Leaf Litter

Leaf Litter
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes
Catches fire; from lava	No
Map color	; 26 COLOR_BROWN
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

Leaf litter is a thin decorative block resembling fallen leaves. Up to four can be placed in the same block space.

Obtaining

Breaking

Leaf litter can be mined using any tool or without a tool.

Block	Leaf Litter
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

A leaf litter is also removed and drops as an item if:

its attachment block is moved, removed, or destroyed.
water or lava flows into its space.
a piston tries to push it or moves a block into its space.

The amount of leaf litter items dropped is equal to how many were present in the block space beforehand (i.e. a leaf litter block with 3 placed drops 3 leaf litter items when destroyed).

Natural generation

Leaf litter generates naturally in forests, dark forests, dappled forests and wooded badlands and their variants, covering the ground around any type of tree.

Leaf litter also generates in abandoned camps within dappled forests.

Smelting

Leaf litter can be created by smelting any type of leaves block.

Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Any Leaves block + Any Fuel	0.1

Usage

Placement

Leaf litter can be placed on blocks that have a full solid top surface. Up to four pieces of leaf litter can be placed in a single block space. When placed, a leaf litter faces the location of the player placing it.

Fuel

Leaf litter can be used as fuel for smelting. It burns for 5 seconds, smelting ¹⁄₂ of an item. 1 stack of leaf litter smelts 32 items.

Composting

Using leaf litter on a composter has a 30% chance to raise the compost level by 1. A stack of leaf litter yields an average of 2.74 bone meal.

Color

Leaf litter takes on a different color depending on the biome it is placed in. It is colored with different shades of brown in most biomes or gray in pale gardens. The color applied in most biomes is determined by the dry_foliage.png colormap.

Biome	Color	Block
Badlands‌^{[JE only]}	#9E814D
Eroded Badlands‌^{[JE only]}
Wooded Badlands‌^{[JE only]}
Desert	#A38046
Savanna
Savanna Plateau
Windswept Savanna
Nether Wastes
Soul Sand Valley
Crimson Forest
Warped Forest
Basalt Deltas
Badlands‌^{[BE only]}
Eroded Badlands‌^{[BE only]}
Wooded Badlands‌^{[BE only]}
Badlands Plateau‌^{[BE only]}
Modified Badlands Plateau‌^{[BE only]}
Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau‌^{[BE only]}
Desert Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Desert Lakes‌^{[BE only]}
Stony Peaks	#927957
Shattered Savanna Plateau‌^{[BE only]}	#A37B46	File:Windswept Savanna Leaf Litter.png
Jungle	#A36346
Bamboo Jungle
Sparse Jungle
Jungle Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Modified Jungle‌^{[BE only]}
Bamboo Jungle Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Modified Jungle Edge‌^{[BE only]}
Lush Caves‌^{[BE only]}	#A37E46	File:Lush Caves Leaf Litter.png
Mushroom Fields	#A36246
Mushroom Field Shore‌^{[BE only]}	#A36246
Plains	#A37546
Sunflower Plains
Beach
Deep Dark
Sulfur Caves
Dripstone Caves‌^{[JE only]}
Dark Forest	#7B5334
Swamp
Mangrove Swamp
Dark Forest Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Swamp Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Forest	#A36D46
Flower Forest
Wooded Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Tall Birch Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Pale Garden	#A0A69C
Birch Forest	#A37246
Old Growth Birch Forest
Birch Forest Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Dappled Forest	#8c3a04	File:Dappled Forest Leaf Litter.png
Ocean	#A17448
Deep Ocean
Warm Ocean
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]}
Deep Warm Ocean‌^{[BE only]}
Cherry Grove‌^{[JE only]}	#A17148
Meadow‌^{[JE only]}	#A17148
Cherry Grove‌^{[BE only]}	#9C754D
Meadow‌^{[BE only]}
Old Growth Pine Taiga
Giant Tree Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Giant Spruce Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Taiga	#9A764F
Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Taiga Mountains‌^{[BE only]}
Dripstone Caves‌^{[BE only]}	#957754	File:Dripstone Caves Leaf Litter.png
Windswept Hills	#977752
Windswept Gravelly Hills
Windswept Forest
Stony Shore
Gravelly Mountains+‌^{[BE only]}
Mountain Edge‌^{[BE only]}
Snowy Beach	#917958
Snowy Plains	#8F7A5A
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]}

Leaf litter color in a cherry grove
Leaf litter color in a pale garden

`leaf_litter` sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.leaf_litter.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed^{[until: JE 26.4]}	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.leaf_litter.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Not normally encounterable^{[sound 1]}	`block.leaf_litter.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.leaf_litter.fall`	`subtitles.block.generic.fall`	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.leaf_litter.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

`leaf_litter` sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.leaf_litter.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.80
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.leaf_litter.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.80
	Footsteps	Players	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.leaf_litter.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.250	0.50
	Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.leaf_litter.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.50	0.750
	Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	`block.leaf_litter.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.150	1.0
	Footsteps	Players	Jumping from the block	`block.leaf_litter.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.120	1.0
	Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`block.leaf_litter.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.220	1.0

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	`north`	`east` `north` `south` `west`	The direction the leaf litter is facing. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the leaf litter.
segment_amount	`1`	`1` `2` `3` `4`	The amount of leaf litter in the block.

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
minecraft:cardinal_direction	`south`	`east` `north` `south` `west`	The direction the leaf litter is facing. The opposite from the direction the player faces while placing the leaf litter.
growth	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3` `4` `5` `6` `7`	The amount of leaf litter in the block, starting with `0` meaning 1 placed. Values above `3` visually appear as 4 placed, but drop additional items.

Java Edition
1.21.5	25w02a	Added leaf litter.
	25w03a	Leaf litter can now be composted.
	25w03a	Due to a bug, leaf litter doesn't generate in forests and wooded badlands,^[1] and generates extremely sparsely in dark forests.^[2]
	25w04a	Leaf litter now generate in forests and wooded badlands again and generate more frequently in dark forests.
	25w06a	Leaf litter is no longer limited to dirt-like blocks; it can now be placed on any block that provides central support on the top face (including fences, walls, chains etc).^[3]
	25w06a	Now have a more appropriate color on maps.
	25w07a	The breaking, stepping, placing sounds for leaf litter have been lowered.
	25w08a	Leaf litter now uses the biome coloring system with dry_foliage.png
	25w09a	Leaf litter is now replaceable by other blocks.
	25w09a	Leaf litter can now be placed only on blocks that have a full solid top face.^[4]
	pre1	Optimized the amount of models used when more than 1 piece of leaf litter is placed in the same block space.^[5] The block's appearance is unchanged.

Leaf Litter

Obtaining

Breaking

Natural generation

Smelting

Usage

Placement

Fuel

Composting

Color

Sounds

Data values

ID

Block states

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Issues

Gallery

Mojang screenshots

In other media

References

More in Flammable blocks

Related mods

Bedrock Edition
1.21.70 Experiment Drop 1	Preview 1.21.70.20	Added leaf litter.
	Preview 1.21.70.22	Leaf litter can now be placed on any block that provides center support.
	Preview 1.21.70.22	Changed leaf litter map color to be brown.
1.21.70	Preview 1.21.70.23	All features behind the "Drop 1 2025" experimental toggle have now been fully implemented.
		Is now replaceable.
		Can be placed only on blocks that provide full surface support.
	Preview 1.21.70.24	Leaf litter now uses the biome coloring system with dry_foliage.png.