Coral

For other uses, see Coral (disambiguation).

Coral

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	JE: 5 colors  25 COLOR_BLUE  20 COLOR_PINK  24 COLOR_PURPLE  28 COLOR_RED  18 COLOR_YELLOW BE: (Grass tint)
Note block instrument	Bass Drum

Coral is a type of non-solid block that comes in five variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn. Each of them are vibrant and colorful, but turn gray when they die.

Obtaining

Breaking

Coral can be broken instantly by hand, but can be obtained only when mined with a Silk Touch enchanted tool. Mining coral does not decrease the Silk Touch tool's durability.

Block	Coral
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)

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

Coral naturally generates in coral reef structures found in warm ocean biomes.

Post-generation

When using bone meal on dirt, coarse dirt, sand, red sand, gravel, or clay in warm ocean biomes, coral generates in place of some of the seagrass in a 5×5 area. In Bedrock Edition, the same can happen in any biome as long as bone meal is used in a water source above the aforementioned solid blocks.

Usage

Coral can be used as a building or decoration block.

Placement

In order for coral to stay alive, at least one of the blocks surrounding it must be water or a waterlogged block. If placed outside of water, it dies and transforms into its respective dead coral after 3 to 4.95 seconds‌^{[Java Edition only]} or 2 to 9.95 seconds‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}. Coral dies even when the game rule randomTickSpeed is set to 0.^[1] Once a coral turns into its dead variant, it is not possible to turn it back into a live variant.

Sounds

Java Edition:

wet_grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	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​[until: JE 26.4]	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
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wet_grass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	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:

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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Tube Coral	tube_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.tube_coral
Brain Coral	brain_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.brain_coral
Bubble Coral	bubble_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.bubble_coral
Fire Coral	fire_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.fire_coral
Horn Coral	horn_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.horn_coral

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Tube Coral	tube_coral	coral / 0	386	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -131)	tile.coral.blue.name
Brain Coral	brain_coral	coral / 1	836	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -581)	tile.coral.pink.name
Bubble Coral	bubble_coral	coral / 2	837	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -582)	tile.coral.purple.name
Fire Coral	fire_coral	coral / 3	838	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -583)	tile.coral.red.name
Horn Coral	horn_coral	coral / 4	839	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -584)	tile.coral.yellow.name

Block states

Java Edition:

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009							Notch expresses interest in a suggestion regarding corals by user "solarblade".
Java Edition Infdev
June 28, 2010							Notch mentioned on his blog: "I tried adding corals, but it's really hard to draw a single block that looks like corals, since it's really more about crazy amounts of variation and diversity. But I do know that the corals will have tiny fish particles around them."
Java Edition
October 5, 2012							Coral were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with fish as mobs and "fish blocks".
November 18, 2017							Three types of coral were shown in a clip at MINECON Earth.
1.13			18w10a				Added coral plants.
			18w10b				The texture of red coral plants has been changed.
			18w10d				Added coral reefs, allowing coral plants to generate naturally.
			18w14b				"Coral Plants" have been renamed to "Coral".
							Blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow coral plants have been renamed to tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn coral, respectively.
			pre6				5 new sound events that apply to coral have been added: block.wet_grass.break, block.wet_grass.fall, block.wet_grass.hit, block.wet_grass.place, and block.wet_grass.step.
			pre10				Coral can now be collected using Silk Touch. Prior to this, coral was completely unobtainable in survival.
1.13.1			18w31a				Bone meal used in water of warm ocean biomes now has a chance of growing coral, making them renewable.
			18w32a				Coral now transforms into dead coral when placed outside of water.

• 
  Unused code for a coral block can be found in a developer fork of Beta 1.2_02. This is an example of how it would look in-game using the unused texture from Infdev 20100629.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Added coral.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Coral can now be collected using Silk Touch.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added coral.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.4.0							Added coral.

Data history

Issues

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

Trivia

• In real life, coral are colonies of sessile (immobile) animals.
• In the real world, horn corals have been extinct since the Permian–Triassic extinction event.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Coral naturally generating in a coral reef
• 
  All variants of live coral. Order from left to right: tube, brain, bubble, fire, horn
• 
  A coral reef at night, with a drowned on top of an ocean ruin, and a magma block creating a bubble column

In other media

• 
  Horn coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
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  Tube coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
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  Fire coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
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  Brain coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
• 
  Bubble coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatics artwork
• 
  A purple coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
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  An orange coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
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  A seaweed-like silver coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
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  A cyan coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
• 
  A pink coral in Minecraft: Story Mode

References

External links

• "Taking Inventory: Coral" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 24, 2019.