Coral

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 "title": "Coral",
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 "field": "Yes",
 "label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
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 "field": "Yes (64)",
 "label": "Stackable"
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 "field": "Any tool",
 "label": "Tool"
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 {
 "field": "0",
 "label": "(link to Explosion#Blast resistance article, displayed as Blast resistance)"
 },
 {
 "field": "0",
 "label": "(link to Breaking#Blocks by hardness article, displayed as Hardness)"
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 "field": "No",
 "label": "(link to Light article, displayed as Luminous)"
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 {
 "field": "Yes",
 "label": "(link to Opacity article, displayed as Transparent)"
 },
 {
 "field": "Yes",
 "label": "(link to Waterlogging article, displayed as Waterloggable)"
 },
 {
 "field": "No",
 "label": "(link to Flammable article, displayed as Flammable)"
 },
 {
 "field": "No",
 "label": "Catches fire<br>from (link to lava article, displayed as lava)"
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 "field": "(values exceeds 1000 characters...)",
 "label": "(link to Map color article, displayed as Map color)"
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 {
 "field": "Bass Drum",
 "label": "(link to Note Block#Instruments article, displayed as Note block instrument)"
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 "invimages": [
 "Tube Coral",
 "Brain Coral",
 "Bubble Coral",
 "Fire Coral",
 "Horn Coral"
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 "images": [
 "Tube Coral.png",
 "Brain Coral.png",
 "Bubble Coral.png",
 "Fire Coral.png",
 "Horn Coral.png"
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Coral is a type of non-solid block that comes in five variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn.

Coral can be broken instantly by hand, but can be obtained only when mined with a Silk Touch enchanted tool. Mining coral does not decrease the Silk Touch tool's durability.

Coral naturally generates in coral reef structures found in warm ocean biomes.

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 in a 5×5 area. In Bedrock Edition, the same can happen in any biome as long as bone meal is used in a water source above the aforementioned solid blocks.

Coral can be used as a building or decoration block.

In order for coral to stay alive, at least one of the blocks surrounding it must be water or a waterlogged block. If placed outside of water, it dies and transforms into its respective dead coral after 3 to 4.95 seconds‌^{[Java Edition only]} or 2 to 9.95 seconds‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}. Coral dies even when the game rule randomTickSpeed is set to 0.^[1] Once a coral turns into its dead variant, it is not possible to turn it back into a live variant.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

• 👁 Unused code for a coral block can be found in a developer fork of Beta 1.2_02. This is an example of how it would look in-game using the unused texture from Infdev 20100629.
  
  Unused code for a coral block can be found in a developer fork of Beta 1.2_02. This is an example of how it would look in-game using the unused texture from Infdev 20100629.

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

• In real life, coral are colonies of sessile (immobile) animals.
• In the real world, horn corals have been extinct since the Permian–Triassic extinction event.

• 👁 Coral naturally generating in a coral reef
  
  Coral naturally generating in a coral reef
• 👁 All variants of live coral. Order from left to right: tube, brain, bubble, fire, horn.
  
  All variants of live coral. Order from left to right: tube, brain, bubble, fire, horn.
• 👁 A coral reef at night, with a drowned on top of an ocean ruin, and a magma block creating a bubble column
  
  A coral reef at night, with a drowned on top of an ocean ruin, and a magma block creating a bubble column

• 👁 Horn coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
  
  Horn coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
• 👁 Tube coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
  
  Tube coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
• 👁 Fire coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
  
  Fire coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
• 👁 Brain coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
  
  Brain coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatic artwork
• 👁 Bubble coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatics artwork
  
  Bubble coral as it appeared in the Update Aquatics artwork
• 👁 A purple coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
  
  A purple coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
• 👁 An orange coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
  
  An orange coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
• 👁 A seaweed-like coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
  
  A seaweed-like coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
• 👁 A cyan coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
  
  A cyan coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
• 👁 A pink coral in Minecraft: Story Mode
  
  A pink coral in Minecraft: Story Mode

• "Taking Inventory: Coral" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 24, 2019.