Lily Pad
| Transparent |
Yes |
|---|---|
| Luminance |
0 |
| Blast resistance |
0 |
| Tool |
Any tool |
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Flammable |
No |
| Drops |
Itself |
| Data value |
dec: 111 hex: 6F bin: 1101111 |
| Namespaced ID |
See § Data values |
"Lily" redirects here. For the lily of the valley, see Flower.
The lily pad is a short, flat non-solid block that can only be found naturally growing on water in swamps and wheat farm rooms in woodland mansions.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Lily pads can be instantly mined with anything.
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" 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 only be placed on top of water, ice or frosted ice. Lily pads occupy the block above water and are not part of the water block itself.
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 which would result in it being placed in top of a valid block will not allow it to be placed.[1]
Lily pads face a consistent direction, which depends on their location and is not affected by the direction the player is facing. Replacing a lily pad will not change the direction.
Unlike most blocks entities can collide with, lily pads can be placed directly inside players. This is considered a bug in Java Edition,[2] but is an intentional feature in Bedrock Edition.[3]
Composting[edit]
Placing a lily pad into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Block | Namespaced ID |
|---|---|
| Lily Pad | lily_pad
|
| Block | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID |
|---|---|---|
| Lily Pad | waterlily
|
111 |
History[edit]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease |  Added lily pads. Lily pads are non-solid, and can only be placed in swamplands.
| |||
| Until Java Edition 1.9, lily pads were 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 will 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 | Lily pads are now brighter in the inventory. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | Lily pads can now be placed on ice and frosted ice. | |||
| 15w45a | Height of the lily pad has been increased from 1⁄4 of a pixel (1⁄64 of a block) to 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block). | ||||
| 15w49a | Height of the lily pad has been decreased from 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block) to 15⁄16 of a pixel (15⁄256 of a block), and the width was changed to be inset from three edges of the block by 1 pixel (1⁄16 of a block). | ||||
| 15w50a | Added sound: block.waterlily.place.
| ||||
| Lily pads will now play this sound when placed on water. | |||||
| 16w04a | Height of the lily pad has 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 has been changed from waterlily to lily_pad.
| |||
| Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 111. | |||||
| 17w50a | Lily pads will now play a different sound when they're placed on top of ice.[4] | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Changed the texture of lily pads. | |||
| 19w03a | Placing a lily into the 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. | ||||
| 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 will now generate in woodland mansions. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | 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. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added lily pads. | |
| 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 will appear floating above the water source block.
- In the Legacy Console Edition, if a swamp is next to a taiga at the edge of the world, lily pads in the swamp may spread to the taiga ocean, which could be frozen, causing it to generate on ice.
- If the player sprints on lily pads, they will appear to give off water particles. This is because the game thinks the player is technically on the water below the lily pad.[5][6]
Gallery[edit]
Lily pads in a swamp biome.
A lily pad generated in cave under a swamp biome.
Four lily pads on flowing water.
References[edit]
