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This article is about the transparent block that can only be placed underwater. For the solid block, see Coral Block. For another coral-related block that can only be placed on certain sides of blocks, see Coral Fan.
Coral is a transparent block that can only be placed underwater. It comes in five variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn.
Obtaining
Coral can be instantly mined and will always drop themselves.[JavaEditionOnly]
Natural generation
Coral naturally generates in coral reef biomes. These are found in warm oceans.
Usage
Coral can be used as a building or decoration block.
It is possible to place them in one-high water.[Java Edition only]
History
| classic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2009 | Notch expresses interest in a suggestion regarding corals by user "solarblade". | ||||
| 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." | ||||
| release | |||||
| October 5, 2012 | Coral were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with fish mobs and "fish blocks". | ||||
| upcoming | |||||
| November 18, 2017 | Coral were shown in a clip at MineCon Earth. Yellow coral, red coral, blue coral, and dead coral were shown, and in the clip slab variants of coral were shown as well. | ||||
| 1.13 | 18w10a | ||||
| 18w10b | |||||
| 18w10d | Added coral reefs, allowing coral to generate naturally. | ||||
| 18w14b | Renamed what was previously coral plants to coral. | ||||
| Renamed the blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow variants of coral plants to tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn, respectively. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.4 | 1.2.14 build 1 | ||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.5 | beta 1.5.0.4 | Coral blocks will no longer die as long as one side is touching water. | |||
Issues
Issues relating to "Coral" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- In real life corals are colonies of sessile (immobile) animals.


