Sea Pickle

Transparency	No
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[edit]

A sea pickle colony will break instantly^{[Java Edition only]} 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.

In Bedrock Edition, a sea pickle colony requires a few seconds to break, unlike in Java Edition, but otherwise they still have the same properties listed above.

Natural generation[edit]

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

Usage[edit]

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[edit]

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Lime Dye	Sea Pickle + Any fuel

Achievements[edit]

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo	Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
	One Pickle, Two Pickle, Sea Pickle, Four	Place four Sea Pickles in a group		No	No	Yes	No	20G	—

Data values[edit]

Block state[edit]

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 state[edit]

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
pickles	`1–4`	Number of pickles.
waterlogged	`true` `false`	Whether or not there's water in the same place as these pickles.

History[edit]

Official release
1.13	18w14b	Added sea pickles.
	18w16a	They 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 fail.
		Now makes 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 now require a supporting block underneath.
Bedrock Edition
1.4	beta 1.2.20.1	Added sea pickles.

Issues[edit]

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

Trivia[edit]

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.
If played on "moody" brightness setting (or low brightness percentage such as 30%), Sea Pickles at the bottom of the ocean will give off red-orange light.