Obtaining
When broken "Punch" redirects here. For the enchantment, see Enchanting#Punch. The Player punches trees and gets wood (click to view animation). Breaking, digging, punching, or mining is one of the most fundamental activities in Minecraft, performed (by 
normally, all variants will drop 0 or 1 seeds. See Grass#Seeds for more information. They can be obtained as an item using shears Shears Type Tools Durability 238 Renewable Yes Stackable No First appearances See History Data value dec: 359 hex: 167 bin: 101100111 Name shears Shears are a tool used primarily to shear sheep and mine a few types of 
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The double tall grass and large ferns will drop two of the respective single block when broken using shears.
It can also be obtained from the Creative Pixel art and other creations made in Creative mode. "Sandbox" redirects here. For a place to test edits to this wiki, see Minecraft Wiki:Sandbox. Creative mode is one of the main game modes in Minecraft. 
inventory "GUI" redirects here. For items like health bars and crosshairs, see Heads-up display. Inventory pop up screen A filled and sorted inventory Chest inventory The inventory is the pop-up menu that the player uses to 
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Trivia
- Despite common misconception, grass will grow onto a block with a torch placed upon it.
- In Survival Test mode, sheep would eat grass to regrow wool on their bodies, reverting it to dirt. Often, the grass would regrow just as quickly as sheep would eat it.
- It is impossible to mine a grass block (when mined it comes out a Dirt) without the Silk Touch enchantment.
Info
Grass (or tall grass in the Console Edition Console Edition Author(s) Mojang AB 4J Studios Platform(s) Written in C++ Latest version Xbox 360 - TU53 Xbox One - CU43 PS3 - 1.51 PS4 - 1.50 PSVita - 1.51 Wii U - Patch 23 
) is a non- solid Comparison of the solid stone and liquid water blocks Solid blocks are a category of block. Contents 1 Properties 2 List of solid blocks 2.1 List of non-solid blocks 3 Height 4 Video 5 History 
plant block See the various blocks found in Minecraft. For the blocking with shields that reduces damage when performed, see Blocking. All blocks Blocks are the basic units of structure in Minecraft. Contents 1 
that has seeds Seeds Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool None Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Seeds (1) when not mature Seeds (0–3) when fully grown Wheat (1) when fully grown Data values 
as a drop See the items that drop from entities and blocks. For drops as in falls, see Fall Damage. Typical drops from a skeleton: experience orbs, an arrow, and bones. Drops are items that 
. Its color is biome A river bisecting a jungle biome. At the top right is a forest. A river running through a mesa biome with mesa plateaus, with a savanna biome in the bottom right. “ In case you 
-dependent, and matches grass blocks.
Videos
Trivia
- Grass cannot be directly set on fire from lightning. Be that as it may, fire from nearby blocks can spread to it. Oddly enough, the top of grass can be lit but it will not burn this way. When any kind of tall grass is set on fire, the fire seems to hover just over the grass, as if it were a full block.
- Even though ferns do not produce seeds in real life, as they emit spores instead, they can drop seeds if broken.
- Grass is slightly offset from the block it is sitting on (as seen in the second screenshot). This causes fields of grass appear more contiguous and not like dotted patches of hair atop blocks.
- Grass can appear in caves on dirt near lava, and rarely, within a few blocks of bedrock. It can also generate in a village house.
- Using bone meal on grass in a spawn-protected area on a server will still produce tall grass and flowers.
- Placing any block on grass will overwrite the grass, and will not drop seeds.
- When being chased by mobs, hiding in double tallgrass will often cause them to lose sight of players, even if they are a few blocks away. Sugar cane also has this property.
Natural generation
Grass and double tall grass generate on grass blocks in most biomes that generate grass.
Ferns and large ferns occur naturally only in jungle, taiga, and mega taiga biomes.
Shrubs, though identical in appearance to the dead bushes found in deserts and mesas, do not naturally generate.
Bone meal
Bone meal Bone Meal Type Wool dyes Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Data value dec: 35115 hex: 15F15 bin: 10101111115 Name dye 15 Bone meal is a material that can be used as a dye as well as 
can be used on a grass block to grow grass and occasionally flowers on it and in its vicinity. It can also be used on either tall grass or a fern to create a double tall grass or large fern, respectively.
Shrubs
A shrub looks identical to the dead bush, except that it will occasionally drop seeds instead of sticks, and is randomly offset from the center of its block like grass. Javaedition only Minecraft Author(s) Mojang AB (Credits) Markus "Notch" Persson (Creator) Jens "Jeb" Bergensten (Lead Developer) Jon "jonkagstrom" Kågström (AI Programmer) Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams Erik "Grum" Broes Michael "Searge" Stoyke Thomas "ProfMobius" Guimbretière Agnes "LadyAgnes" Larsson Maria 
It can be obtained using /give @p minecraft:tallgrass 1 0.
In Pocket Edition, this block is named `Fern` but has the texture of grass. Pocketedition only Pocket Edition Author(s) Mojang AB Jens Bergensten Aron Nieminen Daniel Kaplan Tommaso Checchi Shoghi Cervantes Jason Major Daniel Wustenhoff Tomas Alaeus Mikael "Slicedlime" Hedberg @@@#@@@Microsoft(microsoft.com)###@### Studios 1] Platform(s) Written in C++ 2] Latest version 1.1.2 
Seeds
All variants of grass have a 1/24 chance of dropping seeds when broken without using shears.
Flower pots
Data values
Grass is defined by its ID and block data. Grass also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version This page is about planned versions of all editions of Minecraft. These updates either have major sources to their existence or have received development versions. Note that only editions with known planned updates are listed 
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ID
Name See the definition of the block states. For the files that determine block models, see Models#Block states. Block states are extra pieces of data that further define a block. Contents 1 List  | ID Name | Block ID |
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| Grass | tallgrass | 31 |
| Plant | double_plant | 175 |
Block data
- See also: Data values
- Block 31 (
minecraft:tallgrass)
- Block 175 (
minecraft:double_plant)
DV See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition  | Description | |
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| 0 | Sunflower | |
| 1 | Lilac | |
| 2 | Double Tallgrass | |
| 3 | Large Fern | |
| 4 | Rose Bush | |
| 5 | Peony | |
| 8 | Top Half of any Large Plant; low three bits 0x7 are derived from the block below. |
Block state
- See also: Block states
minecraft:tallgrass
| Name See the definition of the block states. For the files that determine block models, see Models#Block states. Block states are extra pieces of data that further define a block. Contents 1 List | Value | Description |
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type | dead_bush | Dead Bush |
tall_grass | Tall Grass | |
fern | Fern |
minecraft:double_plant
| Name See the definition of the block states. For the files that determine block models, see Models#Block states. Block states are extra pieces of data that further define a block. Contents 1 List | Value | Description |
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half | upperlower | The half of the plant contained in this block. |
variant | sunflower | Sunflower |
syringa | Lilac | |
double_grass | Double Tallgrass | |
double_fern | Large Fern | |
double_rose | Rose Bush | |
paeonia | Peony | |
facing | northsoutheastwest | The direction the plant is facing. This is currently unused in-game. Upper-half blocks are always `north`, and lower-half blocks are always `east`. |
Video
History
Issues
Issues relating to “Grass”, “Fern”, “Double Tallgrass”, or ”Large Fern“ are maintained on the issue tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery
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Grass and ferns.
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Grass appears slightly offset from a grass block.
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Grass and ferns in Pocket Edition have a randomly selected height.
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Grass growing in an abandoned mineshaft.
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Tall grass that was set on fire using flint and steel.
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Double tall grass may stump most hostile mobs, such as this Creeper however mobs may be able to attack if they`re right next to the player.
Growth
Grass is one of the first block seen when a player enters a Minecraft World or Minecraft Server. Grass grows spontaneously only during map generation. Afterward, it can only spread from a nearby block. Grass can spread to any immediate adjacent dirt blocks at the same height, including diagonally. Sometimes a dirt block will turn into a grass block if there is enough light. Dirt can grow into a grass block as quickly as seconds or as long as a few minutes. For a dirt block to grow into a grass block, a grass block must be next to the dirt block.
Uses
- Passive Mobs (Pigs, Cows, Chickens, and Sheep) spawn only on grass blocks, with light level 9 or brighter in the space directly above. One can create a farm that will spawn fauna using grass, or exclude passive Mobs from an area by ensuring there is no Grass before 1.8 update.
- Passive Mobs tend to wander towards grass blocks. They also wander towards light, but they ignore light over Grass blocks and prefer them to any light levels below 10.
- Using Bonemeal on a grass block will grow Tall grass and Flowers.
