Nether Wart

Nether wart is a fungus found in the Nether.

Breaking
Nether wart can be mined instantly with any tool. A mature nether wart crop yields 2 to 4 nether wart. This is increased by one for each level of Fortune. All other stages drop 1 nether wart, regardless of whether Fortune is used.

Natural generation
Nether wart sometimes generates in nether fortresses in soul sand gardens near stairwells. Nether wart can also generate in bastion remnant treasure rooms and housing courtyards.

Brewing ingredient
Nether wart's primary purpose is to brew the awkward potion, the base for all potions, but optional for Weakness.

Trading
Master-level cleric villagers buy 22 nether warts for an emerald as part of their trades.

Farming
When planted on soul sand, nether wart grows through four stages, though the middle two stages have almost the same appearance (the difference is that the hitbox of stage 3 is three pixels taller). $$, the exact age can be seen using the debug screen, and the ages range from 0 to 3. Each random tick, nether wart has a 10% chance of growing one stage. At default random tick speed, each nether wart grows approximately every 13653 ticks on average. The growth rate is not affected by light or any other environmental factors. Bone meal cannot be used on the nether wart.

Nether wart can only be planted on soul sand. It cannot be planted on soul soil. It can grow in any dimension.

Nether wart is ready to harvest when it reaches its fourth stage (age:3). Breaking a fully grown nether wart drops 2 to 4 nether wart, while an immature one drops a single nether wart. Using a tool enchanted with fortune increases the maximum number of nether wart dropped by 1 per level, for a maximum of 7 for a tool enchanted with Fortune III.

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

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Block data
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Trivia

 * Disregarding color, nether wart bears a strong resemblance to warted puffball, a type of fungus.
 * Nether wart's stage changes cannot be detected by a BUD, except the Observer block.
 * Unlike other crimson "plants", Nether Wart currently doesn't have a warped equivalent. This is the same case of Nether Sprouts, which currently doesn't, don't have a crimson equivalent.
 * Probably Nether Sprouts were initially meant to be a warped equivalent of Nether Wart and then got scrapped. Evidences of this are:
 * It's called Nether Sprouts instead of Warped Sprouts, like how Nether Wart and Nether Wart blocks aren't called Crimson Wart and Crimson Wart blocks;
 * It currently have no use other than decoration and composting;
 * It has a separated inventory texture.
 * Shears are required to harvest it (in Java Edition). In general, things requiring such are special.