Tall Grass

Tall Grass
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes (60)
Catches fire; from lava	Yes
Map color	; 7 PLANT
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

Tall grass is the 2-block tall variant of short grass.

Obtaining

Breaking

When broken normally, tall grass has a 12.5% chance of dropping 1 wheat seeds item. This is affected by the Fortune enchantment, dropping 1–3, 1–5, or 1–7 wheat seeds with Fortune I, II, and III respectively.

When broken using shears, tall grass drops two units of short grass instead.

Placing any block on tall grass breaks the grass and causes it to not drop anything.

Block	Tall Grass
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

Tall grass generates in plains, savannas, cherry groves, meadows, pale gardens, and lush caves. There is approximately 8.6 tall grass per chunk.

Similarly to large ferns, tall grass can only obtained as an item in survival by being found in savanna village house chests.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Tall Grass	Village	Savanna house chest	1	45.9% { "item": "Tall Grass", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.4586286582688752, "structure": "Village", "container": "Savanna house chest" }

Post-generation

Bone meal can be used on short grass to turn it into tall grass. Using bone meal on a grass block, moss block or pale moss block, also has a chance of generating tall grass.

Usage

Most 2-block tall plants, including tall grass, have a disproportionately large hitbox compared to other plants.^[1] The only exception to this rule is tall seagrass.^[2]

Composting

Placing tall grass into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Color

The coloration of tall grass is dependent on the biome they are in. A block always uses the color set to its location, regardless of how it was placed or of its source. This affects the side and top of the block.

Item

In Java Edition, tall grass items use biome color with temperature 0.5, downfall 1.0, and as a result is colored
#7cbd6b. In Bedrock Edition, this color is coded in the item's texture.

Biome colors

These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm. See biome colors for more information.

Biome	Color	Block
Badlands	#90814D
Eroded Badlands
Wooded Badlands
Modified Badlands Plateau‌^{[BE only]}
Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau‌^{[BE only]}
Cherry Grove	#B6DB61
Desert	#BFB755
Savanna
Savanna Plateau
Windswept Savanna
Nether Wastes
Soul Sand Valley
Crimson Forest
Warped Forest
Basalt Deltas
Desert Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Desert Lakes‌^{[BE only]}
Badlands Plateau‌^{[BE only]}
Shattered Savanna Plateau‌^{[BE only]}	#82C245
Stony Peaks	#9ABE4B
Jungle	#59C93C
Bamboo Jungle
Jungle Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Modified Jungle‌^{[BE only]}
Bamboo Jungle Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Sparse Jungle	#64C73F
Modified Jungle Edge‌^{[BE only]}	#64C73F
Lush Caves‌^{[BE only]}	#B9B75B
Mushroom Fields	#55C93F
Mushroom Field Shore‌^{[BE only]}	#55C93F
Swamp	#6A7039^{[n 1]}
Mangrove Swamp	#6A7039^{[n 1]}
Mangrove Swamp	#4C763C^{[n 2]}
Swamp Hills‌^{[BE only]}	#4C763C^{[n 2]}
Plains	#91BD59
Sunflower Plains
Beach
Dripstone Caves‌^{[JE only]}
Deep Dark
Sulfur Caves	#ABA64F
Forest	#79C05A
Flower Forest
Wooded Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Tall Birch Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Dark Forest	#507A32
Dark Forest Hills‌^{[BE only]}	#507A32
Pale Garden	#878D76
Birch Forest	#88BB67
Old Growth Birch Forest
Birch Forest Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Dappled Forest	#df6827
Ocean	#8EB971
Deep Ocean
Warm Ocean
Deep Warm Ocean‌^{[BE only]}
Lukewarm Ocean
Deep Lukewarm Ocean
Cold Ocean
Deep Cold Ocean
Deep Frozen Ocean
River
Lush Caves‌^{[JE only]}
The End
Small End Islands‌^{[JE only]}
End Barrens‌^{[JE only]}
End Midlands‌^{[JE only]}
End Highlands‌^{[JE only]}
The Void‌^{[JE only]}
Meadow‌^{[JE only]}	#83BB6D
Meadow‌^{[BE only]}	#86B87F
Old Growth Pine Taiga
Giant Tree Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Giant Spruce Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Taiga	#86B783
Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Taiga Mountains‌^{[BE only]}
Dripstone Caves‌^{[BE only]}	#8DB58A
Windswept Hills	#8AB689
Windswept Gravelly Hills
Windswept Forest
Stony Shore
Gravelly Mountains+‌^{[BE only]}
Mountain Edge‌^{[BE only]}
Snowy Beach	#83B593
Snowy Plains	#80B497
Ice Spikes
Ice Caves^{[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026]}
Snowy Taiga
Frozen Ocean
Frozen River
Grove
Snowy Slopes
Frozen Peaks
Jagged Peaks
Snowy Mountains‌^{[BE only]}
Legacy Frozen Ocean‌^{[BE only]}
Snowy Taiga Hills‌^{[BE only]}
Snowy Taiga Mountains‌^{[BE only]}

↑ Above -0.1 temperature.
↑ Below -0.1 temperature.

[warm2-3] Above -0.1 temperature.

[cold2-4] Below -0.1 temperature.

[1]

[2]

[n 1]

[n 2]

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

`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

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
double_plant_type	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4`	`sunflower`	`sunflower`	`0`	Sunflower
			`syringa`	`1`	Lilac
			`grass`	`2`	Double Tallgrass
			`fern`	`3`	Large Fern
			`rose`	`4`	Rose Bush
			`paeonia`	`5`	Peony
upper_block_bit	`0x8`	`false`	`false` `true`	`0` `1`	If it is the upper half of the plant. For items, it is 0.

Java Edition
1.7.2	13w36a	Added "Double Tallgrass".
1.7.2	13w36a	Double tallgrass with values over 5 now cause a game crash when rendered.
1.8	14w04a	If tall grass 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).
	14w25a	The texture for tall grass has been made slightly brighter. However, this version also applies directional shading to cross models, making tall grass appear darker as a result.
	?	Crosses are no longer subject to directional shading.^[3]
1.13	17w47a	"Double Tallgrass" has been renamed to "Tall Grass".
1.14	18w43a	The texture of tall grass has been changed.
	18w49a	Tall grass items can now be found in chests in savanna village houses. Therefore, tall grass items have become legitimately obtainable in Survival mode.
	19w03a	Placing tall grass into the composter now has a 20% chance of increasing the compost level by 1.
	19w05a	Tall grass now has a 50% chance of increasing the compost level by 1.

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0	build 1	Added tall grass. It has version-exclusive textures, having a noticeably different shape.
v0.9.0	build 5	Tall grass is no longer flammable.
v0.11.0	build 14	Tall grass pixels are now square.
v0.14.0	build 3	The hitbox no longer occupies an entire block.
v0.15.0	build 1	The texture is now 44x44, instead of 16x16. Whether this results in any visible changes in-game is unknown.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	The texture of tall grass has been changed.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Tall grass can now be used to fill a composter.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.1	Tall grass can now be found in savanna village chests.
1.19.60	Preview 1.19.60.20	Accidentally added the loot table for tall grass in the vanilla behavior pack.
1.21.70	Preview 1.20.70.21	Removed the loot table for tall grass from the vanilla behavior pack.
1.21.30	Preview 1.21.30.22	Changed name from "Double Tallgrass" to "Tall Grass" to match Java Edition.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.21	Tall grass no longer appears mirrored when viewed from certain angles.^[4]
	Preview 1.21.60.23	Tall grass generates less frequently but in larger patches in plains and savannas.
	Preview 1.21.60.23	Tall grass generates more frequently in meadows.
26.20	Preview 26.20.20	Bone meal now causes tall grass to grow when applied to grass blocks.

Tall Grass

Obtaining

Breaking

Natural generation

Generated loot

Post-generation

Usage

Composting

Color

Item

Biome colors

Sounds

Data values

ID

Block states

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Data history

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Issues

Gallery

Screenshots

References

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Related mods

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added double tall grass.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		The hitbox of double tall grass is now smaller to match Bedrock Edition.
			1.90				The texture of double tall grass has been changed.

Java Edition
1.8.1	pre1	Added a `facing` state to `double_plant`, though without visible effect.
1.13	17w47a	The different block states for the `double_plant` ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
		"Tall Grass", which has been renamed from "Double Tallgrass", now has a new ID: `tall_grass`.
		Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 175.
1.17	21w19a	`minecraft:tall_grass` 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.
1.21.5	25w10a	`minecraft:tall_grass` has been removed from the block tags `#minecraft:mineable/axe` and `#minecraft:sword_efficient`.