Coral

Coral is a type of non-solid block that comes in five variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn.

Dead coral is the dead variants of coral.

Obtaining[]

Breaking[]

Coral and dead coral can be mined instantly but can be obtained only when mined with a Silk Touch enchanted tool.

Dead coral can only be obtained with a Silk Touch pickaxe.^[1]

Natural generation[]

Coral naturally generates in coral reef structures found in warm ocean biomes.

Post-generation[]

When using bone meal on dirt, coarse dirt, sand, red sand, gravel, or clay in warm ocean biomes, coral generates in place of some of the seagrass. In Bedrock Edition, the same can happen in any biomes as long as bone meal is used in a water source above the aforementioned solid blocks.

Dead coral is created when coral is placed out of water.

Usage[]

Coral can be used as a building or decoration block.

Dead coral[]

In order for coral to stay alive, at least one of the blocks surrounding it must be water or a waterlogged block. If placed outside of water, it dies and transforms into its respective dead coral after 3 to 5 seconds. Coral dies even when the game rule randomTickSpeed is set to 0.^[2]

Dead coral cannot be turned back into living coral.

Note Blocks[]

All types of coral and dead coral can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Sounds[]

Normal (Alive)[]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	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	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
	None[sound 1]	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wet_grass.fall	None[sound 1]	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:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Dead[]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	None[sound 1]	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	None[sound 1]	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Tube Coral	tube_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.tube_coral
Brain Coral	brain_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.brain_coral
Bubble Coral	bubble_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.bubble_coral
Fire Coral	fire_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.fire_coral
Horn Coral	horn_coral	Block & Item	corals coral_plants underwater_bonemeals	block.minecraft.horn_coral
Dead Tube Coral	dead_tube_coral	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.dead_tube_coral
Dead Brain Coral	dead_brain_coral	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.dead_brain_coral
Dead Bubble Coral	dead_bubble_coral	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.dead_bubble_coral
Dead Fire Coral	dead_fire_coral	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.dead_fire_coral
Dead Horn Coral	dead_horn_coral	Block & Item	None	block.minecraft.dead_horn_coral

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Tube Coral	tube_coral	coral / 0	-131	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.coral.blue.name
Brain Coral	brain_coral	coral / 1	-581	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.coral.pink.name
Bubble Coral	bubble_coral	coral / 2	-582	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.coral.purple.name
Fire Coral	fire_coral	coral / 3	-583	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.coral.red.name
Horn Coral	horn_coral	coral / 4	-584	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.coral.yellow.name
Dead Tube Coral	dead_tube_coral	coral / 8	-585	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.coral.blue_dead.name
Dead Brain Coral	dead_brain_coral	coral / 9	-586	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.coral.pink_dead.name
Dead Bubble Coral	dead_bubble_coral	coral / 10	-587	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.coral.purple_dead.name
Dead Fire Coral	dead_fire_coral	coral / 11	-588	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.coral.red_dead.name
Dead Horn Coral	dead_horn_coral	coral / 12	-589	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.coral.yellow_dead.name

Block state[]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
waterlogged	true	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this coral.

History[]

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch expresses interest in a suggestion regarding corals by user "solarblade".
Java Edition Alpha
June 28, 2010					Notch mentioned on his blog: "I tried adding corals, but it's really hard to draw a single block that looks like corals, since it's really more about crazy amounts of variation and diversity. But I do know that the corals will have tiny fish particles around them."
Java Edition
October 5, 2012					Coral were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with fish as mobs and "fish blocks".
November 18, 2017					Three types of coral were shown in a clip at MINECON Earth.
1.13		18w10a			Added coral plants.
		18w10b			The texture of red coral plants has been changed.
		18w10d			Added coral reefs, allowing coral plants to generate naturally.
		18w14b			"Coral Plants" have been renamed to "Coral".
					Blue, pink, purple, red, and yellow coral plants have been renamed to tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn coral, respectively.
		pre6			5 new sound events that apply to coral have been added: block.wet_grass.break, block.wet_grass.fall, block.wet_grass.hit, block.wet_grass.place, and block.wet_grass.step.
		pre10			Coral can now be collected using Silk Touch. Prior to this, coral was completely unobtainable in survival.
1.13.1		18w31a			Bone meal used in water of warm ocean biomes now has a chance of growing coral, making them renewable.
		18w32a			Added dead coral.
1.20		pre2			Dead coral blocks are now listed in the same order as the live corals in the Creative inventory.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added coral.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Added dead coral.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Coral can now be collected using Silk Touch.
1.20.0		beta 1.20.0.20			The different block states for the coral ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added coral.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added coral.
1.14.31					Added dead coral.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Coral" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• In real life, coral are colonies of sessile (immobile) animals.

Gallery[]

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  Coral naturally generating in a coral reef.

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  All variants of live coral.

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  Coral blocks within a coral reef.

References[]