References[edit]
