Grass Block

Grass Block

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Bedrock Edition

Without snow in Java Edition

Without snow in Bedrock Edition

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A grass block is a natural block that generates abundantly across the surface of the Overworld.

A grass block can be obtained by mining it using a tool enchanted with Silk Touch. Otherwise, it drops dirt.

The snowy grass variant cannot be obtained as an item through regular gameplay, even with the use of Silk Touch. In Java Edition, commands can be used to give players a grass block that is set to the snowy state when placed (e.g. /give <player> minecraft:grass_block[minecraft:block_state={snowy:"true"}]).

Block	Grass Block
Hardness	0.6
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	0.9
Wooden	0.45
Stone	0.25
Copper	0.2
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.15
Netherite	0.1
Golden	0.1
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

Grass blocks generate naturally in many biomes in the Overworld, and as part of villages and ancient cities. Grass blocks generate as disks between the mud in mangrove swamps.

Endermen can pick up grass blocks, and drop the blocks they are holding if killed, making it the only way to obtain grass blocks without the use of Silk Touch.

Grass can spread to nearby dirt blocks, but not coarse dirt or rooted dirt. Grass spreading without player intervention depends heavily on the time of day. For a dirt block to accept grass from a nearby grass block, the following requirements must be met:

1. The dirt block receiving grass must be within a 3×5×3 range of the source grass block where the source block is in the center of the second topmost layer of that range.
2. The source grass block must have a light level of 9 or brighter directly above it.
3. The block directly above the dirt block must allow light to pass through it and hit the dirt block, even though the actual light level does not matter. That means blocks that partially let light through such as stairs and slabs must not have their light-blocking side(s)‌^{[Java Edition only]} facing the dirt block.
4. The block directly above the dirt block must not be lava, water, or a waterlogged variant of a block.

When grass is random ticked, it spreads by checking 4 blocks within range and converts any dirt blocks selected into grass.

Though water and lava are both light-filtering blocks (meaning they decrease skylight by 1 level but do not affect block light), other light-filtering blocks such as ice and slime blocks do not block grass from spreading to the dirt block. Grass blocks can grow under all other transparent blocks like glass, fences, or torches. Grass jumps directly from one block to a neighbor and is not affected by gaps or other blocks being "in the way." Grass blocks spread at random intervals and have an equal chance of spreading to any suitable dirt blocks that are in range. Because grass can spread as much as 3 levels downward, it tends to spread down slopes much faster than it spreads up them.

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

In Bedrock Edition, biome colors also appear on maps.^[1]

In Java Edition, an item of grass block uses 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.

These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm, which depends on the biome's temperature and downfall. 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]
Lush Caves‌[BE only]	#B9B75B
Mushroom Fields	#55C93F
Mushroom Field Shore‌[BE only]
Swamp	#6A7039[n 1]
Mangrove Swamp
	#4C763C[n 2]
Swamp Hills‌[BE only]
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]
Pale Garden	#878D76
Birch Forest	#88BB67
Old Growth Birch Forest
Birch Forest Hills‌[BE only]
Dappled Forest​[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]	#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
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]

Using bone meal on grass blocks causes short grass, tall grass, ferns,‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} and flowers to grow.

Passive mobs tend to wander toward grass blocks. They also wander toward light.

When a sheep eats a grass block, the block becomes dirt, and a sheared sheep regrows its wool. Baby sheep graze grass much more often than adults and mature 1 minute faster when grazing.

Tilling a grass block with a hoe converts it to a farmland block.

Dirt paths can be created by using any type of shovel on the side or top of a grass block with air above it. The shovel loses 1 durability for each dirt path block created.

Grass dies and changes to dirt a random time (when a random tick lands on the block) after it has been covered by any opaque blocks. Transparent blocks can kill grass in a similar manner if they cause the light level above the grass block to be four or below (like water does) and the surrounding area is not otherwise sufficiently illuminated.

In Java Edition, animals occasionally spawn on grass blocks that have light level 9 or brighter in the space directly above. This is quite rare and requires that there be few other animals nearby or in any loaded chunks. Most animals are instead created along with the terrain.

In Bedrock Edition, most animals require surface grass blocks (grass blocks with no solid block anywhere above them at the same x, z coordinate) to spawn. Animals regularly spawn in most Overworld biomes on surface grass blocks that have light level 7 or brighter in the space directly above.

Grass blocks turn into a snowy grass block if snow, powder snow, or a snow block is placed on top of the block. Removing the snow layer turns the block into a normal grass block.

In Java Edition, the top face of snowy grass blocks is not affected by biome tinting and defaults to gray, which is not normally seen by players because of the snow layer on top. In Bedrock Edition, the top face of snowy grass blocks is affected by biome tinting and can be seen in-game when inside powder snow placed on grass blocks.

In Bedrock Edition, placing grass blocks into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.^[2]

Java Edition:

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	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

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

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Grass Block	grass_block	Block & Item	animals_spawnable_on bamboo_plantable_on dry_vegetation_may_place_on enderman_holdable valid_spawn moss_replaceable lush_ground_replaceable mineable/shovel grass_blocks sniffer_diggable_block	grass_blocks sulfur_cube_archetype/regular	block.minecraft.grass_block

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Grass Block	grass_block	grass	2	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.grass.name

Java Edition:

February 9, 2009							The texture for grass is present in the terrain.png file for RubyDung, which led directly into pre-Classic.

Java Edition pre-Classic
Cave game tech test							Added grass blocks, internally called just "grass".
							Grass is one of the first two blocks in Minecraft, along with stone.[3]
							Grass generation is randomized, but it generates only on fully lit tiles. The higher the Y level is, the greater the chance of grass generating. At the top of the map, grass generates on all fully lit tiles.
							The bottom texture of grass blocks is mirrored vertically.
rd-20090515							The top texture and model of grass blocks have been changed.
							The model now uses new texture on the side faces and dirt texture on the bottom face.
							Grass now spreads to dirt under sunlight, allowing new grass blocks to be created.
							Due to the lack of dynamic lighting mode, grass in shadows eventually dies and changes to dirt.
Java Edition Classic
0.0.19a							Grass blocks are not placeable under normal conditions, as they are not present on the hotbar. This version is the one that introduces the concept of inventory sprites, and the sprite here can be seen in later versions.
0.24 SURVIVAL TEST							Grass blocks now drop dirt when broken.
October 25, 2009							On Notch's blog, sheep were shown to eat grass to regrow wool on their bodies, reverting the block to dirt. Often, the grass would regrow just as quickly as sheep would eat it.
0.28							Sheep added, with the behavior described in development.
0.30 (Creative)							Attempting to place grass blocks by means of hacking one's inventory in Classic Creative multiplayer now causes the server to automatically kick the player.
Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-1459				With the introduction of dynamic lighting, grass is now able to grow in more dimly-lit areas, not having to be fully lit by the sun.
			20100124-2119				Grass blocks now generate in starting house chests.
							Grass blocks are now placeable, although grass placed from the chest never reverts to dirt when in the shade. The only way to kill the grass is to break the block, so that it drops as dirt.
			20100129-1447				Grass blocks no longer generate in starting house chests.
			20100202				Sheep no longer eat grass blocks.
20100206-2034							Grass blocks can now be tilled with a hoe into farmland, and had a chance of dropping wheat seeds.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.4							Added snowy grass blocks.
							Snowy grass blocks appear when the grass blocks are under snow.
							The model of snowy grass blocks without snow use grass top texture on the top face.
							The model of grass blocks in item form has been changed. The model now uses grass block side texture on all faces.
v1.0.5							Snowy grass blocks appear when the grass blocks are under snow blocks.
v1.2.0			preview				The top texture of grass blocks and snowy grass blocks has been changed. The textures are now grayscale and are affected by biome colors.
							This change is not noticeable when snowy grass blocks are under snow layers or snow blocks.
Java Edition Beta
1.5							The model of grass blocks now uses an overlay texture on its side faces, which, like its top texture, is grayscale and is affected by biome colors. This overlay texture is exclusive to the "Fancy" graphics setting.
							Grass blocks do not use the overlay on "Fast" graphics.
1.6			Test Build 3				Wheat seeds can no longer obtained by using a hoe on a grass block; short grass instead occasionally drops seeds when broken.
1.6.6							Bone meal now causes short grass to grow when applied to grass blocks.
1.7							The models of snow layers have been changed.
1.8			Pre-release 2 ;)				It was again possible to legitimately obtain grass blocks in one's inventory, with the introduction of Creative mode.
							The model of grass block in item form have been changed. Grass blocks now use grass block top texture on the top face and dirt texture on the bottom face. The top face is now tinted with  #7cbd6b.
							Name changed from "Grass" to "Grass Block".
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				The swamp grass and foliage tints has been changed to hard-coded tints  #5C694E and  #496137.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Grass blocks have become obtainable for the first time in Survival mode through use of the Silk Touch enchantment, introduced with the new enchanting system.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				The top texture of grass blocks has been changed.
							This change is not noticeable when snowy grass blocks under the snow layers or snow blocks.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				The side texture of grass blocks has been changed.
1.1			11w49a				Sheep can now graze on grass blocks again.
			12w01a				Grass blocks are now generating in superflat world type.
1.2.1			12w07a				The player is now unable to till a grass block with a hoe when there is a block on top of the grass block.
1.4.2			12w38a				New sounds were added for walking on grass blocks.
1.5			13w02a				Grass blocks do not use the overlay on fancy graphics.
			13w02b				Grass blocks use the overlay on fancy graphics, once again.
1.7.2			13w36a				A "grassless" dirt variant, that grass would not spread to, has now been added.
1.8			14w07a				For all blocks that include the grass blocks, the bottom texture is no longer mirrored.
			14w10a				On the new block model, changing graphics to fast and turning off smooth lighting makes the side faces being fully biome colored.[4]
			14w10b				The changes in snapshot 14w10a have been fixed.
			14w25a				The top of snowy grass blocks is no longer biome-affected.
							Grass blocks now always use the side overlay regardless of graphics setting.
			14w25b				The item form of grass blocks now has the same color on the side as the top.
			14w27b				The top texture of grass is now rotated randomly, due to the addition of arrays to the block model format.
1.9			15w31a				Grass blocks can now be turned into grass paths by right-clicking on them with a shovel.
							Grass blocks can now be obtained by killing an enderman that is holding the block.
1.14			18w48a				Grass blocks now generate in the updated plains villages.
			18w49a				Grass blocks now generate in the updated savanna villages and the new snowy tundra villages.
			18w50a				Grass blocks now generate in the updated desert and taiga villages.
			19w05a				Grass blocks are now renewable because wandering traders now offer to sell podzol.
			19w08a				The side texture of grass blocks has been changed.
							The side texture of snowy grass blocks and the texture of snow have been changed.
1.17			21w11a				The side texture of snowy grass blocks has been changed.
1.18			experimental snapshot 3				Grass blocks are no longer able to generate underwater.
1.19			22w13a				Grass blocks now generate as part of ancient cities.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Sniffers can now dig grass blocks.
26.2			snap1				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb grass blocks, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.

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Pocket Edition Alpha
Demo							Added grass blocks tinted with  #339933.
v0.1.0							Grass block has an item form. The model uses grass block side textures on all faces.
v0.2.0							The textures of grass blocks have been changed.
v0.4.0							Grass can now be tilled with a hoe into farmland, and has a chance of dropping seeds.
v0.5.0							The side texture of grass blocks for block and item form has been changed. The item form now uses a separate top texture for its top face.
v0.8.0			build 1				The side texture has been changed to the texture from before v0.5.0. The top texture for the block form is now tinted with  #87cd49. The top texture for item form has been changed to the pre-tinted top texture, which is identical to the block form.
			build 3				Grass now has a chance to drop beetroot seeds, carrots, or potatoes when tilled.
			build 4				Tilling can no longer spawn carrots or potatoes.
v0.9.0			build 1				The top texture in block form are now tinted with biome colors. The side texture has been changed to various pre-tinted textures dependent by biome.
v0.11.0			build 1				Grass now can be pressed into grass path blocks when tapped with a shovel.
v0.12.1			build 1				Grass blocks no longer drop beetroot seeds when a hoe is used.
							Grass blocks can now be obtained using the Silk Touch enchantment.
			build 8				Grass blocks no longer drop wheat seeds when a hoe is used.
			build 10				The sound of grass blocks has now been changed to match up with grass sound from Java 1.4.2.
v0.14.0			build 1				Grass blocks can now be obtained by killing an enderman that is holding the block.
v0.16.0			build 1				The biome-dependent colors of grass blocks now appear on maps.
Bedrock Edition
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Grass blocks can now be used to fill up composters.
			beta 1.11.0.5				The side texture of grass blocks has been changed.
							The side texture of snowy grass blocks and texture of snow has been changed.
26.20			Preview 26.20.20				Bone meal now causes tall grass to grow when applied to grass blocks.
26.20 Experiment Drop 2 of 2026			Preview 26.20.23				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb grass blocks, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.
26.30			Preview 26.30.20				Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added grass blocks.
TU3							Changed the texture of grass blocks.
TU5							It is now possible to legitimately obtain grass blocks in one's inventory, with the introduction of Creative mode.
							Name changed from "Grass" to "Grass Block".
TU7							The swamp grass and foliage tints has been changed to hard-coded tints  #5C694E and  #496137.
							Grass blocks have become obtainable for the first time in Survival mode through use of the Silk Touch enchantment, introduced with the new enchanting system.
TU9							Grass blocks can now be eaten by sheep.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Grass blocks can now be turned into grass paths by pressing / / / / / / on them with a shovel.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Grass blocks can now be obtained by killing an enderman that is holding the block.
			1.83				The side of non-snowy grass blocks is now 3d.
			1.91				Grass blocks can now be used to fill up composters.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added grass blocks.

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

• Grass blocks and dirt blocks changing between each other is a common cause of chunk updates.
• The grass block has become a widely used symbol of Minecraft.
  • The icons for Java Edition and Bedrock Edition apps, except Java snapshots and Bedrock previews, are based on a grass block.
  • The favicon for Minecraft.net, as well as the icon for the Minecraft Launcher, used to be a grass block.
• Snowy grass blocks can rarely spawn without snow layers on top of them.

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  A grass block floating in midair.
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  Grass blocks in a birch forest.
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  An image used to represent grass blocks.

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  Artwork of a bright grass block, used during the 10th anniversary.^[6]
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  Render of a grass block on a beige background.
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  A grass-growing guide made in early 2010.
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  Diagram of a grass block and various alternative soil blocks.
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  Jens describing grass blocks.
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  An officially licensed diorama, featuring Steve and a pig.
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  An official sticker for the grass block sold by JINX.
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  Grass block figure of Flippin' Figs
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  Grass as seen in Choose Your Mode.
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  A grass block as seen in Minecraft 4k.
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  A grass block as seen in Minecraft Earth.
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  Pixel art of a grass block on the Mctools.dev homepage
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• "Block of the Week: Grass" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 6, 2017.