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Peony

Peony

A peony is a tall flower that can be crafted into pink dye.

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Blocks Stackable resources Renewable resources Non-solid blocks Plants Flammable blocks Flowers Double blocks
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Contents (27)
  1. Obtaining
  2. Breaking
  3. Natural generation
  4. Post-generation
  5. Usage
  6. Crafting ingredient
  7. Bees
  8. Breeding
  9. Bee nests
  10. Composting
  11. Sounds
  12. Data values
  13. ID
  14. Block states
  15. History
  16. Development
  17. Java Edition
  18. Bedrock Edition
  19. Legacy Console Edition
  20. New Nintendo 3DS Edition
  21. Minecraft Education
  22. Historical gallery
  23. Data history
  24. Issues
  25. Trivia
  26. References
  27. External links
For the removed flower, see Paeonia.
Peony
Peony.png: Infobox image for Minecraft block 'Peony'
Invicon Peony.png: Inventory sprite for Peony in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Peony
Renewable Yes
Stackable Yes (64)
Tool Any tool
Blast resistance 0
Hardness 0
Luminous No
Transparent Yes
Flammable JE: Yes (60)
BE: Yes (30)
Catches fire
from lava 		Yes
Map color
 7 PLANT
Note block instrument Default (Harp)

A peony is a tall flower that can be crafted into pink dye.

Obtaining

Breaking

A peony can be broken instantly with any item or by hand, dropping itself.

A peony also breaks if water or lava runs over its location, if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, or if a block under the plant is moved or destroyed.

Block Peony
Hardness 0
Breaking time (secs)
Default 0.05 (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

Peonies generate naturally on dirt and grass blocks in forests, flower forests, birch forests, old growth birch forests, and dark forests biomes as part of vegetation features. Peonies can also generate as part of abandoned camps in birch forests and forests.

Post-generation

When bone meal is applied to a peony, the flower drops a copy of itself.

Usage

Main article: Flower § Usage

Like other flowers, peonies can be used as decoration and planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss blocks, mud, or muddy mangrove roots. Like other tall flowers, peonies cannot be placed inside flower pots.

Crafting ingredient

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
Pink Dye Peony

Bees

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

Breeding

Peonies can be used to breed, grow, and lead bees.

Bee nests

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

Composting

Placing a peony into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of peonies yields an average of 5.94 bone meal.

Sounds

Java Edition:

BlockSprite short-grass.png: Sprite image for short-grass in Minecraft grass sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.grass.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break​1.00.816
​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]BlocksWhen the block is placedblock.grass.placesubtitles.block.generic.place​1.00.816
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.grass.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.250.516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.grass.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall​0.50.7516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.grass.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.151.016

Bedrock Edition:

BlockSprite short-grass.png: Sprite image for short-grass in Minecraft grass sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokendig.grasssubtitles.block.generic.break​0.70.8–1.0
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedplace.grasssubtitles.block.generic.place​0.80.8–1.0
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenhit.grasssubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.30.5
​FootstepsPlayersFalling on the block with fall damagefall.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.41.0
​FootstepsPlayersWalking on the blockstep.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.31.0
​Shovel flattensBlocksWhen a shovel creates a dirt pathuse.grasssubtitles.item.shovel.flatten​1.00.8
​FootstepsBlocksJumping from the blockjump.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.111.0
​FootstepsBlocksFalling on the block without fall damageland.grasssubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.211.0
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Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormBlock tagsItem tags Translation key
BlockSprite peony.png: Sprite image for peony in Minecraft PeonypeonyBlock & Itemflowersflowers block.minecraft.peony

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierAlias ID Numeric ID FormItem ID[i 1] Translation key
BlockSprite peony.png: Sprite image for peony in Minecraft Peonypeonydouble_plant / 51122Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3]
(Numeric: -867)		 tile.double_plant.paeonia.name
  1. ↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
  2. ↑ Available with /give command.
  3. ↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition

Name Default value Allowed values Description
halflowerlower
upper		The half of the plant contained in this block.

Bedrock Edition

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits		 Description
double_plant_type0x1
0x2
0x4		sunflower sunflower0Sunflower
syringa1Lilac
grass2Double Tallgrass
fern3Large Fern
rose4Rose Bush
paeonia5Peony
upper_block_bit0x8falsefalse
true		0
1		If it is the upper half of the plant. For items, it is 0.


History

Development

August 16, 2013 Jeb shows the paeonia, an early prototype of the peony.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.7.213w36a Added peonies as a double flower.
An unused paeonia texture is still available in the game files.
1.814w04a If a peony is set to render as the block inside of a minecart via commands or map editing, it now appears as this (previously it would be entirely invisible).
Flowers no longer generate as a massive group at the world origin.[1]
14w25a Peonies are now affected by the same shading full blocks are.
14w26a Peonies are no longer subject to shading.
1.1418w43a The unused paeonia texture has been removed.
1.1418w43a The texture of peonies has been changed.
19w03a Placing a peony into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
19w05a Peonies now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
1.1519w34a Peonies can now be used to breed bees.
Bees can now pollinate peonies.
26.3snap1 Peonies can now generate as part of abandoned camps in birch forests and forests.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0build 1 Added peonies.
build 3 Added dye recipes for peonies.
v0.14.0build 1 Using bone meal on a peony spawns another of that flower as an item.
v0.15.0build 2 The peony texture has been changed, ported from the Legacy Console Edition.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3 The texture of peonies has been changed.
Peonies can now be sold by the wandering trader.
? Wandering traders no longer sell peonies.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1 Peonies can be used to fill a composter.
1.14.0beta 1.14.0.1 Peonies can now be used to breed bees.
Bees can now pollinate peonies.
1.20.70Preview 1.20.70.24 The bottom halves of peonies are no longer affected by Fortune.
1.21.60Preview 1.21.60.21 Peonies no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.[2]
26.40
Experiment
Drop 3 of 2026		Preview 26.40.27 Peonies can now generate as part of abandoned camps in birch forests and forests.
26.50Preview 26.50.22 All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU31CU191.221.221.22Patch 31.0.1 Added peonies.
Peonies use the same texture as in Java Edition.
TU34CU221.251.251.25Patch 4 Changed the texture of the Peony.
TU69 1.761.761.76Patch 38 The hitbox of peonies is now smaller to match bedrock edition.
1.90 The texture of peonies has been changed.
1.91 Peonies can now be sold by the wandering trader.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0 Added peonies.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.0 Added peonies.
1.12 The texture of peonies has been changed.
  • First image of a paeonia
    First image of a paeonia
  • The unused paeonia texture
    The unused paeonia texture
  • The unused paeonia texture in the Texture Update beta packs
    The unused paeonia texture in the Texture Update beta packs
  • Peony found in a big cave system.
    Peony found in a big cave system.
  • The upper half of a peony flower floating above a lake
    The upper half of a peony flower floating above a lake

Data history

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.8.1pre1 Added facing state to double_plant, though without visible effect.
1.1317w47a The different block states for the double_plant ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 175.
1.1721w19a minecraft:peony 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.
1.18Pre-release 5 minecraft:peony has been removed from the #minecraft:mineable/axe block tag.
1.21.424w45a minecraft:peony has been moved from the block tag #tall_flowers to the block tag #flowers due to the removal of the former tag.
1.21.525w10a minecraft:peony has been removed from the block tag #minecraft:sword_efficient.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.21.0Preview 1.21.0.22 The different double plant type block states for the double_plant ID have now been split up into their own IDs.

Issues

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

Trivia

  • In real life, a peony is any member of the Paeonia genus of flowering plants.
  • Peonies were used at Jeb's wedding.[3]

References

  1. ↑ MC-44467 – Overpopulated flowers near lake – resolved as "Fixed".
  2. ↑ MCPE-40646 – Cross models are displayed wrongly from east and west sides – resolved as "Fixed".
  3. ↑ http://instagram.com/p/dE8ljlJMLb/
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