Nether Wart

This article is about the fungus used for potions. For the block found in crimson forests, see Nether Wart Block. For the fungus from A Minecraft Movie, see Movie:Nether Wart. For other uses, see Seeds.

Nether Wart

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

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	28 COLOR_RED
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

Nether wart is a fungus harvested from Nether wart crops and is used to plant them. It is an essential ingredient in almost every potion. Unlike other crimson plants, Nether wart doesn't have a warped equivalent, although warped wart blocks exist.

Nether wart crops are found in Nether fortresses and bastion remnants and used to grow Nether wart, which only requires soul sand to grow.

Obtaining

Breaking

Nether wart can be mined instantly with any tool. A fully mature Nether wart crop yields 2–4 Nether wart. This is increased by one for each level of Fortune, this allows for a maximum of 7 Nether warts dropping from one crop. Less mature stages drop one Nether wart, even with the Fortune enchantment.

Block	Nether Wart
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

Nether wart can generate in Nether fortresses in soul sand gardens around stairwells or in chests. Nether wart can also generate in the courtyards of housing unit bastion remnants. Because it only spawns in these specific structures, it's possible for a Nether fortress or bastion remnant to generate without Nether wart.

Location	Description	Image
Nether Fortress	Twenty Nether wart plants can be found growing near stairwells in small soul sand gardens.
Bastion Remnant	Nether wart plants can be found growing in the central courtyard of housing unit bastion remnants. These will always generate exactly 1, 5, or 6 plants.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Nether Wart	Nether Fortress	Chest	3–7	17.9% { "item": "Nether Wart", "stacksize": "3–7", "chance": 0.17904394543308721, "structure": "Nether Fortress", "container": "Chest" }

Usage

Brewing ingredient

Nether wart's primary purpose is to brew the awkward potion, the base for all potions, but optional for Weakness.

Name	Ingredients	Brewing recipe
Awkward Potion	Nether Wart + Water Bottle

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Nether Wart Block	Nether Wart		The Nether wart block cannot be crafted back into Nether wart.
Red Nether Bricks	Nether Wart + Nether Brick

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Cleric	Master	100%	100%	22 × Nether Wart	Emerald	12	30	0.05

Farming

When planted on soul sand, Nether wart grows through four stages, though the middle two stages use the same texture (the hitbox of stage 3 is three pixels taller). In Java Edition, the exact age can be seen using the debug screen, and the ages range from 0 to 3. Each random tick, Nether wart has a 10% chance of growing one stage. At default random tick speed, each Nether wart grows one age step approximately every 13653 game ticks (11.3775 minutes) on average, and fully grows from planting to harvest every 40960 game ticks (34.133333333333 minutes) on average. The growth rate is not affected by light or any other environmental factors. Bone meal cannot be used on the Nether wart.

Nether wart can only be planted on soul sand. It cannot be planted on soul soil. It can grow in any dimension.

Nether wart is ready to harvest when it reaches its fourth stage (equivalent to age 3). Breaking a fully grown Nether wart drops 2 to 4 Nether warts, while an immature one drops a single Nether wart. Using a tool enchanted with Fortune increases the maximum number of Nether wart dropped by 1 per level, for a maximum of 7 for a tool enchanted with Fortune III.

Composting

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

Note that one should preferably not craft Nether wart blocks for composting purposes. Using 9 Nether warts gives almost 95% chance of raising the compost level at least 4 times, while using a Nether wart block gives an 85% chance of raising it once.

Sounds

Java Edition:

nether_wart sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.nether_wart.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.9	0.72	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	item.nether_wart.plant​[sound 1]​	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.9	0.8/0.896	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit​[sound 2]​	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall​[sound 2]​	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step​[sound 2]​	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

nether_wart sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.nether_wart	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.nether_wart	​ ?	0.7	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.nether_wart	​ ?	0.32	0.5
	​ ?	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.nether_wart	​ ?	0.4	1.0
	​ ?	Players	Walking on the block	step.nether_wart	​ ?	0.17	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.nether_wart	​ ?	0.12	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.nether_wart	​ ?	0.14	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Nether Wart	nether_wart	Block & Item	block.minecraft.nether_wart item.minecraft.nether_wart

Bedrock Edition:

Nether Wart	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Block	nether_wart	115	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	item.nether_wart	tile.nether_wart.name
Item	nether_wart	294	Item	—	item.nether_wart.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	0	0
		1 2
		3	Fully grown.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
age	0x1 0x2	0	0	0
			1 2	1 2
			3	3	Fully grown.
			4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	Unsupported	Unused

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Plant one of these 7 crops: Beetroot Melon Nether Wart Pumpkin Wheat Torchflower Pitcher Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				Added Nether wart.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Nether wart can now be brewed in a water bottle to create an awkward potion.
1.3.1			12w27a				Nether wart can now grow outside of the Nether.
			1.3				The item texture has been changed.
1.4.2			12w36a				Nether wart can now be used to breed chickens.
1.6.1			13w18a				Nether wart is now found in the new chests in Nether fortresses.
1.8			14w06a				Nether wart crops are now a pixel higher, likely as an accidental result of model conversion. Previously they were offset one pixel downward like the other crops (wheat, carrots, potatoes) to match farmland, although in Nether wart's case such a downward offset hides some pixels of the texture inside of the soul sand.[1]
			14w10b				Nether wart crops are now offset downward by one pixel once more, hiding the bottom row of pixels again.
			14w25a				Nether wart crops are now darker and subject to directional shading.
			14w27a				Nether wart crops are no longer subject to directional shading.
			14w34d				Nether wart can no longer be used to breed chickens.
1.9			15w43a				The average yield of Nether wart from Nether fortress chests has now been slightly decreased.
			15w49a				The hitbox of planted Nether warts now adjusts depending on their growth state.[2]
1.10			16w20a				Nether wart can now be used to craft the new red Nether brick blocks and Nether wart blocks.
1.12			17w18b				Placing a Nether wart in soul sand now gives the player the "A Seedy Place" advancement.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of Nether wart crops have changed.
			19w03a				Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to Nether wart. Before this version, Nether wart made stone sounds.
			19w11a				Cleric villagers now buy 22 Nether wart for 1 emerald.
							Nether wart can now be planted by aiming against the sides and underside of blocks, rather than just the top surface of the soul sand.[3]
							Nether wart can now replace replaceable blocks when placed by the player.
1.16			20w15a				Nether wart can now be composted.
			20w16a				Nether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants.
1.17			21w13a				The "crop" template model has changed such that pixels appear in the same physical positions on opposite sides of texture planes, changing the Nether wart crop's appearance in the process.[4]

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1			build 1				Added Nether wart.
							Nether wart uses a cross model instead of the "hash" shape associated with crops.
v0.15.0			build 1				Nether wart now uses a more conventional crop model.
Pocket Edition
1.1.3			alpha 1.1.3.0				Nether wart can now be used to craft red Nether bricks and Nether wart blocks.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of Nether wart crops have changed.
							Placement and breaking sounds have now been added to Nether wart.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.4				Nether wart can now be sold to cleric villagers.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Nether wart now generates as part of bastion remnants.
							The placement and breaking sounds for Nether wart have been changed to match Java Edition.
							Nether wart can now be composted.

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 Nether wart.
							Nether warts can be used to breed chickens.
TU9							Nether wart now spawns randomly wherever soul sand is generated in the Nether.
							Nether fortresses have now been changed to make Nether wart rooms more likely.
							Nether wart can now grow outside of the Nether.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Nether wart is now found in the new chests in Nether fortresses.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Nether wart can no longer be used to breed chickens.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Nether wart can now be used to craft the new red Nether brick blocks and Nether wart blocks.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		The hitbox of planted Nether warts now adjusts depending on their growth state.
			1.90				The textures of Nether wart crops have now been changed.
			1.91				Nether wart can now be sold to cleric villagers.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added Nether wart.

Data history

Issues

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

Trivia

• Nether wart's stage changes cannot be detected by a block update detector, but can by an observer block.

Gallery

Renders

• 
  Nether wart growing next to stairs in a Nether fortress

Screenshots

• 
  Nether wart found in a Nether fortress
• 
  Another example of Nether wart found in a Nether fortress
• 
  The three different sizes of the Nether wart as viewed from the side

References