Golden Dandelion

Golden Dandelion

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	JE: Yes (60) BE: Yes (30)
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	7 PLANT
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A golden dandelion is a craftable flower that can be fed to baby mobs to pause their aging, or resume it by feeding another one to the same baby mob. It does not generate naturally and can only be obtained through crafting or the wandering trader.

Obtaining

Unlike other one-block-tall flowers in Bedrock Edition, players cannot spread golden dandelions on top of nearby grass blocks by applying bone meal on a golden dandelion.

Breaking

A golden dandelion can be broken instantly with any item or by hand, dropping itself.

A golden dandelion also breaks if water runs over its location, if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, or if a block under the plant is moved or destroyed. When a golden dandelion is broken by lava, it does not drop.

Block	Golden Dandelion
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

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Gold Nugget + Dandelion

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Wandering Trader	Ordinary	6%	6%	2 × Emerald	Golden Dandelion	12	—	—

Mob loot

In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 25% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 1 golden dandelion when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.

Usage

Like other flowers, golden dandelions can be used as decoration, placed in flower pots, and planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss blocks, pale moss blocks, mud, or muddy mangrove roots. Unlike other flowers however, golden dandelions cannot be composted, and neither attract nor get pollinated by bees.

Baby mobs

A golden dandelion can be used on a baby mob that normally ages (excluding villagers), which resets and locks its aging time (24000 game ticks (20 minutes) for most mobs, or 48000 game ticks (40 minutes) for snifflets), prevents it from despawning, and displays downward-moving particles. One cannot be used if the mob has the cannot_be_age_locked entity tag. The golden dandelion is consumed when used on a mob. If a second golden dandelion is used on the same mob, the mob resumes aging and upward-moving particles are displayed. The golden dandelion has a 2 second use cooldown per mob.

Using a golden dandelion on a baby mob sets the NBT value AgeLocked‌^{[JE only]} or GrowthPaused‌^{[BE only]} to 1. Using it again sets the NBT value back to 0.

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  Particles shown when a baby mob's aging is halted in Java Edition
• 
  Particles shown when a baby mob's aging is resumed in Java Edition

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Suspicious Stew	Red Mushroom or  Brown Mushroom or  Shelf Mushroom + Bowl + Golden Dandelion		Any combination of brown, red, or shelf mushrooms can be used.
Yellow Dye	Golden Dandelion

Suspicious stew

Suspicious stew that is created using a golden dandelion imparts the Saturation effect for 0.35 seconds in Java Edition or 0.3 seconds in Bedrock Edition. The Saturation effect restores an additional 7 () hunger and 14 saturation in Java Edition, or 6 () hunger in Bedrock Edition. The suspicious stew can be made using a golden dandelion or produced by feeding a dandelion to a non-baby brown mooshroom and then milking it with a bowl.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Red Mushroom or  Brown Mushroom or  Shelf Mushroom + Bowl + Golden Dandelion

Piglins

Piglins run toward any golden dandelion item on the ground and inspect it for 6 seconds in Java Edition or 8 seconds in Bedrock Edition^[1] before putting it in their inventory.

Bee nests

Oak, birch, and cherry trees grown from saplings planted within 2 blocks of a golden dandelion have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest and 2–3 bees in it.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.7	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.grass	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.8	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.3	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Shovel flattens	Blocks	When a shovel creates a dirt path	use.grass	subtitles.item.shovel.flatten​	1.0	0.8
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.11	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.21	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Golden Dandelion	golden_dandelion	Block & Item	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.golden_dandelion

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Golden Dandelion	golden_dandelion	1346	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1091)	tile.golden_dandelion.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item​ while it is aggressive toward the player.	30	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Use a gold ingot on an adult piglin, or throw one of these 28 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag for it to pick up: Bell Block of Gold Block of Raw Gold Clock Deepslate Gold Ore Enchanted Golden Apple Gilded Blackstone Glistering Melon Slice Gold Ingot Gold Ore Golden Apple Golden Axe Golden Boots Golden Carrot Golden Chestplate Golden Dandelion Golden Helmet Golden Hoe Golden Horse Armor Golden Leggings Golden Nautilus Armor Golden Pickaxe Golden Shovel Golden Spear Golden Sword Light Weighted Pressure Plate Nether Gold Ore Raw Gold The player must not be wearing any golden armor when the piglin accepts or picks up the item.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
26.1			snap5				Added golden dandelions.
			snap6				Golden dandelions can no longer be used on tamed baby skeleton horses and zombie horses.
							Golden dandelions can now be used on tadpoles.
			snap7				Golden dandelions can now be used on baby hoglins.
			snap8				Golden dandelions now age-lock baby brown mooshrooms instead of setting their stew effect.[2]
			snap10				Golden dandelions now display particle effects when stopping or starting aging.
26.2			snap1				Golden dandelions can now be used on small sulfur cubes.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
26.10			Preview 26.10.21				Added golden dandelions.
			Preview 26.10.23				Golden dandelions can now be crafted into yellow dye.
							Golden dandelions can now be used to craft suspicious stew.
							Golden dandelions can now be used to distract piglins.
							Golden dandelions can now be picked up by certain mobs.
							Golden dandelions can now be sold by wandering traders.
							Golden dandelions now produce particles and sounds on use.
							Bone meal can no longer be used to spawn more flowers around it.
			Preview 26.10.24				Golden dandelions now display green particles on use, moving upward when locking the age and downward when resetting the age.
							Golden dandelions now play different lock and reset sounds on use.
26.20 Experiment Drop 2 of 2026			Preview 26.20.23				Golden dandelions can now be used on small sulfur cubes.
26.30			Preview 26.30.20				Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.

Issues

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

Trivia

Publicity

• A day after the item's introduction, YouTube creator camman18 released a viral short that included the memetic phrase "then we got the golden dandelion, which is a golden dandelion."^[3][4]
  • In Minecraft Live – March 2026, the meme was shown in the Deep Dig, where camman18 was featured.
  • This meme follows the format where a line of a person is taken and turned into a meme.

Gallery

Mojang images

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  Makena feeding a baby turtle a golden dandelion
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  Efe feeding aquatic babies golden dandelions

In other media

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  Sunny reaching out through Instagram to feed a chick with a golden dandelion
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  Golden dandelion artwork

References