Coral fans are blocks that can only be placed underwater, on the 4 sides of blocks: north, south, west, east. They can also be placed on top of blocks.[Bedrock Edition only] Like coral blocks, they come in five variants.
Dead coral fans are variants of coral that comes in the same five variants as the other types.[Bedrock Edition only]
Obtaining
Coral fans and their dead variants can be instantly mined and will always drop themselves.
Natural generation
Coral fans naturally generate in coral reef biomes in both Java and Bedrock Editions , while Dead Coral fans only generate in Bedrock Edition.
Usage
Coral fans and dead coral fans can be used as a building or decoration block.
Block state
Java Edition
Floor:
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| waterlogged | true | falsetrue | Whether or not there's water in the same place as this coral fan. |
Wall:
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| facing | north | eastnorthsouthwest | The direction in which the coral fan juts out from the block it is attached to. For example, a coral fan facing north is attached to a block to its south. |
| waterlogged | true | falsetrue | Whether or not there's water in the same place as this coral fan. |
Bedrock Edition
Floor:
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coral_color | 0x10x20x4 | blue
| blue | 0 | Tube Coral Fan |
pink | 1 | Brain Coral Fan | |||
purple | 2 | Bubble Coral Fan | |||
red | 3 | Fire Coral Fan | |||
yellow | 4 | Horn Coral Fan | |||
| coral_fan_direction | 0x8 | 0 | 01 | 01 | The direction the coral is facing. East-west or north-south. |
Wall:
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coral_hang_type_bit | 0x1 | false | falsetrue | 01 | Which coral it is; depends on the ID. For hang false means tube and true means brain.For hang2 false means bubble and true means fire.For hang3 false mean horn. |
| coral_direction | 0x40x8 | 0 | 0123 | 0123 | The direction the top of the fan is facing.
|
| dead_bit | 0x2 | false | falsetrue | 01 | Whether or not this coral is dead. |
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 | |||||
| 1.13 | 18w11a | File:Tube Coral Fan 18w11a.png File:Brain Coral Fan 18w11a.png File:Bubble Coral Fan 18w11a.png | |||
| 18w14b | Renamed blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow coral fans to tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn, respectively. | ||||
| 18w16a | Coral fans now generate naturally. | ||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.14 | build 1 | File:Tube Coral Fan BE.png File:Brain Coral Fan BE.png File:Bubble Coral Fan BE.png File:Fire Coral Fan BE.png File:Horn Coral Fan BE.png Added coral fans. | |||
| File:Dead Tube Coral Fan 1.2.14 build 1.png File:Dead Brain Coral Fan 1.2.14 build 1.png File:Dead Bubble Coral Fan 1.2.14 build 1.png File:Dead Fire Coral Fan 1.2.14 build 1.png File:Dead Horn Coral Fan 1.2.14 build 1.png Added dead coral fans, a feature exclusive to Bedrock. | |||||
| 1.2.20 | build 1 | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Coral Fan" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

