Wither Rose

Wither Rose

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A wither rose is a flower that inflicts the Wither effect on players and mobs that touch it. It drops when a mob or player is killed by a wither.

Unlike with other one-block-tall flowers in Bedrock Edition, players cannot spread wither roses on top of nearby grass blocks by applying bone meal on a wither rose.

A wither rose can be broken instantly with any item or by hand, dropping itself.

A wither rose also breaks if water or lava runs over its location, if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, or if the block under the plant is moved or destroyed.

Block	Wither Rose
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05

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

Any mob, player or mannequin‌^{[JE only]} killed by the wither drops one wither rose upon death. If possible, the wither rose is placed on the block where the mob or player died. If the flower cannot be placed there, or if the game rule mob_griefing is set to false, the flower is dropped as an item instead. Wither roses are dropped even when the game rule mob_drops is set to false.^[1][2] A creaking is considered killed by a wither if it destroys the creaking heart linked to it, for example by a TNT; the wither rose is dropped in the creaking's location. Withers cannot be killed by other withers, except if they are removed from the tag #wither_friends‌^{[JE only]}.

In Java Edition, endermen can pick up wither roses, like any other one-block-tall flower, and drop it if killed while holding it.

Like most flowers, wither roses can be used as decoration and planted on grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss blocks, pale moss blocks, mud, or muddy mangrove roots. They can also be planted on netherrack or soul sand. In Java Edition, wither roses can also be planted on soul soil.

When not in Peaceful difficulty, wither roses inflict the Wither effect to any players or non-immune mobs touching it, dealing 1HP damage every half second. The effect lingers for 1 second after the player/mob leaves its block space. Wither skeletons, the wither, and the ender dragon are not affected because they are immune to the Wither effect.

When placed in a flower pot, wither roses do not cause damage to any entity. In Bedrock Edition, when a wither rose is snowlogged, it does not emit particles and does not hurt entities.^[3]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Black Dye	Wither Rose
Suspicious Stew	Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Wither Rose		​[until: Third Drop 2026]
Suspicious Stew	Any Mushroom + Bowl + Wither Rose		​[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]

Suspicious stew that is created using a wither rose imparts the Wither effect for 7 seconds, dealing 3HP damage. It can be crafted using a wither rose or produced by feeding a wither rose to a brown mooshroom and then milking it with a bowl.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Red Mushroom + Brown Mushroom + Bowl + Wither Rose

Wither skeletons and zombified piglins‌^{[Bedrock Edition only][4]} are the only mobs that can spawn on wither roses, given their spawning requirements are met.

As with other mobs, when a bee touches a wither rose on any difficulty other than Peaceful, it is inflicted with the Wither effect. Despite this, bees still attempt to pollinate wither roses and succeed if the difficulty is set to Peaceful.^[5]

Wither roses can be used to lead bees, but cannot be used to breed them or grow baby bees. Feeding a bee a wither rose inflicts it with the Wither effect for 2 seconds (40 game ticks), without angering the bee.

Oak, birch, and cherry trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of a wither rose have a 5% chance to grow with a bee nest and 2-3 bees in it.

Placing a wither rose into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. A stack of wither roses yields an average of 5.94 bone meal.

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:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Wither Rose	wither_rose	Block & Item	flowers small_flowers	flowers small_flowers	block.minecraft.wither_rose

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Wither Rose	wither_rose	471	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -216)	tile.wither_rose.name

Java Edition
1.14			18w43a				Added wither roses.
			19w03a				Placing a wither rose into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Wither roses now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
1.15			19w34a				Wither roses can now be used to breed bees.
							Bees can now pollinate wither roses.
1.16			20w19a				Mobs can no longer spawn on wither roses.
			20w21a				Wither skeletons can spawn on wither roses again.
1.20			pre2				The wither rose is now grouped with other small flowers in the Creative inventory.
1.21.4			24w44a				Bees now get the Wither effect for 2 seconds when fed with wither roses although this does not anger them.

Bedrock Edition
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Added the wither rose.
1.14.0			beta 1.14.0.1				Wither roses can now be used to breed bees.
							Bees can now pollinate wither roses.
1.20.60			Preview 1.20.60.21				The model of wither roses has been changed.[6]
			Preview 1.20.60.25				Wither roses now deal damage to mobs and players every half second, rather than every two seconds.
			release				The model of wither roses has been changed.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.28				Bees now get the Wither effect for 2 seconds when fed with wither roses although this does not anger them.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Wither roses no longer appear mirrored when viewed from certain angles.[7]

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

• Wither roses deal the same damage while in contact (and a second more) as magma blocks, via the Wither effect.
• The rarity of wither roses is Common, despite the fact that a rare item (the wither skeleton skull) is required to encounter them in the first place.^[8]

• 
  A creeper being damaged by wither roses.

• 
  Wither rose sticker in 15 Year Journey
• 
  Wither roses in Minecraft Experience: Moonlight Trail concept art

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