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This article is about the fungus used for potions. For the block found in crimson forests, see Nether Wart Block.

Nether wart is a fungus harvested from nether wart crops and is used to plant them, as well as being vital in the creation of potions.

Nether wart crops are found in nether fortresses and bastions and is used to grow nether wart in soul sand.

Obtaining[]

Breaking[]

Nether wart can be mined instantly with any tool. A fully mature nether wart crop yields 2–4 nether wart. This is increased by one for each level of Fortune, this allows for a maximum of 7 nether warts dropping from one crop. Less mature stages drop one nether wart, even with the Fortune enchantment.

Natural generation[]

Nether wart can generate in nether fortresses in soul sand gardens around stairwells. Nether wart can also generate in the courtyards of housing unit bastion remnants. Due to only spawning in these specific structures, it's entirely possible for a nether fortress or bastion remnant to generate without nether wart (though they may still appear in the chests that generate in the fortress).

Location Description Image
Nether Fortress Nether wart can be found growing near stairwells in small soul sand gardens.
Nether wart garden

Nether wart growing in a nether fortress.

Bastion Remnant Nether wart can be found growing in the central courtyard of each of the sections of piglin housing unit bastions.
Bastion Courtyard

Nether wart growing in a bastion remnant.


Chest loot[]

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance
Java Edition
Nether Wart Nether fortress Chest 3–7 19%
Bedrock Edition
Nether Wart Nether fortress Chest 3–7 19%

Usage[]

Brewing ingredient[]

Nether wart's primary purpose is to brew the awkward potion, the base for all potions, but optional for Weakness.

Name Ingredients Brewing recipe
Awkward Potion Nether Wart +
Water Bottle



Crafting ingredient[]

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
Nether Wart Block Nether Wart

The nether wart block cannot be crafted back into nether wart.[1][2][3]
Red Nether Bricks Nether Wart +
Nether Brick

Trading[]

Master-level cleric villagers buy 22 nether warts for an emerald as part of their trades.

Farming[]

When planted on soul sand, nether wart grows through four stages, though the middle two stages use the same texture (the hitbox of stage 3 is three pixels taller). In Java Edition, the exact age can be seen using the debug screen, and the ages range from 0 to 3. Each random tick, nether wart has a 10% chance of growing one stage. At default random tick speed, each nether wart grows one age step approximately every 13653 game ticks (11.3775 minutes) on average, and fully grows from planting to harvest every 40960 game ticks (34.133333333333 minutes) on average. The growth rate is not affected by light or any other environmental factors. Bone meal cannot be used on the nether wart.

Nether wart can only be planted on soul sand. It cannot be planted on soul soil. It can grow in any dimension.

Nether wart is ready to harvest when it reaches its fourth stage (age:3). Breaking a fully grown nether wart drops 2 to 4 nether wart, while an immature one drops a single nether wart. Using a tool enchanted with fortune increases the maximum number of nether wart dropped by 1 per level, for a maximum of 7 for a tool enchanted with Fortune III.

Composting[]

Placing a nether wart into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.nether_wart.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break0.90.7216
Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placeditem.nether_wart.plant[sound 1]subtitles.block.generic.place0.90.8/0.89616
Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.stone.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit0.250.516
None[sound 2]Entity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.stone.fallNone[sound 2]0.50.7516
FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.stone.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps0.151.016
  1. Unlike all other block placement sound events, these are listed under items. Confirmed to be intentional by Mojang, see MC-177459
  2. a b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch
BlocksOnce the block has brokendig.nether_wart1.00.8-1.0
BlocksWhen the block is placeddig.nether_wart0.70.8-1.0
BlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenhit.nether_wart0.320.5
PlayersFalling on the block with fall damagefall.nether_wart0.41.0
PlayersWalking on the blockstep.nether_wart0.171.0
PlayersJumping from the blockjump.nether_wart0.121.0
PlayersFalling on the block without fall damageland.nether_wart0.141.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormTranslation key
Nether Wartnether_wartBlock & Itemblock.minecraft.nether_wart
item.minecraft.nether_wart

Bedrock Edition:

Nether WartIdentifierNumeric ID FormItem ID[i 1]Translation key
Blocknether_wart115Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]item.nether_warttile.nether_wart.name
Itemnether_wart294Itemitem.nether_wart.name
  1. ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
  2. Unavailable with /give command

Block states[]

See also: Block states
Name Default value Allowed values Description
age0 0
1
2
3 Fully grown.

Bedrock Edition:

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
age0x1
0x2
0 00
1
2
1
2
33 Fully grown.
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
UnsupportedUnused

Advancements[]

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawA Seedy Place
Plant a seed and watch it grow HusbandryPlant one of these 7 crops: Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.husbandry/plant_seed

History[]

Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 PrereleaseNether Wart Age 0 JE1 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE1 Nether Wart Age 3 JE1 Nether Wart (item) JE1 Added nether wart.
Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3Nether wart can now be brewed in a water bottle to create an awkward potion.
1.3.112w27aNether wart can now grow outside of the Nether.
1.3Nether Wart (item) JE2 BE1 The item texture has been changed.
1.4.212w36aNether wart can now be used to breed chickens.
1.6.113w18aNether wart is now found in the new chests in nether fortresses.
1.814w06aNether Wart Age 0 JE2 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE2 Nether Wart Age 3 JE2 Nether wart crops are now a pixel higher, likely as an accidental result of model conversion. Previously they were offset one pixel downwards like the other crops (wheat, carrots potatoes) to match farmland, although in nether wart's case such a downwards offset hides some pixels of the texture inside of the soul sand.[4]
14w10aMissing Model JE2 Missing Model JE2 Missing Model JE2
Missing Model (anisotropic filtering) JE2 Missing Model (anisotropic filtering) JE2 Missing Model (anisotropic filtering) JE2 Nether wart crops of all ages no longer have a model.
14w10bNether Wart Age 0 JE4 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE4 Nether Wart Age 3 JE4 Nether wart crops now have models again.[5] In addition, they are now offset downwards by one pixel once more, hiding the bottom row of pixels again.
14w25aNether Wart Age 0 JE5 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE5 Nether Wart Age 3 JE5 Nether wart crops are now darker and subject to directional shading.
14w27aNether Wart Age 0 JE6 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE6 Nether Wart Age 3 JE6 Nether wart crops are no longer subject to directional shading.
14w34dNether wart can no longer be used to breed chickens.
1.915w43aThe average yield of nether wart from nether fortress chests has now been slightly decreased.
1.1016w20aNether wart can now be used to craft the new red nether brick blocks and nether wart blocks.
1.1217w18bPlacing a nether wart in soul sand now gives the player the "A Seedy Place" advancement.[verify]
1.1317w47aPrior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 115, and the item's 372.
1.1418w43aNether Wart Age 0 JE7 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE7 Nether Wart Age 3 JE7 The textures of nether wart crops have changed.
19w03aPlacement and breaking sounds have now been added to nether wart. Before this version, nether wart made stone sounds.
19w11aCleric villagers now buy nether wart.
Nether wart can now be planted by aiming against the sides and underside of blocks, rather than just the top surface of the soul sand.
1.1620w15aNether wart can now be composted.
20w16aNether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants.
1.1721w13aNether Wart Age 0 JE8 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE8 Nether Wart Age 3 JE8 The "crop" template model has changed such that pixels appear in the same physical positions on opposite sides of texture planes, changing the nether wart crop's appearance in the process.[6]
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1build 1Nether Wart Age 0 BE1 Nether Wart Age 1-2 BE1 Nether Wart Age 3 BE1 Nether Wart (item) JE2 BE1 Added nether wart.
Nether wart uses a cross model instead of the "hash" shape associated with crops.
?Nether Wart Age 0 JE6 BE2 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE6 BE2 Nether Wart Age 3 JE6 BE2[verify] Nether wart now uses a more conventional crop model.
Pocket Edition
1.1.3alpha 1.1.3.0Nether wart can now be used to craft red nether bricks and nether wart blocks.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Nether Wart Age 0 BE Nether Wart Age 1-2 BE Nether Wart Age 3 BE The textures of nether wart crops have changed.
Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to nether wart.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.4Nether wart can now be sold to cleric villagers.
1.16.0beta 1.16.0.57Nether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants.
The placement and breaking sounds for nether wart have been changed to match Java Edition.
Nether wart can now be composted.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7CU1 1.0 Patch 11.0.1Nether Wart Age 0 JE6 BE2 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE6 BE2 Nether Wart Age 3 JE6 BE2[verify] Nether Wart (item) JE2 BE1 Added nether wart.
TU9Nether wart now spawns randomly wherever soul sand is generated in the Nether.
Nether fortresses have now been changed to make nether wart rooms more likely.
Nether wart can now grow outside of the Nether.
1.90 Nether Wart Age 0 JE7 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE7 Nether Wart Age 3 JE7[verify] The textures of nether wart crops have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0Nether Wart Age 0 JE6 BE2 Nether Wart Age 1-2 JE6 BE2 Nether Wart Age 3 JE6 BE2[verify] Nether Wart (item) JE2 BE1 Added nether wart.

Nether wart "item"[]

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Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 PrereleaseNether wart has an extra, unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID. It can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 115.
1.2.5preNether wart items can now be obtained via Pick Block in creative.
1.3.112w16aNether wart items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the /give command using the respective numeric ID.
1.7.213w37aThe direct item form of Nether wart has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block.
Pocket Edition Alpha
?Nether wart exists as an item.

Appearances[]

Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 PrereleaseNether Wart Age 0 (texture) JE1 BE1 The nether wart item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first or third person view or as a dropped item.
1.4.212w34aThe nether wart item now uses the aforementioned texture when in an item frame.

Names[]

Java Edition
  • Beta 1.9 Prerelease - 13w36b: Nether Wart

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Nether Wart" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

  • Nether wart's stage changes cannot be detected by a block update detector, but can by an observer block.
  • Unlike other crimson "plants", nether wart doesn't have a warped equivalent. This is also the case with nether sprouts, which lack a crimson equivalent.

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References[]

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