Strong Roots

This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.

Strong Roots

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	None
Blast resistance	0.4
Hardness	0.4
Luminous	No
Transparent	Partial (diffuses sky light)
Waterloggable	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

Strong roots are a joke block exclusive to 24w14potato.

Obtaining

Breaking

Strong roots have no assigned tool, meaning they are mined at the same speed regardless of the tool used. Strong roots never drop as an item when mined, even with Silk Touch.

Block	Strong Roots
Hardness	0.4
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.6 (JE) 0.6 (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

Strong roots generate in potato villages.

Post-generation

Powerful potatoes can grow strong roots out of its sides and downward.

Usage

If strong roots are connected to a powerful potato and they receive a random tick, they attempt to grow horizontally (any direction has a ¹⁄₁₄ chance) or downward (¹⁰⁄₁₄ chance). Strong roots don't grow into spaces that would connect separate branches of the upside-down "tree", similarly to chorus plants. They also don't grow if they are already connected to four other strong roots.

Every block that is replaced by strong roots gets dropped on top of the powerful potato they are connected with. The block drops as it was mined with a proper tool, and with following enchantments:

• 60% of the time - no enchantments
• 20% of the time - Fortune III
• 20% of the time - Silk Touch

Strong roots can replace barriers, end portal block, command blocks and most other blocks in game. Exceptions include other powerful potatoes, other strong roots, and blocks in #features_cannot_replace tag.

Piston interactivity

Strong roots are destroyed when pushed by pistons. They do not stick to sticky pistons, slime blocks or honey blocks.

Sounds

This section uses a sound table which may not accurately represent the sounds associated with this feature.

Because of MC-177082, subtitles for falling on blocks may not have existed at this point in development, so a dedicated sound table accounting for this may be required.

wood sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.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.wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Strong Roots	strong_roots	block.minecraft.strong_roots

Issues

Issues relating to "Strong Roots" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".