Roots

This article is about the Nether plant. For the overworld root crops, see Carrot and Beetroot. For the block found under azalea trees and will be in lush caves, see Rooted Dirt. For the block made by bonemealing rooted dirt and will be found in lush caves, see Hanging Roots.

Not to be confused with Nether Sprouts.

Roots

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	?
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Yes

Roots are a non-solid plant-like block that come in two variants, crimson roots and warped roots, which generate naturally on warped or crimson nylium and soul soil in their respective biomes. They resemble a colony of tall, thin mushrooms.

Obtaining

Breaking

Roots can be mined instantly with any tool. They drop themselves when broken. Flower pots containing roots drop both the flower pot and roots when broken.

Natural generation

Crimson roots generate in the crimson forest biome and rarely in the soul sand valley and warped forest biomes. Warped roots generate in warped forest biomes.

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Crimson Roots	Bastion remnant	Hoglin stable chest	2–7	22.8%
Bedrock Edition
Crimson Roots	Bastion remnant	Hoglin stable chest	2–7	22.8%

Post-generation

Applying bone meal to nylium causes roots to appear on that nylium block, and on nearby nylium. The generated roots are the same type as the nylium that the bone meal is used on. However, in Java Edition, using bone meal on warped nylium can generate crimson roots at a very low chance.

Usage

Decoration

Roots are decorative blocks. Roots can be planted in a flower pot, which gives them a different texture.

Compost

Roots can also be used on a composter, with a 65% chance of increasing the 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.roots.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	?	?	16
?	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.roots.fall	None	?	?	16
?	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.roots.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	?	?	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.roots.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	?	?	16
?	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.roots.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	?	?	16

Bedrock Edition:^{[more information needed]}

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Resource location	Block tags (JE)	Form	Translation key
Crimson Roots	crimson_roots	enderman_holdable	Block & Item	block.minecraft.crimson_roots
Warped Roots	warped_roots	enderman_holdable	Block & Item	block.minecraft.warped_roots

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Resource location	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Crimson Roots	crimson_roots	478	Block & Item	tile.crimson_roots.crimsonRoots.name
Warped Roots	warped_roots	479	Block & Item	tile.warped_roots.warpedRoots.name

History

Java Edition
September 28, 2019					Crimson roots was shown as part of crimson forest biome.
1.16		20w06a			Added crimson and warped roots.
					The inventory texture of crimson roots is slightly different from their block texture.
		20w09a			Roots can now be planted in flower pots.
		20w10a			The inventory texture of crimson roots has been changed to match the block form.
		20w15a			Roots can now be composted.
		20w16a			Crimson roots now generate in bastion remnants chests.
1.16.2		Pre-release 1			Roots now require shears to drop themselves.
		Pre-release 2			Roots no longer require shears to drop themselves.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Added crimson and warped roots.
		beta 1.16.0.57			Crimson roots now generate in bastion remnants chests.
					Roots can now be composted.

Issues

Issues relating to "Crimson Roots" or "Warped Roots" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  Crimson Roots which generated in a Soul Sand Valley.