Lily Pad

The Lily Pad is a block in the 1.9 pre-release, found growing in water inside swamp biomes. Lily pads are walkable, but apart from this, little else is known about them.

Breaking the lily pad will place it in your inventory. It can be replaced on any water source block, although in 1.9 PreReleases 1-5 it could only be placed on swamp water. It may be placed on top of a flowing spring block.

Lily pads are not craftable. Cutting the block with shears will not do anything.

Lily Pads' primary use is for making paths over water without having to build bridges or use full blocks. This is very helpful for crossing oceans or rivers, and especially helpful for making farms, as you can now put the water needed to obtain wet farmland in the center of the farm, and still be able to easily access your crops without wading through water.

Trivia

 * Placing a block on top of the lily pad will cause the block to appear to be floating. This is due to the fact that the lily pad consumes a whole block.
 * As of 1.9 Pre-release 6, lily pads are now solid. This means arrows stick to it, that someone can walk on them and that boats collide on them.
 * Lily pads are destroyed when the water beneath it freezes.
 * As of 1.9 pre-release 6 you can not swim through lily pads to the surface. In some lighting conditions lily pads are less visible than other blocks when viewed from underwater.
 * Even when swimming under water, lily pads can be destroyed with one punch.
 * When lily pads are placed on source blocks that do no take up the space of the entire block (when the water is flowing to the block next to it), the lily pad will apear floating above the source block.