Coral

This article is about the non-solid block. For the solid block, see Coral Block. For other uses, see Coral (disambiguation).

Coral

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Coral is a type of non-solid block that comes in five variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn. It's the only animal that is a block and not a mob.

Dead coral is the dead variants of coral.

Obtaining

Breaking

Coral generated in warm oceans.

Coral and Dead Coral can be mined instantly but can be obtained only when mined with a Silk Touch enchanted tool.

Dead coral can only be obtained with a Silk Touch pickaxe.

Natural generation

Coral naturally generates in coral reef structures found in warm ocean biomes.

Post-generation

When using bone meal on dirt, coarse dirt, sand, red sand, gravel, or clay in warm ocean biomes, coral generates in place of some of the seagrass. In Bedrock Edition, the same can happen in any biomes as long as bone meal is used in a water source above the aforementioned solid blocks.

Dead coral is created when coral is placed out of water.

Usage

Coral can be used as a building or decoration block.

Dead coral

In order for coral to stay alive, at least one of the blocks surrounding it must be water. If placed outside of water, it dies and transforms into its respective dead coral after a few seconds.

Dead coral cannot be turned back into living coral.

Note Blocks

All types of coral and dead coral can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Sounds

Alive

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wet_grass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wet_grass.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wet_grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wet_grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.wet_grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:^{[more information needed]}

Dead

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0
	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.stone	1.0	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Tube Coral	tube_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.tube_coral
Brain Coral	brain_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.brain_coral
Bubble Coral	bubble_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.bubble_coral
Fire Coral	fire_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.fire_coral
Horn Coral	horn_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.horn_coral
Dead Tube Coral	dead_tube_coral	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.dead_tube_coral
Dead Brain Coral	dead_brain_coral	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.dead_brain_coral
Dead Bubble Coral	dead_bubble_coral	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.dead_bubble_coral
Dead Fire Coral	dead_fire_coral	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.dead_fire_coral
Dead Horn Coral	dead_horn_coral	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.dead_horn_coral

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Coral	coral	386	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.coral.blue.name tile.coral.pink.name tile.coral.purple.name tile.coral.red.name tile.coral.yellow.name tile.coral.blue_dead.name tile.coral.pink_dead.name tile.coral.purple_dead.name tile.coral.red_dead.name tile.coral.yellow_dead.name

Block state

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
waterlogged	true	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this coral.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
coral_color	0x1 0x2 0x4	blue	blue	0	Tube Coral
			pink	1	Brain Coral
			purple	2	Bubble Coral
			red	3	Fire Coral
			yellow	4	Horn Coral
dead_bit	0x8	false	false true	0 1	Whether or not this coral is dead.

History

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch expresses interest in a suggestion regarding corals by user "solarblade".
Java Edition Alpha
June 28, 2010					Notch mentioned on his blog: "I tried adding corals, but it's really hard to draw a single block that looks like corals, since it's really more about crazy amounts of variation and diversity. But I do know that the corals will have tiny fish particles around them."
Java Edition
October 5, 2012					Coral were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with fish as mobs and "fish blocks".
November 18, 2017					Three types of coral were shown in a clip at MINECON Earth.
1.13		18w10a			Added coral plants.
		18w10b			The texture of red coral plants has been changed.
		18w10d			Added coral reefs, allowing coral plants to generate naturally.
		18w14b			"Coral Plants" have been renamed to "Coral".
					Blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow coral plants have been renamed to tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn coral, respectively.
		pre6			5 new sound events that apply to coral have been added: block.wet_grass.break, block.wet_grass.fall, block.wet_grass.hit, block.wet_grass.place, and block.wet_grass.step.
		pre10			Coral can now be collected using Silk Touch. Prior to this, coral was completely unobtainable in survival.
1.13.1		18w31a			Bone meal used in water of warm ocean biomes now has a chance of growing coral, making them renewable.
		18w32a			Added dead coral.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added coral.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Added dead coral.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Coral can now be collected using Silk Touch.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added coral.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added coral.

Issues

Issues relating to "Coral" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• In real life, coral are colonies of sessile (immobile) animals.

Gallery

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  Coral naturally generating in a coral reef.

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  All variants of live coral.

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  Coral blocks within a coral reef.