Flowers are naturally occurring plants that come in a variety of shapes and colors.
Obtaining
Flowers can be instantly broken with any item (or no item). Flowers will also be broken if water runs over its location, or if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location.
Natural generation
Flowers naturally generate on dirt and grass blocks. Even in a biome covered with snow, flowers will generate naturally on dirt blocks with grass, despite the adjoining dirt blocks being covered with snow. They also need light to grow if you use bonemeal.
Drops
Iron golems drop 0 to 2 poppies upon death.
Bone meal
When bone meal is applied to a grass block, flowers have a chance of spawning instead of tall grass on the targeted block and adjacent grass blocks up to 7 blocks away (taxicab distance). The spawned flower depends on the biome (see below).
When bone meal is applied to a double flower, a second double flower will spawn as an item.
Flower biomes
This chart shows the types of flowers that can naturally generate in each biome, and which biomes can spawn flowers when bone meal is used on grass blocks. Flowers marked "generation" only generate as part of the biome from chunk generation.
| Flower | Plains | Sunflower Plains | Swamp | Forest | Flower Forest | Any other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dandelion | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Poppy | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Blue Orchid | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Allium | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Azure Bluet | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Tulips | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Oxeye Daisy | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Sunflower | No | Generation | No | No | No | No |
| Lilac | No | No | No | Generation | Generation | No |
| Rose Bush | No | No | No | Generation | Generation | No |
| Peony | No | No | No | Generation | Generation | No |
Pi Edition
In Pi Edition, the only flowers that can be obtained are the dandelion and cyan flower.
Usage
All flowers can be used as decoration; all can be planted in grass or dirt, and one-block flowers can be planted in a flower pot.
Sunflowers always face east, so they can be used as a direction guide.
Breeding
Dandelions can be used to breed and lead rabbits.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Pattern Flower | Paper + Oxeye Daisy |
Daisy | |
| Light Blue Dye | Blue Orchid | ||
| Light Gray Dye | Azure Bluet or Oxeye Daisy or White Tulip |
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| Magenta Dye | Allium | ||
| Magenta Dye | Lilac | ||
| Orange Dye | Orange Tulip | ||
| Pink Dye | Peony or Pink Tulip |
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| Red Dye | Rose Bush | ||
| Red Dye | Poppy or Red Tulip |
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| Yellow Dye | Dandelion or Sunflower |
Data values
ID
Flower/ID
Block data
Non-dandelion flowers use data values to differentiate between flower types. They also have block states which will replace data values in the future.
- Block 37
| DV | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Dandelion |
- Block 38
| DV | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Poppy | |
| 1 | Blue Orchid | |
| 2 | Allium | |
| 3 | Azure Bluet | |
| 4 | Red Tulip | |
| 5 | Orange Tulip | |
| 6 | White Tulip | |
| 7 | Pink Tulip | |
| 8 | Oxeye Daisy | |
| 9 | Cornflower | |
| 10 | Lily of the Valley |
- Block 38 (Pi Edition)
| DV | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Cyan Flower |
- Block 175
| DV | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Sunflower | |
| 1 | Lilac | |
| 2 | Double Tallgrass | |
| 3 | Large Fern | |
| 4 | Rose Bush | |
| 5 | Peony | |
| 8 | Top Half of any Large Plant; low three bits 0x7 are derived from the block below. |
Block state
Java Edition:
Sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| half | lower | lowerupper | The half of the plant contained in this block. |
Bedrock Edition:
All small flowers except dandelion
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| flower_type | 0x10x20x40x8 | poppy
| poppy | 0 | Poppy |
orchid | 1 | Blue Orchid | |||
allium | 2 | Allium | |||
houstonia | 3 | Azure Bluet | |||
tulip_red | 4 | Red Tulip | |||
tulip_orange | 5 | Orange Tulip | |||
tulip_white | 6 | White Tulip | |||
tulip_pink | 7 | Pink Tulip | |||
oxeye | 8 | Oxeye Daisy | |||
cornflower | 9 | Cornflower | |||
lily_of_the_valley | 10 | Lily of the Valley |
Sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| double_plant_type | 0x10x20x4 | sunflower
| sunflower | 0 | Sunflower |
syringa | 1 | Lilac | |||
grass | 2 | Double Tallgrass | |||
fern | 3 | Large Fern | |||
rose | 4 | Rose Bush | |||
paeonia | 5 | Peony | |||
| upper_block_bit | 0x8 | false | falsetrue | 01 | If it is the upper half of the plant. For items, it is 0. |
Grass/DoubleTall/BS
Video
Flower/video
History
| c | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0.20 | Yellow flowers and roses added. | ||||
| Flowers could be placed on all block types, including lava and on top of each other. Flowers would also "float" when the block beneath them was broken. | |||||
| 0.24_06 | Flowers now spawn naturally in worlds. | ||||
| b | |||||
| 1.6.6 | Flowers can now be regrown. Bone meal was given the ability to generate them as well as tall grass when used on a grass block. | ||||
| 1.8 | Yellow flowers became more abundant. | ||||
| r | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Flowers are now discentered like tall grass. | |||
| Renamed roses to poppies. Texture changed from File:Grid Rose.png to File:Grid Poppy.png. | |||||
| Yellow flower renamed to dandelion. | |||||
| Many new flowers were added: blue orchid, allium, azure bluet, tulip (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisy, sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony. | |||||
| Flowers are now flammable. | |||||
| 1.8 | 14w17a | Dandelions generate in flower forest biomes. | |||
| 14w27a | Dandelions can be used to breed tamed rabbits. | ||||
| 14w30a | Oxeye daisies can be used to apply patterns to banners. | ||||
| 1.8.1 | pre1 | Added facing state to minecraft:double_plant, though without visible effect. | |||
| pa | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Cyan flower added. | ||||
| 0.4.0 | Added dye recipe for dandelions. | ||||
| 0.5.0 | Cyan flower is tagged as rose | ||||
| 0.8.0 | build 5 | The position of flowers is now randomized. | |||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | Added new flowers: poppy, blue orchid, allium, azure bluet, tulip (red, orange, white, pink), oxeye daisy, sunflower, lilac, rose bush, and peony. | |||
| Removed cyan flower. | |||||
| build 3 | Added dye recipes for all flowers. | ||||
| 0.13.0 | build 1 | Flowers created using bonemeal now depend on the biome. | |||
| pu | |||||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Using bonemeal on a double flower will spawn another of that flower as an item. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | Added yellow flowers and roses. | ||
| TU25 | CU14 | 1.17 | Roses have been replaced by poppies. However, only the texture was changed. | ||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Added new flowers. | ||
| Rose fully removed, replaced by poppy. | |||||
| Pi Edition | |||||
| 0.1.1 | Added cyan flowers and dandelions. | ||||
Trivia
- Due to the nature of the flowers' spawning algorithm, it is possible (but relatively rare) to find naturally-spawned flowers and grass in lava, caverns or abandoned mine shafts.
- Also, it is possible to find flowers and seeds dropped as an item on the ground naturally, due to failure to spawn on an acceptable block.
- Like other non-solid transparent blocks, flowers can break falling objects, like sand.
- Jeb noted that peonies were the flowers that were used for his wedding.[1]
- Neither roses nor rose bushes apply damage when walked through, despite roses having thorns.
- Two-block tall flowers can hide you from mobs since the flowers are as tall as a player is and mobs cannot see through transparent blocks like plants.
- This is removed in 1.9.[upcoming]
- Avoid using
/giveto get two tall flowers, as the wrong number can corrupt your map beyond recovery. - Flower spawns from bone meal in a flower forest biome depend only on the horizontal position; the world seed has no effect. The flowers spawned with the chunk do depend on the world seed.
- The flowers spawn along a gradient: dandelion, poppy, allium, azure bluet, red tulip, orange tulip, white tulip, pink tulip, oxeye daisy.
- Allium is a genus composed of bulb vegetables such as onions, garlic and spring onions, which have large, pink inflorescences resembling that of the flower item.
Gallery
- Javaw 2014-03-08 08-25-11-036.jpg
Patches of flowers in a plains biome.
- RoseLava.PNG
A rose found growing near lava.
The original single-block design of the peony that was never publicly released in-game. The texture can still be found in the game files as
flower_paeonia.png- Paeonia texture.png
Unused texture close up.
- Flower forest 2.png
Flowers in a flower forest.
- Sunflower plains.png
Sunflower naturally generated in a sunflower plains.
- Double sunflower.png
A double sunflower naturally generated.
- Cyan Flower.png
The cyan flower from Pi Edition.
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