Nether Wart

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

Nether Wart
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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 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.	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.
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

Main article: Tutorials/Nether Wart 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 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.nether_wart.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	0.9	0.72	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	item.nether_wart.plant	subtitles.block.generic.place	0.9	0.8/0.896	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	None	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.nether_wart	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.nether_wart	0.7	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.nether_wart	0.32	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.nether_wart	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.nether_wart	0.17	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.nether_wart	0.12	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.nether_wart	0.14	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Nether Wart	nether_wart	Block & Item	block.minecraft.nether_wart item.minecraft.nether_wart

Bedrock Edition:

Nether Wart	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Block	nether_wart	115	Block & Ungiveable Item	item.nether_wart	tile.nether_wart.name
Item	nether_wart	294	Item	—	item.nether_wart.name

Block states

See also: Block states

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	0	0
		1 2
		3	Fully grown.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
age	0x1 0x2	0	0	0
			1 2	1 2
			3	3	Fully grown.
			4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	Unsupported	Unused

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Husbandry	Plant one of these 7 crops: Beetroot Melon Nether Wart Pumpkin Wheat Torchflower Pitcher Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/plant_seed

History

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Added nether wart.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Nether wart can now be brewed in a water bottle to create an awkward potion.
1.3.1		12w27a			Nether wart can now grow outside of the Nether.
		1.3			The item texture has been changed.
1.4.2		12w36a			Nether wart can now be used to breed chickens.
1.6.1		13w18a			Nether wart is now found in the new chests in nether fortresses.
1.8		14w06a			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.
		14w10a			Nether wart crops of all ages no longer have a model.
		14w10b			Nether wart crops now have models again. In addition, they are now offset downwards by one pixel once more, hiding the bottom row of pixels again.
		14w25a			Nether wart crops are now darker and subject to directional shading.
		14w27a			Nether wart crops are no longer subject to directional shading.
		14w34d			Nether wart can no longer be used to breed chickens.
1.9		15w43a			The average yield of nether wart from nether fortress chests has now been slightly decreased.
1.10		16w20a			Nether wart can now be used to craft the new red nether brick blocks and nether wart blocks.
1.12		17w18b			Placing a nether wart in soul sand now gives the player the "A Seedy Place" advancement.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 115, and the item's 372.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of nether wart crops have changed.
		19w03a			Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to nether wart. Before this version, nether wart made stone sounds.
		19w11a			Cleric 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.
1.16		20w15a			Nether wart can now be composted.
		20w16a			Nether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants.
1.17		21w13a			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.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1		build 1			Added nether wart.
					Nether wart uses a cross model instead of the "hash" shape associated with crops.
?					Nether wart now uses a more conventional crop model.
Pocket Edition
1.1.3		alpha 1.1.3.0			Nether wart can now be used to craft red nether bricks and nether wart blocks.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of nether wart crops have changed.
					Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to nether wart.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Nether wart can now be sold to cleric villagers.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Nether 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
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added nether wart.
TU9					Nether 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			The textures of nether wart crops have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added nether wart.

Nether wart "item"

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Nether Wart.

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Nether wart has an extra, unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID. It can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 115.
1.2.5		pre			Nether wart items can now be obtained via Pick Block in creative.
1.3.1		12w16a			Nether wart items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the /give command using the respective numeric ID.
1.7.2		13w37a			The 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
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			The nether wart item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first or third person view or as a dropped item.
1.4.2		12w34a			The 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.

Gallery

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  Nether wart found in a nether fortress.

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  Another example of nether wart found in a nether fortress.

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  The three different sizes of the nether wart as viewed from the side.

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References

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