Grass Block

Grass is a block found on the topmost dirt tile of the dirt layer of a normally generated map. It takes on the appearance of a dirt tile on the bottom face, but appears green on top and with a small layer of green on the side faces as well, giving it 3 different textures, 1 borrowed from dirt. Grass cannot be directly placed by the player without means of hacking their inventory. Attempting to place grass in a multiplayer server will result in a automatic kick from the server itself. In Indev, placable grass tiles were stored in chests for a short time, and when placed, no matter where, the grass would never die. The only way to kill the grass was to mine the block, resulting in a dirt block. This does not apply in Infdev as the grass can be killed if placed innapropriately. Normally, grass can only be put where a player desires by means of spreading through the dirt tiles. For information about how grass spreads, see the grass growing guide below.

Trivia

 * Grass and dirt changing between each other is a common cause of chunk updates.
 * Grass is one of the first seen blocks made in Minecraft, seen here. It had the top most face on all sides, resulting in "grass cubes".
 * A grass block has become the favicon for Minecraft.net and the icon for Minecraft.exe.