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A grass block is a natural block that generates abundantly across the surface of the Overworld.
Obtaining
A grass block can be obtained by mining it using a tool enchanted with Silk Touch. Otherwise, it drops dirt.
| Block | Grass Block | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 0.6 | |
| Tool | ||
| Breaking time[A] | ||
| Default | 0.9 | |
| Wooden | 0.45 | |
| Stone | 0.25 | |
| Iron | 0.15 | |
| Diamond | 0.15 | |
| Netherite | 0.1 | |
| Golden | 0.1 | |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Natural generation
Grass blocks generate naturally in most biomes in the Overworld and as part of villages.
Spread
Grass can spread to nearby dirt blocks. Grass spreading without player intervention depends heavily on the time of day. For a dirt block to accept grass from a nearby grass block, the following requirements must be met:
- The dirt block receiving grass must be within a 3×5×3 range of the source block where the source block is in the center of the second topmost layer of that range.
- The source block must have a light level of 9 or brighter directly above it.
- The dirt block must have a light level of at least 4 above it.
- Any block above the dirt block must not reduce light by 2 levels or more.
- It cannot spread to coarse dirt.
Light-reducing blocks include any opaque block, as well as lava, water, ice, and partially transparent blocks like stairs and single slabs. Grass blocks can grow under all other transparent blocks like glass, fences, or torches. Grass jumps directly from one block to a neighbor and is not affected by gaps or other blocks being "in the way." Grass blocks spread at random intervals and have an equal chance of spreading to any suitable dirt blocks that are in range. Because grass can spread as much as 3 levels downward, it tends to spread down slopes much faster than it spreads up them.
Endermen
Endermen can pick up grass blocks, and drop the blocks they are holding if killed, making it the only way to obtain grass without the use of Silk Touch.
Appearance
The coloration of grass blocks is dependent on the biome they are in. A grass block always uses the color set to its location, regardless of how it was placed or of its source. Grass and leaves similarly change color with the biome.
These biome-specific colors also appear on maps.[Bedrock Edition only]
List of colors
Java Edition
These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm. See Biome colors for more information.
Bedrock Edition
Usage
Using bone meal on grass blocks causes grass, tall grass, ferns[Bedrock Edition only], large ferns[Bedrock Edition only] and flowers to grow.
Passive mobs tend to wander toward grass blocks. They also wander toward light.
When a sheep eats a grass block, the block becomes dirt, and a shorn sheep regrows its wool.
Grass paths can be created by using any type of shovel on the side or top of a grass block with air above it. The shovel loses 1 durability for each grass path block created.
Death
Grass dies and changes to dirt after a random time (when a random tick lands on the block) if directly covered by any opaque block. Transparent blocks can kill grass in a similar manner, but only if they cause the light level above the grass block to be four or below (like water does), and the surrounding area is not otherwise sufficiently lit up.
Tilling a grass block with a hoe converts it to a farmland block.
Grass blocks also change to dirt when sheep eat them.
Grass dies when turned into a grass path.
Spawning
Animals occasionally spawn on grass blocks that have light level 9 or brighter in the space directly above. This is quite rare and requires that there be few other animals nearby or in the spawn chunks. Most animals are instead created along with the terrain.
Composting
Grass blocks can be used to fill up composters.[Bedrock Edition only]
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 0.7 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 0.8 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
| Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.11 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.21 | 1.0 |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Block tags (JE) | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grass Block | grass_block | enderman_holdablebamboo_plantable_onvalid_spawn | block.minecraft.grass_block |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grass Block | grass | 2 | tile.grass.name |
Block states
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| snowy | false | falsetrue | If true, the block uses a snowy side and top texture. In-game, this is true when a snow block or snow is on top. |
History
The specific instructions are:
- Renders of biome grass in a1.2.0-b1.7.3 biomes
- Beta 1.8 Prelease inventory fix
- Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 grass and snowy grass top texture changes
- Pocket Edition's first two grass blocks.
| pre-classic | |||||
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| Cave game tech test | |||||
| Grass blocks are one of the first two blocks in Minecraft, along with cobblestone. | |||||
| The same top texture is used on all six sides of grass blocks, resulting in "grass cubes".[2] | |||||
| rd-20090515 | |||||
| Grass now spreads to dirt under sunlight, allowing new grass blocks to be created. | |||||
| Due to the lack of dynamic lighting mode, grass in shadows eventually dies and changes to dirt. | |||||
| classic | |||||
| 0.24 SURVIVAL TEST | Grass blocks now drop dirt when broken. | ||||
| October 25, 2009 | On Notch's blog, sheep were shown to eat grass to regrow wool on their bodies, reverting the block to dirt. Often, the grass would regrow just as quickly as sheep would eat it. | ||||
| 0.28 | Sheep added, with the behavior described above. | ||||
| 0.30 (Creative) | Attempting to place grass blocks by means of hacking one's inventory in Classic Creative multiplayer now causes the server to automatically kick the player. | ||||
| Grass blocks in the player's inventory, at this point, have the green top-texture on all sides of the block. | |||||
| indev | |||||
| 0.31 | 20091223-2 | With the introduction of dynamic lighting, grass is now able to grow in more dimly-lit areas, not having to be fully lit by the sun. | |||
| 20100125-2 | Grass blocks have now became available from the chests in The Indev House. | ||||
| Grass blocks are now placeable, although grass placed from the chest never reverts to dirt when in the shade. The only way to kill the grass is to break the block, so that it drops as dirt. | |||||
| 20100206 | Grass can now be tilled with a hoe into farmland, and had a chance of dropping seeds. | ||||
| ? | The Indev House and its chests of blocks have now been removed with the end of the Indev development phase, leaving no legitimate way to obtain grass blocks in the player's inventory. | ||||
| alpha | |||||
| ? | Grass blocks now have a buggy top texture when obtained in the inventory via an inventory editor. [when?] | ||||
| v1.0.4 | |||||
| v1.2.0 | preview | ||||
| beta | |||||
| 1.5 | |||||
| 1.6 | Test Build 3 | Seeds can no longer obtained by using a hoe on a grass block; tall grass instead occasionally drops seeds when broken. | |||
| ? | The inventory texture of grass blocks has now been changed. The top texture is now flipped in the inventory. | ||||
| 1.6.6 | Bone meal now causes tall grass to grow when applied to grass blocks. | ||||
| 1.8 | ? | The inventory texture bug that grass blocks had has now been fixed. | |||
| It was again possible to legitimately obtain grass blocks in one's inventory, with the introduction of Creative mode. | |||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Grass blocks have become obtainable obtainable for the first time in survival mode through use of the Silk Touch enchantment, introduced with the new enchanting system. | |||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 | The top textures of grass and snowy grass have now been slightly changed, to look more fitting with standard biomes. | ||||
| File:Grass Block JE5 BE2.png The side texture of grass blocks has now been slightly changed. | |||||
| ? | Slabs have now been changed so that they no longer revert grass blocks beneath them to dirt, allowing grass to spread to and from underneath. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w38a | New sounds were added for walking on grass blocks. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | A "grassless" dirt variant, that grass would not spread to, has now been added. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w10a | ||||
| 14w10b | The sides of grass blocks are no longer tinted. | ||||
| 14w27b | The top texture of grass is now rotated randomly, due to the addition of arrays to the block model format. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Grass blocks can now be turned into grass paths by right-clicking on them with a shovel. | |||
| Grass blocks can now be obtained by killing an enderman that is holding the block. | |||||
| The texture of grass blocks has now been changed from | |||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The ID of grass blocks has been changed from grass to grass_block.
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| Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 2. | |||||
| 1.14 | 19w05a | Grass blocks are now renewable because wandering traders now offer to sell podzol. | |||
| 19w08a | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| Pre-release | Added grass blocks, with an unknown texture. | ||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
| 0.2.0 | File:Grass Block JE5 BE2.png The texture of grass blocks has now been changed to match up with Java Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5. | ||||
| 0.4.0 | Grass can now be tilled with a hoe into farmland, and has a chance of dropping seeds. | ||||
| 0.8.0 | build 3 | Grass now has a chance to drop beetroot seeds, carrots, or potatoes when tilled. | |||
| build 4 | Tilling can no longer spawn carrots or potatoes. | ||||
| ? | |||||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | Grass coloration is now biome specific. | |||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Grass now can be pressed into grass path blocks when tapped with a shovel. | |||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Grass blocks no longer drop beetroot seeds when a hoe is used. | |||
| build 8 | Grass blocks no longer drop wheat seeds when a hoe is used. | ||||
| build 10 | The sound of grass blocks has now been changed to match up with grass sound from Java 1.4.2. | ||||
| ? | Grass blocks can now be obtained using the Silk Touch enchantment. | ||||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Grass blocks can now be obtained by killing an enderman that is holding the block. | |||
| 0.16.0 | ? | The biome-dependent colors of grass blocks now appear on maps. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Grass blocks can now be used to fill up composters. | |||
| beta 1.11.0.5 | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | File:Grass Block JE5 BE2.png Added grass blocks. |
| ? | Grass block sides are now 3D. | ||||
| 1.90 | |||||
| 1.91 | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | File:Grass Block JE5 BE2.png Added grass blocks. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Grass Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Grass block, along with cobblestone, were the first two blocks added to Minecraft.
- Grass blocks and dirt blocks changing between each other is a very common cause of chunk updates.
- A grass block has become the favicon for minecraft.net, and is the icon for the Minecraft launcher and the Bedrock Edition app.
- In MINECON's goodie-bags, grass, along with the creeper, diamond, and the player, were given as foldable decorations.
References
- ↑ "Block of the Week: Grass" – Minecraft.net, October 6, 2017
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9t3FREAZ-k
- ↑ MC-50222