Lily Pad

For the music track, see Lilypad (song).

"Lily" redirects here. For the flower, see Lily of the Valley.

Lily Pad

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

A lily pad is a plant block found in swamps, mangrove swamps, and as fishing loot. It can only be placed on water or waterlogged blocks and can be stood on as a platform.

Obtaining

Breaking

Lily pads can be broken instantly with anything. They also break from collisions with boats.

Block	Lily Pad
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

Lily pads can be found naturally on water in swamps, mangrove swamps, wheat farm rooms of woodland mansions and abandoned camps generating in swamps.

Fishing

Main article: Fishing § Items obtainable

Lily pads are obtainable through fishing, with a 1.7% chance per attempt. See fishing for more details. In Bedrock Edition, lily pads cannot be obtained when fishing in jungle biomes.

Trading

Wandering traders may sell 5 lily pads for 1 emerald.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
Villager		JE	BE	Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
Wandering Trader	Ordinary	6%	6%	Emerald	5 × Lily Pad	2	—	—

Mob loot

In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 25% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 5 lily pads when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.

Usage

Lily pads can be used to make paths over water without having to build bridges or use full blocks. Mobs cannot spawn on lily pads. A lily pad is broken and drops as an item when water flows on it.

Normal blocks can be placed on the bottom side of lily pads (from below). This breaks the lily pad (dropping it as an item), but leaves the block in place. Blocks can also be placed on top of lily pads, though the placed block appears to hover over the pad rather than rest on it.^[1]

A lily pad can be used as a starting point for construction on an ocean surface without having to build up from the ocean floor (see also kelp for this purpose).

Lily pads are the only solid block that doesn't prevent fishing treasure items from water near it.

Placement

Lily pads can be placed only on top of water, ice, or frosted ice. Lily pads occupy the block above water and are not part of the water block itself.

Lily pads must be directly planted on the top of a water, ice or frosted ice block; unlike most blocks, targeting the side of a block that would result in it being placed on top of a valid block does not allow it to be placed. Similarly, targeting the sides or bottom of a block that can support a lily pad will place the lily pad on top.^[2] Lily pads can be placed on waterlogged blocks, including top half slabs.

A lily pad faces a consistent direction that depends on its location; it is unaffected by the direction the player faces. Replacing a lily pad does not change the direction.

In Bedrock Edition, unlike most blocks entities can collide with, lily pads can be placed directly inside players.^[3]^[4]

In Java Edition, due to a bug,^[5] lily pads and frogspawn can be placed on water even by players in Adventure game mode.

Composting

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

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Appearance

In the inventory, lily pads have the color:
#71c35c.
Otherwise, lily pads have the color:
#208030.

Sounds

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition: ^{[sound 1]}

`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

↑ Due to MCPE-114160, only the break sound occurs for this block.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Lily Pad	`lily_pad`	Block & Item	`block.minecraft.lily_pad`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Lily Pad	`waterlily`	`111`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.waterlily.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.0.0	Beta 1.9 Prerelease	Added lily pads.
		They have no in-game name.
		Placement of lily pads require that the side of a block be targeted, with this block being one meter above the water level - they cannot be placed simply by aiming at water.
		Lily pads can be placed only in swamp biomes.
		Lily pads are currently the shortest block in the game, at ¹⁄₆₄ of a block tall, and have no collision with entities.
	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5	Lily pads are now tinted in the inventory, when held in first person, and when dropped.
	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5	Lily pads have a name in item form.
	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6	Lily pads are now solid blocks.
		Lily pads no longer are restricted to being placed in swamps.
		Lily pads can now be placed by aiming at water.
		Lily pads are now available in the Creative inventory.
1.3.1	12w21a	Boats no longer break when they collide at high speed with lily pads. Instead, the lily pad is destroyed.
1.4.4	1.4.3	Lily pads no longer appear grayscale when held in third person.
1.7.2	13w36a	Lily pads can now be caught in fishing as treasure, making it renewable.
1.8	14w25a	Lily pads have now been tinted with the inventory color #71c35c in the inventory instead of the Overworld color #208030.
1.9	15w43a	Lily pads can now be placed on ice and frosted ice.
	15w45a	Height of lily pads has now been increased from ¹⁄₄ of a pixel (¹⁄₆₄ of a block) to 1 pixel (¹⁄₁₆ of a block).
	15w45a	Due to the height change of lily pads, they are no longer the shortest block in the game.
	15w49a	Height of lily pads has now been decreased from 1 pixel (¹⁄₁₆ of a block) to ¹⁵⁄₁₆ of a pixel (¹⁵⁄₂₅₆ of a block), and the width has now been changed to be inset from three edges of the block by 1 pixel (¹⁄₁₆ of a block).
	15w50a	Added a sound to lily pads: `block.waterlily.place`.
	15w50a	Lily pads now play this sound when placed on water.
	16w04a	Height of lily pads has now been increased to 1¹⁄₂ pixels (³⁄₃₂ of a block), and is now inset 1 pixel (¹⁄₁₆ of a block) on all sides.
1.11	16w39a	Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13	17w50a	Lily pads now play a different sound when they are placed on top of ice.^[6]
1.14	18w43a	The texture of lily pads has now been changed.
	19w03a	Placing a lily into the brand-new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
	19w05a	Lily pads now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
	19w05a	Added wandering traders, which sell lily pads.
1.15	19w37a	Lily pads now display a hand animation when placed in third person mode, like other blocks.^[7]
1.16	20w12a	Lily pads can now only be obtained from fishing in open water like any other treasure item.
	20w21a	Lily pads when fished is now considered as junk loot instead of treasure loot, meaning it can be obtained caught even when not fishing in open water again.
	20w22a	Lily pads can no longer be placed inside entities.^[8]
1.18	pre5	The texture UV of lily pads has been changed. Lily pads is now mirrored.^[9]
1.19.3	22w44a	Lily pads now use the same sounds as big dripleaves instead of grass.^[10]

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0	build 1	Added lily pads.
v0.9.0	build 3	Lily pads are now brighter in the inventory.
v0.11.0	build 1	Lily pads can now be caught in fishing as treasure.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0	alpha 1.1.0.0	Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	The texture of lily pads has now been changed.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	Lily pads can now be bought from wandering traders.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Lily pads can now be used to fill up composters by an unknown amount.
1.17.40	beta 1.17.40.23	Lily pads can now be placed on waterlogged blocks, including top half slabs.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.21	The hitbox of lily pads has been changed to match Java Edition.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.23	Lily pads generate more frequently in swamps and mangrove swamps.
1.21.80	Preview 1.21.80.20	Lily pads are now junk items instead of treasure when fishing. They cannot be fished anymore in jungle biomes.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU7	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added lily pads.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Lily pads can now be caught in fishing as treasure, making it renewable.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Height of lily pads has now been increased from ¹⁄₄ of a pixel ((¹⁄₆₄ of a block)) to ¹⁵⁄₁₆ of a pixel (¹⁵⁄₂₅₆ of a block), and the width has now been changed to be inset from three edges of the block by 1 pixel (¹⁄₁₆ of a block).
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Added a sound for placing lily pads.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions.
			1.90				The texture of lily pads has now been changed.
			1.91				Lily pads can now be bought from wandering traders.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added lily pads.
1.9.19							Lily pads now generate in woodland mansions.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13	17w47a	The ID of lily pads has now been changed from `waterlily` to `lily_pad`.
1.13	17w47a	Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 111.
1.17	21w19a	`minecraft:lily_pad` 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:lily_pad` has been removed from the block tags `#minecraft:mineable/axe` and `#minecraft:sword_efficient`.