Seagrass

Seagrass

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

	“	Why is seagrass so exciting? Let me tell you. Firstly, it's beautiful – look at it swaying in the currents of a warm ocean biome and tell me it's not gorgeous. Secondly, you can find it just about anywhere that's underwater – it grows in every ocean biome except for frozen oceans, because they're frozen. Finally, it's renewable and compostable, making it the most sustainable underwater resource around – perfect for an undersea habitation sphere.	„
		— Duncan Geere

Seagrass is a non-solid plant block that generates in all oceans, except frozen oceans.

Natural generation

• Natural generation: Seagrass generates in either its tall or small form in ocean biomes near kelp, and also generates by itself in rivers, underwater caves and swamps, replacing ice and planks as necessary.
• Bone meal: Using bone meal underwater generates seagrass. The bone meal must be used on a non-transparent block under at least 2 blocks of water, with the water directly above the block being non-flowing. If these conditions are met, seagrass generates on that block and, if available, also on surrounding blocks. Regular seagrass grows into tall seagrass if more bone meal is applied and if vertical space is available.

Obtaining

Seagrass can be obtained via:

• Harvesting: Seagrass can be harvested only with shears. Using any other tool, item, or the player's fist destroys seagrass and it drops nothing. When harvested with shears, regular seagrass drops itself as an item, and tall seagrass drops 2 seagrass items.
• Turtles: A turtle drops 0–2 seagrass when killed. The Looting enchantment increases the maximum number of possible seagrass drops by 1 per level.

Usage

The seagrass item can be placed only on non-transparent blocks.

Like grass, snow layers, and other such blocks, placing blocks inside seagrass deletes the seagrass. However, seagrass prevents coral fan placement.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Tall seagrass has a hitbox considerably more appropiate for its size than other two-block-tall plants such as tall grass. This inconsistency is intended.

Seagrass is completely resistant to lava trying to flow into it, allowing for lava to be floating on top of water. This feature is intentional.

Loot

Namespaced ID	Source	Incorrect tool	Correct tool
blocks/seagrass	Seagrass	Nothing (100%)	1 (100%)
blocks/tall_seagrass	Tall Seagrass	Nothing (100%)	2 (100%)

Breeding

Seagrass can be used to breed turtles.

Bone meal

Applying bone meal to a regular seagrass will turn it into tall seagrass, assuming there is enough space. The bone meal is wasted if no such space exists.

Composting

Placing seagrass into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Growing

Using seagrass on a baby turtle accelerates its growing time. When the turtle becomes an adult, it drops one scute.

Sounds

Java Edition:^{[check the code]}

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

Bedrock Edition:^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Breaking the block	?	?	0.8
?	Falling on the block with fall damage	?	?	?
?	Mining the block	?	?	0.5
?	Jumping from the block	?	?	?
?	Falling on the block without fall damage	?	?	?
?	Walking on the block	?	?	?
?	Placing the block	?	?	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Seagrass	seagrass	block.minecraft.seagrass
Tall Seagrass	tall_seagrass	block.minecraft.tall_seagrass

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Seagrass	seagrass	385	?

Block data

See also: Data values

Bedrock Edition has the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	Seagrass
	1	Tall Seagrass top
	2	Tall Seagrass bottom

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:
Tall

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
half	lower	lower upper	The half of the plant contained in this block.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
sea_grass_type	default	default	This is seagrass.
		double_bot	This is the bottom half of tall seagrass.
		double_top	This is the top half of tall seagrass.

History

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding a "seaweed" block.
Java Edition
1.13		18w07a			Added "sea grass".
					Sea grass currently has an animated texture as an inventory item.
		18w07b			Sea grass is now used to breed turtles.
					The block that sea grass occupies now behaves more like water. For example, mobs can no longer spawn within the plant underwater, nor can they replenish their breath by swimming through it.
		18w08a			Sea grass no longer has an animated texture as an inventory item.
		18w14a			Sea grass can now generate in rivers and swamps.
		18w19a			Sea grass now generates in underwater caves.
					"Sea Grass" has now been renamed to "Seagrass".
		pre2			Seagrass can now be destroyed by sponges.
		pre6			Conduits and kelp can now replace seagrass.
					Added 5 new sound events that apply to seagrass: block.wet_grass.break, block.wet_grass.fall, block.wet_grass.hit, block.wet_grass.place, and block.wet_grass.step.
1.14		19w03a			Placing seagrass into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Seagrass now has a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added sea grass.
					The inventory texture of seagrass has the same texture as regular grass.
		beta 1.2.20.1			The seagrass inventory texture has now been changed. The seagrass texture in the inventory is currently different from Java Edition's texture.
					Seagrass now generate in underwater caves.
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.4			Seagrass can now be dropped by turtles.
					Seagrass can now be used to breed turtles.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Seagrass can now be used to fill composters.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.2			The color of seagrass has now been updated to match Java Edition's.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added sea grass.
					The seagrass texture in the inventory is currently different from Java Edition's texture.

Issues

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

Gallery

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  Naturally generated seagrass.

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  A big group of natural seagrass.

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  An ocean with seagrass.

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  Seagrass that generated in a river biome.

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  Seagrass visible near a coral reef.

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  Sea grass out of water.

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  Seagrass when first added in Bedrock Edition.

External links

• wikipedia:Seagrass

Blocks

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