Seagrass

For the feature, see Seagrass (feature).

Seagrass

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	12 WATER
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

Seagrass is a non-solid plant block that generates underwater in most aquatic biomes.

Tall seagrass is a two-block high variety of seagrass.

Obtaining

Breaking

Seagrass can be harvested only with shears. Using any other tool, item, or the player's fist destroys seagrass and causes it to drop nothing. When harvested with shears, regular seagrass drops itself as an item, and tall seagrass drops 2 seagrass items.

Tall seagrass only exists in block form; obtaining it as an item is impossible even in Creative mode or by using commands.

Block	Seagrass
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Shears	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

Seagrass generates in either its tall or small form in rivers, frozen rivers, non-frozen oceans, swamps, and mangrove swamps, replacing ice^[1]‌^{[JE only]} and planks^[2] as necessary. To generate seagrass, the water column it is in must have access to the sky.

Seagrass also generates in abandoned camps.

Mob loot

Java Edition:

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Turtle[A]	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	83.33%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00	0–5	94.44%	2.50

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Turtle[A]	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	5⁄6	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2	0–5	17⁄18	5⁄2

Mob		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Turtle[A]	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)

Drops		1
Mob		Expected Number of Kills
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Turtle[A]	1.00	0.67	0.50	0.40

Bedrock Edition:

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Turtle[A]	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	66.67%	1.33	0–4	66.67%	1.67	0–5	66.67%	2.00

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Turtle[A]	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	2⁄3	4⁄3	0–4	2⁄3	5⁄3	0–5	2⁄3	2

Mob		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Turtle[A]	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	2⁄9 (22.22%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	4⁄3 (1.33)	5⁄3 (1.67)	2 (2.00)

Drops		1
Mob		Expected Number of Kills
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Turtle[A]	1.00	0.75	0.60	0.50

Post-generation

Using bone meal on any solid block‌^{[Java Edition only]}, or dirt, coarse dirt, sand, red sand, gravel, or clay‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} that is underwater generates seagrass on that block and its surrounding blocks. In order for this to work, there must be 2 water blocks above the block the bone meal is being used on, and the lower one must be non-flowing water.

Usage

The seagrass item can be placed only on opaque blocks. It cannot be placed on a magma block. It breaks when opaque blocks move into its hitbox.

Like grass, snow layers, and other such blocks, placing blocks inside seagrass deletes the seagrass. However, seagrass prevents coral fan placement.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only][3]}

Tall seagrass has a hitbox considerably more appropriate for its size than other two-block-tall plants such as tall grass.^[4]

Seagrass is completely resistant to lava trying to flow into it, allowing for lava to be floating on top of the water.^[5]

Breeding

Seagrass can be used to lead and breed turtles.

Bone meal

Applying bone meal to a regular seagrass transforms it to tall seagrass if there is enough space. The bone meal will not be consumed if insufficient space exists.^[6]

Composting

Placing seagrass into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Growing turtles

Using seagrass on a baby turtle accelerates its growing time. When the turtle becomes an adult, it drops one turtle scute.

Sounds

Java Edition:

wet_grass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wet_grass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.8	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wet_grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.8	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wet_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.wet_grass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wet_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	Translation key
Seagrass	seagrass	Block & Item	underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.seagrass
Tall Seagrass	tall_seagrass	Block	None	block.minecraft.tall_seagrass

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Seagrass	seagrass	385	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -130)	tile.seagrass.seagrass.name

Block states

Java Edition:
Tall

Bedrock Edition:

History

Development

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.13			18w07a				Added "sea grass".
							Sea grass currently has an animated texture as an inventory item.
			18w07b				Sea grass is now used to breed turtles.
							The block that sea grass occupies now behaves more like water. For example, mobs can no longer spawn within the plant underwater, nor can they replenish their breath by swimming through it.
			18w08a				Sea grass no longer has an animated texture as an inventory item.
			18w14a				Sea grass can now generate in rivers and swamps.
			18w19a				Sea grass now generates in underwater caves.
							"Sea Grass" has been renamed to "Seagrass".
			pre2				Seagrass can now be destroyed by sponges.[7]
			pre6				Conduits and kelp can now replace seagrass.[8]
							Added 5 new sound events that apply to seagrass: block.wet_grass.break, block.wet_grass.fall, block.wet_grass.hit, block.wet_grass.place, and block.wet_grass.step.
1.14			19w03a				Placing seagrass into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Seagrass now has a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
1.17			21w07a				Seagrass can no longer replace parts of a swamp hut.[9]

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Added seagrass.
							The inventory texture of seagrass has the same texture as regular grass.
			beta 1.2.20.1				The seagrass inventory texture has been changed. The seagrass texture in the inventory is currently different from Java Edition's texture.
							Seagrass now generate in underwater caves.
1.5.0			beta 1.5.0.4				Seagrass can now be dropped by turtles.
							Seagrass can now be used to breed turtles.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Seagrass can now be used to fill composters.
1.12.0			beta 1.12.0.2				The color of seagrass has been updated to match Java Edition's.
1.18.10			beta 1.18.10.24				Seagrass can be used to tempt and breed frogs behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle. This is confirmed to be a placeholder.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.20				Seagrass is now brighter in the inventory.[10]
1.21.100			Preview 1.21.100.20				No longer pokes through ice when it generates in shallow water in biomes that have ice on the water's surface.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added sea grass.
							The seagrass texture in the inventory is currently different from Java Edition's texture.

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Naturally generated seagrass
• 
  A big group of natural seagrass
• 
  An ocean with seagrass
• 
  Seagrass that generated in a river biome
• 
  Seagrass visible near a coral reef
• 
  Sea grass out of water
• 
  Seagrass when first added in Bedrock Edition
• 
  Seagrass and kelp

In other media

• 
  “Seagrass” artwork predating the actual addition of seagrass
• 
  A “seagrass” in Minecraft: Story Mode
• 
  Seagrass as it appears in Minecraft Earth

References

External links

• "Taking Inventory: Seagrass" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, June 12, 2019.