Big Dripleaf

This article is about the plant used for platforming. For the plant used to grow big dripleaves, see Small Dripleaf. For the generated feature, see Dripleaf (feature).

Big Dripleaf

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.1
Hardness	0.1
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	Yes (60)
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	7 PLANT
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A big dripleaf is a plant that generates within lush caves. Its leaf is a temporary platform; when stood on, it tilts down and drops its burden, resetting a few seconds later. The leaf can be powered to prevent it from tilting.

Obtaining

Breaking

Big dripleaves can be obtained with any tool, but an axe is fastest. It also breaks when pushed with a piston or sticky piston. Breaking it at any spot on the plant causes the entire plant to collapse.

Destroying a big dripleaf plant drops one big dripleaf for each stem block and the leaf.

Block	Big Dripleaf
Hardness	0.1
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Wooden	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Stone	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Copper	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Iron	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Diamond	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Netherite	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Golden	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Sword	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Big dripleaves naturally generate within lush caves.

Post-generation

Bone meal can be used on a small dripleaf plant to turn it into a big dripleaf up to 5 blocks tall, as long as there is enough open space above it. Using bone meal on a big dripleaf plant makes it one block taller, creating an extra stem block (see #Growth).

Renewability

Wandering traders may sell small dripleaves for an emerald. Applying bone meal to small dripleaves turns them into big dripleaves, making them renewable.

Usage

Big dripleaves consist of any number of non-solid stem blocks atop of each other and a single leaf as the uppermost block, which can be stood on by any entity like a normal block for 10 game ticks (0.5 seconds). After this time, it tilts down, becoming lower than a block and giving a player warning that it is about to collapse. After a 10 more game ticks, it tilts down and becomes temporarily non-solid. If the entity steps off the big dripleaf before it finishes starts tilting down, it still tilts down after the same amount of time. After 100 game ticks (5 seconds), the big dripleaf returns to its original position, and is again able to support any entity.

One-block tall big dripleaves can be used to make the player crawl. If a player is standing inside a big dripleaf when it is fully tilted, and the dripleaf returns to the untilted position, the player is left crawling underneath the leaf.

When directly hit with any projectile, the leaf immediately becomes temporarily non-solid.

Frogs enjoy jumping on big dripleaves, although the dripleaf tilts down and drops the frog, unless the dripleaf is powered by redstone.

Placement

Big dripleaves can be placed only on top of clay, coarse dirt, dirt, farmland, grass blocks, moss blocks, mud, muddy mangrove roots, mycelium, podzol, and rooted dirt. Big dripleaves can also be placed underwater. A big dripleaf is always one block tall when placed.

Growth

Using bone meal on a big dripleaf makes it grow 1 block taller, unless there is a block above the leaf other than air or water. Unlike most plants, dripleaf does not grow by itself: bone meal must be applied for growth to occur.

Composting

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

Redstone

When the leaf is powered by redstone, it does not tilt or collapse. However, redstone cannot prevent the leaf from being temporarily non-solid when being hit by a projectile. Powering the stem has no effect.

In Bedrock Edition, big dripleaves and big dripleaf stems are conductive blocks, and it can only activate on the input/consume redstone tick (C-tick).

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

big_dripleaf sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.big_dripleaf.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.big_dripleaf.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.big_dripleaf.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.big_dripleaf.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.big_dripleaf.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

big_dripleaf sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.big_dripleaf	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.big_dripleaf	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.big_dripleaf	​ ?	0.35	0.5
	​ ?	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.big_dripleaf	​ ?	0.4	1.0
	​ ?	Players	Walking on the block	step.big_dripleaf	​ ?	0.17	1.0
	​ ?	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.big_dripleaf	​ ?	0.12	1.0
	​ ?	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.big_dripleaf	​ ?	0.14	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Big Dripleaf	big_dripleaf	Block & Item	lush_plants_replaceable	block.minecraft.big_dripleaf
Big Dripleaf Stem	big_dripleaf_stem	Block	lush_plants_replaceable	block.minecraft.big_dripleaf_stem

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Big Dripleaf	big_dripleaf	578	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -323)	tile.big_dripleaf.name

Block states

Java Edition:
Leaf:

Stem:

Bedrock Edition:

History

Development

October 3, 2020							Dripleaves (named as Dripleaf Plant) are announced at Minecraft Live 2020.
November 27, 2020							The big dripleaf has a new texture in a tweet from Agnes Larsson.
December 6, 2020							The big dripleaf has a new texture in a tweet from Agnes Larsson.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.17			21w05a				Added big dripleaves.
			21w06a				Big Dripleaves can no longer be broken with arrows in spawn protection.[1]
							No longer stop tilting while sneaking on, jumping on, or even jumping off it.
							Now tilt quicker.
							Now tilt when hit by projectiles, instead of being broken.
							Big dripleaf can be used with redstone: powering a dripleaf now prevents it from tilting down. Powering an already tilted dripleaf tilts it back up. Powering a dripleaf down allows it to tilt down again. Powering a dripleaf does not prevent tilting because of projectiles. Interestingly, the block does not save if it is powered unlike anything else that reacts to redstone.
			21w07a				The model of the big dripleaf has been changed.
			21w10a				Big dripleaves can now generate in lush caves.
			21w11a				Breaking the stem of a big dripleaf now drops the block.
							Applying bone meal to a dripleaf stem makes it grow.
			21w13a				The model of the big dripleaves has been tweaked that the texture of the underside of the leaf flipped from to .
			21w20a				Tweaked the big dripleaf's inventory model.
1.18			21w43a				Big dripleaves can now be placed only on clay, coarse dirt, dirt, farmland, grass blocks, moss blocks, mycelium, podzol, and rooted dirt.
1.19			22w15a				Big dripleaves can now be planted on mud.[2]
1.21.5			25w02a				Big dripleaves can no longer be placed on top of pale moss blocks.[3]

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.16.220 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.220.52				Added dripleaves behind the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle.
1.17.0 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.230.54				Breaking a dripleaf stem now drops a dripleaf item, matching Java Edition.
1.17.0			beta 1.17.0.52				Big dripleaves are no longer available only in experimental gameplay.
1.18.10			beta 1.18.10.20				Big dripleaves can now be placed only on clay, coarse dirt, dirt, farmland, grass blocks, moss blocks, mycelium, podzol, and rooted dirt.
1.19.20			Preview 1.19.20.20				Big dripleaves can now be destroyed by ravagers.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.20.21				Increased the hardness and blast resistance of big dripleaves from 0 to 0.1.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				The model of the big dripleaf has been changed.[4]
			Preview 1.21.60.25				Big dripleaves can no longer be placed on top of pale moss blocks.[5]

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Big Dripleaf" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• When tilted, the stem of the dripleaf intersects with the top part.^[6]

Gallery

Renders

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  A render of a two block tall big dripleaf
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  A render of a big dripleaf with the top slightly tilted
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  A render of a big dripleaf with the top fully tilted

Java Edition

Normal

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  North
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  East
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  South
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  West

Partial tilt

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  North
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  East
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  South
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  West

Full tilt

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  North
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  East
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  South
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  West

Stem

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  North
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  East
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  South
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  West

Bedrock Edition

Normal

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  North
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  East
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  South
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  West

Partial tilt

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  North
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  East
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  South
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  West

Full tilt

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  North
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  East
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  South
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  West

Stem

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  North
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  East
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  South
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  West

Screenshots

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  A view of the lush caves with big dripleaves from Minecraft Live 2020
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  A line of big dripleaves
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  A view of the lush caves with big dripleaves
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  A view of the lush caves with big dripleaves in broken generation

Concept artwork

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  Concept art for the lush caves and vegetation including big dripleaves

References