Sea Pickle

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminant	1, 2, 3, 4 sea pickles: Yes (6, 9, 12, 15) when waterlogged
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

A sea pickle is a small block that emits light underwater, and is typically found in colonies of up to four sea pickles.

Obtaining[]

Sea pickles can be broken instantly. Each colony drops 1-4 sea pickles, depending on how many are in the colony (so a colony of 3 pickles drops 3 pickles).

Natural generation[]

Sea pickle colonies generate on the bottom of warm oceans and are found on top of coral blocks in coral reefs. Each chunk has ¹⁄₆ chance to generate sea pickle colonies. They can be found in groups of 1 up to 4.

Sea pickles may also be found in desert village houses as decorative blocks that resemble pottery.

Post-generation[]

Using bone meal on an underwater sea pickle placed on top of a living coral block creates more sea pickles. Specifically, the colony to which bone meal is applied increases in size, and any coral block within a radius of 2 blocks (rectilinear distance, horizontally from either the coral block or the sea pickle itself) can generate 1-3 sea pickles. They do not grow or spread naturally, and do not require light.

Trading[]

Sea pickles are sold by wandering traders for 2 emeralds.

Usage[]

Sea pickles can be placed on top of most solid blocks, as well as non-solid blocks, up to four per block, similar to turtle eggs or candles. More information regarding placement on transparent blocks can be found at Opacity/Placement.

Sea pickles produce light when underwater. A single pickle produces a light level of 6, and a colony produces an additional 3 levels per pickle (so 4 sea pickles produces a light level of 15). When they produce light, there is a pale green glow at the end of the pickle.

Bone meal can be used on sea pickles if they are underwater, and planted on living coral blocks. This increases their number on that block, and they spread to empty areas underwater above other living coral blocks. They can spread to the original sea pickle's level or one level below, out to a horizontal taxicab distance of 2. Bone meal can be used on sea pickles planted on other blocks, or outside of water, but nothing happens and the bone meal is still consumed.^[1]

Smelting ingredient[]

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Lime Dye	Sea Pickle + Any fuel	0.1

Composting[]

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

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	`block.slime_block.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.slime_block.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	`block.slime_block.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	`block.slime_block.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	`block.slime_block.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		One Pickle, Two Pickle, Sea Pickle, Four	Place four Sea Pickles in a group	—	20G	Bronze

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Sea Pickle	`sea_pickle`	Block & Item	`block.minecraft.sea_pickle`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Sea Pickle	`sea_pickle`	`411`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.sea_pickle.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same id with the block.

Block states[]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
pickles	`1`	`1` `2` `3` `4`	Number of pickles.
waterlogged	`true`	`false` `true`	Whether or not there's water in the same place as these pickles.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
cluster_count	`0x1` `0x2`	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3`	`0` `1` `2` `3`	Number of additional pickles.
dead_bit	`0x4`	`false`	`false` `true`	`0` `1`	True if there's no water in the same place as these pickles.

History[]

Java Edition
1.13	18w14b		Added sea pickles.
	18w16a		Sea pickles can now be placed on top of non-solid blocks.
	18w22a		If the player is inside the hitbox of sea pickle, and another is attempted to be placed, the placement now fails, as with most other blocks.
			Sea pickles now make placement sounds when the amount in a stack is increased.
			More sea pickles can now be added to a stack when aiming at adjacent blocks instead of requiring the player to target the pickle stack directly
			Sea pickles now require a supporting block underneath.
1.14	18w50a		Sea pickles may now generate in desert village houses.
	19w03a		Placing a sea pickle into the new composter block has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
	19w05a		Sea pickles now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
	19w05a		Added wandering traders, which sell sea pickles.
1.16	20w15a		Walls now connect to the bottom of sea pickles.
1.16.2	20w28a		Sea pickles can now be placed on soul sand.
1.17	21w13a		The model of the tentacles of the sea pickles has been tweaked that the backside textures are mirrored.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0	beta 1.2.20.1		Added sea pickles.
1.7.0	beta 1.7.0.3		Sea pickles now break instantly when destroyed in Survival mode.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3		Sea pickles can now be bought from wandering traders.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3		2 sea pickles now generate in one of new desert village small houses.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1		Sea pickles can now be used to fill up composters.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69	1.76	Patch 38	Added sea pickles.