Sea Pickle

Sea Pickle

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminant	Yes; 6, 9, 12, 15 (if waterlogged)
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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

Occurrence

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.

Post-generation

Using bone meal on a sea pickle placed on top of a coral block creates more sea pickles (up to about 7×7 coral blocks). They do not grow or spread naturally, and do not require light.

Obtaining

Loot

From block loot

A sea pickle colony breaks instantly and drops 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.

Namespaced ID	Source	Drops
		Default
blocks/sea_pickle	Sea Pickle	(100%)

From trading

Sea pickles are sold by wandering traders for 2 emeralds.

Usage

Info

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 increases their number on that block, and they 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 happens and the bone meal is still consumed.

Block loot

Sea pickle drops itself when broken with the correct tool if any is assigned. Refer to § From block loot for more information.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Lime Dye	Sea Pickle + Any fuel	0.2

Composting

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.slime_block.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.slime_block.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.slime_block.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.slime_block.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.slime_block.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Achievements

Main article: Achievement

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	One Pickle, Two Pickle, Sea Pickle, Four	Place four Sea Pickles in a group	—	20G	Bronze

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Sea Pickle	sea_pickle	block.minecraft.sea_pickle

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Sea Pickle	sea_pickle	411	tile.sea_pickle.name

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.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
cluster_count	0	0 1 2 3	Number of additional pickles.
dead_bit	0	0 1	True if there's no 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 now fails, as with most other blocks.
					Sea pickles 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		18w50a			Sea pickles may now generate in desert village houses.
		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.
1.16		20w15a			Walls now connect to the bottom of sea pickles.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.16.2		20w28a			Now sea pickles can be placed on soul sand.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Added sea pickles.
1.7.0		beta 1.7.0.3			Sea pickles 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

• Pyrosomes are real-life tunicates with blue-green bioluminescence. They are also commonly called sea pickles. In spite of this, sea pickles in Minecraft seem to visually resemble real-life sea squirts more than real-life sea pickles.
• Sea Pickles might generate in desert village houses to resemble cups, mugs, or miniature pottery.

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

References

Blocks

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