Sea Pickle

Sea Pickle

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	Yes; 6–15 (if waterlogged)
Blast resistance	0
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 411 hex: 19B bin: 110011011
Namespaced ID	sea_pickle

Sea pickles are light-emitting colonies of small stationary animals found underwater.

Natural generation

Sea pickle colonies generate on the bottom of warm oceans and are found on top of coral blocks in coral reefs. Each chunk has ¹⁄₆ chance to generate sea pickle colonies. They can be found in groups of 1 up to 4.

Sea pickles may also be found in desert village houses as decorative blocks.

Growth and spread

Using bone meal on a sea pickle placed on top of a coral block will create more sea pickles.‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]} They do not grow or spread naturally.

Obtaining

A sea pickle colony will break instantly and drop itself as an item if broken using anything, or if the block below it breaks, dropping as many pickles as there are on the block.

Trading

Sea pickles are sold by wandering traders for 2 emeralds.

Usage

Sea pickles can be placed on top of most solid blocks, as well as non-solid blocks, up to four per block, similarly to turtle eggs. More information regarding placement on transparent blocks can be found at Opacity/Placement.

Sea pickles produce light when underwater. A single pickle produces a light level of 6, and a colony produces an additional 3 levels per pickle (so 4 sea pickles produces a light level of 15). When they produce light, there is a pale green glow at the end of the pickle.

Bone meal can be used on sea pickles if they are underwater, and planted on living coral blocks. This will increase their number on that block, and spread to empty areas underwater above other living coral blocks. They can spread to the original sea pickle's level or one level below, out to a horizontal taxicab distance of 2. Bone meal can be used on sea pickles planted on other blocks, or outside of water, but nothing will happen and the bone meal will still be consumed.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Lime Dye	Sea Pickle + Any fuel

This recipe awards 0.2 experience.

Composting

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

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	One Pickle, Two Pickle, Sea Pickle, Four	Place four Sea Pickles in a group		Xbox 360	Yes	Yes	Wii U	20G	Bronze

Data values

Block data

See also: data values

Bedrock Edition uses the following data values.

	DV	Description
	0	One Sea Pickle in water
	1	Two Sea Pickles in water
	2	Three Sea Pickles in water
	3	Four Sea Pickles in water
	4	One Sea Pickle out of water
	5	Two Sea Pickles out of water
	6	Three Sea Pickles out of water
	7	Four Sea Pickles out of water

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
pickles	1	1 2 3 4	Number of pickles.
waterlogged	true	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as these pickles.

History

Java Edition
1.13		18w14b			Added sea pickles.
		18w16a			Sea pickles can now be placed on top of non-solid blocks.
		18w22a			If the player is inside the hitbox of sea pickle, and another is attempted to be placed, the placement will now fail, as with most other blocks.
					Sea pickles will now make placement sounds when the amount in a stack is increased.
					More sea pickles can now be added to a stack when aiming at adjacent blocks instead of requiring the player to target the pickle stack directly
					Sea pickles now require a supporting block underneath.
1.14		19w03a			Placing a sea pickle into the new composter block has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Sea pickles now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Added sea pickles.
1.7.0		beta 1.7.0.3			Sea pickles will now break instantly when destroyed in Survival mode.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Sea pickles can now be bought from wandering traders.
					2 sea pickles now generate in one of new desert village small houses.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Sea pickles can now be used to fill up composters.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added sea pickles.

Issues

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

Trivia

• They appear to be based on Pyrosomes, real-life tunicates with blue-green bioluminescence. They are also commonly called sea pickles, which is where the name likely came from.

Gallery

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  Sea pickles out of water.

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  Sea pickles in water.

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  Sea pickles on a warm ocean bed in a coral reef.

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  Sea pickles that generate on top of a coral structure.

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  Sea pickles from above the surface.

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  A comparison on how much light sea pickles emit.

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  Texture file of the sea pickle.

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  Sea pickles illuminating a coral reef.

See also

• Underwater torch

Blocks

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