Mangrove Propagule

Mangrove Propagule

Propagule

Hanging propagule (fully grown)

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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 mangrove propagule is an amphibious sapling that can grow into a mangrove tree. They grow hanging from mangrove leaves when the leaves are bone mealed or when a tree is first created, but can only be obtained as items if fully grown.

Obtaining

Breaking

Mangrove propagules can be broken instantly with any tool or by hand. Only blocks with block states hanging=false or with age=4 drop themselves.

Block	Mangrove Propagule
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

Hanging mangrove propagules generate under leaf blocks of mangrove trees that spawn in mangrove swamps.

Trading

Wandering traders may sell 1 mangrove propagule for 5 emeralds.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Wandering Trader	Ordinary	6%	6%	5 × Emerald	Mangrove Propagule	8	—	—

Mob loot

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

Post-generation

Applying bone meal to a block of mangrove leaves with a space underneath produces a hanging mangrove propagule with age=0. Bone meal can then be applied to the propagule itself to increase its age by 1.

Usage

Growing trees

A hanging mangrove propagule cannot grow into a tree.

Like saplings, non-hanging mangrove propagules have two growth stages (with no visible difference between them) before growing into trees. When a tree is to be grown, a height is chosen and then the ground and space are checked; if the ground is bad or there is not space for the chosen height, the tree does not grow. Bone meal can be used to speed up the growth of the propagule, even to grow the tree without sufficient light.

Also like saplings, mangrove propagules can grow only if a player is within a certain radius, even in loaded chunks.

Mangrove propagules can be placed on all variants of dirt (except dirt paths), moss blocks, mud, and clay. A mangrove also requires at least 6 empty spaces above the propagule. The height of the tree depends on how far the roots can spread horizontally. The roots can spread up to 5 blocks away from the propagule. It requires at least one solid block within the 9×9×9 cube centered on and directly underneath the propagule outside the column where the sapling is, and solid blocks for the bottoms of the roots to land on within 11 blocks below the sapling in a 9×9 area. The farther the solid blocks are below the propagule, the more attempts it takes to generate a suitable tree shape. Mud does not count as a solid block.

Dirt blocks in the space above the propagule are an exception. Dirt blocks do not stop the tree from growing. The dirt remains in place and the rest of the tree generates normally around it (it is possible to grow a tree that contains only one log block at the original propagule location, with a column of dirt above where the rest of the trunk should be and leaves spreading out from it). In Java Edition, all types of log block and wood block and their stripped versions are also treated like dirt blocks (they don't stop growth). In Bedrock Edition, log and wood blocks are treated like other block types and stop the tree from growing if they are above it.

When a propagule on a grass block grows into a tree, the grass block becomes a dirt block.

When a mangrove grows from a propagule, it has a 1% chance of generating a bee nest containing 2-3 bees. Unlike other tree types, this does not require the propagule to be placed next to flowers.^[1]

Mangrove propagules can also be placed and grown underwater.

Bees

Bees engage in a pollinating behavior with mangrove propagules, increasing the honey level in beehives and bee nests by 1.

Breeding

Mangrove propagules can be fed to bees for breeding, and reduce the remaining growth duration of baby bees by 10%. Bees also follow a player holding a mangrove propagule.

Bee nests

Oak, birch, and cherry trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of a mangrove propagule have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest and 2-3 bees in it.

Decoration

Mangrove propagules can be placed in a flower pot.

Fuel

Mangrove propagules can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per propagule.

Composting

Placing a mangrove propagule into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of them yields an average of 2.74 bone meal.

Sounds

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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Mangrove Propagule	mangrove_propagule	Block & Item	flowers saplings	flowers saplings	block.minecraft.mangrove_propagule

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Mangrove Propagule	mangrove_propagule	729	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -474)	tile.mangrove_propagule.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

History

Reveal

October 16, 2021							Mangrove propagules are shown at Minecraft Live 2021.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.19			22w11a				Added mangrove propagules.
			22w14a				Due to the addition of the mangrove tree and mangrove swamp, mangrove propagules are now obtainable and renewable.
			22w15a				Wandering traders now sell mangrove propagules.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.21				Added mangrove propagules.
							Added hanging mangrove propagule. It has the item ID -476 and the namespaced ID mangrove_propagule_hanging. It displays the in-game name tile.mangrove_propagule_hanging.name.
			Preview 1.19.0.25				Changed model to match Java Edition.
			Preview 1.19.0.29				Hanging mangrove propagule has been removed from the game.

Data history

Issues

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

See also

• Mangrove Swamp
• Mangrove Tree

Gallery

Renders

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  Mangrove propagule
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  Hanging propagule (age 0)
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  Hanging propagule (age 1)
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  Hanging propagule (age 2)
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  Hanging propagule (age 3)
• 
  Hanging propagule (age 4)

References