Nether Wart

Nether Wart

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

This article is about the plant. For the decorative block, see Nether Wart Block.

Nether wart is a fungus found in the Nether, mostly in Nether Fortresses.

Occurrence

Natural generation

Nether wart sometimes generates in fortresses in soul sand gardens near stairwells. Nether wart can also be found in Nether Fortress chests in stacks of 1-4. Nether wart can also generate in bastion remnant treasure rooms and housing courtyards.

Location	Description	Image
Nether Fortress	Nether wart can be found growing near stairwells in small soul sand gardens.	Nether wart growing in a Fortress.
Bastion Remnant	Nether wart can be found growing in the central courtyard of the piglin housing units.	Nether wart growing in a Bastion Remnant.

Obtaining

Loot

From block loot

Nether wart can be mined with your fist or anything else.

Namespaced ID	Source	Drops
		Default
blocks/nether_wart	Nether Wart	See #Block loot

From chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Nether Wart	Nether fortress	Chest	3–7	19%
Bedrock Edition
Nether Wart	Nether fortress	Chest	3–7	19%

Usage

Block loot

Namespaced ID	Source	Drops
		Nether Wart
		Default tool	With Fortune I	With Fortune II	With Fortune III
blocks/nether_wart	Nether Wart (age 0-2)	1	1	1	1
	Nether Wart (age 3)	2-4	3-5	4-6	5-7

Brewing ingredient

Nether wart's primary purpose is to brew the awkward potion, the base for all potions, but optional for Weakness.

Name	Ingredients	Brewing recipe
Awkward Potion	Nether Wart + Water Bottle

Trading

Master-level cleric villagers buy 22 nether warts for an emerald as part of their trades.

Farming

Main article: Tutorials/Nether Wart farming

When planted on soul sand, nether wart grows through four stages, though the middle two stages have almost the same appearance (the difference is that the hitbox of stage 3 is three pixels taller). In Java Edition, the exact age can be seen using the debug screen, and the ages range from 0–3. Each random tick, nether wart has a 10% chance of growing one stage. At default random tick speed, each nether wart grows approximately every 13653 game ticks (11.3775 minutes) on average. The growth rate is not affected by light or any other environmental factors. Bone meal cannot be used on the nether wart.

Nether wart can be planted only on soul sand. It cannot be planted on soul soil. It grows in any dimension.

Nether wart is ready to harvest when it reaches its fourth stage (age:3). Breaking a fully grown nether wart yields 2 to 4 nether wart, while an immature one yields only a single nether wart. Using a tool enchanted with fortune increases the maximum number of nether wart dropped by 1 per level, for a maximum of 7 for a tool enchanted with Fortune III.

Composting

Placing a Nether Wart into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Nether Wart	nether_wart	block.minecraft.nether_wart

Bedrock Edition:

Nether Wart	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Block	nether_wart	115	tile.nether_wart.name
Item	nether_wart	372	item.nether_wart.name

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, nether wart uses the following data values:

Icon	Value
	0
	1–2
	3

Block states

See also: Block states

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	0	0
		1 2
		3	Fully grown.

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Husbandry	Plant one of these 5 crops. Other crops and plants, if any, can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/plant_seed

History

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Added nether wart.
					Added nether wart crops.
					The block form of nether wart crops, when in the inventory, shows the newly planted texture.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Nether wart can now be brewed in a water bottle to create an awkward potion.
1.3.1		12w27a			Nether wart can now grow outside of the Nether.
1.4.2		12w36a			Nether wart can now be used to breed chickens.
1.6.1		13w18a			Nether wart is now found in the new chests in nether fortresses.
1.7.2		13w37a			The item form of block ID 115 (nether wart) has now been removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world.
1.8		14w34d			Nether wart can no longer be used to breed chickens.
1.9		15w43a			The average yield of nether wart from nether fortress chests has now been slightly decreased.
1.10		16w20a			Nether wart can now be used to craft the new red nether brick blocks and nether wart blocks.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 115, and the item's 372.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of nether wart crops have now been changed.
		19w03a			Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to nether wart.
1.16		20w16a			Nether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1		build 1			Added nether wart.
					Added nether wart as crops, shaped like an "x" rather than a "#".
?					The textures of nether wart crops have now been changed, so that the crop renders like other crops.
Pocket Edition
1.1.3		alpha 1.1.3.0			Nether wart can now be used to craft the new red nether brick blocks and nether wart blocks.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of nether wart crops have now been changed.
					Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to nether wart.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Nether wart can now be sold to cleric villagers.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Nether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants.
					Placement and breaking sounds for nether wart has been changed to match Java Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added nether wart.
					Added nether wart crops.
TU9					Nether wart now spawns randomly wherever soul sand is generated in the Nether.
					Nether fortresses have now been changed to make nether wart rooms more likely.
					Nether wart can now grow outside of the Nether.
		1.90			The textures of nether wart crops have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added nether wart.
					Added nether wart crops.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Disregarding color, nether wart bears a strong resemblance to warted puffball, a type of fungi.
• Nether wart's stage changes cannot be detected by a BUD, except the Observer block.

Gallery

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  Nether wart found in a nether fortress.

• 

  Another example of nether wart found in a nether fortress.

• 

  The three different sizes of the nether wart as viewed from the side.

References

Blocks

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