Farmland

This article is about the block. For farms in villages, see Farm. For the practice of producing resources, see Farming.

"Soil" redirects here. For other kinds of similar soil, see Dirt (disambiguation). For the block that is found in the Nether, see Soul Soil.

Farmland

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.6
Hardness	0.6
Luminous	No
Transparent	Java Edition: Partial (Blocks light) Bedrock Edition: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Block: Yes Item: No
Map color	10 DIRT
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

Farmland is a block created by using a hoe on most types of dirt, and is required to grow seeds, carrots, and potatoes. Water and rain can hydrate farmland, improving crop growth. It reverts to dirt if broken, landed on repeatedly or left dehydrated and unplanted long enough.

Obtaining

Farmland can be obtained only by executing commands, via the Creative inventory or the pick block control in Creative mode.

Breaking

The suitable tool to break farmland is shovel.

Block	Farmland
Hardness	0.6
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	10.9 (JE) 0.9 (BE)
Wooden	10.45 (JE) 0.45 (BE)
Stone	10.25 (JE) 0.25 (BE)
Copper	10.2 (JE) 0.2 (BE)
Iron	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Diamond	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Netherite	10.15 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Golden	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

Farmland drops 1 dirt block when it's destroyed.

Natural generation

Farmland occurs naturally in villages where wheat, potatoes, carrots, beetroots, pumpkin stems, and melon stems are grown. Patches of farmland are surrounded by logs or sandstone, spruce trapdoor, and cobblestone. Farmland also naturally occurs in certain woodland mansion rooms.

Post-generation

A player can create a block of farmland by using a hoe on a dirt block, grass block, or dirt path. Using a hoe on coarse dirt or rooted dirt turns them into regular dirt, which can then be tilled into farmland by using the hoe once more. Mycelium and podzol cannot be turned into farmland.^[1]

Usage

Farmland is required to grow most types of crops: wheat seeds, carrots, potatoes, beetroot seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, torchflower seeds, and pitcher pods.

Plants such as saplings^[2], ferns, grass, dry grass, cactus flowers, pink petals, wildflowers, flowers^[3], azaleas, flowering azaleas, bushes, dead bushes, firefly bushes, and sweet berry bushes may be planted on farmland. Mushrooms^[4], sugar cane^[5], bamboo^[6], twisting vines^[7], and cacti cannot be planted on farmland.

Wall-mounted blocks such as ladders and torches cannot be attached to the side of a farmland block. Farmland is a partial block (15/16 of a block in height), so mobs cannot spawn on it.

Hydration

A farmland block is created dry and eventually reverts to dirt if not hydrated and nothing is planted on it.

For farmland to become hydrated, water must be present:

• up to four blocks away horizontally (including diagonally) from the farmland block.
• at the same level or one block above the farmland block level.

The blocks between the farmland block and the water make no difference. Whether the water is flowing or still also makes no difference.

The rate at which farmland becomes hydrated cannot be changed. Each farmland block within a 9×9 grid of farmland with a single water block in the middle has exactly the same chance of becoming hydrated as a single farmland block in an ocean.

Farmland can also be hydrated by rain.

Different types of seeds grow faster on hydrated farmland than on dry farmland. Hydrated farmland yields a fully developed wheat crop in a little over a single day/night cycle.

Decay

Farmland eventually decays into normal dirt if it's dehydrated and nothing is planted in it. Additionally, a farmland block becomes a dirt block, regardless of its state of hydration, if any of the following occur:

• The player or any mob jumps/falls on the block (with chance equal to distance fallen - 0.5).
  • The player can trample farmland even in Adventure mode.^[8][9]
  • The mobGriefing gamerule must be true for mobs to trample farmland.
  • In Java Edition, mobs smaller than 0.512 cubic blocks cannot destroy farmland. This includes parrots, rabbits, chickens, bats, ocelots, cats, wolves, foxes, cave spiders, endermites, silverfish, baby mobs, small slimes, and small magma cubes.
• A piston arm is extended over a farmland block.
• A piston pushes a farmland block down.
• A solid block covers the top surface of the farmland block such as when pumpkin or melon blocks appear, or when trees grow.
• An enderman teleports directly on top of a farmland block.

When farmland decays, any crops growing on the block are dropped as items, as if they were harvested.

A ravager does not turn farmland to dirt when stepping on it, but it does destroy all crops.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

gravel sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.gravel	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.gravel	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.gravel	​ ?	0.17	0.5
	​ ?	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.gravel	​ ?	0.4	1.0
	​ ?	Players	Walking on the block	step.gravel	​ ?	0.3	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.gravel	​ ?	0.1	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.gravel	​ ?	0.17	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Farmland	farmland	Block & Item	mineable/shovel	block.minecraft.farmland

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Farmland	farmland	60	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.farmland.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Planting the past	Plant any Sniffer seed	Plant torchflower seeds or a pitcher pod.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Plant one of these 7 crops: Beetroot Melon Nether Wart Pumpkin Wheat Torchflower Pitcher Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Planting the Past	Plant any Sniffer seed	Plant either Torchflower Seeds or a Pitcher Pod. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.

Videos

History

Development

Java Edition

Java Edition Indev
20100206-2034							Added farmland.
							There is currently a bug that allows players to destroy any block (even bedrock) by placing a dirt block under a block, tilling the dirt, and planting seeds on the dirt. This causes the block above the tilled dirt to disappear without giving a resource.
							Farmland is created by tilling grass blocks or dirt using a hoe.
							Wheat seeds can now be planted on farmland.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.1.1							Sneaking on farmland now prevents it from decaying.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							The block destruction bug for farmland has been fixed.
1.5							Rain now hydrates farmland.
1.6							Fences can now be placed below farmland to prevent it from decaying.
							Farmland can now be dug faster using a shovel.
1.7							The side texture of farmland is now aligned to the bottom of the model instead of the top.
1.8			Pre-release				Dropped farmland items no longer appear larger than normal blocks.
							Melon seeds and pumpkin seeds can now be planted on farmland.
							Creative mode is reintroduced. Despite its inventory containing most in-game blocks, farmland is not currently one of those blocks.
Java Edition
?							Farmland with a crop on top no longer reverts to dirt (destroying the crop) due to dehydration, although it still can via trampling.
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				The texture of dirt has been changed, resulting the texture of farmland changing.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Farmland can now decay even if fences are placed below it.
1.1			11w48a				As a response to the bug fix in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6, farmland can now be trampled only if the player jumps onto it; walking no longer affects it. Animals, villagers, and other mobs can now similarly trample farmland by jumping on it, but not by walking.
			11w49a				Particles and items no longer destroy farmland.
							Melon and pumpkin blocks no longer need farmland to spawn onto, as they can now grow on normal dirt or grass blocks.
1.4.2			12w34a				Carrots and potatoes can now be planted on farmland.
1.8			14w25a				Farmland no longer has an item model.
1.9			15w31a				Beetroot seeds can now be planted on farmland.
							Farmland has an item model again.[11]
			15w46a				Mobs smaller than 0.512 cubic blocks no longer turn farmland to dirt by falling on it.
1.10.1			release				Farmland has now been reduced from a full block tall to 15⁄16.
1.11			16w38a				Using pick block now gives the player the farmland itself instead of dirt.
			16w39a				Farmland now generates in the dual-staged farm room and wheat farm room in woodland mansions.
1.12			17w18b				Placing wheat seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or beetroot seeds in farmland now gives the player the "A Seedy Place" advancement.
1.13			17w47a				Farmland is now available in the Creative inventory.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of farmland has been changed.
1.15			19w37a				Blocks that can now be manually placed on farmland without turning it into dirt can now also be pushed into it by a piston without turning the farmland under the block the piston has pushed into dirt.
			pre2				Farmland now suffocates mobs.
			pre3				Farmland no longer suffocates mobs.
1.16.2			20w29a				Farmland once again suffocates mobs.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Torchflower seeds can now be planted on farmland.
			pre1				Placing torchflower seeds in farmland now gives the player the "A Seedy Place" advancement.
1.20			23w12a				Pitcher pods can now be planted on farmland.
			23w13a				Placing a pitcher pod in farmland now gives the player the "A Seedy Place" advancement.
			23w17a				Placing a pitcher pod in farmland now gives the player the "Planting the Past" advancement.
1.21.5			25w09a				Dead bushes can now be placed on farmland.
			25w10a				Cactus flowers can now be placed on farmland.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0							Added farmland. It was unobtainable at the time.
v0.2.0							The texture of dirt has been changed.
v0.4.0							The side texture of farmland is now aligned to the bottom of the model instead of the top.
							Farmland can now be created by using a hoe on dirt or grass blocks.
v0.5.0							Farmland can now be trampled into dirt when jumped on.
v0.9.0			build 1				Farmland now naturally generates in villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Farmland now generates in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
?							Farmland with hydration values between 1 and 6 now uses coarse dirt as the side texture.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of farmland has been changed.
							Farmland is now used as the job site block for farmer villagers.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Farmland is no longer used as the job site block for farmer villagers.
1.12.0			beta 1.12.0.2				Dry farmland no longer uses coarse dirt as the side texture.[12]
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.50				Farmland can now be obtained from the Creative inventory.
1.19.40			Preview 1.19.40.21				Sweet berries can now be planted on farmland.
							The collision height of farmland has reduced from a full block to 15⁄16 of a block.
			Preview 1.19.40.24				The collision height of farmland has returned to 16⁄16 of a block.
1.19.50			Preview 1.19.50.20				The collision height of farmland has been changed back to 15⁄16 of a block.
1.19.70 Experiment Sniffer			Preview 1.19.70.23				Torchflower seeds can now be planted on farmland.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.20				Pitcher pods can now be planted on farmland.
			Preview 1.20.0.23				Added the achievement "Planting the past", unlocked when the player plants torchflower seeds or pitcher pods on farmland.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added farmland.
TU5							Farmland cannot be obtained from the Creative inventory.
							Melon seeds and pumpkin seeds can now be planted on farmland.
TU14		1.04					Carrots and potatoes can now be planted on farmland.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Beetroot seeds can now be planted on farmland.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Using pick block now gives the player the farmland itself instead of dirt.
							Farmland now generates in the dual-staged farm room and wheat farm room in woodland mansions.
TU56	CU47	1.55	1.55	1.55	Patch 26	1.0.6	Using pick block now gives the player dirt again instead of the farmland itself.
			1.90				The texture of farmland has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added farmland.
							Farmland cannot be obtained from the Creative inventory.

Data history

Issues

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

Trivia

• Farmland has a 1 in 16 chance to be trampled when walking onto it from a slab next to it.
• Farmland does not revert to dirt if the player jumps onto it, if a block is two blocks above the farmland being jumped on.
• According to the developer, Xilefian, "there's code that makes crops grow faster if they're in rows with a space between them."^[13]

Gallery

In other media

See also

• Farming

References

External links

• "Block of the Week: Farmland" by Marsh Davies – Minecraft.net, January 13, 2017.