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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, 2009Notch expresses interest in a suggestion regarding corals by user "solarblade".
alpha
June 28, 2010Notch 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, 2012Coral were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with fish mobs and "fish blocks".
upcoming
November 18, 2017Coral 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.
1.1318w10aTube Coral Brain Coral Bubble Coral File:Fire Coral 18w10a.png Horn Coral Added coral, which at the time were erroneously named coral plants. Also, their variants were named blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow instead of tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn, like they are now.
18w10bFire Coral Changed texture of red coral.
18w10dAdded coral reefs, allowing coral to generate naturally.
18w14bRenamed 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
1.41.2.14 build 1Tube Coral Brain Coral Bubble Coral Fire Coral Horn Coral Added coral.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.5beta 1.5.0.4Coral 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.

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