Seagrass

Seagrass

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	0
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	1 seagrass (with shears; seagrass) 2 seagrass (with shears; tall seagrass) Nothing (without shears)
Data value	dec: 385 hex: 181 bin: 110000001
Namespaced ID	See Data values

	“	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.

Obtaining

Seagrass can be obtained via:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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]}

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. It can also be used to completely waste bone meal 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.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID
Seagrass	seagrass
Tall Seagrass	tall_seagrass

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
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.

History

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding a "seaweed" block.
Java Edition
1.13		18w07a			Added "sea grass".
		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. But inventory texture has the same as regular grass.
		beta 1.2.20.1			The seagrass inventory texture has now been changed.
					The seagrass texture in inventory is currently different from it in Java Edition.
					Seagrass now generate in underwater caves.
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.4			Seagrass can be dropped by turtles.
					Seagrass can be used to breed turtles.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Seagrass can be used to fill composter.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.2			Updated the seagrass texture in inventory to match Java Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added sea grass.
					The seagrass texture in inventory is currently different from it in Java Edition.

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.

External links

• wikipedia:Seagrass

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