Small Dripleaf

This article is about the plant used to grow big dripleaves. For the plant used for platforming, see Big Dripleaf.

Small Dripleaf

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

A small dripleaf is a plant which generates in lush caves used to grow big dripleaves, a platforming block.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Small dripleaves naturally generate within the lush caves biome, which currently only generates in single biome buffet worlds in Java Edition and through experimental toggle in Bedrock Edition.

Trading

Small dripleaves can be obtained by trading with a wandering trader, who sometimes may sell 2 small dripleaves for 1 emerald. This is the only way to obtain small and big dripleaves in a default Survival world as of 1.17 version. Note that small dripleaves cannot be farmed as such: Bone meal converts them to a big dripleaf, which can be grown/duplicated with bonemeal, but that does not produce small dripleaves.

Breaking

A small dripleaf can be obtained by mining it using shears. A small dripleaf drops nothing when mined using any other tool, pushed with a piston, sticky piston or broken by destroying or moving the block under it. It breaks instantly in all cases.

Block	Small Dripleaf
Hardness	0
Breaking time
Default	0.05
Shears	0.05

Usage

Placement

Small dripleaf can be placed on top of clay and moss blocks. They can also be placed on dirt, coarse dirt, farmland, grass blocks, podzol, rooted dirt, and mycelium if these blocks are underwater.

Bone Meal

Using bone meal on a small dripleaf causes it to grow into a big dripleaf, from two to five blocks tall. The small dripleaf is consumed in the process, and cannot be retrieved.

Small dripleaves do not grow on their own.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.small_dripleaf.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	?	?	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.small_dripleaf.fall	None	?	?	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.small_dripleaf.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	?	?	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.small_dripleaf.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	?	?	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.small_dripleaf.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
Small Dripleaf	small_dripleaf	lush_plants_replaceable azalea_log_replaceable	Block & Item	block.minecraft.small_dripleaf

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Resource location	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Small Dripleaf	small_dripleaf_block	591	Block & Item	tile.small_dripleaf_block.name

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	What direction this small dripleaf is facing.
half	lower	lower upper	What half of the small dripleaf this block is.
waterlogged	false	false true	Whether there is water in the same place as this small dripleaf.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
direction	0	0 1 2 3	The direction the small dripleaf faces.
upper_block_bit	0	0 1	What half of the small dripleaf this block is.

History

Java Edition
October 3, 2020					Small dripleaves are announced at Minecraft Live 2020.
					In preview, small dripleafs can be placed on dirt.
1.17		21w05a			Added small dripleaves.
					They can replace any block.
					Wandering traders now sell small dripleaves.
		21w06a			Texture of small dripleaf has been changed.
					They no longer replace blocks.
		21w11a			The facing direction of small dripleaf blocks is now determined by which direction the player is facing when placing it.
		21w13a			The model of the small dripleaf has been tweaked that the texture of the underside of leaves are rotated to correct direction from to .
		21w16a			The model was slightly changed.
		21w17a			Small dripleaves can now be placed on moss blocks.
		21w18a			Big dripleaves grown from small ones using bone meal are now at least 2 blocks tall, instead of 1.
Bedrock Edition
Caves & Cliffs (experimental)		beta 1.16.220.52			Added small dripleaves.
1.17.0		beta 1.16.230.52			Small dripleaves can now be placed on dirt, farmland, grass blocks and podzol underwater.
		beta 1.16.230.54			The small dripleaf can now be composted.
					Wandering traders now sell two small dripleaves for an emerald.
		beta 1.17.0.50			Applying bone meal to small dripleaves now creates big dripleaves of a random height between one to five blocks.
		beta 1.17.0.52			Small dripleaves can now be placed above moss blocks.
					Small dripleaves are no longer available only through Experimental Gameplay.

Issues

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Gallery

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  Concept art for the lush caves and vegetation including small dripleaves.

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  A view of the lush caves with small dripleaves from Minecraft Live 2020.

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  Ditto.

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  A view of the lush caves with small dripleaves.

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  A view of the lush caves with small dripleaves in broken generation.

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  Another view of the lush caves with small dripleaves in an interview with Agnes Larsson.