Chorus Flower

Chorus Flower

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.4
Hardness	0.4
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	24 COLOR_PURPLE
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

Chorus flowers are plant blocks harvested from chorus plants, and can be placed on End stone to grow more chorus plants. A chorus flower will only drop as an item if broken directly or shot with a projectile.

Obtaining

Breaking

Chorus flowers can be mined with any tool and drop themselves when broken, but an axe is the quickest. They do not drop anything when pushed by a piston or water, when destroyed by a ravager,‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} or when their supporting block (the chorus plant block or End stone) is destroyed.

Block	Chorus Flower
Hardness	0.4
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	10.6 (JE) 0.6 (BE)
Wooden	10.3 (JE) 0.3 (BE)
Stone	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Copper	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Iron	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Diamond	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Netherite	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Golden	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Sword	10.4 (JE) 0.4 (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

They drop themselves when broken by explosions, with the applicable drop chance for the various explosion types, or when hit by a wide variety of projectiles:

• Arrow
• Tipped arrow
• Spectral arrow
• Trident
• Firework rocket (including players boosting elytra flight with rockets)
• Snowball
• Egg
• Fireball
• Small fireball
• Dragon fireball
• Wither skull
• Wind charge

Natural generation

Chorus flowers are naturally generated in the End at the top of chorus trees, in their fully-grown state.

Usage

Chorus flowers are used to grow chorus plants. They can be planted on End stone in any dimension.

Chorus flowers can be pollinated by bees.

Farming

Chorus flowers can be planted on End stone and grow in any dimension, regardless of light level. A flower stops growing once it has reached age 5 (appearing purple rather than white), but may be harvested and replanted to reset the age. Chorus flowers do not grow if planted 1 block below the surface of the ground.

Placement and growth

Placement

Chorus flowers must be above End stone or chorus plant, or be above air and horizontally adjacent to exactly one chorus plant. If these conditions are not met, the block breaks without dropping anything.

Growth conditions and algorithm

Each block tick until the flower reaches age 5, the flower attempts to grow if the block above is air. The flower does not age if growth is not attempted due to lack of an air block above. Bone meal has no effect on growth.^[1]

The flower may attempt to grow upward depending on the structure of chorus plant blocks directly beneath:

• 100% chance if zero or one plant block is directly beneath
• 60% if the flower is above a two-block unbranched plant (i.e. two plant blocks over End stone)
• 50% if above a two-block high branch (i.e. two plant blocks over air)
• 40% if above a three-block unbranched plant
• 25% if above a three-block high branch
• 20% if above a four-block unbranched plant

The growth attempt succeeds if the blocks horizontally adjacent to and above the target block above are all air, and results in the target block becoming a flower block with the same age while the existing flower block turns to chorus plant.

If upward growth does not occur and the flower's age is less than 4, the flower may attempt to branch horizontally. 1–4 branches are attempted on an unbranched plant or 0–3 on a branched plant. For each branch a horizontal direction is chosen at random, and if the block in that direction is an air block with more air blocks on all other horizontal sides and an air block below, it is replaced with a flower with age incremented by 1. If at least one branch succeeds, the original flower block is turned to chorus plant.

Upon a successful growth attempt, the chorus flower emits a low-pitched sound, similar to the sound endermen emit when teleporting.

If no growth occurs on a growth attempt, the flower's age is set to 5.

Flowers and plant height

The amount of chorus flowers a player gets from a fully and unrestricted grown chorus plant ranges from 1 to 8, averaging at around 3.7 flowers per plant.

Plant heights range from 5 to (rarely) 22 above the End stone block on which the original chorus flower was planted, with over half falling in the range 13–16. Flower heights range from 3 to (rarely) 22, with over half falling in the range 11–16 above the End stone block.

Bee nests

Oak, birch, and cherry trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of a chorus flower have a 5% chance to generate with a bee nest containing 2–3 bees.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.stone	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.37	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Chorus Flower	chorus_flower	Block & Item	block.minecraft.chorus_flower

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Chorus Flower	chorus_flower	200	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.chorus_flower.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	0	0 1 2 3 4	A freshly planted chorus flower starts at age 0. The age is incremented when a chorus flower turns horizontally and/or generates additional chorus flowers on the same plant.
		5	At age 5, the chorus flower does not grow further. A chorus flower can become age 5 at any time.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
age	0x1 0x2 0x4	0	0 1 2 3 4	0 1 2 3 4	A freshly planted chorus flower starts at age 0. The age is incremented when a chorus flower turns horizontally and/or generates additional chorus flowers on the same plant.
			5	5	At age 5, the chorus flower does not grow further. A chorus flower can become age 5 at any time.
			6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	Unsupported	Unused

Videos

History

Reveal

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.9			15w31a				Added chorus flowers.
			pre1				Chorus flowers in the top of the world no longer try to grow anymore.
1.14			18w43a				Chorus flowers can now be broken by arrows and tridents.
							The textures of chorus flowers have been changed.
1.16			20w09a				Chorus flowers can now be broken by snowballs and eggs.
1.19.3			22w42a				Mobs no longer spawn on chorus flowers.[2]
1.20.2			23w31a				Chorus flower no longer provides support for hanging or standing blocks.
			23w33a				Chorus flower can now be pollinated by bees.[3]
1.20.3			23w42a				Chorus flowers can now be broken by firework rockets.[4]
							Added the game rule projectilesCanBreakBlocks, which can control whether impact projectiles will destroy chorus flowers.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added chorus flowers.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Chorus flowers can now be broken by arrows.
							The textures of chorus flowers have been changed.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15	1.0.1	Added chorus flowers.
			1.90				The textures of chorus flowers have been changed.
							Chorus flowers are now broken when struck by an arrow.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10							Added chorus flowers.

Data history

Issues

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

Trivia

• The smallest possible fully-grown chorus tree (assuming the growth is not disturbed) would have only 5 chorus plant blocks, and the tree (including the flower) would be 5 blocks high. The largest possible tree would be 22 blocks high.
• When flowers reach age five, breaking them and replanting them on the same chorus plant block (even on a different face) can allow the plant to grow further.

References