Nether wart is a fungus found in the Nether.
Obtaining
Breaking
Nether wart can be mined instantly with any tool. Mature Nether wart yields 2 to 4 nether wart, plus 1 more for each level of fortune. All other stages drop 1 nether wart regardless of Fortune level.
Natural generation
Nether wart sometimes generates in fortresses in soul sand gardens near stairwells. Nether wart can also generate in bastion remnant treasure rooms and housing courtyards.
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 have almost the same appearance (the difference is that 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 approximately every 13653 game ticks (11.3775 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. It takes a long time to grow. Please be patient. 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
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Nether Wart | nether_wart | block.minecraft.nether_wart |
| Nether Wart | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block | nether_wart | 115 | tile.nether_wart.name |
| Item | nether_wart | 372 | item.nether_wart.name |
Block data
In Bedrock Edition, nether wart uses the following data values:
| Icon | Value |
|---|---|
| 0 | |
| 1–2 | |
| 3 |
Block states
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| age | 0
| 0 | |
12 | |||
3 | Fully grown. |
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| age | 0x10x2 | 0
| 0 | 0 | |
12 | 12 | ||||
3 | 3 | Fully grown. | |||
456789101112131415 | 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: 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 | ||||
| File:Nether Wart Age 0 JE1 BE2.png File:Nether Wart Age 1 JE1 BE2.png File:Nether Wart Age 2 JE1 BE2.png Added nether wart crops. | |||||
| File:Nether Wart (block item) JE1.png The block form of nether wart crops, when in the inventory, shows the newly planted texture. | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| 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. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w37a | The item form of block ID 115 (nether wart) has now been removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world. | |||
| 1.8 | 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. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 115, and the item's 372. | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | File:Nether Wart Age 0 JE2 BE3.png File:Nether Wart Age 1 JE2 BE3.png File:Nether Wart Age 2 JE2 BE3.png The textures of nether wart crops have now been changed. | |||
| 19w03a | Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to nether wart. | ||||
| 1.16 | 20w15a | Nether wart can now be composted. | |||
| 20w16a | Nether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | ||||
| ? | File:Nether Wart Age 0 JE1 BE2.png File:Nether Wart Age 1 JE1 BE2.png File:Nether Wart Age 2 JE1 BE2.png The textures of nether wart crops have now been changed, so that the crop renders like other crops. | ||||
| 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 | File:Nether Wart Age 0 JE2 BE3.png File:Nether Wart Age 1 JE2 BE3.png File:Nether Wart Age 2 JE2 BE3.png The textures of nether wart crops have now been 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 | |
| File:Nether Wart Age 0 JE1 BE2.png File:Nether Wart Age 1 JE1 BE2.png File:Nether Wart Age 2 JE1 BE2.png Added nether wart crops. | |||||
| 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 | File:Nether Wart Age 0 JE2 BE3.png File:Nether Wart Age 1 JE2 BE3.png File:Nether Wart Age 2 JE2 BE3.png The textures of nether wart crops have now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
| File:Nether Wart Age 0 JE1 BE2.png File:Nether Wart Age 1 JE1 BE2.png File:Nether Wart Age 2 JE1 BE2.png Added nether wart crops. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Nether Wart" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Disregarding color, nether wart bears a strong resemblance to warted puffball, a type of fungus.
- Nether wart's stage changes cannot be detected by a BUD, except the Observer block.
- Unlike other crimson "plants", Nether Wart currently doesn't have a warped equivalent. This is the same case of Nether Sprouts, wich currently doesn't have a crimson equivalent.
- Probably Nether Sprouts were initially meant to be a warped equivalent of Nether Wart and then got scrapped. Evidences of this are:
- It's called Nether Sprouts instead of Warped Sprouts, like how Nether Wart and Nether Wart blocks aren't called Crimson Wart and Crimson Wart blocks;
- It currently have no use other than decoration and composting;
- It has the same hit-box as of the Nether Wart first growth stage.
Gallery
References
- ↑ MC-102253 — resolved as "Works As Intended".
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/4kkp3j/comment/d3g4ypm/
- ↑ "Block of the Month: Nether Wart" by Duncan Geere. Minecraft.net, August 11, 2022





