Seagrass

"Sea Grass" redirects here. For the plant, see Grass. For other uses, see Grass (disambiguation).

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

Seagrass is a non-solid plant block that generates in all oceans, except frozen oceans.

Tall seagrass is a two-block high variety of seagrass.

Obtaining

Breaking

Seagrass can be harvested only with shears. Using any other tool, item, or the player's fist destroys seagrass and causes it to drop nothing. When harvested with shears, regular seagrass drops itself as an item, and tall seagrass drops 2 seagrass items.

Tall seagrass cannot be obtained in item form without using creative mode.

Natural generation

Seagrass generates in either its tall or small form in rivers, non-frozen oceans, underwater caves and swamps, replacing ice and planks as necessary. To generate seagrass, the water column it is in must have access to the sky.

Post-generation

Using bone meal on a non-transparent block‌, or dirt, coarse dirt, sand, red sand, gravel, or clay‌ that is underwater generates seagrass on that block and its surrounding blocks. In order for this to work, there must be 2 water blocks above the block the bone meal is being used on, and the lower one must be non-flowing water.

Mob loot

Turtles drop 0–2 seagrass when killed. Looting increases the maximum number of possible seagrass drops by 1 per level.

Usage

The seagrass item can be placed only on non-transparent blocks. It breaks when non-transparent blocks move into its hitbox.

Like grass, snow layers, and other such blocks, placing blocks inside seagrass deletes the seagrass. However, seagrass prevents coral fan placement.‌

Tall seagrass has a hitbox considerably more appropriate for its size than other two-block-tall plants such as tall grass.

Seagrass is completely resistant to lava trying to flow into it, allowing for lava to be floating on top of the water.

Breeding

Seagrass can be used to lead and breed turtles.

Bone meal

Applying bone meal to a regular seagrass transforms it to tall seagrass if there is enough space. The bone meal is wasted if insufficient space exists.

Composting

Placing seagrass into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Growing turtles

Using seagrass on a baby turtle accelerates its growing time. When the turtle becomes an adult, it drops one scute.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wet_grass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	0.8	0.8	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wet_grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	0.8	0.8	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wet_grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	None	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wet_grass.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wet_grass.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.grass	0.7	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.grass	0.8	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	0.3	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	0.11	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	0.21	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Seagrass	seagrass	Block & Item	underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.seagrass
Tall Seagrass	tall_seagrass	Block	None	block.minecraft.tall_seagrass

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Seagrass	seagrass	385	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.seagrass.seagrass.name

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:
Tall

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
half	lower	lower upper	The half of the plant contained in this block.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
sea_grass_type	0x1 0x2	default	default	0	This is seagrass.
			double_bot	1	This is the bottom half of tall seagrass.
			double_top	2	This is the top half of tall seagrass.

History

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding a "seaweed" block.
Java Edition
1.13		18w07a			Added "sea grass".
					Sea grass currently has an animated texture as an inventory item.
		18w07b			Sea grass is now used to breed turtles.
					The block that sea grass occupies now behaves more like water. For example, mobs can no longer spawn within the plant underwater, nor can they replenish their breath by swimming through it.
		18w08a			Sea grass no longer has an animated texture as an inventory item.
		18w14a			Sea grass can now generate in rivers and swamps.
		18w19a			Sea grass now generates in underwater caves.
					"Sea Grass" has been renamed to "Seagrass".
		pre2			Seagrass can now be destroyed by sponges.
		pre6			Conduits and kelp can now replace seagrass.
					Added 5 new sound events that apply to seagrass: block.wet_grass.break, block.wet_grass.fall, block.wet_grass.hit, block.wet_grass.place, and block.wet_grass.step.
1.14		19w03a			Placing seagrass into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Seagrass now has a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
1.17		21w07a			Seagrass can no longer replace parts of a swamp huts.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added sea grass.
					The inventory texture of seagrass has the same texture as regular grass.
		beta 1.2.20.1			The seagrass inventory texture has been changed. The seagrass texture in the inventory is currently different from Java Edition's texture.
					Seagrass now generate in underwater caves.
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.4			Seagrass can now be dropped by turtles.
					Seagrass can now be used to breed turtles.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Seagrass can now be used to fill composters.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.2			The color of seagrass has been updated to match Java Edition's.
1.18.10		beta 1.18.10.24			Seagrass can be used to tempt and breed frogs behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle. This is confirmed to be a placeholder.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added sea grass.
					The seagrass texture in the inventory is currently different from Java Edition's texture.

Issues

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

Gallery

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  Naturally generated seagrass.

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  A big group of natural seagrass.

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  An ocean with seagrass.

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  Seagrass that generated in a river biome.

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  Seagrass visible near a coral reef.

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  Sea grass out of water.

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  Seagrass when first added in Bedrock Edition.

External links

• wikipedia:Seagrass