Lily Pad

The lily pad is a short, flat non-solid block that can be found naturally growing only on water, in swamps and wheat farm rooms in woodland mansions.

Natural generation
Lily pads can be found naturally on water in swamps and wheat farm rooms of woodland mansions.

Obtaining
Lily pads can be instantly mined with anything.

Fishing
Lily pads can be obtained as a "treasure" item while fishing.

Trading
Wandering traders can sell lily pads in sets of 2 for one emerald.

Usage
Lily pads can be used to make paths over water without having to build bridges or use full blocks. Lily pads are broken and drop as an item when water flows on it. Mobs cannot spawn on lily pads.

Normal blocks can be placed on the bottom side of lily pads (from below). This breaks the lily pad (dropping it as an entity), but leaves the block in place. Since lily pads can be placed anywhere on water, this is useful for starting construction mid-ocean without need to start from the bottom or shore, for example when starting construction of an ocean monument draining system.

Placement
Lily pads can be placed only on top of water, ice or frosted ice. Lily pads occupy the block above water and are not part of the water block itself. It changes texture when placed on water.

Lily pads must be directly planted on the top of a water, ice or frosted ice block; unlike most blocks, targeting the side of a block that would result in it being placed in top of a valid block does not allow it to be placed.

A lily pad faces a consistent direction that depends on its location; it is unaffected by the direction the player faces. Replacing a lily pad does not change the direction.

Unlike most blocks entities can collide with, lily pads can be placed directly inside players. This is considered a bug in Java Edition, but is a feature intentionally programmed into the game in Bedrock Edition.

Composting
Placing a lily pad into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Appearance

 * In the inventory, lily pads have the color:.
 * Otherwise, lily pads have the color:.

ID
Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Trivia

 * When lily pads are placed on water source blocks that do not take up the space of the entire block (when the water is flowing to the block next to it), the lily pad appears floating above the water source block.
 * In the Legacy Console Edition, if a swamp is next to a taiga at the edge of the world, lily pads in the swamp may spread to the taiga ocean, which could be frozen, causing it to generate on ice.
 * If the player sprints on lily pads, they appear to give off water particles. This is because the game thinks the player is technically on the water below the lily pad.