Grass

Grass is a block of dirt with a grass top, and the surface of most Overworld biomes. Its top is coloured by the temperature and rainfall where it stands.

Obtaining

Breaking

Breaking grass drops dirt, whatever breaks it. A shovel breaks it fastest.

Natural generation

Grass is the top block of every biome except Desert and Ice Desert, on ground that reaches y=63. Lower ground lies under water, and is topped with dirt.

Where a cave cuts through grass, the dirt it uncovers becomes grass. A lake turns the dirt of its banks to grass where sky light reaches it.

Usage

Any hoe tills grass with air above it into farmland. Tilling drops nothing.

Animals spawn only on grass, and prefer to walk on it.

Flowers, roses, saplings, tall grass and sugar cane stand on grass. Sugar cane needs water beside the grass block.

Bone meal used on grass grows tall grass and flowers around it.

Behaviour

Grass is covered when the block on top of it is a full opaque block, a slab, stairs, farmland, water, ice or lava. Leaves, glass and every other block leave it uncovered.

Spreading

On a random tick, grass with light 9 or more above it picks one block within 1 block across, from 3 blocks below it to 1 above. That block becomes grass if it is uncovered dirt with light 4 or more above it.

Dying

On a random tick, covered grass turns to dirt 1 time in 4 if the light in the covering block's space is below 4. Under a full opaque block that gives off no light, it always is.

Data values

• Block ID: 2
• Translation key: tile.grass