Pile

Pile
Biomes	See Village
Generates in; existing chunks	No
	Hay Pile: Hay Bale; Ice Pile: Blue Ice; Packed Ice; Melon Pile: Melon; Pumpkin Pile: Carved Pumpkin‌[BE only]; Jack o'Lantern‌[JE only]; Pumpkin; Snow Pile: Snow;

A pile is a feature that generates up to 25 specific blocks, the type of which correspond to the theme of a given village.

Piles may generate anywhere inside the village and the amount of piles that spawn in a village varies.

There are five variants of a pile: hay, ice, melon, pumpkin, and snow.

Generation

Piles generate only inside villages.

Hay piles contain hay bales; ice piles contain packed ice and sometimes blue ice; melon piles contain melon blocks; pumpkin piles contain pumpkin blocks and sometimes jack o'lanterns; and snow piles contain snow layers. Up to 25 blocks can be in a given pile.

The variants of the pile spawn naturally in the following villages:

Village type	Pile variant
Village type	Hay Bale	Packed Ice	Melon	Pumpkin	Snow
Plains Village	Yes
Desert Village	Yes
Savanna Village	Yes		Yes
Snowy Village		Yes			Yes
Taiga village				Yes

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Feature type	Identifier
[No displayed name]	`block_pile`

Configured feature	Identifier
[No displayed name]	`pile_hay`
[No displayed name]	`pile_ice`
[No displayed name]	`pile_melon`
[No displayed name]	`pile_pumpkin`
[No displayed name]	`pile_snow`

Bedrock Edition:

Feature	Identifier
[No displayed name]	`hay_pile_feature`
[No displayed name]	`ice_pile_feature`
[No displayed name]	`melon_pile_feature`
[No displayed name]	`pumpkin_pile_feature`
[No displayed name]	`snow_pile_feature`

Config

Java Edition:

[NBT Compound / JSON Object] config
- [NBT Compound / JSON Object] state_provider The block to use.
  - Block state provider see Template:Nbt inherit/block state provider/template

An example

{
  "type": "minecraft:block_pile",
  "config": {
    "state_provider": {
      "type": "minecraft:rotated_block_provider",
      "state": {
        "Name": "minecraft:hay_block",
        "Properties": {
          "axis": "y"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.14	18w48a	Added hay pile.
	18w49a	Added melon pile, ice pile, and snow pile.
	18w50a	Added pumpkin pile.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.10.0	?	Added hay pile.
	?	Added ice pile.
	?	Added melon pile.
	?	Added pumpkin pile.
	?	Added snow pile.

Issues

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