Minecraft:Coral Block: Difference between revisions

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Template:Infobox block A coral block is a solid block that comes in five variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn.

Obtaining

Breaking

Coral blocks can be obtained only with a pickaxe enchanted with Minecraft:Silk Touch; if mined with a pickaxe not enchanted with Silk Touch, they drop the respective Minecraft:dead coral block. Template:Breaking row

Natural generation

Coral blocks naturally generate in Minecraft:coral reef structures, which can be found in Minecraft:warm oceans.

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Trading

Minecraft:Wandering traders may sell 1 of any coral block for 3 Minecraft:emeralds. Template:Trade sources

Mob loot

Template:IN, Minecraft:wandering traders have a chance of 25% (increased by 1% per level of Minecraft:Looting) to drop 1 coral block when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an Minecraft:emerald.

Usage

Template:FakeImage Coral blocks can be used for building or as decoration blocks.

Placement

In order for a coral block to stay alive, at least one of the six directly adjacent blocks must be Minecraft:water or a waterlogged block. If placed outside of water, it transforms into its respective Minecraft:dead coral block after 3 to 4.95 secondsTemplate:Only or 2.25 secondsTemplate:Only — a grayscale version of the coral block. A coral block still dies if the Minecraft:game rule randomTickSpeed is set to Template:Cd.<ref>Template:Bug</ref> Once a coral block dies, it is not possible to turn a dead coral block into a live coral block.

Template:IN, coral blocks do not die if they are surrounded by any non-air blocks.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Sea pickle farm blocks

If Minecraft:sea pickles are planted on live coral blocks, using Minecraft:bone meal on the sea pickles increases the number of sea pickles and creates more sea pickles on nearby coral blocks. Specifically, they can spread to the original sea pickle's level or one level below, out to a horizontal Minecraft:taxicab distance of 2. This only works on living coral blocks, not dead coral blocks.

Sounds

Template:El: Template:Sound table/Block/Coral block/JE Template:El:<ref group=sound>Template:Bug</ref> Template:Sound table/Block/Stone/BE

Data values

ID

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History

Template:Missing information Template:More sounds

Issues

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Trivia

After Minecraft:players had placed 10 million coral blocks underwater Template:In, Minecraft:Mojang donated US$100,000 to The Nature Conservancy to protect and restore coral reefs around the world.<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref>

Gallery

Screenshots

Coral blocks naturally generating in a Minecraft:coral reef

Coral blocks naturally generating in a Minecraft:coral reef
All variants of coral blocks

All variants of coral blocks
Coral blocks within a coral reef

Coral blocks within a coral reef

Development images

Prototype corals shown in a clip from Minecraft:MINECON Earth 2017

Prototype corals shown in a clip from Minecraft:MINECON Earth 2017
Unused code for a coral block can be found in a developer fork of Beta 1.2_02. This is an example of how it would look in-game using the unused texture from Minecraft:Infdev 20100629.

Unused code for a coral block can be found in a developer fork of Beta 1.2_02. This is an example of how it would look in-game using the unused texture from Minecraft:Infdev 20100629.

In other media

File:Coral Reef Artwork.png
Coral blocks on the key art for Minecraft:Coral Crafters Skin Pack

Coral blocks on the key art for Minecraft:Coral Crafters Skin Pack
File:Wandering trader's coral bargain.jpg

References

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External links

Template:Mcnet

Navigation

Template:Navbox coral Template:Navbox blocks

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 === Mob loot ===
-{{IN|bedrock}}, [[Minecraft:wandering traders]] have a chance of 8.5% (increased by 1% per level of [[Minecraft:Looting]]) to drop 1 coral block when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an [[Minecraft:emerald]].
+{{IN|bedrock}}, [[Minecraft:wandering traders]] have a chance of 25% (increased by 1% per level of [[Minecraft:Looting]]) to drop 1 coral block when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an [[Minecraft:emerald]].
 == Usage ==
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-}}|Schematic of valid block placements for coral blocks with water around. Several ways are shown where the arrangement would cause coral blocks to stay alive or die.}}
+}}|Schematic of valid block placements for coral blocks with water around. Several ways are shown where the arrangement would cause coral blocks to stay alive or die.
+|width=225px}}
 Coral blocks can be used for building or as decoration blocks.
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 === Sea pickle farm blocks ===
 If [[Minecraft:sea pickle]]s are planted on live coral blocks, using [[Minecraft:bone meal]] on the sea pickles increases the number of sea pickles and creates more sea pickles on nearby coral blocks. Specifically, they can spread to the original sea pickle's level or one level below, out to a horizontal [[Minecraft:taxicab distance]] of 2. This only works on living coral blocks, not dead coral blocks.
-=== Note blocks ===
-All types of coral blocks can be placed under [[Minecraft:note block]]s to produce "bass drum" sounds.
-=== Sulfur cube ===
-{{In development|drop=Chaos Cubed|section=1}}
-[[Minecraft:Sulfur cube]]s have the ability to absorb all coral blocks, either through picking them up or being interacted with them. This provides the golf ball/fast flat effect to the mob when hitting it.
 == Sounds ==
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 |{{HistoryLine|||dev=pre6|Living coral blocks now have new [[Minecraft:sound]] events: <code>block.coral_block.break</code>, <code>block.coral_block.fall</code>, <code>block.coral_block.hit</code>, <code>block.coral_block.place</code>, and <code>block.coral_block.step</code>.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.14|dev=19w05a|Added [[Minecraft:wandering trader]]s, which sell all types of coral blocks, making them [[Minecraft:renewable]].}}
-|{{HistoryLine|java upcoming}}
 |{{HistoryLine||26.2|dev=snap1|Added [[Minecraft:sulfur cube]]s, which have the ability to absorb coral blocks, providing the golf ball/fast flat effect to the mob.}}
 }}
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 {{HistoryTable
 |{{HistoryLine|bedrock}}
-|{{HistoryLine||1.4.0|dev=beta 1.2.14.2|[[File:Tube Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Brain Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Bubble Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Fire Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Horn Coral Block BE1.png|32px]] Added coral blocks.
+|{{HistoryLine||1.4.0|dev=beta 1.2.14.2|[[File:Tube Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Brain Coral Block BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Bubble Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Fire Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Horn Coral Block BE1.png|32px]] Added coral blocks.
 |Coral blocks currently die only if they touch [[Minecraft:air]] or [[Minecraft:void]] [[Minecraft:block]]s, meaning that coral technically do not need [[Minecraft:water]] to stay alive.|Coral blocks with a damage/metadata value of 13 would display the following name: '<code>tile.coral_block..name</code>'.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.4.0|dev=beta 1.2.20.1|Coral blocks with a damage/metadata value of 13 have had their name changed to '<code>tile.coral_block.blue_fan.name</code>'.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.5.0|dev=beta 1.5.0.4|Coral blocks no longer die as long as one side is touching [[Minecraft:water]].}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.10.0|dev=beta 1.10.0.3|Coral blocks can now be [[Minecraft:trading|bought]] from [[Minecraft:wandering trader]]s.
-|[[File:Horn Coral Block JE2 BE2.png|32px]] The texture of horn coral blocks has been changed to look the same as {{el|je}}'s texture.}}
+|[[File:Brain Coral Block JE2 BE2.png|32px]] [[File:Horn Coral Block JE2 BE2.png|32px]] The textures for brain and horn coral blocks have been changed to look the same as {{el|je}}'s texture.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.16.0|dev=unknown|When buying from wandering traders, one emerald now purchases one coral block instead of three of the same type.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.20.30|dev=Preview 1.20.20.21|Decreased the hardness of coral blocks from 7 to 1.5.
 |Increased the blast resistance of coral blocks from 0.9 to 6.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.21.0|dev=Preview 1.21.0.21|The different [[Minecraft:block states]] for the <code>coral_block</code> ID have now been split up into their own IDs.}}
-|{{HistoryLine|bedrock upcoming}}
 |{{HistoryLine||26.20|dev=Preview 26.20.23|exp=Drop 2 of 2026|Added [[Minecraft:sulfur cube]]s, which have the ability to absorb coral blocks, providing the golf ball/fast flat effect to the mob.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||26.30|dev=Preview 26.30.20|Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.}}
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 {{HistoryTable
 |{{HistoryLine|education}}
-|{{HistoryLine||1.4.0|[[File:Tube Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Brain Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Bubble Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Fire Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Horn Coral Block JE2 BE2.png|32px]]{{verify|Correct horn coral block texture? It seems decidedly odd that it'd use the correct texture in Education Edition months before it was corrected for Bedrock Edition}} Added coral blocks.}}
+|{{HistoryLine||1.4.0|[[File:Tube Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Brain Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Bubble Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Fire Coral Block JE2 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Horn Coral Block BE1.png|32px]]  Added coral blocks.}}
 }}
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 === Screenshots ===
 <gallery>
-File:Coral Reef 18w14b.png|Coral blocks naturally generating in a [[Minecraft:coral reef]].
+File:Coral Reef 18w14b.png|Coral blocks naturally generating in a [[Minecraft:coral reef]]
-File:All Coral Blocks.png|All variants of coral blocks.
+File:All Coral Blocks.png|All variants of coral blocks
-File:Coral reef at night.png|Coral blocks within a coral reef.
+File:Coral reef at night.png|Coral blocks within a coral reef
 </gallery>
 === Development images ===
 <gallery>
-File:SeaPlantsMineConEarth2017.jpg|Prototype corals shown in a clip from [[Minecraft:MINECON Earth 2017]].
+File:SeaPlantsMineConEarth2017.jpg|Prototype corals shown in a clip from [[Minecraft:MINECON Earth 2017]]
-File:1.2 02 secret coral.png|alt=
+File:1.2 02 secret coral.png|Unused code for a coral block can be found in [[Minecraft:Java Edition Beta 1.2 02 (20110517)|a developer fork of Beta 1.2_02]]. This is an example of how it would look in-game using the unused texture from [[Minecraft:Infdev 20100629]].
 </gallery>