Dead Coral

This article is about the dead variant of the non-solid block. For the live variant, see Coral. For the solid block, see Dead Coral Block. For other uses, see Coral (disambiguation).

Dead 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	21 COLOR_GRAY
Note block instrument	Bass Drum

A dead coral is the dead variant of coral. There are five variants total: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn.

Obtaining

Breaking

Dead coral can be broken instantly with any tool. It can only be obtained with any Silk Touch enchanted tool in Bedrock Edition or a Silk Touch enchanted pickaxe in Java Edition.^[1]

Block	Dead 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

Post-generation

Dead coral is created when coral is placed out of water. When live coral is placed outside of water, it dies and transforms into its respective dead coral after 3 to 5 seconds. Coral dies even when the game rule randomTickSpeed is set to 0.^[2]

Usage

Dead coral can be used as a building or decoration block in and outside of water.

Dead coral cannot be turned back into living coral.

Pushing with pistons

In Java Edition dead coral can be moved by pistons as long as it's still "supported" in the new position (not floating).

Sounds

Java Edition:

stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.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.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.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
Dead Tube Coral	dead_tube_coral	Block & Item	mineable/pickaxe	block.minecraft.dead_tube_coral
Dead Brain Coral	dead_brain_coral	Block & Item	mineable/pickaxe	block.minecraft.dead_brain_coral
Dead Bubble Coral	dead_bubble_coral	Block & Item	mineable/pickaxe	block.minecraft.dead_bubble_coral
Dead Fire Coral	dead_fire_coral	Block & Item	mineable/pickaxe	block.minecraft.dead_fire_coral
Dead Horn Coral	dead_horn_coral	Block & Item	mineable/pickaxe	block.minecraft.dead_horn_coral

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Dead Tube Coral	dead_tube_coral	coral / 8	840	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -585)	tile.coral.blue_dead.name
Dead Brain Coral	dead_brain_coral	coral / 9	841	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -586)	tile.coral.pink_dead.name
Dead Bubble Coral	dead_bubble_coral	coral / 10	842	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -587)	tile.coral.purple_dead.name
Dead Fire Coral	dead_fire_coral	coral / 11	843	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -588)	tile.coral.red_dead.name
Dead Horn Coral	dead_horn_coral	coral / 12	844	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -589)	tile.coral.yellow_dead.name

Block states

Java Edition:

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.13.1			18w32a				Added dead coral.
1.19.3			22w42a				Due to the Creative inventory reorganization, dead coral variants are sorted differently from live corals.
1.20			pre2				Variants of dead coral are now listed in the same order as the live corals in the Creative inventory.[3]

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Added dead coral.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Dead coral can now be collected using Silk Touch.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.20				The different block states for the coral ID have been split into their own IDs.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.14.31							Added dead coral.

Issues

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

Trivia

• On the Legacy Console Edition (except Xbox One and Nintendo Switch), only the live variants of coral are available. This is due to dead coral being added on Bedrock Edition in Bedrock Edition 1.13.0, several weeks after the last final update was released on PlayStation 4.
• Although dead coral is unavailable on Legacy Console Edition, dead variants of coral blocks and coral fans are available on the respective platforms with Update Aquatic or newer.

References