Notch expresses interest in a suggestion regarding corals by user 'solarblade'. Whether or not there's water in the same place as this coral. While the block is in the process of being broken ĭead coral cannot be turned back into living coral.Īll types of coral and dead coral can be placed under note blocks to produce 'bass drum' sounds. Coral dies even when the game rule randomTickSpeed is set to 0. If placed outside of water, it dies and transforms into its respective dead coral after 3 to 5 seconds. In order for coral to stay alive, at least one of the blocks surrounding it must be water or a waterlogged block. For example, if you mine glass or glass pane with a regular pick, it destroys it with nothing left, or if you mine glowstone using a regular pick, it will give you 2 or 3 glowstone dust, which is 1/2 or 3/4 of its regular value. In Bedrock Edition, the same can happen in any biomes as long as bone meal is used in a water source above the aforementioned solid blocks.ĭead coral is created when coral is placed out of water.Ĭoral can be used as a building or decoration block. Having a silk touch can help you mine certain objects without breaking them.

When using bone meal on dirt, coarse dirt, sand, red sand, gravel, or clay in warm ocean biomes, coral generates in place of some of the seagrass. Natural generation Ĭoral naturally generates in coral reef structures found in warm ocean biomes.

Coral and dead coral can be mined instantly but can be obtained only when mined with a Silk Touch enchanted tool.ĭead coral can only be obtained with a Silk Touch pickaxe.

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