Mud

For other uses, see Mud (disambiguation).

Mud

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.5
Hardness	0.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	45 TERRACOTTA_CYAN
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)
Sulfur cube archetype	Regular

Mud is a block found abundantly in mangrove swamps or created by using a water bottle on any type of dirt block. It can be used for crafting or converted into clay using pointed dripstone.

Obtaining

Breaking

Mud can be broken by hand and by any tool, but using a shovel speeds up the process.

Block	Mud
Hardness	0.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	10.75 (JE) 0.75 (BE)
Wooden	10.4 (JE) 0.4 (BE)
Stone	10.2 (JE) 0.2 (BE)
Copper	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Iron	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Diamond	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Netherite	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Golden	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

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

Mud generates in the mangrove swamp biome. Mud can also generate in trail ruins and in some entrance rooms of trial chambers.

Mob loot

An enderman holding a mud block drops the block upon death.

Post-generation

Using a water bottle, splash water bottle, or lingering water bottle on a block of dirt, coarse dirt, or rooted dirt^{[note 1]}, will convert them into mud and return a glass bottle.

Triggering a dispenser filled with a water bottle on these blocks will also convert them into mud.

To turn dirt into mud, the water bottle cannot be used on the bottom face of the block.^[1] However, a dispenser can still be used even if it is used on the bottom face.

Usage

Mud is not a full block, and as such, it has some unique properties; entities standing on mud sink slightly into it, similar to soul sand. Unlike soul sand, however, mud does not slow the movement speed of mobs or players that walk on it. Falling blocks such as sand also drop as an item when landing on it, and a hopper that is under a mud block can collect items dropped on top of it.

Items on top of mud move alongside it when it is pushed by a piston.

A player riding a horse cannot ascend from the mud to the grass, but a riderless horse can. The same discrepancy happens with dirt path and soul sand.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Muddy Mangrove Roots	Mud + Mangrove Roots
Packed Mud	Mud + Wheat

Conversion

Clay

Placing mud above a block with a pointed dripstone hanging underneath the mud gives it a ⁴⁵⁄₂₅₆ (about 17.6%) chance per random tick to convert into clay, with an average conversion time of 388.4 seconds. Mud does not convert in the Nether^{[note 2]}.^[2]

Moss

In Java Edition, using bone meal on a moss block or pale moss block with air above it converts the topmost mud blocks within a 7×11×7 area around it into moss blocks or pale moss blocks.

Dirt

Growing an azalea tree on top of mud or muddy mangrove roots, converts the mud beneath it into rooted dirt, which can be hoed into dirt.

When a large spruce grows, it converts the mud beneath and around it into podzol.

In Bedrock Edition, when trees other than large spruce, azalea, mangrove, and fancy oak^[3] grow, the mud beneath them is converted into dirt.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

mud sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.mud.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.5	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.mud.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.5	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.mud.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.125	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.mud.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.25	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.mud.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.075	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

mud sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.mud.break	​ ?	0.4	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.mud.place	​ ?	0.25	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.mud.hit	​ ?	0.1	0.5
	​ ?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.mud.fall	​ ?	0.4	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.mud.step	​ ?	0.1	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	block.mud.step	​ ?	0.1	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	block.mud.fall	​ ?	0.1	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Mud	mud	Block & Item	dirt mineable/shovel sniffer_diggable_block	block.minecraft.mud

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Mud	mud	728	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -473)	tile.mud.name

Videos

History

Announcement and tweet

October 16, 2021							Mud was announced at Minecraft Live 2021.
February 21, 2022							JAPPA tweets an image of a new mud texture.
June 16, 2022							3 unused mud textures were shown.
July 22, 2022							15 unused mud textures were shown.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.19			22w11a				Added mud.
			22w14a				Mud placed above a block with pointed dripstone underneath now converts the mud into clay.
			22w15a				Now allows sugar cane, bamboo, and big dripleaves to be planted on top of it.
1.20			23w12a				Mud now generates as part of trail ruins.
			23w14a				Sniffers can now dig in mud.
1.21			24w18a				Mud can now generate in the entrances of trial chambers.
26.2			snap1				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb mud, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.21				Added mud.
			Preview 1.19.0.25				Mud placed above a block with pointed dripstone underneath now converts the mud into clay.
			Preview 1.19.0.27				Now allows sugar cane, bamboo, and big dripleaves to be planted on top of it.
			Preview 1.19.0.29				Mud is now a full block, so it no longer sinks entities down into it slightly.
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.21				Sweet berries can now be planted on mud.
1.19.40			Preview 1.19.40.21				Mud is no longer a full block. It sinks entities down slightly again.
			Preview 1.19.40.24				Mud has become a full block again.
1.19.50			Preview 1.19.50.20				Mud is once again no longer a full block. It now sinks entities down slightly again.
1.19.70 Experiment Sniffer			Preview 1.19.70.23				Sniffers can now dig in mud.
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.80.22				Mud now generates as part of trail ruins.
1.21.0 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.21.0.24				Mud can now generate in the entrances of trial chambers.
26.20 Experiment Drop 2 of 2026			Preview 26.20.23				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb mud, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.
26.30			Preview 26.30.20				Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Naturally occurring mud inside a mangrove swamp biome
• 
  Mud types

Development images

• 
  A pre-released texture for mud. This was the same texture used in the Soggy Swamp in Minecraft Dungeons.
• 
  Another pre-released texture for mud
• 
  Another pre-released texture for mud with similar visuals to soul soil
• 
  Some more pre-released mud textures
• 
  Mud with an early texture, as shown in a development image
• 
  Another view of the previous textures

Concept artwork

• 
  Mud concept art

In other media

• 
  Pigs swimming in mud at Meet the Mobs

Notes

References

External links

• "Block of the Month: Mud" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, September 11, 2022.