Sea Pickle

Sea Pickle

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	Yes; 6–15 (if waterlogged)
Blast resistance	?
Tool	Any tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Drops	Itself
Name	sea_pickle

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

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.

Natural generation

Sea pickle colonies generate on the bottom of warm and lukewarm oceans. They can also be found on top of coral blocks.

Two sea pickles can be found in one of the desert village small house‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14 & BE 1.10]}.

Trading

Sea pickles are sold by wandering traders for 2 emeralds.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14 & BE 1.10]}.

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. They produce light when underwater, and each additional pickle adds 3 light levels. 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

Composting

Placing a sea pickle into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14]}

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

Name	Value	Description
pickles	1 2 3 4	Number of pickles.
waterlogged	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.
					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.
					Sea pickles will now require a supporting block underneath.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.14			19w03a		Placing a sea pickle into the new composter 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.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.10			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.
Legacy Console Edition
TU68		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.

Blocks

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