Large Fern

Large Fern
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes (60)
Catches fire; from lava	Yes
Map color	; 7 PLANT
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A large fern is a 2-block tall variant of the fern.

Obtaining

Breaking

When broken normally, a large fern has a 12.5% chance of dropping 1 wheat seeds item. This is affected by the Fortune enchantment, dropping 1–3, 1–5, or 1–7 wheat seeds with Fortune I, II, and III respectively.

When broken using shears, a large fern drops two ferns instead.

Placing any block on a large fern breaks the fern and causes it to not drop any wheat seeds.

Block	Large Fern
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

Large ferns occur naturally only in taiga, snowy taiga, and old growth taiga biomes.

Large ferns can additionally be found around some taiga and snowy taiga‌^{[BE only]} village houses.

Similarly to tall grass, large ferns can only be obtained as an item in Survival by being found in taiga village house chests.

Large ferns can also generate in abandoned camps.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Large Fern	Village	Taiga house chest	1	18.6% { "item": "Large Fern", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.18575629348123335, "structure": "Village", "container": "Taiga house chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Large Fern	Village	Taiga house chest	1	20.3% { "item": "Large Fern", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.20281509304744794, "structure": "Village", "container": "Taiga house chest" }

Post-generation

Bone meal can be used on a fern to grow it into a large fern.

Usage

Most 2-block tall plants, including large ferns, have a disproportionately large hitbox compared to other plants.^[1] The only exception to this rule is tall seagrass.^[2]

Composting

Placing a large fern into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Color

The coloration of large ferns is dependent on the biome they are in. A grass block always uses the color set to its location, regardless of how it was placed or of its source. This affects the side and top of the block.

Item

In Java Edition, large fern items use biome color with temperature 0.5, downfall 1.0, and as a result is colored
#7cbd6b. In Bedrock Edition, this color is coded in the item's texture.

Biome colors

These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm. See biome colors for more information.

Biome	Color	Block
Badlands	#90814D
Eroded Badlands
Wooded Badlands
Modified Badlands Plateau‌^{[BE only]}
Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau‌^{[BE only]}
Cherry Grove	#B6DB61
Desert	#BFB755
Savanna
Savanna Plateau
Windswept Savanna
Nether Wastes
Soul Sand Valley
Crimson Forest
Warped Forest
Basalt Deltas
Desert Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Desert Lakes‌^{[BE only]}
Badlands Plateau‌^{[BE only]}
Shattered Savanna Plateau‌^{[BE only]}	#82C245
Stony Peaks	#9ABE4B
Jungle	#59C93C
Bamboo Jungle
Jungle Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Modified Jungle‌^{[BE only]}
Bamboo Jungle Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Sparse Jungle	#64C73F
Modified Jungle Edge‌^{[BE only]}	#64C73F
Lush Caves‌^{[BE only]}	#B9B75B
Mushroom Fields	#55C93F
Mushroom Field Shore‌^{[BE only]}	#55C93F
Swamp	#6A7039^{[n 1]}
Mangrove Swamp	#6A7039^{[n 1]}
Mangrove Swamp	#4C763C^{[n 2]}
Swamp Hills‌^{[BE only]}	#4C763C^{[n 2]}
Plains	#91BD59
Sunflower Plains
Beach
Dripstone Caves‌^{[JE only]}
Deep Dark
Sulfur Caves	#ABA64F
Forest	#79C05A
Flower Forest
Wooded Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Tall Birch Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Dark Forest	#507A32
Dark Forest Hills‌^{[BE only]}	#507A32
Pale Garden	#878D76
Birch Forest	#88BB67
Old Growth Birch Forest
Birch Forest Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Dappled Forest	#df6827
Ocean	#8EB971
Deep Ocean
Warm Ocean
Deep Warm Ocean‌^{[BE only]}
Lukewarm Ocean
Deep Lukewarm Ocean
Cold Ocean
Deep Cold Ocean
Deep Frozen Ocean
River
Lush Caves‌^{[JE only]}
The End
Small End Islands‌^{[JE only]}
End Barrens‌^{[JE only]}
End Midlands‌^{[JE only]}
End Highlands‌^{[JE only]}
The Void‌^{[JE only]}
Meadow‌^{[JE only]}	#83BB6D
Meadow‌^{[BE only]}	#86B87F
Old Growth Pine Taiga
Giant Tree Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Giant Spruce Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Taiga	#86B783
Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Taiga Mountains‌^{[BE only]}
Dripstone Caves‌^{[BE only]}	#8DB58A
Windswept Hills	#8AB689
Windswept Gravelly Hills
Windswept Forest
Stony Shore
Gravelly Mountains+‌^{[BE only]}
Mountain Edge‌^{[BE only]}
Snowy Beach	#83B593
Snowy Plains	#80B497
Ice Spikes
Ice Caves^{[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026]}
Snowy Taiga
Frozen Ocean
Frozen River
Grove
Snowy Slopes
Frozen Peaks
Jagged Peaks
Snowy Mountains‌^{[BE only]}
Legacy Frozen Ocean‌^{[BE only]}
Snowy Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Snowy Taiga Mountains‌^{[BE only]}

↑ Above -0.1 temperature.
↑ Below -0.1 temperature.

[warm2-3] Above -0.1 temperature.

[cold2-4] Below -0.1 temperature.

[1]

[2]

[n 1]

[n 2]

`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

`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

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
double_plant_type	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4`	`sunflower`	`sunflower`	`0`	Sunflower
			`syringa`	`1`	Lilac
			`grass`	`2`	Double Tallgrass
			`fern`	`3`	Large Fern
			`rose`	`4`	Rose Bush
			`paeonia`	`5`	Peony
upper_block_bit	`0x8`	`false`	`false` `true`	`0` `1`	If it is the upper half of the plant. For items, it is 0.

Java Edition
1.7.2	13w36a	Added large ferns.
1.8	14w04a	If a large fern is set to render as the block inside of a minecart via commands or map editing, it now appears as this (previously it would be entirely invisible).
	14w25a	Cross models, including large ferns, are now subject to directional shading.
	?	Crosses are no longer subject to directional shading.^[3]
1.14	18w43a	The texture of large ferns has been changed.
	18w50a	Large fern items can now be found in chests in taiga village houses. Because of this, large ferns items are now legitimately obtainable in Survival mode.
	18w50a	Large ferns now generate in front of some taiga village houses.
	19w03a	Large ferns may or may not be able to be placed inside composters.
1.15	19w37a	Large ferns can now drop wheat seeds.^[4]

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0	build 1	Added large ferns. It has version-exclusive textures, being ever so slightly brighter than in Java Edition (most noticeable via comparing the raw textures).
v0.11.0	build 14	Large fern pixels are now square.
v0.14.0	build 3	The hitbox no longer occupies an entire block.
v0.15.0	build 1	The texture is now 44x44, instead of 16x16. Whether this results in any visible changes in-game is unknown.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	The texture of large ferns has been changed.
		Large ferns are now sold by wandering traders.
		Large ferns now generate in the new taiga and snowy taiga villages.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Large ferns can now be used to fill composters.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Large ferns can now be found in taiga and snowy taiga village house chests.
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.57	Wandering traders no longer trade large ferns.
1.20.70	Preview 1.20.70.24	Large ferns now have a chance to drop wheat seeds.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.21	Large ferns no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.^[5]
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.23	Large ferns generate less frequently in taigas.

Large Fern

Obtaining

Breaking

Natural generation

Generated loot

Post-generation

Usage

Composting

Color

Item

Biome colors

Sounds

Data values

ID

Block states

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Data history

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Issues

See also

References

More in Double blocks

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added large ferns.
			1.90				The texture of large ferns have been changed.

Java Edition
1.8.1	pre1	Added a `facing` state to `double_plant`, though without visible effect.
1.13	17w47a	The different block states for the `double_plant` ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
		"Large Fern" now has a new ID: `large_fern`.
		Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 175.
1.17	21w19a	`minecraft:large_fern` has been added to the newly-implemented `#minecraft:mineable/axe` block tag. This, however, has no effect in-game, since the block breaks instantly anyway regardless of tool used or active effects.
1.21.5	25w10a	`minecraft:large_fern` has been removed from the block tags `#minecraft:mineable/axe` and `#minecraft:sword_efficient`.